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Charles Morris, a merchant at 1203 Haddon Avenue, went on trial in Camden Criminal Court on arson, conspiracy and aiding indictments over a July 23 fire at his shoe store; Fire Chief Carter and Police Chief Hyde testified to oil fumes in the store.
The Camden Courier of January 13, 1922 reports Mayor Ellis's order that new policemen must have clean records after the expose of graft and vice protection in the downtown tenderloin, which cost Policemen William Draper, Tony Latorre and Ira Hall their places and led Detective George Murry to resign.
Members of the Sixth Ward Women's Republican Club, assembling at their club house at 908 Broadway, viewed the body of Mrs. Della Ward, wife of Policeman George Ward, at the family home at 610 Line Street. Her funeral was largely attended by South Camden policemen, with interment in Arlington cemetery.
George Johnson, the retired Camden policeman, narrowly escaped drowning at Rio Grande Bridge near Wildwood after plunging from a wharf into 20 feet of water; unable to swim, he clung to a boat until help arrived.
Sergeant Thomas S. Reed went on the Camden police pension list after 21 years' service, and Policeman George Johnson of the Third District was to be pensioned on May 15 — with the record of never having made an arrest in 20 years on his Rosedale beat.
A pet fox terrier that refused to leave the patrol box at Broadway and Spruce streets after its owner, George "Gold Tooth" Wilson, was arrested for panhandling by Detective Brothers moved Recorder Stackhouse to discharge Wilson from custody.
George Laws and Edward Thomas, 22, of 413 North 28th Street, admitted ripping a water pipe from a vacant house at 22nd and Howell Streets and attempting to rob the home of Frederick Voigt at 222 North 32nd Street, where they were caught by a neighbor.
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.
A death notice for Mrs. Frances M. Johnson, wife of Camden policeman George Johnson of 220 North Thirty-seventh Street, who died after a long illness. She was a member of the Frances Willard Women's Christian Temperance Union and was interred at Harleigh Cemetery.
Boilermaker Crawford Smith had Policeman Ulie Andrews lock up a drunken namesake, Andy Smith, who put a brick through a front window of his home at 729 Carman Street; Recorder Stackhouse sentenced him to two months at the paper picking plant, and James Davis and James Carter got a month each. Camden Post-Telegram, November 30, 1910.
Mrs. Charles Conner of 2407 Howell Street was injured while alighting from a trolley car at Twenty-fourth and Federal Streets, tripping over a suit case left standing in the aisle. Policemen Pedigree and Johnston carried her into a nearby restaurant.
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.
Russell Horner, 14, son of Camden police sergeant William Horner, drowned in the Delaware off the old Red Mill at Pea Shore. His body was recovered the following morning after an all-night search by police and friends of the family.
Camden policemen George Horner and Lyons and Special officer Robert Miller searched the premises around Fourth and Cooper streets after 1 o'clock in the morning for a suspicious character, who had earlier been seen near Broadway and Carman street, but he had disappeared.
The Bridgeton Evening News describes the funeral of Camden Policeman Isaac "Ike" Toy, held from his home at 604 South Third Street and attended by Mayor Charles H. Ellis, Chief of Police Elisha A. Gravenor and fifty officers, with interment in Harleigh Cemetery. During the procession Policeman Alonzo Dyer collapsed at Broadway and Berkley Street.
The Camden Post-Telegram reported that Recorder Stackhouse suspended sentence on Harry Holmes after trolley conductor H. Selby's account of a fight over a missing penny was disputed by Policeman Howard Smith and Freeholder Larry Rhoades.
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.
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.
Camden police grew more positive that William Thallman, an escapee from the League Island Navy Yard, could throw light on the hold-up at Pavonia, while a derby hat found in a ditch on State Street near River Avenue was thought to have been dropped by the bandits. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 15, 1903.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Camden police arrested Joseph Dole, Joseph Hyde, Adam T. Davis and A. B. C. Smith on the charge of having slot gambling machines in their business places; the machines were confiscated and the four were to have a hearing before Recorder Nowrey.
Former Pittsburg second baseman William Eagan, drunk and armed with a revolver, fired twice at his wife at her West Street home in Camden before Policemen Schregler and Pedricks disarmed and overpowered him.
Police raided a house at 624 Kaighn Avenue, one of the "New York Flats," and arrested proprietress Rosie Woolford and four others; arraigned before the Mayor, she pleaded not guilty and her bail was fixed at $800.
Michael McCusker, superintendent of the Union News Company at the Federal street station, was shot in the abdomen at his home, 206 Benson street, and died at Cooper Hospital; his wife Florence McCusker was charged with his murder.
Robert Taylor shoots Sumner Derrickson in a gambling dispute on Baxter Street; Derrickson taken to Cooper Hospital, Taylor arrested at the Federal Street ferry.
The Philadelphia Inquirer of December 8, 1896, reported that Camden police Lieutenant Pettit explained his failure to execute a warrant against gamblers at 503 Federal Street, an account Chief Dodd denied.
Camden police chased and captured two employes of R. T. Robinson & Co. caught carrying lard and hams from the firm's packing house at Second and Pine streets, while burglars rifled the safe of Samuel K. Hires's store at 310 Kaighn avenue and the city's Hebrew merchants prepared to organize for self-protection.
Coroner Tomlinson's inquest into the murder of Lizzie Copelaine in her store at 620 Kaighn Avenue heard testimony from County Physician Iszard, Lieutenant John S. Smith and others; the jury held Charles Jordan responsible.