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Arthur Stanley (1845–1925), Camden police captain and Civil War veteran. Born in England, he came to America in 1853, served with Company G, 12th New Jersey Infantry at Chancellorsville, Gettysburg and Petersburg, and commanded the Second District of the Camden Police Department from 1898 until his retirement in 1916.
Walter Edgerton (1854–1930), Camden professional boxer who fought as "Kentucky Rosebud." A featherweight who boxed professionally from 1886 to 1921, fought featherweight champion George Dixon, and won a bout past age 60.
Coates Alley is a short street in Camden that originally ran parallel to Broadway and South 5th Street from Cherry Street north across Spruce Street to Division Street. Today it is one block long, running from Spruce Street to Division Street.
Baxter Street (formerly Newton Street and locally known as "Hog Alley") ran from South 7th Street to Mount Ephraim Avenue in South Camden, notorious for decades as a hub of illegal activity; largely demolished, the 700 block survives as an overgrown alley.
Ninth Street is one of Camden's longest north–south thoroughfares, running from the Delaware River waterfront in North Camden, through the city's central corridor, and far south through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park. Block numbering begins at Federal Street.
Arch Street ran from Delaware Avenue to North 5th Street between Federal and Market Streets in downtown Camden. Formerly known as Plum Street, it was home to Oetzel's Saloon, the Genova Cafe, the Collings Carriage Company, and the Camden Fire Department headquarters at 5th and Arch.
Camden's 1919 Memorial Day observance placed twelve gold star wreaths for the 134 county men who died in the war. Marshal Arthur Stanley led a platoon of police and Mayor Ellis in the march to the Y.M.C.A. under the Court of Honor.
Surviving members of Company G, Twelfth Regiment — Arthur C. Stanley among them — served as pall-bearers at the Camden funeral of Dr. Henry F. Chew, the regiment's Civil War lieutenant colonel.
There was a general change in Camden's Police Department yesterday occasioned by the retirement of Captain Arthur Stanley after nearly twenty years of service.
Philadelphia Inquirer, January 29, 1916 — Camden at a Glance Philadelphia Inquirer, January 29, 1916 On the force ten years, Sergeant Lewis Stehr was made a police captain yesterday by Mayor Ellis. He succeeds Arthur Stanley.
Twenty-one men were captured in Police Captain Stanley's raid on a house at 1173 Chestnut Street where a crap game was alleged to be in progress; Charles Myers was held in $500 bail for court.
Captain Stanley and a squad made two more raids near Third and Spruce Streets, descending on the places of Mamie Tinsey at 240 Spruce Street and Josephine Quinn at 807 Locust Street.
Detective Captain Schregler's men trace Michael Sawicki, accused of robbing Adella Pitkiewicz of her jewelry and leaving her to the gas in a Camden rooming house.
A squad of Camden policemen in charge of Captain Stanley raided 768 Sycamore Street, taking alleged proprietress Ada Stevenson and four witnesses into custody and confiscating a quantity of beverages.
Allese Di Dazio of 442 Pine Street, claiming he only supplied his boarders, was held in $500 bail for court on a charge of selling liquor on Sunday after Captain Stanley's squad arrested him and thirteen men.
Walter Edgerton, the former lightweight pugilist known as the "Kentucky Rosebud," was arrested by Police Captain Stanley at 811 Locust Street and held in $800 bail on a charge of keeping a disorderly house.
Camden police made seven simultaneous raids in the Tenderloin district on a Sunday morning, arresting twenty-three persons accused of selling liquor without a license. The raids were directed by Police Captain Arthur Stanley.
City Detectives Schregler and Brothers and Captain Stanley arrest two Jamesburg Reformatory escapees at a Camden home; both boys are returned to the reformatory.
George Williams of Philadelphia's St. Patrick's Club won the five-mile Marathon race staged in Camden by the Business Improvement Association. Captain Stanley and a force of mounted and foot policemen struggled to open a lane through the dense crowd for the runners.
Sixteen men, several cases of beer and many quarts of gin and whisky were taken in Captain Stanley's raid on a house at 214 Pine Street; alleged proprietress Annie Handy escaped.
Camden briefs for November 19, 1912, including Police Captain Stanley's discovery of ten cases of beer in an unoccupied house on Chestnut Street near Second.
A Camden Post-Telegram account of the April 1912 police raids on two alleged South Camden gambling houses. Eli Johnson and Daniel Bussey were discharged or fined; among those caught at 829 Locust Street was former prize fighter Walter "Kentucky Rosebud" Edgerton.
