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Francisco Abbatto, convicted of the murder of Genaro DeFeo near Blue Anchor, was hanged at the Camden County Jail on May 10, 1900, the first hanging conducted by Sheriff John Wesley Sell; the gallows stood in the loft at the Broadway and Federal streets corner of the building.
A column of Camden local items from the Philadelphia Inquirer of April 28, 1895, including Captain Andrew B. Frazee's retirement from the Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company and the O'Brien-Longworth wedding.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of August 26, 1892: Samuel B. F. Alcott held under bail on his wife's complaint that he removed shells from their child's grave, former comedian James Cullen before Justice Paul, and hotelkeeper Charles Ricker of Tenth and Federal streets recovering $170 his bartender had taken.