Ames Held In Slaying In Camden

Camden Courier-Post - July 20, 1967

A 47-year-old Atlantic City man is being held without bail in Camden County jail today awaiting grand jury action on a murder charge. Municipal Judge George E. Stransky Jr. yesterday ordered Anderson Ames of the 1900 block Huron Avenue held in connection with the June 11 fatal shooting of Rudolph Brown, 57, of 1975 Park Boulevard. Camden police say the shooting took place in the home of Herbert (Midnight) Johnson, 52, of the 200 block North 10th Street.

Brown died a few minutes after being admitted to Cooper Hospital with a chest wound. Ames, who police report was wounded in the head during the same incident, was released from that hospital's intensive care unit Monday.

Johnson, who has been released in $2,000 bail pending an August 1 hearing on charges of possessing lottery paraphernalia, was permitted to sign his own $1,000 bail bond for appearance before the grand jury as a material witness.

Police claim to have found more than 5,000 numbers slips while searching his home.

Ames appeared at yesterday's hearing in a wheel chair. Among witnesses who testified yesterday were Jesse A. Jones, 50, of the 1100 block Cooper Street, Leon Williams, 65; of Kentucky Avenue, Atlantic City, and Hugh Johnson, 34, of the 800 block Cherry Street. Williams was freed in $1,000 bail as a material witness.

Jimmie. L. Harrison, 31, of the 1900 block Norris Street and Leroy Butcher, 34, of the 5900 block Lansdowne Avenue, Philadelphia also are free in bail as material witnesses.

Neither Harrison nor Butcher was at yesterday's hearing the judge said he surmised they had not had sufficient notice to appear.