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Portrait of Edward S. Hyde

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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.

July 31, 2026·2 min read

Coates Avenue (present-day Coates Alley) and Welsh Street — 1885 Sanborn Map

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.

April 9, 2025·4 min read

John Foster - Camdens Chief of Police - 1899-11-05

People

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.

November 15, 2023·3 min read

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.

July 15, 1930·1 min read

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.

April 16, 1930·1 min read

Camden Hails Her Sons, Conquerors, at Victory Jubilee

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.

September 7, 1919·8 min read

Railway men investigate supposed attempt to dynamite train near Newton Ave. and Carteret St., 1917

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.

April 12, 1917·1 min read

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.

July 20, 1916·6 min read

Portrait of Mrs. Marion Ashbridge

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.

July 19, 1916·18 min read

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.

July 18, 1916·3 min read

Portrait of Wilson Ashbridge

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.

July 18, 1916·24 min read

People Viewing a Flag Draped Coffin - AI Stock Photo

Thousands View Chief's Remains

Camden Post-Telegram - May 10, 1914 Throngs Jam Court House While Body Lies in State for Two Hours.

May 10, 1914·7 min read

Portraits of Harry Duffield, Fred Coursey, and Linnans Staley

Boy's Brutal Murderer Collapses at Hearing

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.

October 14, 1912·9 min read

North-Camden-Hit-by-a-Great-Cyclone-2

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.

April 3, 1912·7 min read

Camden News Notes newspaper clipping

Camden News Notes

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.

May 19, 1911·1 min read

Murders Wife Who Threatened to Leave — Philadelphia Inquirer, November 2, 1908

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.

November 2, 1908·2 min read

Camden Now Eighty Years Old - 1908-02-02

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.

February 2, 1908·10 min read

Great Throngs at the Funeral of Chief Foster, Philadelphia Inquirer, March 5, 1906

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.

March 5, 1906·5 min read

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.

October 25, 1904·1 min read