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Camden Courier-Post - February 14, 1938 7 Arrested in Bingo Numbers Racket; 4 Seized in Betting Place Ten men and a woman were arrested in gambling raids over the weekend by Camden city and county authorities.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital on February 14, 1938, including Mary DiVincenzo of 311 Beckett Street.
Hospital cases reported in Camden on February 14, 1938, including Ralph Williams of 413 North 29th Street treated at West Jersey Hospital for a laceration of the knee.
Benjamin Mifflin of 594 Carman Street was found not guilty in the Camden County Criminal Court of assault and battery by automobile in a 1937 hit-run accident on Stevens Street.
James Scavetta was sentenced to prison for participating in one of 22 suburban robberies engineered by Charles Lynch of 748 Carman Street, a prep-school student who turned burglar to fund his education.
Rose Louise Wishart, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wishart of 607 Carman Street, married John Ranson Lowther on January 12, 1938 at West Collingswood.
Charles Lynch, 17, of 748 Carman Street, a prep school student by day and burglar by night, confessed to City Detectives Clifford Carr and Clarence Arthur that he robbed 22 suburban homes in three months to pay for his schooling, first as a "lone wolf," later with a confederate.
Seven men were arrested last night when police raided a private home after receiving a “tip” that a card game was in progress.
Roy A. Smith, 51, a pensioned city fireman living at 607 Carman Street, died after a lengthy illness from heart condition. He was brother to former County Detective Howard M. Smith and former City Detective Walter Smith.
At the second trial of Fred and Joseph Klosterman on 12 lottery counts, five witnesses testified they had worked for the brothers' numbers bank, while five convicted numbers writers, among them Walter Hart of 1245 Thurman Street, were returned from state prison to testify.
Unidentified benefactors paid in scrip the fines of three convicted numbers writers, including Crawford Smith of 702 Carman Street and Arthur Woodridge, two state witnesses whose wavering testimony led to the acquittal of Fred and Joe Klosterman.
Humbert Mauro of 552 Pine Street and Bud Smith of 702 Carman Street were each fined $25 by Judge J. Harry Switzer after a fist fight aboard a Public Service bus on the Williamstown-Blackwood line; they were taken off the bus at Broadway and Federal Street.
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.
Four men and a woman arrested in a fight at Tenth and Market streets received suspended sentences on disorderly conduct charges from Judge Garfield Pancoast in Camden police court in August 1933.
Group Gaining Weight in Vermont Mountains as They Clear Timber to Make Way for Jam, And Sleep Under Heavy Blankets Forty-three Camden city and county men with Company 2204, Citizens' Conservation Corps, are now located at Knapp Andrew Camp, Montpelier, Vt., word received here yesterday disclosed.
Camden Courier-Post - June 20, 1933 Pleading guilty to robbery of a chain store at Twenty-seventh and Westfield Avenue , three youths were sentenced yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Criminal Court.
The front walls of two vacant houses at 829 and 831 Bridge Avenue collapsed, burying Jerry White, 22, of Carman Street under a ton of bricks.
Man and Woman Struck by Lightning; Mercury Tumbles A violent electric storm, which paralyzed a South Camden woman, accompanied by a driving rain tumbled the mercury last night and ended, temporarily, the six-day heat wave.
Stanley Powell of 1256 Whitman Avenue, released in connection with the Camden Radio Condenser Company holdup, was rearrested and held in $3000 bail for robbing Marty's Olde Tappe Room at 1990 Federal Street in East Camden.
Two horses pulling the Camden Catholic High School float bolted during the 1932 Flag Day school children's parade, plunging into spectators at Broadway and Federal street and injuring two women and a boy. More than 6000 school children marched before an estimated 75,000 persons.
Ray Dilks of 1698 Carman Street and Ethel Papp of Pierce Avenue, Camden's only team in the Championship Marathon Dance Contest at Central Airport, were still going strong after 852 hours of dancing.
Elizabeth Glenville, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Glenville of 3065 Carman Street, married George E. Cunningham at St. Wilfred's Church on Saturday, June 4, 1932.
Benjamin Rosner, 35, of 1443 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, paid $25 in police court for passing a red light, telling Judge Garfield Pancoast he did not stop when chased by Detectives Richard Donnelly and Louis Schlamm because he thought they were holdup men.
A 1932 Camden Courier-Post advertisement for Barrett at 560 Carman Street, offering the famous Hood Tires for $1 a week with no money down.
Albert Mickilli, 12, of 530 West street, was cut on the face and hands when struck by an automobile at Newton avenue near Pine street; the driver, Wilfred P. Jarvis, 21, of 706 Carman street, took him to Cooper Hospital.
Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.
Five candidates passed the Camden Park guard civil service test; Charles D. Phillips of 121 North Twenty-third Street finished first with a score of 77.13.
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.
Sympathy is extended to former Police Captain Hugh Boyle of Carman Street in the death of his wife Sarah Boyle of 594 Carman Street.
Fire Chief Peter B. Carter reported six resignations, two deaths and one vacancy from the draft as the shipyards drew men from Camden's Fire Department; Lieutenant Walter Mertz was made captain and the Fire Committee appointed seven new firemen.
Collision Occurs as Machine Speeds to Home of Man Who Attempted Suicide Three Camden policemen were injured, one of them seriously, last night, when the First district auto ambulance was struck by a trolley car while responding to a call from 2310 Carman street , where Bodine Stratton, 39 years old, had shot himself over the heart.
Detectives Painter and Moffett identify William Haggerty of 2806 Carman Street as the man who crossed the Twenty-seventh street railroad bridge just before Karl Kellmann's murder; he spoke to Duffield there and went on without being interfered with.
Four children in Camden are treated at hospitals after separate accidents in a single day: William Goll of Carman Street (motorcycle), Dorothy Sheeley of Berkley Street (go-cart), Arminto Degrello of 124 Clay Street (fall from chair), and Charles Travene of Spruce Street (wagon). Camden Daily Courier, June 11, 1912.
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.
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.
Camden Post-Telegram, November 3, 1906: East Side police begin taking the census of the Eleventh and Twelfth wards; the funeral of Albert Fish from Joseph Fisher's home at 3024 Federal Street; and Mrs. Lizzie Horner of Twenty-third and Carman streets is injured in a fall down stairs.
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.
Fourteen Camden county liquor dealers arrested by Law and Order League agent George B. M. Adams, including William Convery at Eleventh and Carpenter Streets; all entered bail before Justice Schultz.