This is the second look at 144-16-95 [Frank Ray, Melvin Clements; Loran Lovan Taylor, Roland L. Gay – Victims] for information about an incident that happened around the 600 block of Rhode Island Avenue in 1952. Last we had Mrs. Mildred Johnson of 516 R St NW, statement. This post has her husband, Mr. Travanyon Johnson . He doesn’t add much.
STATEMENT
TRAVANYON JOHNSON
516 R Street, N.W.
Washington, D. C.
I saw the same thing my wife saw, and the man did not
have a knife. If he had one he couldn’t get to it anyway. If the officer had been cut, you could have seen the blood on him, and I saw no knife. The officers shirt was not torn. The man had no power of any kind to do anything to the officers.
Travanyon Johnson
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I don’t know why the statement about the knife was removed. I know that the prospect of Zeke having a knife and cutting one of the police officers comes up later in the file.