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Camden Courier-Post, April 23, 1928: Ben Courter's profile of William L. Hurley, who built a small store at Fifth and Pine streets into the Gately & Hurley store at Broadway and Pine streets on a policy of square dealing, and who championed the Camden bridge and the extension of Broadway.
Camden Courier-Post, April 4, 1928. John H. Lennox was promoted to deputy chief and Rollo Jones to battalion chief of the Camden Fire Department, eight men were elevated to senior and junior captain, and eleven new firemen were appointed.
A night attendant at Herman Z. Cutler's garage at Fifth and Arch streets saw a man carrying a box up an alley and called police, frustrating a second attempt within ten days by thieves to steal whisky from George Beringer's drug store at Fifth and Federal streets.
Ben Courter recalls the old one-horse dinkey of the Camden Horse Railroad Company on South Second street, and the night in the '90s when driver "Joe" Hackney and his horse carried a posse of armed Kaighn Point citizens up and down Second street chasing a runaway steer.
Two Gloucester men and two young Camden girls arrested in a Federal Street apartment house were found guilty of disorderly conduct before Judge Bernard Bertman. Policemen Walter Patton and Raymond Stark were summoned by the building's owner.
The Camden Courier-Post of February 13, 1928 reports that George Zimmerman and John Connors, who had claimed they were wounded by the "phantom sniper" near the Federal street bridge, were held for the grand jury on charges of having explosives after City Detective McGrath testified to a mysterious blast at Zimmerman's home.
Two Camden men missed by relatives and friends were found dead of heart disease. Patrolman Raymond Stark broke down the door at 907 Federal Street to find barber Thomas Green; John Curran was found in the yard of 286 Liberty Street.
A burglar trying to break into the Elwood Antrim hardware store at 1541 Federal Street was frightened off by a burglar alarm; District Detectives Schlamm and Donnolley arrested a suspect, Walter Gibbs, at Seventeenth and Federal streets.
'Five-and-Ten' to Occupy Proposed Building at Twenty-Sixth St. F. W. Woolworth is invading East Camden with his "five and ten.
Joseph Cimini, 31, declared by police to be a Philadelphia gangster, was killed in the Sixth Ward Republican Club, 908 Broadway; Joseph "Polack Joe" Deven, who fired the shot, was held on a murder charge, declaring he had fired in self-defense.
Mickey Blair meets Billy Moffo, his only conqueror, in the feature bout at the Public Service Ball Park, Twelfth and Federal streets, with Joe Spearing and Eddie Chaney in a return engagement in the semi-windup.
A 1926 retrospective recalling William Cooper's 1906 laudanum suicide in Cole's barroom on Federal Street — 20 years after he sat dead in a chair for six hours while a pinochle game continued around him.
Isaac M. Shreve, a Camden policeman for nearly forty years, was fatally stricken with apoplexy while answering a false-alarm call at Thirty-sixth and Federal streets in June 1926. He had served in the fire department, been shot by a robber twelve years earlier, and spent his last eighteen years on duty in East Camden.
A column of East Camden notes for November 9, 1923: lodge and V.F.W. meetings at William Penn Hall and Red Men's Hall, and word that Mrs. William L. Adams of 414 North 27th Street was recovering from a serious illness.
Raymond R. Snape of 2826 Cramer Street carried his baby to safety and summoned firefighters after unattended burning meat filled the house with smoke. No real damage was done beyond the smoke.
Robert Black, driver of a Cramer Hill bus, was twice sent to police headquarters in one day by Traffic Officer Raymond Stark at Twenty-sixth and Federal streets for failing to produce a jitney bus driver's license.
Firemen from the station at 27th and Federal Streets were called to extinguish a chimney fire caused by soft coal soot at 401 North 41st Street on the evening of March 17, 1923 (the Saturday before this Monday, March 19 report); no damage resulted.
The family of Richard Cox at 117 North Twenty-first Street was roused at 5 a.m. by smoke from a chimney fire; the roof briefly caught flame but damage was limited to $50.
Cases treated at the Homeopathic Hospital in Camden on October 28, 1922, including William May, 48, of 2110 Berwick Street, treated for lacerations of the elbow.
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.
Charles E. Hemphill, a former asylum inmate, confesses to abducting three-year-old Carl Carlin of East Camden; Captain Schregler moves to have him adjudged insane and returned to the asylum.
Constable William Cramer died of gunshot wounds sustained while serving a writ of attachment at Tuckahoe; vaudeville actor Harry Batchelder was arrested at Audubon by Captain of Detectives William Schregler and Detective Fiore Troncone.
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.
Seven classified business notices from the Camden Post-Telegram of February 14, 1920, including a sign painter named Goldy at 21 Wood Street.
Captain Stehr and a detail of officers raided 817 Clare Street, where Edward Brown, 25, was charged with keeping a disorderly house; seven cases of beer, a quart of gin and a quart of whisky were seized.
