Meal Causes Arrest of ‘Tommy’ Moreland

Camden Courier-Post - February 11, 1936

Arrested early yesterday when he refused to pay a 50-cent check in a restaurant on Kaighn Avenue near Broadway, “Tommy” Moreland, of 1616 Broadway, was arraigned in police court and released with a suspended sentence.

Moreland, a well-known South Camden figure whose name has been connected with numbers activities in Philadelphia’s Sixty-ninth street section, pleaded guilty to trying to dodge the meal charge.

Although he urged Police Judge Lewis Liberman to dispose of his case quickly in order that he might proceed to his employment as a stevedore in Philadelphia, Moreland was held here until both Camden and Philadelphia police notified the court he was not wanted on other charges.

Moreland has previously been convicted for receiving stolen goods and for voting illegally in the Eighth Ward.