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Former city detective George Murry (printed Murray), 52, of 649 Locust Street, was found dead in a snow drift at Locust and Beckett Streets after a fatal heart attack while taking an after-dinner walk.
Camden's municipal buildings, police stations and firehouses were draped in mourning for Captain Martin Carrigan, who died of injuries received fighting the Kaighn Avenue fire; city council voted to pay the expense of his funeral.
Captain Martin B. Carrigan of Engine Company No. 2 died at Cooper Hospital of a fractured skull and severe burns received while leading his men at the Economy Store fire on Kaighn Avenue.
South Camden police ambulance log: Albert Biron, 24, of 1108 Baring Street, among residents transported to West Jersey and Cooper hospitals.
The police ambulance removed the following residents of South Camden to the hospitals late on Saturday afternoon: West Jersey Homeopathic - William Perry, aged 62 years, 1725 Fillmore Street ; Albert Biron, 24 years old, 1108 Baring Street .
Thomas Sparks, 28, of 652 Locust Street, was taken to Cooper Hospital with a pistol wound of the knee after being held up and robbed at Second and Pine Streets; James Wilson was arrested on suspicion.
Coroner David Bentley blamed jitney driver Vincenzo Strattoni of 332 Viola Street for the Camden grade-crossing wreck in which a Pennsylvania Railroad express struck his motor bus, killing ten and injuring five; Mayor Ellis ordered an investigation.
Seven-year-old Barbara Johnson of 1896 River Avenue was killed when a Camden police ambulance transporting Richard Gardiner of 2820 Adams Street struck her in the street, as reported in the Camden Post-Telegram of February 22, 1919.
Four Camden accidents reported January 20, 1919, including Emma Steck of 905 Point Street, hurt in a fall from a trolley car and taken to Cooper Hospital.
Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of July 17, 1918: lawyer Joseph Carr inducted into the service, four-year-old Frank Harris of 329 Liberty Street injured with a hatchet, Levering Minister leaving Engine Co. No. 4 for a shipyard job, and William Michalak appointed to the mounted police squad.
Clifford Grundy, 23, of 61 Penn street, lost a finger in a machine at the Victor Talking Machine Company plant and was treated at Cooper Hospital.
Councilman Charles H. Greer, superintendent of the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company, was badly beaten while trying to stop three men from stealing his automobile outside the Helena apartments at Third and Cooper streets.
Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of March 23, 1918: shipyard worker William Briederback of 434 Viola Street burned about the eyes, William Rovner of 1117 Broadway overcome by gasoline fumes, and a man held on a lead-pipe theft charge.
Young John Kovasthik of 902 Woodland Avenue was fatally injured by an auto truck at Eighth and Sylvan Streets. The driver, Martin Flame of Philadelphia, was held on a manslaughter charge.
Philadelphia Inquirer briefs from December 16, 1917: officers elected by the Firemen's Mutual Benevolent Association and the Associated Charities, and five-year-old Theodore Sipe of 405 Market Street in Cooper Hospital after possibly swallowing a marble.
John Kennedy, 16, of 1117 Locust Street, suffered severe scalp lacerations and probable fractures of both knees in a fall at the New York Shipyard and was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Twenty-two people were hurt, two probably fatally, when the body of a Pensauken-line trolley jumped its trucks at Forty-seventh Street and Maple Avenue. The motorman, Percy Williams, 37, of 688 Woodland Avenue, was among the injured.
Philadelphia Inquirer Camden briefs of May 29, 1917: a woman jailed for breaking a bottle over another's head, a railroad engineer's funeral, a German-American flag raising at Fourth and Viola Streets with an address by William Sangtinette, and a patriotic meeting.
Local briefs from Philadelphia Inquirer, February 11, 1917: Miss Eveline Pratley of 221 North 38th Street lost three fingers in a machine accident at 38th Street and Westfield Avenue. Also: a tugboat injury, a business incorporation, and a child's broken arm.
Camden Post-Telegram - January 29, 1917 The name of the schoolmate who caused his death was locked behind the lips of seven-year-old Irwin Werner, when he died at the Cooper Hospital , Camden, today, of brain clot.
Fourteen firemen were overcome by smoke and roughly $20,000 in damage was done during a twelve-hour fire at the Frank G. Hitchner Wall Paper Manufacturing Company at Fifth and Mickle streets; water from the plant flooded nearby cellars, including John Orr's home at 441 Judson Street.
Meyer Pinsky, 16, of 1415 Kaighn Avenue, was struck on the head by a brick thrown in a street fight at Ann and Sycamore streets and taken to Cooper Hospital in critical condition.
With the body mounted on the auto supply wagon, the funeral of Fireman Harry C. Anderson, who died in Cooper Hospital from injuries received in being thrown from the auto truck in responding to an alarm of fire, took place from his home at 1147 Federal street, Camden.
Camden Post-Telegram - May 3, 1916 Hurt in Truck-Trolley Crash He is Dangerously Ill at Cooper Hospital.
Yuli Edelmeyer, 4, of 1222 North 18th Street, East Camden, died at Cooper Hospital after her dress caught fire while she played with her brothers at the open grate of a stove. Joseph Becker, an oil wagon driver, smothered the flames but the child's injuries proved fatal.
