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Edward Nixon, 38, described by police as a shell-shocked World War veteran, hanged himself at 124 North Eighth Street. Patrolmen Raymond Stark and Walter Patton cut down the body; he was pronounced dead at Cooper Hospital.
Scores of children on their way to school were endangered when two horses hitched to a bakery wagon ran away in South Camden streets, ignoring red traffic lights and shouts of pedestrians and motorists.
A victory parade after a bitter Eighth Ward Republican primary set off a street riot at Sixth and Viola Streets in front of William Tansky Jr.'s saloon; a boy was hit by a ricocheting bullet and detectives questioned the rival faction leaders.
Cooper Hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of October 14, 1933, including Alexander Ellis, 27, of 715 South Eighth Street, stabbed in the chest with an ice-pick.
Jesse Brown stabbed in a quarrel on Taylor Avenue; his alleged assailant caught on Camden Bridge after Jennie Worona of 208 Burns Street told police where the knife was thrown.
Camden Courier-Post - June 29, 1933 Louis Fox, 23, of 2406 Federal Street , whose unsuccessful attempt at suicide landed him in Cooper Hospital suffering from inhaling gas fumes, is out of danger.
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.
60 Overcome While At Work in RCA Victor; Probe Started New York Ship Employees Sent to Hospital From Ptomaine Workers of 4 Firms Listed Among Victims Sandwiches Served by Philadelphia Caterer Believed to Be Responsible Nearly 100 Camden factory and shipyard workers were poisoned yesterday after eating food contained in box lunches.
Camden Courier-Post - June 24, 1933 A partial list of the nearly 100 persons poisoned by food at local factories yesterday follows: RCA VICTOR EMPLOYEES: Treated at Dispensary: Barbara White, 3136 North Twenty-ninth Street, Philadelphia.
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.
Edward Saunders, 28, of 520 Jefferson Street, a Public Service station-master, was struck by lightning at a telephone switchboard and treated at Cooper Hospital.
Mrs. Rose Paiano, 26, of 1522 Park Boulevard, was treated at Cooper Hospital for cuts suffered in an automobile collision at Seventh and Pine Streets.
The hottest day of the year brought death to two persons in Camden and Philadelphia yesterday and caused general discomfort from the Rocky Mountains to the Atlantic Coast.
Furnished-room classified advertisements (classification 117) from the Camden Courier-Post, June 7, 1933, including a listing for 572 Benson Street.
Camden Courier-Post - June 5, 1933 Byron P. Cobb , 62, the "Sun Doctor," was kidnapped by three men early yesterday, beaten and robbed of $4700 before, being tossed from a moving automobile in Farnham Park.
Camden fireman John C. Voll of 1230 North Nineteenth Street was involved in two successive accidents that injured four people near River Road in June 1933.
Charles H. Nelson, 86, a wood finisher of 2812 Howell Street, suffered a fatal heart attack while walking with his sister at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets in June 1933.
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.
Detective Robert Ashenfelter, wounded in the August 24, 1931 gun duel with a burglar at the American Store, Thirty-second Street and Pierce Avenue, and Accident Investigator John Sheeran applied for disability pensions before the Police and Firemen's Pension Commission.
Mrs. Florence Winstanley, 21, of 44 South Twenty-eighth Street attempted to end her life by taking poison following a quarrel with a boyfriend. She was found by her father and taken to Cooper Hospital; her condition was not serious.
Six-year-old Floyd Rochester of 734 Elm Street suffered a fractured leg when struck on Elm Street by a car driven by the Rev. Joseph Rigney of 101 Fourth Street, Riverton.
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.
Detainer Lodged Against Sportsman in Shooting of Waterhouse A detainer against Russell "Buck" Sage , held in Gloucester on a hit-run charge, was lodged last night by Camden police, who claim the South Camden sportsman "knows more than he has told" of the shooting of Harry "Gyp" Waterhouse.
George Brown, 62, of 1013 North Twenty-first Street was hospitalized at Cooper Hospital with a dislocated shoulder and head lacerations after falling from a roof at Twenty-first and River Avenue.
The hearing for William May, 54, of Berwick Street — charged with disorderly conduct for allegedly choking his wife — was postponed when Anna May was unable to appear due to the illness of two children.
William May, 54, of Berwick Street was jailed on a disorderly conduct charge after his wife Anna alleged he choked her during a quarrel in their home.
With the death toll from the gas blast at the Public Service Electric & Gas Co. plant at Locust and Cherry streets increased to 15, families began burying their dead; Spiro Cecich, 37, of 1815 Salem Street died in Cooper Hospital.