Twenty-two people were hurt, two probably fatally, when the body of a Pensauken-line trolley jumped its trucks at Forty-seventh Street and Maple Avenue. The motorman, Percy Williams, 37, of 688 Woodland Avenue, was among the injured.
Frank Dungan and Mrs. Katie C. Beach, arrested together at 128 Federal Street by State Detective Frank Miller, were held in $300 bail each by Justice of the Peace Frank Sheridan on a charge preferred by her husband, George Beach.
Philadelphia Inquirer briefs from February 19, 1917: a police raid at 710 Sycamore Street, a scalded child on South Seventh Street, a burglary at 1529 Federal Street, and an arrest over stolen chickens.
Firemen connected with the Twenty-seventh and Federal streets engine house, Camden, were taken by some surprise when one of their number, Israel Adams announced he had been promoted a captain, and ordered them to get ready to accompany him to another house.
With the body mounted on the auto supply wagon, the funeral of Fireman Harry C. Anderson, who died in Cooper Hospital from injuries received in being thrown from the auto truck in responding to an alarm of fire, took place from his home at 1147 Federal street, Camden.
Camden Post-Telegram - May 3, 1916 Hurt in Truck-Trolley Crash He is Dangerously Ill at Cooper Hospital.
Mrs. Margaret Williams, aged 41, of 125 Birch Street, was so severely shaken up when trolley cars bumped at the Federal Street ferry that she was taken to Cooper Hospital.
Mrs. Jane H Dukes of 3803 Westfield Avenue was fatally stricken with heart disease while sitting on her porch; also a child struck by a motorcyclist, a wedding at the Church of the Immaculate Conception, and the incorporation of the Sturdevant Corporation.
Andreas Beck, Camden's veteran barber, retired in March 1915 after fifty-nine consecutive years in business at 116 Federal Street, where his customers included Senator William J. Sewell and, once, President Benjamin Harrison.
Harold S. Woodin, 15, of 632 Clinton Street was accidentally shot in the side in September 1914 by 14-year-old John C. Voll of 1143 Federal Street, while the two boys played with a revolver in the cellar of the Woodin home.
Captain Peter Carter of Engine Company No. 1 was named Deputy Chief after John A. Stockton's elevation to Fire Chief, and Kim Lee was sentenced for the burglary of Sig Schoenagle's store at 424 Federal Street.
Answering an alarm for a fire at Allan Palmer's home at 2205 Sewell Avenue, the East Side truck company collided with a team at Twenty-fourth and Federal Streets.
Recorder Stackhouse heard a Decoration Day array of offenders in Camden Police Court — among them Elizabeth Evans, Michael Walsh, and a fracas between Andrew McCready and Harry Ivins of 210 North Twelfth Street. (Camden Post-Telegram, May 31, 1913.)
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.
Thomas Armitage and Kelly Parker of 526 South Third Street, electricians at the Pennsylvania Railroad power house at the foot of Federal Street, were burned about the eyes, hands and face when a wire short-circuited.
William C. Drew, handcuffed to County Detective John Cherry, bolted for the door of a crowded Market street trolley car in Camden after his capture at Twenty-third and Federal streets; the car was stopped while the detective subdued him and took him to the county jail.
Nicholas Small was taken into custody by Special Officer Troncone on suspicion of maltreating Elsie Staley, the girl whose refusal had led William May to attempt suicide.
Cooper Hospital cases reported July 19, 1911, including William May, 21, of 1819 Federal Street, treated for an incised wound of the lips cut by a piece of bottle.
William May was locked up in the county jail on a charge of threatening the lives of Elsie Staley and William Rose after he found her in Rose's company.
William May was discharged from Cooper Hospital days after slashing his breast over Elsie Staley's refusal to marry him; no charge of attempted suicide was brought against him.
William M. May, a young Indian living behind 1819 Federal Street, slashed his chest with a penknife after Elsie Staley, 14, refused his marriage proposal for a second time at Christmas.
Boilermaker Crawford Smith had Policeman Ulie Andrews lock up a drunken namesake, Andy Smith, who put a brick through a front window of his home at 729 Carman Street; Recorder Stackhouse sentenced him to two months at the paper picking plant, and James Davis and James Carter got a month each. Camden Post-Telegram, November 30, 1910.
Mrs. Charles Conner of 2407 Howell Street was painfully injured tripping over a suitcase while alighting from a trolley at 24th and Federal streets in November 1910.
Mrs. Charles Conner of 2407 Howell Street was injured while alighting from a trolley car at Twenty-fourth and Federal Streets, tripping over a suit case left standing in the aisle. Policemen Pedigree and Johnston carried her into a nearby restaurant.
Five applications for transfers of retail liquor licenses, including George W. Fry's at 29 North Third Street, were listed for hearing before Camden's Excise Commission in October 1910.