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Camden Courier-Post - January 7, 1939. Two drivers in an automobile accident which resulted Sunday in the death of Robert Bumbrey, 57, of 735 Walnut street, were held in $1000 bail each for the grand jury.
Robert Lee of 226 North 11th Street was sentenced to two months in jail for attacking Charles Scott with a meat cleaver after an argument over gambling at William Lloyd's home.
Accused of fraud in connection with the sale of a vacuum cleaner, Leonard Hauser, 39, of 218 North Eighth Street, yesterday was arrested and held on $1000 bail for a hearing Monday in Camden police court.
Brunner Lauds Rulers for $40,000 Saving by Co-operation in Offices $302,000 IS VOTED ON STREET BONDS All departments of the city government were operated within the budget appropriations during 1937 and the city's saving, as a result, was $40,000, Mayor George E. Brunner announced yesterday.
Liquidation of tax title liens produced $112,311.70 for Camden's treasury during January, Mayor Brunner announced yesterday.
Harry Carle, 54, of Eighth and Linden streets, died after an illness of several months. He was survived by his widow, Bertha Stein Carle, two brothers and four sisters; burial was in Calvary Cemetery.
Francis Drury, 66, scared off two youths who tried to hold him up on Eighth Street between Vine and State Streets by pretending to reach for a gun. Camden Courier-Post, October 27, 1936.
Police Judge Lewis Liberman held Earl Bundy without bail after detectives testified he was making bathtub gin in his home at 824 Sycamore Street. The court also dismissed charges against two youths accused of coat theft, and fined Francis Murtagh of 117 North 34th Street for reckless driving.
Unless they tell where they bought it, drinkers of bootleg liquor arrested by Camden police henceforth will receive the full penalty of $200 fine or 90 days in jail, Police Judge Lewis Liberman decided yesterday.
Finley Phillips, 38, needed thirty-two stitches at West Jersey Hospital after a razor slashing at a South Eighth Street home; William Giles was held on bail after Motorcycle Policeman Thomas Kauffman arrested both men.
Edward Nixon, 38, described by police as a shell-shocked World War veteran, hanged himself at 124 North Eighth Street. Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton cut down the body; he was pronounced dead at Cooper Hospital.
Cooper Hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of October 14, 1933, including Alexander Ellis, 27, of 715 South Eighth Street, stabbed in the chest with an ice-pick.
Five people were injured when a truck overturned after colliding with a car at 8th and Van Hook Streets; Fioranto Costanzo of 209 Beckett Street was among the injured.
Harry Katz, 25, of 1100 Baring Street suffered cuts to his legs and hands when his car turned over in a collision at Eighth Street and Atlantic Avenue.
A ring of bicycle thieves is believed by police to have been broken last night with the arrest of four youths and recovery of five bicycles and parts of several others.
A December 1932 Camden Courier-Post report on a head-on collision between a bus and an automobile at Eighth Street and Kaighn Avenue; city fireman George W. Garner suffered a fractured arm, and the bus was driven by J. S. Harrison of 311 North 38th Street.
Vandals who entered and ransacked two South Camden schools, the H. B. Wilson School and the Fairview School, are being sought by the police. Camden Courier-Post, June 15, 1932.
James C. Peacock, Jr., son of J. Charles Peacock of 116 North Twenty-third Street, wed Miss Beulah Rebecca Mead at the First Presbyterian Church, with a reception and New England honeymoon trip to follow.
Three gunmen in a speeding automobile fired five shotgun blasts near Eighth and Chestnut Streets in Camden on the night of October 30, 1931, narrowly missing pedestrians before escaping; no arrests were made.
After a gang shooting at Ninth and Chestnut streets nearly struck an 8-year-old girl, Mayor Roy R. Stewart ordered police to stop and question suspicious characters and drive gangsters from Camden.
Bartender Daniel McGettigan was fined $100 after a raid on a Spruce Street saloon ordered by public safety director Dr. David S. Rhone for violating the Sunday-closing order.
Camden motorcycle policeman Joseph G. Ward, 34, of 1572 Louis Street, drowned in Blackwood lake in May 1930 when his canoe overturned after a Moonlight Social Club outing; Gloucester Township police opened an investigation.
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando took evidence from raids on 35 alleged gambling haunts to the Camden County grand jury in a drive against slot machines, while Republican leaders reportedly wanted him called off.
Thomas Atkins of Oaklyn, driver of the automobile that struck and killed Mrs. Emma Scholl, 67, of 694 Tulip Street at Ninth Street and Morgan Boulevard, was held for the grand jury on a technical charge of manslaughter by Judge Bertman in traffic court.
Albert Brown, 15, of 728 North Tenth street, Camden, was found by detectives in a shack on North Eighth street after going missing the previous Sunday.
A fire in Neil Zeidman's men's furnishing store at 437 Kaighn Avenue spread to the Almar store, causing $28,000 in damage; Fire Lieutenant Harry Chambers of South Eighth Street was overcome by smoke.
