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Henry is Ossian Sweet's younger brother who comes to help with the move. Henry and John Latting are the ones the police told to expect trouble that second night in the Garland Avenue house. Henry tells prosecutor Ted Kennedy that he fired out the window over the heads of the crowd and wasn't aiming at anybody. Henry is the one who stands trial again after the mistrial. When he is acquitted, the charges are dropped against the others. Henry attends Howard University School of Law and then returns to Detroit to work for the NAACP. He dies of tuberculosis in 1939.