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George Humphries, convicted of setting fire to his mother-in-law's home at 1049 North 31st Street in 1952, was announced eligible for parole in December 1957 after serving several years of a 3-to-10-year sentence.
Six men arrested in a Saturday raid at 140 North Twenty-second Street, where 135 bottles of home brew and two quarts of liquor were found, paid a total of $225 in fines.
In January 1881 George W. Humphreys skated from the mouth of Cooper's Creek in Camden to the Delaware bridge at Trenton, 38 to 40 miles, in 3 hours 40 minutes, beating the previous best time of 4 hours.