Tag: Benjamin Simon
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Ten Retired Camden Policemen Praised, Receive Gold Badges
Camden Courier-Post May 7, 1958 Ten retired members of the Camden Police Department answered their last roll call Tuesday night. By James M. Neville They received gold retirement and lifelong membership cards in the Patrolmen’s Benevolent Association at the second annual dinner of Local 35 in Kenney’s. Their ages ranged from 52 to 65 and…
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Gunmen In Philadelphia Murder Colozzi in Numbers War
Camden Courier-Post – January 10, 1940 Westmont Victim Reported to Have Been Aide of Klosterman Scarduzio Death Tie-Up Also Seen A reputed employee of Fred Klosterman, Camden numbers baron, was shot and killed in Philadelphia last night in what police there believed was an inter-city fight for control of the numbers racket. The dead man…
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4 Hurt as Auto Strikes Pole Strewing Live Wires on Road
Camden Courier-Post – Feburary 4, 1938 Four persons in a small coupe were injured last night when the machine crashed into a pole at Seventeenth Street and Admiral Wilson Boulevard during a dense fog. The car broke off a telephone pole at the base, strewing live wires on the highway. Traffic was detoured until the…
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Jobless Son Kills Jake Schiller Wo Saves Boys Wife From Gun
Camden Courier-Post – September 18, 1933 SLAYER CRAZED BY SEPARATION, RELATIVES SAY Dazedly Insists He Had No Intention of Shooting Sire ESTRANGED WIFE SEEN IN SUICIDE TRY Slain Man Long Was Prominent Figure in Camden Politics Jacob Schiller, 72, for 45 years a political figure here, is dead, shot by his own son. The slayer,…
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Stricken by Food in Camden Factory
Camden Courier-Post – June 24, 1933 60 Overcome While At Work in RCA Victor; Probe Started New York Ship Employees Sent to Hospital From Ptomaine Workers of 4 Firms Listed Among Victims Sandwiches Served by Philadelphia Caterer Believed to Be Responsible Nearly 100 Camden factory and shipyard workers were poisoned yesterday after eating food contained…
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Safecracker Escapes from Mt. Holly Jail
Camden Courier-Post – June 19, 1933 Prize Prisoner Held Secretly Seven Weeks Saws Way Out Guarded Rigidly, Segregated From Others, Accused of Two Robberies Slips Through Hole ‘Too Tiny for Any Man’ Drops to Yard by ‘Rope’ of Sheets; Saw Horse Helps Him Over Wall “Eddie” Adamski, most notorious of local gangland’s safecrackers, has escaped…
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Pancoast Refuses to Let Cops Bare Holdup Evidence
Camden Courier-Post – June 7, 1933 Police Judge Then Holds Two Camden Suspects Without Bail Cash Not Recovered After refusing defense counsel’s request that the city police bare their evidence, Police Judge Pancoast yesterday held two suspects without bail in the recent $11,790 Radio Condenser Company holdup and two other youths as material witnesses. Frank…
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BREWERY OFFICE RANSACKED IN MYSTERY THEFT
Camden Courier-Post – June 4, 1933 Two Rooms Turned Upside Down But Safe Is Not Robbed POLICE THINK PAPERS WERE BURGLARS’ GOAL Officials of Camden Firm Are Unable to Explain Motive of Attempt Burglars ransacked the offices of the Camden County Beverage Company early yesterday but what they took, if anything, had not been disclosed…
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‘Buck’ Sage Held as ‘Hit-Runner’
Camden Courier-Post – June 11, 1932 Detainer Lodged Against Sportsman in Shooting of Waterhouse A detainer against Russell “Buck” Sage, held in Gloucester on a hit-run charge, was lodged last night by Camden police, who claim the South Camden sportsman “knows more than he has told” of the shooting of Harry “Gyp” Waterhouse. Sage was…
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Four Suspects Caught as Series of Weekend Robberies Keep Police Busy
Camden Courier-Post – October 26, 1931 Stolen Garage Loot Found in Auto As 4 Men Are Nabbed Trio Held at Gloucester for Robbing Store at Westville Grove Oil Stove is Stolen Loot valued at several hundred dollar was recovered and four men arrested over the weekend as many robberies were reported to police throughout South…