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Bernard Bertman

South 11th Street looking east toward the Armory-Public Works building, 1950s
Streets

11th Street

Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.

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North 10th and State Street - 2010-03-31
Streets

10th Street

City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.

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People

Bernard Bertman

Bernard Bertman lived at 941 Broadway as late as 1936 and had his law offices in the Wilson Building at Broadway and Cooper Street .

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St. Joseph Roman Catholic Church, 25th and Howell Street, East Camden, photographed 1909
Streets

Howell Street

Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.

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Baxter Street and Mount Ephraim Avenue
Streets

Baxter 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.

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Poets-Row-Fire-1-1972-08-23
Streets

Byron Street

Byron Street was part of North Camden's Poet's Row neighborhood, a working-class district whose streets were named for English literary figures. The 200, 300, and 500 blocks developed in the 1890s; the 200 block's north side was destroyed in the catastrophic Poet's Row fire of August 1972.

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Snatched Purse, Jailed, Camden Courier-Post, March 22, 1938
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Snatched Purse, Jailed

George Gibbs, 39, of 311 North 11th Street was sentenced to thirty days in jail for stealing a purse from Mrs. Susie Lovett on Penn Street near Tenth.

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Gun Money Robbery Stock Photo
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Gun Toter Fined $150 After Leniency Plea

Camden Courier-Post - March 12, 1930 Found guilty of carrying a gun, Richard H. Morrow, 24, of 2319 Howell Street , as fined $150 by Judge Shay in Criminal Court yesterday. He will be permitted to pay the fine in installments.

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Bertman Criticizes Raid Minus Warrant — Camden Courier-Post, February 21, 1928
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Bertman Criticizes Raid Minus Warrant

Police Court Judge Bernard Bertman freed Conrad and Elizabeth Bristol of 126 North 30th Street after sharply criticizing police for twice searching their home without a warrant. Invoking the Constitution's protection against unreasonable searches, Bertman suspended sentence.

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John Carroll Honored by Fifth Ward Club - Camden Courier-Post, February 20, 1928
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John Carroll Honored by Fifth Ward Club

The Fifth Ward Republican Club honored county committeeman John H. Carroll on his recovery from Cooper Hospital, with speeches from Mayor Winfield S. Price and other city officials.

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Camden Courier-Post clipping: 2 Men, 2 Girls Jailed
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2 Men, 2 Girls Jailed; Nabbed in Apartment

Two Gloucester men and two young Camden girls arrested in a Federal Street apartment house were found guilty of disorderly conduct before Judge Bernard Bertman. Policemen Walter Patton and Raymond Stark were summoned by the building's owner.

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Mamie Zimmie and her Mother
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Girl Tells of Leap to Escape Captor

Youth Accused by Child of Luring Into House is Held for Trial After little 10-year-old Mamie Zimmie, 1181 Morton Street , finished telling a story of how she had been lured into a house, and had escaped by leaping to the ground from a porch roof.

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News Articles

'Chick Hunt's Girl' Gone

Camden Courier-Post - January 25, 1928 Husband Dismissed When Brunette of Sixth Ward Shooting Fails To Appear in Court Back into the notice of Camden's Police Court, but not into its courtroom, Katherine Rosalie came today.

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Slot Machine Stock Photo
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Dealer Denies Thieves Took Slot Machine

Bertman Doubts His Story After He 'Shifts' Loot to Cigars Is liable to a fine on gambling machine Grand Jury Probe is Hinted by Judge - Reporter Takes Stand Lewis Shectman changed his story in police court today and declared that it was only a box of cigars, not a gambling machine that was stolen from his store, 708 Broadway, yesterday by two bandits.

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Katherine Rosalie - 1928-01-18
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Battle Echo of Murder at Club

Mrs. Rosalie and Her Rival for 'Chick' Hunt Describe Event in Court Pretty, piquant Katherine Rosalie - for love of whom men are declared to have fought to the death in the rooms of the Sixth Ward Republican Club , today waged her own fight against her self-avowed rival for the attentions of Charles "Chick" Hunt .

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Mobster Stock Photo
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Murder Motive at G.O.P. Club Splits Sleuths

County Detectives Contend Philadelphia Gangster Was Slain in Quarrel Over Woman Police Claim Hold-up Attempt Caused Fight Deven Charged with Crime, Flannery and Taxi Driver Held Without Bail With city and county authorities definitely divided on the motive and circumstance if the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph "Polack Joe" Deven was arraigned in Camden police court today and held without bail on a murder charge.

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Party Fight - AI Stock Photo
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Boxer, Sayrs' Aide Nabbed in Tipsy Row

Camden Courier-Post - January 2, 1928 Bertman Frees Both After Police Tell of Fuss at Brewer's Cafe Mickey Blair , Camden pugilist, and Thomas Schneider, secretary to Commissioner William D. Sayrs.

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2 Men Denied Bail in Ward Shooting, Camden Courier, June 12, 1925
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2 Men Denied Bail in Ward Shooting

Edward C. Dillon and Edward Brennan were held without bail by Recorder Cleary on charges of atrocious assault with intent to kill, after Policeman Robert Ward was shot investigating suspicious men near Sixth and Everett streets.

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Voodoo Doll Stock Photo
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Voodoo Man Confesses Bigamy

Camden Courier - April 10, 1925 Cops Discover Secret Vault, Baby Skeleton Police investigating the "voodoo den" of H.H. Hyghcock , 413-15 Liberty Street , whose arrest on suspicion of murder made several important discoveries today.

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