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Camden's Sunday Crusade Revived
Captain Stanley began a crusade against Camden shopkeepers selling candy and cigars on Sunday; eight dealers were brought before Recorder Stackhouse and two pleaded guilty and were fined $10 each.
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Great Throngs at the Funeral of Chief Foster
Thousands attended the funeral of Camden Chief of Police John Foster in March 1906; among the donors of floral tributes was John Carroll.
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Camden News Notes
Camden briefs for February 19, 1906, including Captain Stanley's raid on Fannie Clark's house at 847 Locust Street, where the officers expected a wagon load of prisoners but found only the proprietress.
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Camden News Notes
Camden briefs for December 18, 1905, including Captain Stanley's early-morning raid on 249 Cherry Street, where three of the inmates were captured and locked up for a hearing.
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Captain Stanley Takes a Bride
Captain Arthur Stanley left Camden ostensibly for his annual vacation, then took an early train to Atlantic City with Miss Gertrude B. Rammell of Williamstown, where they were quietly married.
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Fined for Selling on Sunday
Richard Schroeder, a groceryman at Ninth and Division Streets, was accused by Police Captain Stanley of selling all day Sunday. He refused to pay the $16.30 fine and was locked up, paying it later that night.
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Catholics Lay Corner-Stone of a New Parochial School
The corner-stone of the new parochial school of Sts. Peter and Paul's Church at St. John and Spruce Streets was laid before several hundred people; the societies marched to the place headed by a platoon of police under Captain Arthur Stanley.
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Want Stanley Retained
Business men of southern Camden move to block the removal of Police Captain Arthur Stanley; were he ousted, Sergeant Edward Hyde would fill the vacancy.
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More Policemen to Go in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19, 1905 — More Policemen to Go in Camden Philadelphia Inquirer, February 19, 1905 Democratic Members of the Force Are Marked for Dismissal From the Department According to a statement made by a member of the Police Committee of Camden City Council to an Inquirer reporter yesterday, charges will be preferred against a number of Democratic policemen during the week and the resignations of the officers are likely to follow.
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Camden Police Make Raids
Acting on Mayor Ellis's recent order, police under Captain Stanley raided four Camden places and seized slot machines; the proprietors were to be heard before Recorder Stackhouse.
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Camden News Notes
Camden briefs for August 25, 1904, closing with Captain Stanley's raid on a South Third Street house kept by Pearl Welcome, in which six people were arrested.
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Strikers and Workmen Fight
Striking riveters building a gas tank for the Public Service Corporation at Locust and Walnut Streets clashed with replacement workmen at Fifth and Walnut; a squad under Captain Stanley dispersed the crowd.
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Four Killed When Fireworks Blew Up
An explosion of mysterious origin wrecked the Independent Fireworks Company plant at Ferry and Cooper avenues in Camden, killing four workmen and injuring others; officers of the company were arrested on manslaughter charges.
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Police Raid Camden House
Captain Stanley and a squad raided 212 Walnut Street, arresting alleged proprietress May Barber along with three men and four women; Barber was committed in default of $500 bail.
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Patrolman Harvey Cited for Disrespect
Patrolman William Harvey, eighteen years on the Camden force without a complaint against him, was cited before the Police Committee to answer a charge of using impolite language to Captain Stanley.
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Fragments of Cannon Crashed Into Bedroom
Captain Stanley traced a mysterious New Year's Eve explosion that sent iron fragments through the shutters of G. C. Burkett's Newton Avenue bedroom to a hotelkeeper whose celebratory cannon had burst.
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Gunning in a Cemetery
Repeated gunshots broke the quiet of Harleigh Cemetery as hunters dodged among the tombstones. Captain Stanley rounded up two Italians who had shot two robins and a rabbit.
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With Gun and Dog Man Created a Big Scare in Camden
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.
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Raid on a Baxter Street House
Captain Stanley and officers raid a Baxter Street house alleged to be kept by Edward Jackson and Mame Douglas; six arrested.
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Camden News Notes
Camden briefs for February 1, 1903, including Captain Stanley's raid on William W. Woomer's barber shop at 264 Kaighn Avenue on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Edna M. Laird.
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Camden News Notes
Camden news notes including the arrest of Joseph Leonard at Ninth and Ferry Avenue on a charge of writing policy, days after police captured a policy outfit at that location.
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Camden News Notes
Camden briefs for December 30, 1902, including the $5 fines imposed on six men captured in a gambling den by Police Captain Stanley and a squad of officers.
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Raided a Gambling Den
Captain Arthur Stanley and a squad of officers raid an alleged gambling den at 729 Baxter Street, capturing six men with crap and poker paraphernalia.
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Policemen Took Hand in the Games
Captain Stanley and officers raid a house at Baxter and Sycamore Streets with card and crap games in progress; six men arrested.
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Human Bones Found on Camden Meadows
Human bones found on the meadows near Fourth Street and Atlantic Avenue were traced by Detective Hart and Captain of Police Stanley to a medical student who had left them in a building.
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Camden Notes
A column of Camden briefs for September 6, 1902, opening with Captain Arthur Stanley's appointment as aide-de-camp to State Commander Hann of the New Jersey G.A.R.
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Camden Police Raid Alleged Speak-Easy
Captain Stanley and a squad raided an alleged speak-easy at the foot of Jackson Street, capturing Patrick Holden and two others; several hundred onlookers gathered and most of the inmates escaped.