Investigators believed spontaneous combustion probably caused the explosion in the Public Service purifying plant at Locust and Cherry Streets that killed 14 workmen and burned four others.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital on December 28, 1931, including William May, 48, of 2118 Berwick Street, treated for bruises of chest and ribs after falling down stairs.
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.
Professional and Business Leaders Back Camden Man for Governor Forty-seven more prominent professional and business men yesterday joined the Baird-for-Governor Business Men's League and pledged themselves to work actively in interest of David Baird Jr. , for governor, and add special impetus to his campaign.
Ben Courter's 1931 Camden Courier-Post reminiscence of four leading South Jersey physicians — Drs. Godfrey, Iszard, Davis and Gross — recalling how Dr. H. H. Davis transformed health care for Camden's schoolchildren.
Two persons were injured when the American Legion Post ambulance of Gloucester collided with a truck at Broadway and Pine Street. The truck was driven by John Max, 46, of 928 North 30th Street.
Camden prepared to pay its last respects to Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, whose funeral cortege would leave Schroeder's, 538 Broadway, for Harleigh Cemetery. Several thousand persons viewed the body, and the entire police department marched past it.
The Camden Morning Post reported that the funeral cortege of Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr would leave Schroeder's Chapel, Broadway and Royden street, for Harleigh Cemetery, after thousands filed past his bier and the entire police department marched past the body.
Funeral arrangements for Camden Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack: his body would lie in state at the Schroeder Chapel, Broadway and Royden streets, with burial in Harleigh cemetery. The article lists the active and honorary pallbearers.
Rollie Waterhouse, Joseph McKenna and Ralph Endt, on trial for the November 21 Hotel Camden holdup, testified they were gambling in Gloucester; the state called three taxi fares, among them Joseph Dent of 318 Taylor Avenue.
Two automobile accidents at the same East Camden intersection within minutes of each other injured three people, including Dr. A. Lincoln Sherk and a ten-year-old girl struck by a car driven by a resident of 347 Hillside Avenue.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post report that ten passengers in a Camden-Gibbsboro bus were thrown from their seats and coupe driver Stephen Jaross was severely injured in a collision at Third and Market Streets; bus driver Harry Holloway was released on his own recognizance.
At the request of Dr. Clement T. Branch, the City of Camden roped off Ninth Street between Walnut and Cherry Streets so that traffic noise on the cobblestones would not endanger his critically ill patient, Mrs. Hattie Jones of 954 South Ninth Street.
The Fifth Ward Republican Club honored county committeeman John H. Carroll on his recovery from Cooper Hospital, with speeches from Mayor Winfield S. Price and other city officials.
Edwin Grimmer, 10, of 2204 Howell Street — the neighborhood's "broken arm champion" — fractured his left arm in two new places at Cooper Hospital after an earlier double fracture had healed.
The Camden Courier-Post of February 13, 1928 reports that George Zimmerman and John Connors, who had claimed they were wounded by the "phantom sniper" near the Federal street bridge, were held for the grand jury on charges of having explosives after City Detective McGrath testified to a mysterious blast at Zimmerman's home.
A one-year-old baby at 320 Point Street was treated at Cooper Hospital for second degree burns after upsetting a cup of hot coffee, the Camden Courier-Post reported on February 11, 1928.
With orders to "shoot on sight" issued to suburban police hunting South Jersey's "phantom sniper," a man giving a fake name reported a 16th shooting that investigators could not verify, while a 15th victim came forward separately in Collingswood.
Nine-year-old Richard Richardson of Princess Avenue spent 39 minutes in an icy Cooper River tributary near Pine Street after trying to save a stray puppy; 13-year-old William Watkins brought him a rope.
Isaac M. Shreve, a Camden policeman for nearly forty years, was fatally stricken with apoplexy while answering a false-alarm call at Thirty-sixth and Federal streets in June 1926. He had served in the fire department, been shot by a robber twelve years earlier, and spent his last eighteen years on duty in East Camden.
Victor Floyd of Eufaela, Alabama, employed at the packing station of the Jersey Fruit Growers' Association and living at the home of Dr. and Mrs. R. H. Asay at 110 North 27th Street, was taken to Cooper Hospital by police ambulance and operated on for appendicitis.
Mayor Van Hart's June 1922 proclamation for a safe and sane Fourth of July, with Camden news of the ferryboat Millville, a Masonic funeral for William P. Weiser, and a divorce advised for Mrs. Margaret Jenkins of 1418 Louis Street.
A Philadelphia Inquirer report of April 28, 1922 on a fatal fire at 1009 Broadway, Camden, in which iron bars from the building's former use as a bank prevented the rescue of a sleeping boy. Six firemen, including Captain Charles Watkins of No. 7 Engine Company, were injured.