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Clifford D. Carr
Clifford Dando Carr came into the world on December 19, 1893, in Pennsylvania, born to John M. and Elizabeth "Lizzie" Carr.
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Ten Retired Camden Policemen Praised, Receive Gold Badges
Camden Courier-Post May 7, 1958 Ten retired members of the Camden Police Department answered their last roll call Tuesday night.
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Tearful Scene at Detective Bureau
Iowa City, Iowa Press Citizen - February 10, 1950 Camden NJ, February 10 (AP) — Six detectives stood in their headquarters at Camden City Hall with tears streaming down their faces. A great tragedy? A frustrating crime? No, nothing like that.
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Auto Gunmen Fell Racetrack Figure
Camden NJ, August 26 (AP) — Five automatic shotgun blasts from a speeding automobile felled Robert Francis Curran, 44, of Silver Spring MD, a race horse trainer at Garden State Park , as he left the Walt Whitman Hotel in downtown Camden Saturday.
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Minister Collapses After Identifying Body of Daughter
Newspaper Wire Photo - August 8, 1939 Camden, N.J…. The Reverend Walter Dworecki of the 4th Polish Baptist Church of Camden, Pictured as he collapsed after identifying the body of his daughter at the Camden morgue.
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Seek Killer of Toll Collector
Camden NJ, July 18 (AP) — New Jersey police scoured the Delaware River waterfront today for two men who shot to death Harry C. Armstrong , 63, a Pennsylvania ferry toll collector, in an attempted holdup Sunday morning.
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Cop's Guest Beaten; Colsey Probes Row
Youth 'Blackjacked' at Party; Father Retains Lawyer, to Investigate Police Chief Arthur Colsey yesterday detailed three detectives to investigate a street row early Sunday at Fourth and Mechanic streets in which a Fairview youth and a Camden policeman were involved.
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Woman is Arrested in Slaying of Man
Madeline Slaughter, 28, of 819 South Second Street , was arrested in Philadelphia yesterday at the request of Camden police, who charged her with manslaughter in the death; December 12, of Jerry Brisbane, 36, of 115 Kaighn Avenue .
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Third Suspect Seized in Holdup at Cemetery
Chester Mignogna was arrested for complicity in the June 16 holdup of Jacob Mutzer, 62, of 417 Carteret Street, who was beaten and robbed at Evergreen Cemetery.
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Wirtz to Hear Fate in Bandit Quiz Today
Colsey Doubts Cop Will Face Charges; Case to Go to Garnd Jury Decision on any action to be taken against Stanley Wirtz , suspended Camden detective charged with having furnished the guns and automobile for a holdup, will be made today by Commissioner Mary W. Kobus and Police Chief Arthur Colsey .
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Wirtz Ordered to Face Inquiry By Mrs. Kobus
Carr and Koerner Will Be Questioned in Holdup Case Caution is urged by Justice Lloyd Detective Stanley Wirtz , suspended by Police Chief Arthur Colsey yesterday pending investigation into charges that he supplied the guns and an automobile for a holdup, has been ordered to appear today before Commissioner Mary W. Kobus , director of public safety.
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'Joey' Powell Rearrested As County Opens Holdup Probe
Orlando Acts as City Cops Free Former Boxer in Payroll Plot Frameup Charged by Another Suspect Prisoner Says Ex-Fighter Got Him in on Theft, Tipped Police Joseph "Joey" Powell, former boxer who was arrested by city police in connection with a South Camden holdup and subsequently released, was rearrested by county detectives last night.
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Father Finds Daughter Victim of Gas Fumes
Camden Courier-Post - February 29, 1936 Miss Viola Kester, 32, was found dead by her father in the bathroom of her home at 1214 North Thirty-third Street at 11 :30 a. m. yesterday. Illuminating gas was flowing from a hose.
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Two Seized in Extortion Plot
Jobless Man, Girl Quizzed in Attempt to Obtain $5,000 Painter Nabbed as He Keeps Date to Meet Intended Victim, G-Men Say Case Linked to Holdup of Bank in Pennsgrove By WALTER N. CARLEY An unemployed Camden painter and his reputed sweetheart were taken in custody early today for questioning in the attempted extortion of a Carney's Point store keeper.
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Youthful Bandit Stages Quiet Holdup at Broadway Drug Store; Gets $50
Nearby Customer Eats Ice Cream as Clerk Yields Cash Victim Reports Robber Draws Object like Pistol, Demands Money Disappears Quickly The Nevins Drug Company, 1124 Broadway was robbed of $50 Saturday by a youthful bandit who forced a clerk to hand over the contents of the register while a customer unsuspectingly sat in a booth a few feet away.
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William Nece Dies at Wheel of His Car
Camden Courier-Post - August 11, 1933 William B. Nece, 50, of 30 Strawbridge avenue, Westmont, was found dead last night at the wheel of his automobile, parked near Fourth and Penn Streets .
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Boys Smash Desks In Camden School But Take Nothing
Suspects Believed to Have Resented Teachers Refusing Promotion Hiding in the H. B. Wilson School , Ninth and Florence streets , until a Parent-Teacher Association meeting was over and the school locked for the night, several boys turned vandals by forcing open desk drawers, breaking the glass in book cases, marring desks and strewing papers about.
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Pancoast Proves 3.2 Beer Did Not Make Man Tipsy
Police Judge Pancoast is firmly convinced that 3.2 beer is not intoxicating. He emphatically expressed himself so to George Shuts, 34, of 410 Birch Street, Saturday when Shuts, who was charged with drunkenness, said he had been drinking beer.
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Stores, Homes Looted; Radio, Pennies Taken
Camden Courier-Post - June 17, 1933 Burglars who broke into two stores and a private home Thursday night got exactly $2.50, a radio, and some cigars for their trouble.
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'Forgotten' Holdup Recalled in Capture of Fifth as Bandit
Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1931 Police last night cleaned up an old case of highway robbery that occurred at Second and Mt.