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Edward C. Hahn
Edward C. Hahn served in the Camden Police Department from 1922, rising to the rank of Lieutenant. He died of a heart attack while on duty on April 2, 1944.
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20th Street
Twentieth Street runs through Cramer Hill and East Camden, from Harrison Avenue to Bank Street, established by the 1887–1888 Camden City Directory. In 1954, fourteen homes with South 20th Street addresses were added when McGuire Gardens public housing was built; they were demolished and redeveloped in the 1990s.
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Lt. Edward C. Hahn Stricken on Street
Lt. Edward C. Hahn, a 22-year veteran of the Camden police department, collapsed and died of a heart attack outside a drugstore near his Third District station house on April 2, 1944.
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Kobus Warns Cops to Keep City Clean
City Commissioner Mary W. Kobus, Camden's director of public safety, warned a dozen police officials — Edward Hahn among them — to keep the city free of vice and gambling or face "serious consequences."
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Tenth Arrest Made Here in Numbers Quiz
The arrest of Crawford Smith on numbers-writing charges brought to 10 the number of people apprehended that week in Camden's numbers-racket crackdown, running alongside the investigation into the murder of Detective William T. Feitz Jr.
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Cop Shakeup Today; Ax for 4th District
A police department shakeup announced by Mayor Roy R. Stewart abolished Camden's fourth police district; Sergeant Edward Hahn was among the officers transferred to the traffic squad.
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3 E. Camden Youths Nabbed as Suspects
Three East Camden youths were arrested on suspicion in the early morning hours of March 21, 1932 after police said they failed to explain why they were near Twenty-fourth and Howell Streets at 1:30 a.m.
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Burglar Robs Woman of $3 in Hour of Terror
A masked burglar menaced Mrs. Ernest McLaughlin of 1226 North Twentieth Street for an hour, then fled; neighbor William Murphy of 1221 North Twentieth Street was identified, arrested, and held without bail.
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2 Police Officers Made Lieutenants
Sergeants Samuel Johnson and Thomas Cunningham were sworn in as Camden police lieutenants, and reports circulated that five patrolmen — among them Edward Hahn of the third district — would soon be promoted to sergeant.
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Nine New Police From Nine Wards
Mayor Frank S. Van Hart swore in nine new Camden policemen, one from each of nine wards — including Edward C. Hahn of the Tenth Ward — with five more appointments to follow.