Philadelphia Inquirer report of pneumonia deaths in Camden, including Mrs. Joseph Schlitz of 2731 Concord Avenue and her newborn daughter at Cooper Hospital, and Mrs. Margaret Hunt of 403 Chambers Avenue.
Collision Occurs as Machine Speeds to Home of Man Who Attempted Suicide Three Camden policemen were injured, one of them seriously, last night, when the First district auto ambulance was struck by a trolley car while responding to a call from 2310 Carman street , where Bodine Stratton, 39 years old, had shot himself over the heart.
Man Sent to Hospital, Wife to Jail, When Aim of Latter at Howling Animal Fails The bad aim of Mrs. Ella Taylor, aged 25 years, of 3010 Pleasant street , East Camden, resulted in lots of trouble and incidentally sent her husband, William, aged 49 years, to Cooper Hospital , with a severely cut head.
Four people were bitten by dogs in Camden in one day, among them 10-year-old Thelma Payne of 870 Fairview Street, who was attacked while running to meet her father. The column also carries four short Camden items.
A sudden electrical storm on August 18, 1915 struck Camden hardest: lightning shocked three boys sheltering under an awning at Tenth and Penn streets, and set fires at the Parkside school, a Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Toone & Hollinshed department store at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the Camden Curtain Rod Factory at Broadway and Jackson streets.
Two dog-bite victims, three-year-old William Willoughby of Sherman Avenue and 29-year-old Edward Nelson of Benson Street, were treated at Cooper Hospital, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported on August 1, 1915.
Peter Bolione, 36, of 915 Jefferson Street, suffered a compound arm fracture when a pneumatic drill kicked at the New York Shipbuilding plant.
John Trail, 35, of 1160 Thurman Street was taken to Cooper Hospital with head wounds after he told police he was struck with a club and robbed of $1.70 on Kaighn Avenue near Eighth Street.
William Boots, 55, of 325 North Front Street fractured two ribs in a fall while closing his shutters and was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Dorothy Tischenor, 17 months old, of 2738 Polk Avenue, was taken to Cooper Hospital after swallowing a marble, and suffered no ill effects.
Mrs. Kate Evans, 60, of 1743 South Fourth Street died in Cooper Hospital after breaking her hip in a fall downstairs.
Thomas O'Connell and his son James, of 2309 South Seventh Street, were held by Recorder Stackhouse in Camden, accused of beating William Laute, 37, of 741 Fairview Street, who was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Harold S. Woodin, 15, of 632 Clinton Street was accidentally shot in the side in September 1914 by 14-year-old John C. Voll of 1143 Federal Street, while the two boys played with a revolver in the cellar of the Woodin home.
William Hurst, 9, of Woodland Avenue was struck by a Reading Railway express from Atlantic City at the Eighth Street grade crossing while playing with companions, and died on the way to Cooper Hospital.
William Thompson, 25, of 2128 Watson Street, and Harold Gendolf, 12, of 905 Woodland Avenue, were treated with anti-tetanic serum at Cooper Hospital after being wounded by blank cartridges.
Captain Peter Carter of Engine Company No. 1 was named Deputy Chief after John A. Stockton's elevation to Fire Chief, and Kim Lee was sentenced for the burglary of Sig Schoenagle's store at 424 Federal Street.
Camden briefs from the Philadelphia Inquirer of March 26, 1914, including the appointment of Charles Smith as a city fireman after the death of Edward Finley and building permits for twelve dwellings from 1137 to 1159 Sherman (Sheridan) Street.
Mrs. Mary Moore, 37, of 911 South Fourth Street broke her leg falling from the back step of her home and was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Two Camden firemen, James McDade and William Simpson, were overcome by smoke at a $4000 fire at the West Jersey Carriage Works, 15 to 21 Market Street, in April 1913.
Mrs. Lydia A. Cutshall, 28, of 48 South 41st Street, underwent surgery at Cooper Hospital for an internal malady in April 1913; her recovery was reported to be progressing well.
Joseph Broadway, 53, shot Mrs. Lydia Harris at her furnished room house at 512 Kaighn Avenue, Camden, after she rejected his advances, then turned the revolver on himself; he died at Cooper Hospital, where she was expected to recover.
Three-month-old Clarence Baker of 710 Woodland Avenue was taken dying of spinal meningitis to Cooper Hospital, and his father, Anthony Baker, was arrested by Detective Brothers on an aunt's story that he had thrown the child on the floor.
Two prisoners in the Camden city jail attempt to take their own lives; the vigilance of Captain Hyde saves them, and both are given twenty days by Recorder Stackhouse.
Camden police believe Ilario Di Antonio, sailing for Italy, stabbed William Gallagher to death at Locust and Pine streets on December 8, 1912; two compatriots were arrested after Detectives Schregler and Troncone investigated.
A Camden Post-Telegram list of cases treated at Cooper Hospital, led by Christopher Umberger's fall from a Cooper River boat house roof and including John T. Gordan of 647 Locust Street.