Camden's municipal bodies reorganized for 1912 with James E. Hewitt returning as Council president. Police Captain Stanley was among those in contention for the post of excise inspector.
Policeman Stanley found a burglar in the act of breaking into the home of H. O. Cliver at 447 Benson Street; after leaping several fences the prowler escaped.
A Bridgeton Evening News retrospective column recalling the 18th annual reunion of the Twelfth New Jersey Regiment held in Camden, at which Secretary Arthur Stanley called the roll.
Camden briefs for August 11, 1911, reporting that friends of Police Captain Stanley were arranging to go to New York to greet him on his return from a three months' trip abroad.
Camden briefs for May 19, 1911, reporting that Chief of Police Gravenor made Sergeant John Reader acting captain of the Second District during Captain Arthur Stanley's absence abroad.
A May 1911 Philadelphia Inquirer item reporting the arrest of Alexander Jasienski, a leader among Camden's Polish residents, over a St. Joseph's Society celebration of the anniversary of Poland's constitution held at his Kaighn Avenue hall.
Police under Captain Stanley raided a surreptitiously advertised "Suey and Teddy" dance on Spruce Street; Charlotte Stewart was committed to jail as the one responsible.
Nine Italians and six cases of beer were seized in a Camden police raid on the home of Francisco Bucci at 907 South Third Street, made by Captain Stanley and a squad.
Camden police raided two alleged disorderly houses: Captain Stanley took Charles Lee's place at Third and Spruce Streets, known as "The Big Ship," while Captain Boyle raided 2 Fogarty Avenue.
Captain Arthur Stanley filed his pleas in Patrick Carr's $10,000 libel suit, arguing that his statements about Carr's saloon were made under oath before the State Excise Commission and are in fact true.
Expecting many arrests, Captain Stanley and a squad descended on Tony Gardene's house at 1700 Master Street but found only Gardene and a friend; five cases of beer and a quantity of whisky were confiscated.
Adolph Walker, 27, shot and killed his wife Anna at their home at 906 Coates Alley, then turned the revolver on himself.
Saloonkeeper Patrick Carr of Seventh Street and Kaighn Avenue sued Police Captain Stanley for $10,000, alleging that Stanley's testimony before the State Excise Commission naming Carr's saloon as one that should not be licensed damaged his business and character.
Police Captain Edward Hyde was presented with a gold badge of his office by the men of Camden's Second District; Captain Arthur Stanley made the presentation speech.
Captain Stanley investigated the disappearance of pet cats near Ninth and Sycamore Streets and opened an unoccupied barn, from which at least a hundred half-starved felines bounded out — the work of neighbourhood boys who believed the barn was haunted.
Camden briefs for July 15, 1907, opening with Captain Stanley's early-morning raid on 139 Chestnut Street and the arrest of alleged proprietresses Bessie Heisler and Emma Carll.
Two horses drawing a cab in a funeral procession on Kaighn Avenue took fright at a trolley car and bolted; Police Captain Stanley stopped them at the risk of his life.
Captain Stanley and Sergeant Reader descended on two alleged disorderly houses in Camden's "Little Italy," arresting thirty-eight inmates and filling the city jail; crowds followed the patrol wagons to police headquarters.
Mrs. Leon Sanoski of 1146 Sycamore Street died at Cooper Hospital under suspicious circumstances while her husband sat in the county jail. Captain Stanley had found her unconscious at home; her ante-mortem statement alleged eight years of weekly beatings.
Camden briefs for March 11, 1907, including Captain Stanley's raid on an alleged speak-easy kept by James La Moeno at 812 South Third Street, where beer, wine and whiskey were confiscated.
Harry Halsey and his wife, of Sixth Street and Kaighn Avenue, were committed to the county jail on a charge of keeping a disorderly house after a raid by Captain Stanley and squad.
Captain Stanley and a squad descended on 260 Kaighn Avenue before dawn, capturing alleged proprietor Charles Fordyce and eight others; Fordyce was charged with keeping a disorderly house.
Zeke Benson and Cora Pinken are arrested by Captain Stanley and Sergeant Hyde on a charge of maintaining a disorderly house at 734 Chestnut Street.
Captain Stanley, Sergeants Hyde and Reader, and a police squad raid two alleged disorderly houses in Camden, arresting the proprietors and confiscating cases of beer.
Captain Stanley and a squad raided 716 Silver Street and arrested reputed proprietor John Hawkins and five other men; Hawkins was charged with keeping a disorderly house.
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.
Camden briefs for May 27, 1906, including Captain of Police Stanley's investigation into a ring of Yale lock keys found on the roof of a house near Sixth and Chestnut Streets.