The Board of Recreation Commissions arranged to open the Camden playgrounds on Tuesday; the Line street ground was abandoned and its apparatus moved to the Liberty school ground at Eighth and Spruce streets, with F. A. Finkeldey as supervisor.
Councilman Charles H. Greer, superintendent of the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company, was badly beaten while trying to stop three men from stealing his automobile outside the Helena apartments at Third and Cooper streets.
Young John Kovasthik of 902 Woodland Avenue was fatally injured by an auto truck at Eighth and Sylvan Streets. The driver, Martin Flame of Philadelphia, was held on a manslaughter charge.
Local briefs from Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 1917: Miss Eveline Pratley of 221 North 38th Street lost three fingers in a machine accident at 38th Street and Westfield Avenue. Also: a tugboat injury, a business incorporation, and a child's broken arm.
Charles R. Evans, 19, of 139 South Thirty-second Street in East Camden, broke through the ice on the lake at Forest Hill Park and drowned while 300 fellow skaters looked on. Four would-be rescuers — Harry Haas, Graham Wishart, Wilbur Crane and Matthew Yingling — were dragged from the freezing water by a park guard and a policeman.
John Trail, 35, of 1160 Thurman Street was taken to Cooper Hospital with head wounds after he told police he was struck with a club and robbed of $1.70 on Kaighn Avenue near Eighth Street.
William Hurst, 9, of Woodland Avenue was struck by a Reading Railway express from Atlantic City at the Eighth Street grade crossing while playing with companions, and died on the way to Cooper Hospital.
Camden marriage licenses, including Frank E. Connelly, 24, of 1248 Locust Street, and Jennie Wilhelm, 19, of 265 Mechanic Street.
A dispute over a young woman's affections between Albert Williams of 709 Gold Street and Joshua Hines nearly turned deadly until she stepped between the men, as reported by the Philadelphia Inquirer on June 12, 1911.
Councilman John H. Carmany of Camden's Seventh ward died at his home, 772 Pine street, after a three weeks' illness with Bright's disease. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 17, 1910.
Camden briefs for August 10, 1910, including the severe burning of Elmer Wright of 1639 Broadway in a vat of molten lead and nitric acid, and the theft of two silver cups from the Synagogue Sons of Israel at Eighth and Sycamore streets.
Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 1910: Lorigan & Hurley took out a permit for a row of nine houses at 319 to 335 North Eighth Street.
The Camden Daily Courier's South Camden personal notes of December 24, 1906: George Staib of 1308 Broadway recovering from an operation, the Fireside New Year Association's parade route, and a Christmas family reunion at the Broadway home of Mr. and Mrs. Albert James.
A full day's Camden news for July 27, 1906, including Police Captain Stanley's capture of George Willingmire, wanted for a stabbing at Ninth and Chestnut Streets, after a desperate struggle on the way to jail.
Considerable surprise was manifested in Camden yesterday when it was announced that Anna Turner, the sixteen-year-old daughter of Frank Turner, a prominent builder and contractor, has been marred since January 21 to Louis Voegtlin, formerly of Camden, but now of Trenton.
Charles Larsen, 16, of Eighth Street and Woodland Avenue, fell into Big Timber Creek near Clements' Bridge while fishing and was pulled to shore with a pole by his cousin John.
George Willingmire terrorised South Camden with a shotgun and a bull terrier, wounding four people before plunging into the Eighth Street swamp. Captain Stanley pursued him to within twenty feet before Willingmire loaded his gun and threatened to fire.
A column of Camden briefs for August 11, 1901, including a report that Police Captain Stanley was in a head-on trolley collision at Brigantine Beach and escaped with a bad shaking up.
The Camden County Law and Order League renewed its complaints against forty-eight liquor sellers who escaped indictment, hinting that political pull had saved them, and gave the grand jury a list of accused saloonkeepers including several on Kaighn avenue.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of July 31, 1899: Theodore Shaw of 434 Henry street sent home from Cooper Hospital after a stabbing, a tandem-bicycle scorching arrest on the Mt. Ephraim pike, and a gasoline-stove fire at Albert K. Snyder's restaurant at 311 Kaighn avenue.
Camden's Republican primary elections of February 1899 turned violent in the Seventh Ward, where the Blowite and Hansonite factions fought at the polls. Mayor Hatch sent Captains Stanley and Boyle with seventeen policemen, but the rows continued and a patrolman was badly beaten.
Camden saloon keepers charged with Sunday liquor selling, among them James Croker of Fourth and Jasper streets and John Murschell of Broadway and Jefferson street, pleaded not guilty before Mayor Westcott; Chief of Police Dodd was the complainant in all the cases.
South Camden news items from October 14, 1895: the Camden Horse Railroad Company took the summer cars off the Broadway line, R. H. Comey took out a permit for an addition to the dye works on Jefferson street, and Mayor Westcott gave two men five days for congregating at Eighth street and Kaighn avenue.
Real Estate Investment Co. advertises 122 Clay Street for rent — 4 rooms at $6.00 per month — along with other Camden properties. Camden Daily Telegram, October 9, 1895.