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Alexander Purzycki of 1267 Kaighn Avenue, arrested in Johnson Park by Policeman Raymond Stark, would not answer questions at headquarters or in police court. City Jailer William Michalak told Judge Gene R. Mariano the man was a deaf mute, and the charge was dismissed.
Four men arrested in a raid on 433 Broadway, who said they were only listening to a radio broadcast of War Admiral's latest turf triumph, were held for grand jury action by Judge Gene R. Mariano. Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1938.
Police raided a room in the rear of a cigar store at 433 Broadway and arrested four men, confiscating a telephone and horse-racing sheets as evidence of bookmaking on races. Camden Courier-Post, February 21, 1938.
Haig Kapigian of 1251 North 28th Street reported to police that eight steam radiators worth $25 had been stolen from a vacant building at 2210 Broadway since January 30.
Camden Courier-Post, September 1, 1937: Commissioner Mary W. Kobus promotes Patrolman George Clayton of 912 Mt. Ephraim Avenue to chief clerk of the Camden police department.
Requiem mass was celebrated in Sacred Heart Church for Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, 46, of 915 Broadway, wife of Patrolman John McTaggart, with burial in Calvary cemetery. Camden policemen formed a guard of honor and served as pallbearers.
Hundreds paid tribute to Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, wife of Patrolman John McTaggart, at the funeral home of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway. She died in Cooper Hospital while her husband's friends were honoring him at a St. Patrick's Day party in Eagles Hall.
Fellow officers of Policeman John McTaggart will form a guard of honor for Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, 46, at the Frank J. Leonard funeral home, 1451 Broadway. She died in West Jersey hospital while her husband's friends were holding their annual frolic in his honor at Eagles' Hall.
Late 1930s photographs of Camden Police Department vehicles lined up on Argonne Street in front of Convention Hall, including a group photo with Chief Arthur Colsey and Mayor George Brunner.
Preston Fisher of South Merchantville was held in $500 bail on a drunken driving charge made by Policeman Richard Donnelly. After Fisher underwent tests, Lieutenant George Ward and Sergeant Raymond Stark said they did not consider him intoxicated; Donnelly insisted the charge stand.
Two prisoners who fought police appeared before Judge Lewis Liberman: Frank Wade, who swung at Patrolman Earl Wright, got 60 days, and Thomas Golden, who kicked Acting Desk Sergeant Frank Evans, received a suspended six-month sentence.
Two Camden policemen were injured in battles with alleged drunken prisoners at police headquarters; Earl Wright suffered a fractured nose.
Anthony Carrozza, a 20-year-old RCA Manufacturing Company employe, admitted faking a kidnaping and robbery story after cashing 12 fellow workers' pay checks at the West Jersey Trust Company, Third and Market streets; Detectives Thomas Murphy and August Fortune recovered the money in Philadelphia.
John Williams, 82, of 860 North 28th Street, allegedly attempted suicide in August 1936 by tying a bed sheet about his neck and dropping from a second-story window. The sheet ripped and he fell to the ground, and was treated at Cooper Hospital.
The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.
Edward Nixon, 38, described by police as a shell-shocked World War veteran, hanged himself at 124 North Eighth Street. Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton cut down the body; he was pronounced dead at Cooper Hospital.
A testimonial dinner will be tendered Patrolman John S. McTaggart, well known member of the Camden police force, at the Sixth Ward Republican Club. He is particularly popular in the Sixth ward, where he distributes food and clothing to the poor.
Camden police Capt. A. Lincoln James and Detectives John Painter and Thomas M. Stanger were granted pensions, and Mrs. Rose Caputi of 1263 Park Boulevard, widow of Detective Joseph Caputi, received a widow's pension.
Two youths caught trying to force a window of the Sears-Roebuck store at Bridge boulevard and Federal street escaped amid gunfire from watchman Humphrey Toomey and gas station attendant Frank McClernan, and were lost in the swamp along the Cooper river.
Sergeant Thomas J. Murphy and switchboard operator Joseph "Si" Pedigree of 49 South Twenty-seventh Street were among 13 Camden policemen and firemen retiring on pension before the first of 1933, and Mayor Roy R. Stewart said none of the vacancies would be filled. Camden Courier-Post, October 8, 1932.
Mrs. Florence Winstanley, 21, of 44 South Twenty-eighth Street attempted to end her life by taking poison following a quarrel with a boyfriend. She was found by her father and taken to Cooper Hospital; her condition was not serious.
George Cassidy of 216 Sycamore Street was cut about the head, lip and wrist in a collision at Second and Penn streets. Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton arrested the driver, Marshall Reinheimer, for failing to show a registration card.
Police searched for William Rue, 15, of 924 North 28th Street, who left home Saturday to attend a baseball game and had not been heard from since. He was described as five feet four inches, blue eyes and light hair.
Camden Detectives Vernon Jones and Thomas Cheesman arrested Phillip Attardi of 320 Vine Street at Broadway and Line Streets on a charge of "on suspicion" after state police asked Camden police to look for him.
After a March 1932 collision near Leonard Avenue and Federal Street, Basil P. Cook of 449 North Fifth Street and James Fenton of 834 North Sixth Street were arrested on charges including assault, threat to kill, and reckless driving, on complaint of C. N. Morrow of 7 North Twenty-eighth Street.
