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Leonard F. Garbrecht (1910–2000) was a Camden fire captain who served from 1941 until retiring on disability in 1960. He was the last remaining captain of that era and a charter member of Camden City Firefighters Local 788.
Berwick Street is in East Camden, running through the 2000 and 2100 blocks between Rand Street and Marlton Pike; the street was extended to South 20th Street after the McGuire Gardens housing project was built in 1954.
Edwin Thomas Mills was born on April 13, 1891, in Ossining, New York, to Jacob and Katie Mills. His father worked as a shoemaker.
Eighth Street runs south to north, with a few major interruptions, from Morgan Boulevard to Pyne Point in North Camden — one of Camden's longest thoroughfares.
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.
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 desks and strewing papers about.
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 from a Mt. Holly jail.
Charles Hellings, 52, of 2164 Berwick Street was held without bail on a statutory charge after his 14-year-old daughter and 12-year-old granddaughter testified against him before Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.
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 attempt to kill him.