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Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
Third Street runs north and south, parallel to the Delaware River, through North and South Camden, featuring notable corner buildings like the Security Trust Building at 301 Market Street and the Mickle Tower Apartment House at 200 Mickle Boulevard.
A police department shakeup announced by Mayor Roy R. Stewart abolished Camden's fourth police district; Sergeant Edward Hahn was among the officers transferred to the traffic squad.
A police motorcycle squad under Inspector Humes escorts the funeral of former police chief Edward S. Hyde, held at his Haddon Avenue home with burial in Harleigh Cemetery.
Sergeants Samuel Johnson and Thomas Cunningham were sworn in as Camden police lieutenants, and reports circulated that five patrolmen — among them Edward Hahn of the third district — would soon be promoted to sergeant.
Harry Lightman of 1240 North Twentieth Street and Harry Mans of 1229 North Twentieth Street were each held in $1,000 bail after raids found a 100-gallon still at each address in February 1927.
Camden police tear apart "Dr." H.H. Hyghcock's Liberty Street "voodoo den," finding a bloodstained hatchet, a hidden vault, and infant remains, as Director Tempest and the detective captains interrogate the self-styled medicine man.
Detective Brothers stops two five-ton trucks suspected of a big Prohibition-era liquor delivery; Assistant Chief Hyde and Captain Humes take charge, only to find the bottles hold nothing but near-beer.
The Camden Police Beneficial Association makes charitable donations at its annual session and elects officers for the year, including Edward Hyde as financial secretary.
Wilson Ashbridge, slayer of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar, and forger George E. Thompson shoot their way out of the Camden County Jail with a smuggled revolver, killing keeper Isaac Hibbs and wounding Joseph Ellis; a general jail delivery is averted by police summoned by the wounded men.
Mayor Ellis adds twenty-five officers to the Camden police force and orders several promotions, elevating Edward Hyde and A. Lincoln James from sergeants to captains.