Eugene Barnes robs Robert Boxeur
- Title of event
- Eugene Barnes robs Robert Boxeur
- Type of event
- Robbery_individual
- Race of actor
- Black
- Race of subject of action
- White
- Address of event
- Eugene Barnes robs Robert Boxeur Happened Primarily at 164, W 144th St
- Report on event
- Eugene Barnes robs Robert Boxeur Main report referencing event Robert Boxeur against Eugene Barnes
- Start date / time
- September 24, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Day (Afternoon)
- Description
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While walking down the stairs of a West 144th Street building, the deponent [Boxeur] was accosted by an unknown man and the defendant [Barnes], who had a knife in his hand. The defendant pressed the knife against deponent’s abdomen and said “Get up there, you white bastard,” before stealing a wallet – containing $24 – from his trouser pocket, and a further 65 cents from his vest pocket. He then “pushed deponent up the stairs in said building.”