Tag: George A. Ward
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Tipsy Driver Cases Draw Court’s Fire
Camden Courier-Post – February 12, 1938 Mariano Says He Won’t Postpone Any More as Complaint is Thrown Out Police Judge Gene R. Mariano gave notice yesterday that “unless a very good reason is advanced,” there will be no more drunken driving cases postponed in Police Court. He made that statement after telling Virgil Moffett, 47,…
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Illness Causes Shifts for Police Officials
Camden Courier-Post – February 26, 1936 Temporary changes in the police department to offset the absence of Lieutenant George Frost, head of the First District, who is ill, and Lieutenant George Ward, of headquarters, who is away on police business, were announced yesterday by Chief Arthur Colsey. Sgt. John Potter, of the Third District, is…
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Arrest of Six Links Numbers And Fake Cash
Camden Courier-Post – August 10, 1935 Men Nabbed Here Believed to Be Members of Ring A tie-up between a huge counterfeiting ring and a gambling syndicate backing the “numbers” was believed unearthed by Camden police and Federal authorities following the arrest here yesterday of six colored men on charges of attempting to pass bogus money.…
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Police Force Politics Banned Commissioner Kobus Declares
Camden Courier-Post – August 3, 1935 Calls for 100% Efficiency and Promises Square Deal for All in Talk to Commanders; Stresses Fact Colsey is Chief “I want 100% efficient police department and not a political machine.” Commissioner Mary W. Kobus, new director of public safety, made that declaration yesterday afternoon at a joint police-press conference…
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Store Bandits to be Quizzed in Chester on Feitz Murder
Camden Courier-Post Evening Courier – September 14, 1934 Material Witness Will View Suspects Caught by Camden Sleuths BRICKNER QUESTIONED BY COLSEY ON HOLDUP Police Order All Persons Arrested to Face ‘Line Up’ in Slaying Probe Seven men and women held by Camden as police as material witnesses in the murder of Detective William T. Feitz…
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Relatives’ Cries Nearly Start Panic
Camden Courier-Post – March 9, 1932 Crowds Mill About Scene of Explosion Where Workers Died “They are in there- dead” That shrill scream from the chilled lips of a relative of two men trapped in the steel tomb of the purifying box at the Public Service gas plant at Locust and Cherry Streets today almost…
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Pallbearers Named for Stehr Funeral
Camden Evening Courier, Morning Post – December 12, 1930 Body Will Lie in State Tonight—Burial Tomorrow Afternoon Funeral arrangements were completed yesterday for Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died Wednesday in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack. The body will lie in state tonight between 7 and 10 p.m. at the Schroeder Chapel,…
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Ghost Sniper Shoots at Bus, Fells Cop at Bridge Plaza
Camden Courier-Post – January 25, 1928 Blue Marble Found After ‘Shot’ Knocks Officer Down at 4 AM Windshield of Bus Strangely Shattered Four Private Cars Also Have Been Targets; Probers Are Baffled Probing a mystery that sounds more like fantastic fiction than serious fact, police of Camden and officials of the Camden Bridge today were…
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Murder Motive at G.O.P. Club Splits Sleuths
Camden Evening Courier – January 16, 1928 County Detectives Contend Philadelphia Gangster Was Slain in Quarrel Over Woman Police Claim Hold-up Attempt Caused Fight Deven Charged with Crime, Flannery and Taxi Driver Held Without Bail With city and county authorities definitely divided on the motive and circumstance if the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph…
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Jewelry Clerk Held in Robbery of Store
Camden Courier-Post – January 7, 1928 Loot Values at $2000 Taken from Broaday Shop; Second Visit of Thieves Climbing to the roof of a shed in the rear of the Greenetz & Pellicoff jewelry store, 833 Broadway, burglars entered the shop early today and carried away $2,000 in loot. At noon today, Joseph Shapiro, 29…