Tag: Eighth Street Methodist Episcopal Church
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Police Sergeant Truax Buried at Harleigh
Camden Courier-Post – July 6, 1932 Police Sergeant Frank Truax, who died Thursday night from a complication of diseases, was buried yesterday in Harleigh Cemetery. More than two score policemen, as well as city officials, attended services at the funeral parlor of Frank J. Leonard, 1451 Broadway. Rev. E. M. Munyon, pastor of Eighth Street…
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Revolver, Smuggling It in Covered By Fruit, Murderer’s Wife Supplied It
Police and county detectives are looking for George E. Thompson, who escaped from the County Jail after murdering one keeper and wounding another.
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Murders and Forger Escape Jail After Shooting Keepers, Killing One
Murdering one jailor and wounding another with a revolver that had been smuggled into them by outside confederates, Wilson T. Ashbridge, slayer of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar, and Francis Murphy, alias George E. Thompson, a check forger, made their escape from the county jail a few minutes before seven o’clock last night.
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Police in a Church
Chief of Police John Foster, Captains Stanley, Boyle and Alberts, seventy policemen and Colonel D. B. Murphy, the police drill instructor, marched in a body from the Third Regiment Armory in Camden to Broadway M. E. Church last evening to attend divine service. A number of city firemen, trolley conductors and motormen were also in…