
Camden News Notes
Camden briefs for May 27, 1906, including Captain of Police Stanley's investigation into a ring of Yale lock keys found on the roof of a house near Sixth and Chestnut Streets.
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Camden briefs for May 27, 1906, including Captain of Police Stanley's investigation into a ring of Yale lock keys found on the roof of a house near Sixth and Chestnut Streets.

Captain Stanley began a crusade against Camden shopkeepers selling candy and cigars on Sunday; eight dealers were brought before Recorder Stackhouse and two pleaded guilty and were fined $10 each.

Camden briefs for February 19, 1906, including Captain Stanley's raid on Fannie Clark's house at 847 Locust Street, where the officers expected a wagon load of prisoners but found only the proprietress.

Camden briefs for February 1, 1903, including Captain Stanley's raid on William W. Woomer's barber shop at 264 Kaighn Avenue on a warrant sworn out by Mrs. Edna M. Laird.

Joseph Caskey, a 60-year-old teamster of 820 Mount Vernon Street, shot and killed his son Joseph in a stable yard behind William Sultzbach's saloon at Ninth and Walnut, then turned the revolver on himself. Captain Stanley and Sergeant Reeder took charge of the bodies.

A column of Camden briefs for August 11, 1901, including a report that Police Captain Stanley was in a head-on trolley collision at Brigantine Beach and escaped with a bad shaking up.

A squad of policemen under Captain Stanley raided crap shooters along Camden's river front, capturing thirteen prisoners at the Arch Street lumber yards and Second and Clinton Streets before an accidental revolver shot let the rest escape.

Coroner Davis took charge of the body of an infant found on Broadway near Branch Street, and of the recovered body of William Knowells, drowned off the Chestnut Street wharf.