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Thirty-Sixth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road, to Federal Street, and forms Camden's northern border with Pennsauken Township at intervals along its length. It became part of Camden when Stockton Township was annexed in 1899, and had been known in Pennsauken as Cove Avenue into the 1890s.
City Commissioner Mary W. Kobus, Camden's director of public safety, warned a dozen police officials — Edward Hahn among them — to keep the city free of vice and gambling or face "serious consequences."
Two prisoners who fought police appeared before Judge Lewis Liberman: Frank Wade, who swung at Patrolman Earl Wright, got 60 days, and Thomas Golden, who kicked Acting Desk Sergeant Frank Evans, received a suspended six-month sentence.
Two Camden policemen were injured in battles with alleged drunken prisoners at police headquarters; Earl Wright suffered a fractured nose.
Police photographs show two purported accomplices of the burglar slain in an East Camden gun battle, James Melbourne and Theodore Rettberg, and Miss Emmalinda Canilus, a material witness.
Burglar Charles Rettberg, 21, of North 36th Street, was shot dead by police and City Detective Robert Ashenfelter was wounded three times in a gun duel at an East Camden store at 32nd Street and Pierce Avenue, August 24, 1931.