Bernard Smith arrested for inciting crowd to break windows
- Title of event
- Bernard Smith arrested for inciting crowd to break windows
- Type of event
- Riot (March) - Inciting attack on store
- Persons involved
- Bernard Smith arrested for inciting crowd to break windows Alleged offender Smith, Bernard (1896)
- Address of event
- Bernard Smith arrested for inciting crowd to break windows Happened Primarily at 317, Lenox Ave
- Report on event
- Bernard Smith arrested for inciting crowd to break windows Main report referencing event Alfred Tait against Bernard Smith
- Start date / time
- March 20, 1935
- Start (general time of day)
- Night (Any Time)
- Description
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A police officer witnessed the defendant [Smith], while assembled with around 30 others on Lenox Avenue, shout “We will get these two windows here,” before hurling two stones at the window of a store and yelling out, “You fellows get the others.” The police officer “state[d] that thereafter there were several acts of force and violence committed in said vicinity.”