Rush S Johnson assaults Charles Schuster
- Title of event
- Rush S Johnson assaults Charles Schuster
- Type of event
- Stabbing
- Address of event
- Rush S Johnson assaults Charles Schuster Happened Primarily at W 31st St & 8th Ave
- Report on event
- Rush S Johnson assaults Charles Schuster Main report referencing event Charles Schuster vs Rush S Johnson
- Start date / time
- March 23, 1920
- March 23, 1920
- Start (general time of day)
- Night (Any Time)
- Description
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Schuster sent to post office to handle East post
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Schuster sent to post office to handle East post – Johnson working under him – given orders that he would not obey – saying that it was because Schuster was a black man. Rush Johnson stabbed deponent with a knife which he held in his hand inflicting a severe wound in the left side of deponent’s body which necessitated surgical treatment in NY Hospital – 6 stitches . Question of determining jurisdiction of case if inside or outside post office.