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Camden Daily Courier - November 15, 1890 Many Houses Now Being Erected Camden builders do not seem to be deterred by the fear of financial panic or an idea that the McKinley bill presages disaster in business.
A dying Thomas McDonough, of Eighth and Mountain streets, Camden, identifies Andrew Eckert as the man who stabbed him at Beideman's station, in a bedside declaration at the Pennsylvania Hospital.
A twelve-year-old boy, Terrance Miles, arrested for vagrancy, gave the Mayor information on the policy-writing operation of 'Policy Bill' Smith.
At Mayor Pratt's direction, Chief of Police Franks had officers raid the policy shop of William 'Policy Bill' Smith at 14 South Eighth Street.
William "Policy Bill" Smith surrendered to the Mayor and was admitted to $300 bail after the raid on his place at 14 South Eighth Street.
Chief Matlack expected "Policy Bill" Smith to surrender and post bail after the raid on 14 South Eighth Street, but Smith failed to appear and the case went to the grand jury.
Mayor Bradshaw sent the paraphernalia from the raid on "Bill" Smith's policy den at 14 South Eighth Street to the grand jury; Smith remained at large, believed to be in Philadelphia arranging bail with backer Oscar Stein.
A January 1886 report of a policy-game raid by Chief of Police Matlack and Mayor Bradshaw on a house at 14 South Eighth Street run by William "Policy Bill" Smith, in which the winning row was the old familiar 4-11-44.
The Camden City Medical Society was organized June 2, 1853.