Streets
Erie Street
Erie Street in North Camden runs from Beach Avenue to 9th Street, crossing Delaware Avenue, Point, Front, Segal, and the numbered streets 2nd through 9th.
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Clifford Del Rossi
Streets
Cooper Street
One of Camden's oldest and most storied streets, named after the Cooper family. Covers the full length from the waterfront to the 2000 block, including the Victor Talking Machine Company, Esterbrook Pen Company, Johnson Park, the Hotel Plaza, the Walt Whitman Hotel, the Elks Lodge, and East Camden's other Cooper Street.
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Camden Man Held In Store Beating Of Aged Widow
Woodley Rex Snyder, 26, of 737 Kaighn Avenue, was held by Camden police on a charge of atrocious assault and battery with intent to kill in the near fatal beating of Mrs. Rachel Weiner in her candy store at 763 Kaighn Avenue on October 1, 1952.
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Woodley Snyder Reenacts Candy Store Attack
A Courier-Post photograph shows Woodley Rex Snyder, 26, of 737 Kaighn Avenue, reenacting for Camden detectives his October 1, 1952 beating of Mrs. Rachael Weiner in her candy store at 763 Kaighn Avenue.
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Bandit Gets $30 in Hyde’s Cafe
Joseph F. Hyde Jr., operator of Hyde's tavern at 1600 South Sixth Street, told Sgt. Earl Wright and Detectives Joseph Schultz and Clifford Del Rossi that an armed masked bandit robbed him of $30.
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Cigar Store Raided by 'Secret 6' Squad
Camden police Chief Arthur Colsey's "Secret Six" squad raided a cigar store at 217 Market Street, arresting Oscar Bendler of 310 Erie Street on gambling charges and seizing horse racing sheets and $114.
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2 Held in Theft of Craps Winnings
Tony Scola was arrested and identified by David McMullen of 1015 North 34th Street as one of three men who robbed him of craps winnings at gunpoint. Scola was taken at Fourth and Spruce Streets by Acting Captain George Clayton and Detective Clifford Del Rossi.
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Johnson Gets Ward's Job as Kobus Orders Cop Shakeup
By Charles L. Humes In a shakeup of Camden police officials yesterday afternoon Lieutenant Samuel E. Johnson was named acting chief of detectives by Commissioner Mary W. Kobus , director of public safety.
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Man Held in Threat as Woman Faints
Residents of the 900 block of Howard Street were thrown into turmoil when Charles Bensley, 73, brandished a pistol at his tenant Mrs. Anna Morgan while seeking overdue rent. A bystander from 217 Erie Street helped apprehend him.
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Wife Slain by Jagged Glass, Husband Held
Accident Hoax Broken by Cops after Grilling Family; Friend On Deathbed, She Orders 4 Children to Say She Fell on Stairs Command Arouses Concealed Detectives Woman Slashed by Broken Decanter; Man Faces Murder Charge Today A death-bed command of a South Camden mother to her four children to stick to their story failed of its motive last night and the woman's husband was arrested on suspicion of murder.
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Youths Peddling Radio Arrested on Suspicion
Joseph Fiume, 16, of 1349 Van Hook Street, and Stephen Stanziak were arrested after detectives found Fiume attempting to sell a radio of unknown origin to a shopkeeper.
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BREWERY OFFICE RANSACKED IN MYSTERY THEFT
Two Rooms Turned Upside Down But Safe Is Not Robbed POLICE THINK PAPERS WERE BURGLARS' GOAL Officials of Camden Firm Are Unable to Explain Motive of Attempt Burglars ransacked the offices of the Camden County Beverage Company early yesterday but what they took, if anything, had not been disclosed late last night.
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Mystery Prisoner Tries to End Life
An amnesia-claiming prisoner known only as "Mr. X" tried to leap from a window in February 1933 while being taken to the Bertillon room; Detectives William Boettcher, Clifford Del Rossi and Clarence Arthur subdued him.
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Two Camden Schools Ransacked by Thieves
Vandals who entered and ransacked two South Camden schools, the H. B. Wilson School and the Fairview School, are being sought by the police. Camden Courier-Post, June 15, 1932.
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City Policeman Drowns in Lake at Blackwood
Camden motorcycle policeman Joseph G. Ward, 34, of 1572 Louis Street, drowned in Blackwood lake in May 1930 when his canoe overturned after a Moonlight Social Club outing; Gloucester Township police opened an investigation.