Camden prepared to pay its last respects to Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, whose funeral cortege would leave Schroeder's, 538 Broadway, for Harleigh Cemetery. Several thousand persons viewed the body, and the entire police department marched past it.
The Camden Morning Post reported that the funeral cortege of Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr would leave Schroeder's Chapel, Broadway and Royden street, for Harleigh Cemetery, after thousands filed past his bier and the entire police department marched past the body.
Funeral arrangements for Camden Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack: his body would lie in state at the Schroeder Chapel, Broadway and Royden streets, with burial in Harleigh cemetery. The article lists the active and honorary pallbearers.
Six alleged number writers were arrested by Camden's traffic squad on downtown street corners, spreading the belief that Atlantic City racketeers had set up "branch offices" in Camden; two were jailed for 60 days by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.
The Courier-Post's "When Father Was a Boy!" feature recalls the 1907 Camden Police baseball team, photographed at Blackwood when it played the Public Service nine, and tells what became of its players.
Twenty-seven officers from 24 New Jersey police departments, in training at the New Jersey Police Academy at Wilburtha, toured the Trenton Times building as part of an educational program. The roster includes three Camden men.
Policeman Joseph Sparks, a city employee for 17 years, died at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital from spinal meningitis. He lived at 20 North Twenty-eighth Street and had served as a patrolman since 1918, after seven years as a junior captain in Fire Company No. 7.
Mrs. Anna McTaggart, wife of Camden policeman John McTaggart of 1710 Broadway, and Louis Lafferty were arrested together in a Philadelphia apartment and held in $500 bail each on charges of misconduct brought by the officer, who had already filed for divorce.
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.
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.
Detectives remained unable to establish the cause of a razor battle at 343 Pine Street in which Palmier Delaiso was severely cut. Patrolman Raymond Stark, answering an anonymous call, found Delaiso unconscious and arrested Angelo Sobi as he tried to flee.
Two Camden men missed by relatives and friends were found dead of heart disease. Patrolman Raymond Stark broke down the door at 907 Federal Street to find barber Thomas Green; John Curran was found in the yard of 286 Liberty Street.
A burglar trying to break into the Elwood Antrim hardware store at 1541 Federal Street was frightened off by a burglar alarm; District Detectives Schlamm and Donnolley arrested a suspect, Walter Gibbs, at Seventeenth and Federal streets.
Thomas Atkins of Oaklyn, driver of the automobile that struck and killed Mrs. Emma Scholl, 67, of 694 Tulip Street at Ninth Street and Morgan Boulevard, was held for the grand jury on a technical charge of manslaughter by Judge Bertman in traffic court.
After four months as a sergeant of the Camden Bridge police, Raymond "Mike" Stark resigned to Captain Alfred Souders and returned to the Camden police department as chauffeur of the Third District ambulance, dropping his disability pension suit against the city.
Wright Cox, a Camden fireman and policeman for more than 40 years, died in Homeopathic Hospital in his 66th year. His funeral was set for the Schroeder Funeral Chapel at 538 Broadway, with interment in Bethel Cemetery.
Isaac M. Shreve, a Camden policeman for nearly forty years, was fatally stricken with apoplexy while answering a false-alarm call at Thirty-sixth and Federal streets in June 1926. He had served in the fire department, been shot by a robber twelve years earlier, and spent his last eighteen years on duty in East Camden.
Mounted Policeman Harold Hubbs of 201 North 27th Street returned to duty after his horse stumbled and threw him during a Saturday-morning chase near the Harry Sharp School, but his injured leg forced him home after two hours.
Thieves break into the home of Mrs. Penven at 2746 Arthur Avenue, stealing $80 hidden in a locked drawer. District Detective Raymond H. Stark investigates.
District Detective Raymond H. Stark, Acting Sergeant John Potter and Mounted Officer Clarence Thorne of the Third District took the civil service examination for promotion to sergeant. Acting Sergeant Boettcher was slated to sit it but his name was dropped from the list.
District Detectives Shlam and Hurlock and Acting District Detective Raymond Stark answered a report of a riot at Thirtieth and Pleasant streets in East Camden. Officer Hurlock's wrist was gashed by a broken bottle, severing an artery; five men were arrested.
Robert Black, driver of a Cramer Hill bus, was twice sent to police headquarters in one day by Traffic Officer Raymond Stark at Twenty-sixth and Federal streets for failing to produce a jitney bus driver's license.
A man arrested by plain clothes officers Hurlock and Schlam near Twenty-sixth and Carman streets refused to submit until a uniformed policeman appeared — Traffic Officer "Mike" Stark. He still would not give his name.
The funeral of Edward Matlack, 66, who died at Bellevue Hospital following a stroke, was held from his late residence at 25 North Thirty-fifth Street on May 1, 1923, with interment at New Camden Cemetery.
Dr. A. Haines Lippincott, surgeon to the Camden police and fire departments, submitted recommendations approved by City Council, including schools, medical surveys and firearms instruction. Nine men, among them Traffic Officer Raymond Stark, were expected to retire on disability.