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Thirty-Ninth Street runs south from Jersey Avenue to Camden Avenue in East Camden, crossing Westfield Avenue and High Street. City directory and newspaper records document occupants of the 200, 300 and 400 blocks from 1924 to 1947.
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.
Preston Fisher of South Merchantville was held in $500 bail on a drunken driving charge made by Policeman Richard Donnelly. After Fisher underwent tests, Lieutenant George Ward and Sergeant Raymond Stark said they did not consider him intoxicated; Donnelly insisted the charge stand.
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.
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 .
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.
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.
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 two weeks ago in an alleged South Camden disorderly house will look over two men arrested in Chester PA after a store holdup here.
Mayor Roy R. Stewart says a shakeup of the Camden police department is likely after the slaying of District Detective William T. Feitz in a disorderly house at 243 Sycamore Street.
Camden police under Chief Arthur Colsey opened a city-wide hunt for the bandits who shot Detective William T. Feitz four times in the back when he surprised a holdup of 20 persons in a house at 243 Sycamore Street.
Herbert Bott was re-elected president of the Camden Police and Firemen's Association on February 9, 1933, with William P. Spencer winning a three-cornered fight for vice president.
Notice of the February 9, 1933 election of officers of the Camden Police and Firemen's Association, with Herbert Bott unopposed for president. Russell Anderson was among ten candidates for fireman trustee.
A police department shakeup announced by Mayor Roy R. Stewart abolished Camden's fourth police district; Sergeant Edward Hahn was among the officers transferred to the traffic squad.
George Rumble, Al Dubowski and Frank Marcone were arrested at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue after Bernard Franz of Philadelphia accused them of robbing him and Robert Tully under pretense of showing them where to get beer.
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.
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 started a panic among 1,000 persons, gathered at the scene a few minutes after a mysterious explosion snuffed out the lives of more than a dozen men.
Funeral arrangements for Camden Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack: his body would lie in state at the Schroeder Chapel, Broadway and Royden streets, with burial in Harleigh cemetery. The article lists the active and honorary pallbearers.
Sergeants Samuel Johnson and Thomas Cunningham were sworn in as Camden police lieutenants, and reports circulated that five patrolmen — among them Edward Hahn of the third district — would soon be promoted to sergeant.
Joseph "Mose" Flannery, 26, Eighth ward political worker and slot machine distributor, lay dying in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital after being shot before dawn outside a saloon at Front street and Kaighn avenue. He refused to name his assailants — "My lips are sealed" — as Camden police and county detectives rounded up eight men and hunted for a motive.
Camden and bridge police hunted a "phantom sniper" after a bus windshield was pierced on the Camden Bridge and Bridge Policeman John J. Rodgers was struck and knocked down by a blue marble fired from a slingshot or air gun.
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 "Polack Joe" Deven was arraigned in Camden police court today and held without bail on a murder charge.
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.
Members of the Sixth Ward Women's Republican Club, assembling at their club house at 908 Broadway, viewed the body of Mrs. Della Ward, wife of Policeman George Ward, at the family home at 610 Line Street. Her funeral was largely attended by South Camden policemen, with interment in Arlington cemetery.