Camden Will Honor Chief Stehr Today
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Thousands Expected to Line Streets on Route of Funeral Procession This Afternoon
Camden will pay its last respects today to Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr.
The funeral cortege of Chief Stehr, who died Wednesday in Cooper Hospital after a sudden heart attack, will leave Schroeder's, 538 Broadway, at 2 p. m. Headed by details of police, the procession will move south on Broadway to Kaighn avenue, east to Haddon avenue to Harleigh Cemetery, where final services will take place in charge of Rev. Edward T. Weeks, pastor of Union M. E. Church.
Several thousand persons viewed the body last night. Hundreds of floral tributes were banked about the body, while other flowers were stored in two adjoining rooms. Members of the mounted squad formed a guard of honor around the coffin during the night.
The entire enrollment of the Camden police department marched past the body of their "chief" shortly after 8 o'clock. Dr. David S. Rhone, director of public safety, and Charles V. Dickinson, deputy director, headed the policemen.
One of the most beautiful of the floral pieces was from the Policemen's Beneficial Association. It was in the form of a police badge and consisted of pink and white roses. The word "Chief" was formed, at the centre of the badge, with white roses.
Other floral designs were from each of the four police districts, the traffic squad and the detective bureau. The commissioners also sent a large floral tribute.