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Three women arrested in illicit liquor raids, including Mrs. Sarah Dowling of 7 Wood Street, were given a four-day respite in Camden police court when Judge Garfield Pancoast ordered police to produce the stool pigeons who made the buys.
Four youths, among them Nicholas Boganik of 1305 Thurman Street, were held for the grand jury by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast on a charge of stealing an automobile after Motorcycle Policeman Gus Fortune caught them following a chase.
Four men and a woman arrested in a fight at Tenth and Market streets received suspended sentences on disorderly conduct charges from Judge Garfield Pancoast in Camden police court in August 1933.
Judge Pancoast fined Herbert Reuben $25 in July 1933 for selling beer without a license at 925 Liberty Street, but freed Frank Tomiczwicz of 1111 Louis Street with a warning after testimony that he was destitute.
Joseph Dworanczyk of 1155 Lowell Street was jailed for four months after beating Simon Balicyck, 55, of 1065 Everett Street with a board at Farnham Park in an argument over a pushcart. Camden Courier-Post, June 10, 1933.
Accused by his mother, Mrs. Anna Hopper of 731 Sylvan Street, of stealing two bracelets, Louis Hopper, 25, was sentenced to 30 days in jail by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast in June 1933.
Four men and a woman, among them 28-year-old Walter Koscianski of 966 Bulson Street, were fined $25 each in Camden police court in June 1933 after pleading guilty to disorderly conduct while denying they had been disorderly — a case arising from a motorcycle policeman's arrest of the five at Tenth and Bulson Streets.
Edward Stone, 21, of 1024 Federal Street, was arrested after striking at the host of a party he tried to "crash"; Judge Pancoast suspended sentence and told him to go to parties only when invited.
Three men who pleaded guilty to stealing gas or electricity from Public Service were sentenced to 30 days in county jail. Among them: John Waldner of 814 North 34th Street, who tapped the main gas line while his wife was ill and their meter was shut off for nonpayment.
Nathan Katz, 35, was fined $50 by Police Judge Pancoast after police raided his junk shop at 513 Liberty Street and found two pints of liquor. Camden Courier-Post, June 16, 1932.
Two youths found in a stupor from drinking liquor, George Burrell of 1208 Thurman Street and Dominick Ravieri of 325 Division Street, were held in $500 bail each while Judge Garfield Pancoast ordered police to find the speakeasy that sold it.
Wharton Lafayette, 27, of 401 North Third Street, told Police Judge Pancoast he was leaving for North Jersey to start working, and received a suspended sentence on a disorderly conduct charge as a parting gift.
Police Judge Pancoast rebuked Patrolman Charles Smith for altering a complaint and warrant, striking a youth's name from the record, and found the two remaining defendants not guilty.
Wharton Lafayette, 27, of 401 North Third Street, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge after an argument with two other men living at the same address.
Ten-year-old Rafael Petito of 237 Pine Street took $6 from his teacher's desk at the Central School; she guessed he was at a movie theatre, and Police Judge Pancoast sent him back to the Detention Home.
Two women, Mildred Russo of 425 Winslow Street and Mary Delfico of 348 Clinton Street, fought so fiercely in Camden police court in June 1932 that Judge Garfield Pancoast detained one of them an hour after dismissing the case.
Ernest Tinney, 17, was sentenced to 100 days in jail for throwing stones through train windows at Haddon avenue and Line street; three youths arrested with him received suspended sentences.
Thomas Fleeyne of 515 Taylor Avenue was jailed for 50 days in default of a $50 fine after police raided his home; two men were fined as inmates and John Kershaw forfeited bail.
Six alleged number writers were arrested by Camden's traffic squad on downtown street corners, spreading the belief that Atlantic City racketeers had set up "branch offices" in Camden; two were jailed for 60 days by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.
Bartender Daniel McGettigan was fined $100 after a raid on a Spruce Street saloon ordered by public safety director Dr. David S. Rhone for violating the Sunday-closing order.
The new Camden police vice squad raids three East Camden dwellings and arrests four men and two women, including Marco Reginelli and his wife, as suspected members of a holdup gang.
The Courier-Post's "When Father Was a Boy!" feature recalls the 1907 Camden Police baseball team, photographed at Blackwood when it played the Public Service nine, and tells what became of its players.
Discharged from West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital, Joseph Connors of Gloucester refused to identify John Doris as the man who shot him in a brawl over a girl on Broadway near Kaighn avenue on April 28, 1929.