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Mrs. Stella M. Beach, 47, of 702 Carman Street, a lifelong Camden resident and charter member of Camden Aerie 065, FOE Auxiliary, died at her home in September 1958; services were held at the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway.
Unidentified benefactors paid in scrip the fines of three convicted numbers writers, including Crawford Smith of 702 Carman Street and Arthur Woodridge, two state witnesses whose wavering testimony led to the acquittal of Fred and Joe Klosterman.
Humbert Mauro of 552 Pine Street and Bud Smith of 702 Carman Street were each fined $25 by Judge J. Harry Switzer after a fist fight aboard a Public Service bus on the Williamstown-Blackwood line; they were taken off the bus at Broadway and Federal Street.
The arrest of Crawford Smith on numbers-writing charges brought to 10 the number of people apprehended that week in Camden's numbers-racket crackdown, running alongside the investigation into the murder of Detective William T. Feitz Jr.