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The New Jersey State Supreme Court dismissed the appeal of three defendants convicted in Camden Police Court as disorderly persons in activities growing out of the recent RCA strike in that city.
George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.
The Camden Courier of January 13, 1922 reports Mayor Ellis's order that new policemen must have clean records after the expose of graft and vice protection in the downtown tenderloin, which cost Policemen William Draper, Tony Latorre and Ira Hall their places and led Detective George Murry to resign.
Camden policeman Ira Hall is dismissed by the City Council police committee after a hearing on vice conditions in the Third and Fifth wards, including testimony about a $250 robbery of a soldier at 229 Pine Street.
Chief Gravenor charged City Detective George Murray and Policemen Ira Hall, William Draper and Tony Latorre with unbecoming conduct, rule violations and neglect of duty after City Counsel Bleakly's inquiry into vice conditions.
The Camden Rescue Society, organized to look after the "down and out class" of men, women and children, elected John A. Rogers president; the society has its headquarters at 231 Kaighn Avenue.
City Solicitor E.G.C. Bleakly moved to acquire Delaware River street ends for Camden, filing Supreme Court suits over the ends of Jackson, Vanhook, Jasper, Emerald, Viola, and Winslow streets near Jefferson Street.
Contractors tearing up Broadway near the Newton Creek to lay underground conduits for the Bell Telephone Company were called off after Street Commissioner Mohrman objected that City Council had not yet approved the burying of the wires.
The Camden Daily Telegram's account of the Police Committee's hearings on charges against city policemen, at which Dr. “Mark Hanna” Davis was noted as absent from the Reformers' deliberations.