Tag: Edwin T. Mills
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Edwin T. Mills
Edwin Thomas Mills was born on April 13, 1891, in Ossining, New York, to Jacob and Katie Mills. His father worked as a shoemaker. In the 1900 census, the Mills family, including Edwin and his younger brother, resided on North Highland Avenue in Ossining. They continued to live there until at least 1910. By that…
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Gunmen In Philadelphia Murder Colozzi in Numbers War
Camden Courier-Post – January 10, 1940 Westmont Victim Reported to Have Been Aide of Klosterman Scarduzio Death Tie-Up Also Seen A reputed employee of Fred Klosterman, Camden numbers baron, was shot and killed in Philadelphia last night in what police there believed was an inter-city fight for control of the numbers racket. The dead man…
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Boys Smash Desks In Camden School But Take Nothing
Camden Courier-Post – June 22, 1933 Suspects Believed to Have Resented Teachers Refusing Promotion Hiding in the H. B. Wilson School, Ninth and Florence streets, until a Parent-Teacher Association meeting was over and the school locked for the night, several boys turned vandals by forcing open desk drawers, breaking the glass in book cases, marring…
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Safecracker Escapes from Mt. Holly Jail
Camden Courier-Post – June 19, 1933 Prize Prisoner Held Secretly Seven Weeks Saws Way Out Guarded Rigidly, Segregated From Others, Accused of Two Robberies Slips Through Hole ‘Too Tiny for Any Man’ Drops to Yard by ‘Rope’ of Sheets; Saw Horse Helps Him Over Wall “Eddie” Adamski, most notorious of local gangland’s safecrackers, has escaped…
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Employee Charges E.C. Cades with Attempt to Kill
Camden Courier-Post – June 2, 1933 Apartment House Owner Held Under $500 Bail on Man’s Complaint Accusation is Denied Edwin C. Cades, 26, one of the owners of the Cades apartment houses in North Camden, was held under $500 bail yesterday pending grand jury disposition of a charge that he assaulted an employee in an…