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She Dared Men to Touch the "Pants"
Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1902 — page 1 Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1902 Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1902 — page 2 Philadelphia Inquirer, July 15, 1902 — page 2 Camden Woman Planted a Pole, Decorated It With Pair Trousers and Flourished a Revolver Flourishing a revolver and exclaiming, "I'll kill the first man who touches those pants; this is fair warning to everybody, for I mean what I say!" Mrs. Louisa Traubel, of 807 Broadway, Camden, yesterday held up work on the addition being erected to the Gately and Hurley Company's department store at Broadway and Spruce streets.
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Policeman Chambers Suspended for Misconduct
Policeman John Chambers of Camden's Seventh Ward was suspended until trial after Captain Stanley reported him for being intoxicated on duty; Chambers said he was not drunk but exhausted from loss of sleep on extra duty.
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Ellis Will Not Stay Suspended
Policeman David Ellis reported for duty after his fifteen-day suspension expired, though still under indefinite suspension by Mayor Nowrey. Captain Stanley, acting under Chief Foster's orders, refused to recognize him.
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Father Shoots His Son Then Suicides
Joseph Caskey, a 60-year-old teamster of 820 Mount Vernon Street, shot and killed his son Joseph in a stable yard behind William Sultzbach's saloon at Ninth and Walnut, then turned the revolver on himself. Captain Stanley and Sergeant Reeder took charge of the bodies.
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Police Disperse Socialist Crowd
An open-air meeting of the Camden branch of the Socialist party at Broadway, Newton Avenue and Mt. Vernon Street was stopped by order of Mayor Hatch. Chief Foster, Captain Stanley and twenty-five patrolmen dispersed the crowd.
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Camden News Notes
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.
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Alleged Policy People Arrested
A major policy (numbers) raid in Camden, supervised by Chief of Police Foster with Sergeant Hyde's squad, nets nine arrests and a quantity of drawings and \"dream books\" at 257 Division Street.
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Camden's Pride Parades Before City's People
Camden's policemen and firemen make their first formal turnout in review, drilled to a military carriage; the Philadelphia Inquirer describes the procession, its officers, and the growth of the departments since 1862.
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Escapee Surrenders to Captain Stanley
A man giving his name as Hugh Frier, formerly of Philadelphia's Seventeenth Ward, surrendered to Police Captain Stanley and Policeman Fitzsimmons, saying he had escaped from the Blockley Almshouse.
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Round-Up by Police Over in Camden
Captain Arthur Stanley and a squad raid policy-writers and speak-easies; among those arrested are residents of 703 and 721 Baxter Street.
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Bad Gas and Ugly Poles Stir Camden Citizens
Camden householders and businessmen complained of poor gas and electric service at high prices, and of the Eastern Telephone and Telegraph Company's pole-raising. Philip Burch drove off a pole gang with hot and cold water, and property owners prepared to demand revocation of the company's franchise before City Council.
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Over in Camden
Camden briefs for August 16, 1900, including a $10.75 fine imposed on saloonkeeper William F. Sands for using abusive language to Police Captain Stanley.
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Camden Policemen Raid a Sunday Liquor Seller
Acting on a complaint, Captain Stanley and Sergeant Hyde raid Henry Hayes' saloon on South Third Street for Sunday liquor selling; Hayes is committed in default of bail.
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Raid Over in Camden
Police Captain Stanley and Sergeant Hyde raid two alleged disorderly houses on Pine Street above Tenth, arresting the reputed proprietors and thirteen inmates.
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Fortune Teller Sentenced
Mrs. Rebecca Peters, fined $100 in the Camden Criminal Court for obtaining money under false pretenses, loosed a tirade of abuse on her way back to jail. In a separate case Adam Hackett defended himself against a policy-writing charge and won an acquittal.
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Police Take a Hand at the Primaries
Camden Republicans held their ward primary elections, and in the Ninth Ward Mayor Hatch's policemen — Chief of Police Foster, Captain Stanley and a squad of officers — forcibly ejected the primary board seated by City Committeeman Edwin Hillman.
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Police in a Church
Philadelphia Inquirer, February 12, 1900 — Police in a Church Philadelphia Inquirer, February 12, 1900 Camden Guardians of the Peace Attend Divine Service Chief of Police John Foster, Captains Stanley, Boyle and Alberts, seventy policemen and Colonel D. B. Murphy, the police drill instructor, marched in a body from the Third Regiment Armory in Camden to Broadway M. E. Church last evening to attend divine service.
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Two Charged With Policy Writing
Captain Stanley arrested storekeeper Charles H. Green at Tenth and Kaighn Avenue and Albert Matchett at Front and Kaighn Avenue on charges of violating the policy laws; policy slips and drawings were found on Green.
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Randall Pollard Arrested for Policy Slips
A brief Camden news item reporting that Randall Pollard was arrested by Captain Stanley and committed in default of $500 bail on a charge of having policy slips in his possession.
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Captain Albert Stanley
A portrait feature on the commander of Camden's Second Police District — Arthur Stanley, whose given name the Inquirer misprinted as "Albert." The item credits him with clearing the district of policy writers and speak-easies, and notes he had formerly carried the Inquirer to its residents.
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Cleaning Out a Colored Dive
Euceria Manor, who ran a house at Locust and Division Streets, was committed in default of $1000 bail on a charge of harbouring minors for immoral purposes after a raid conducted by Captain Stanley.
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Camden Mystery More Involved
The investigation into the death of Mrs. Lillian Chambers at the Locust Street house of William H. Wilkins, a Camden fortune teller and "voodoo doctor," led police to a boiler of suspected human bones hidden behind a sealed fireplace.
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Evil Doers Quake
Mayor Cooper B. Hatch launches a campaign against Camden's speak-easies; the first raid, led by Captain Stanley and Sergeant Hyde, seizes a house full of liquor, while saloonkeepers are fined for operating gambling machines.