People
Edward S. Hyde
Edward S. Hyde rose through the Camden Police Department from patrolman to acting chief, served as a Camden County Freeholder, and died in 1930.
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Elisha A. Gravenor
Streets
Coates Alley
Coates Alley is a short street in Camden that originally ran parallel to Broadway and South 5th Street from Cherry Street north across Spruce Street to Division Street. Today it is one block long, running from Spruce Street to Division Street.
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John Foster
John Foster was a well-respected and influential figure in Camden's police force during the 1890s. He was born in Bloomfield, New Jersey, in the year 1859. In 1861, his family relocated to Camden, where he spent the majority of his formative years.
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Chief Colsey Dies at 67 of Heart Attack
Camden Chief of Police Arthur Colsey, a 27-year veteran of the department, died of a heart attack in his sleep at his home at 2937 Stevens Street. The Courier-Post traced his career from merchant at Ninth and Market streets and Second Ward councilman to patrolman in 1912 and permanent chief in 1934.
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Here's Camden's Finest, With Whiskers, in 1898
A 1930 Camden Courier-Post retrospective reprints a photograph of the Camden Police Department as it appeared in 1898, with every officer in the group identified — among them Edward S. Hyde.
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Police Escort Funeral of Former Chief Hyde
A police motorcycle squad under Inspector Humes escorts the funeral of former police chief Edward S. Hyde, held at his Haddon Avenue home with burial in Harleigh Cemetery.
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New City Police Must Be 'Clean' Is Order of Mayor
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.
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Underworld Life Exposed as Hall Is Given Grilling
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.
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Chief Accuses Four Officers in Vice Probe
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.
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Blames Chauffeur for Death of Ten
Coroner David Bentley blamed jitney driver Vincenzo Strattoni of 332 Viola Street for the Camden grade-crossing wreck in which a Pennsylvania Railroad express struck his motor bus, killing ten and injuring five; Mayor Ellis ordered an investigation.
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Camden Hails Her Sons, Conquerors, at Victory Jubilee
Camden held a Victory Jubilee parade and banquet on September 6, 1919, reviewed by Admiral Henry B. Wilson, honoring returning soldiers and sailors and the 135 Camden County men who died in the war.
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Railway Men Investigate Supposed Attempt to Dynamite Train
John Daly reported a suspicious man at the elevated West Jersey and Seashore Railroad tracks at Newton Avenue and Carteret Street, where a bored hole was found; railway men investigated a supposed dynamite attempt.
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Police Honor Comrade
Camden's police force, headed by Chief Gravenor, attended the funeral of policeman Philip Knauff, who died of pneumonia, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 18, 1917.
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Forger Thompson Still at Liberty
No Trace Yet Found of the Ashbridges Pal in Sensational and Tragic Escape From the County Prison on Monday Night FOOD SHUNNED BY YOUNG MURDERER Evidently in hiding, George E. Thompson, who escaped from prison with Wilson Ashbridge on Monday night after Murdering one jailor and wounding another, is still at liberty.
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Murderer's Wife Supplied Revolver, Smuggling It In Covered by Fruit
Mrs. Marian Ashbridge confesses to smuggling into the Camden County Jail — hidden in a basket of fruit — the revolver her husband used to kill jailor Isaac Hibbs and escape; she is held without bail on a charge of conspiracy.
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Ashbridge Caught in Chester Hotel Along with Wife
Captured at the Keystone Hotel in Chester, Pennsylvania, fugitive murderer Wilson Ashbridge waives extradition and is driven back to Camden by Captain of Detectives William Schregler, his wife beside him.
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Murderer and Forger Escape Jail After Shooting Keepers, Killing One
Wilson Ashbridge, slayer of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar, and forger George E. Thompson shoot their way out of the Camden County Jail with a smuggled revolver, killing keeper Isaac Hibbs and wounding Joseph Ellis; a general jail delivery is averted by police summoned by the wounded men.
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Sunday Ordinance to Be Tested in Higher Court
Attorney Harry C. Kramer announced he would carry Camden's liberal Sunday ordinance to a higher court after his client Louis Weisban, of 28th Street and Polk Avenue, was fined $10 for selling a scrub brush and soap powder on a Sunday.
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Thousands View Chief's Remains
Camden Post-Telegram - May 10, 1914 Throngs Jam Court House While Body Lies in State for Two Hours.
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Charge, Murder to Italian Now on Sea
Camden police believe Ilario Di Antonio, sailing for Italy, stabbed William Gallagher to death at Locust and Pine streets on December 8, 1912; two compatriots were arrested after Detectives Schregler and Troncone investigated.
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More Witnesses in Kellmann Murder
Police located two more witnesses in the Karl Kellmann murder case: Berthold Neuman of 2813 High Street, who crossed the Twenty-seventh street bridge shortly before the shots, and railroad man Stewart Dahm, who was confronted by Duffield near Twenty-sixth street.
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Coursey Breaks Down While Story of Cold-Blooded Killing of Karl Kellmann Is Told by Detective
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
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North Camden Hit by a Great Cyclone; Homes Wrecked
Hundreds of Houses Ruined by Violent Wind and Rain and two Persons May Die; Streets Strewn with Debris Two lives will probably be sacrificed, property valued at at least a hundred thousand dollars, was virtually destroyed and the northwest section of the city was laid in ruin when a storm of cyclonic intensity swept over Camden last night.
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Camden News Notes — May 19, 1911
Camden briefs for May 19, 1911, reporting that Chief of Police Gravenor made Sergeant John Reader acting captain of the Second District during Captain Arthur Stanley's absence abroad.
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Murders Wife Who Threatened to Leave
Adolph Walker, 27, shot and killed his wife Anna at their home at 906 Coates Alley, then turned the revolver on himself.
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Camden, Now Eighty Years Old, Is Proud of Its Wonderful Growth
City on Saint Valentine's Day, Will Observe the Anniversary of Its Incorporation—Some Facts and Figures Concerning "Slow Town" Across the River Eighty years will have passed on Friday, February 14, since Camden became an incorporated city, and just now the citizens are looking back over those years and recalling with a pardonable pride the epochs that have made it a community of homes, of splendid industries and of clean, progressive government.
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Funeral of “Ike” Toy
The Bridgeton Evening News describes the funeral of Camden Policeman Isaac "Ike" Toy, held from his home at 604 South Third Street and attended by Mayor Charles H. Ellis, Chief of Police Elisha A. Gravenor and fifty officers, with interment in Harleigh Cemetery. During the procession Policeman Alonzo Dyer collapsed at Broadway and Berkley Street.
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Great Throngs at the Funeral of Chief Foster
Thousands attended the funeral of Camden Chief of Police John Foster in March 1906; among the donors of floral tributes was John Carroll.
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Camden Police Form Organization
Camden police form a branch of the State Police Beneficial Association, electing Sergeant Edward Hyde president and Chief John Foster among the trustees.