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Russell J. Anderson
Russell J. Anderson (1897–1958) served with the Camden Fire Department for over 27 years, from December 1930 until his death in June 1958, assigned to Ladder Company 1 and later the Electrical Bureau.
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Herbert Anderson
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10th Street
City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.
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Carpenter Street
Carpenter Street was a narrow residential street in North Camden, running from North 8th Street to Cooper Street. Most of it was destroyed in the 1940 Hollingshead Factory fire and later razed for Interstate 676; today only the 800 block remains.
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Riley Street
Riley Street ran south from Washington Street for one block to Berkley Street, with ten two-story brick rowhouses. City directories list residents from 1875, and by 1947 only four houses remained.
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Allen's Court
Allen's Court, sometimes referred to as Allen Court, ran south to north parallel to North 2nd Street. The court had six houses, originally numbered 102–112, and was gone by 1947.
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Ramona Gonzalez Street
Division Street runs across South Camden. In 1997, a portion of the street was renamed Ramona Gonzalez Street to honor a community leader; the remainder continues to be known as Division Street.
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Herbert Anderson
Herbert Anderson was born in New Jersey in 1891 to George W. Anderson and his wife Lizzie Anderson, one of at least four children. His father served as a member of the Camden Police Department from the 1890s through at least 1916.
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Judson Place
Judson Place ran for half a block north from 437 Stevens Street between West Street and South 5th Street in South Camden. Its two homes, at 439 and 441 Judson Place, were occupied as late as 1947 but have long since been razed.
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Pine Street
Pine Street is one of Camden's "tree" streets and the only one that intersects Haddon Avenue. The page includes the 1891 Sanborn Map and a view of old row homes east of Broadway.
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Illness Causes Shifts for Police Officials
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 .
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Police Force Politics Banned Commissioner Kobus Declares
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.
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Stool Pigeons Ordered Brought Into Court
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.
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Judge Pancoast Proves to 21 That Honesty Is Best Policy
Police Judge Garfield Pancoast sentenced Emil Hatter to 50 days and two men found in his speakeasy — including Edward Mackay of 531 Ray Street — to 60 days each after they denied buying drinks there.
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It's 'Agin the Law' to Sell Rum Here Without a License
Camden Courier-Post - February 11, 1933 Somebody opened a "store" at 15 South Fourth Street yesterday, without the formality of first obtaining a "soft drink license'.
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Suspended Jail Sentence is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid
Pleading non vult to charge of operating a "numbers" headquarters raided by the police last July, Dominic Olivette , 28, of 444 Royden street , was fined $100 and given a suspended sentence of six months in criminal court yesterday.
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Suspended Jail Sentence Is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid
Dominic Olivette, 28, of 444 Royden Street, pleaded non vult to operating a numbers headquarters and was fined $100 with a suspended sentence. Herbert Lantry, 35, of 519 Ray Street, received a separate fine.
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4 Youths Arrested in Bicycle Thefts
Four youths, including Walter Urban of 109 Allen's Court, were arrested and five bicycles recovered in a ring of bicycle thefts broken by Camden police. Camden Courier-Post, January 12, 1933.
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4 Youths Arrested in Bicycle Thefts
A ring of bicycle thieves is believed by police to have been broken last night with the arrest of four youths and recovery of five bicycles and parts of several others.
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Thieves Foiled in Attempt to Rob Sears, Roebuck Store
Two youths caught trying to force a window of the Sears-Roebuck store at Bridge boulevard and Federal street escaped amid gunfire from watchman Humphrey Toomey and gas station attendant Frank McClernan, and were lost in the swamp along the Cooper river.
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Raiders Seize 4 Women 5 Men and Homebrew
Police raided an alleged speakeasy at 1067 Thurman Street and seized four women, five men and 500 bottles of homebrew, according to the Camden Courier-Post of June 18, 1932.
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Cop Shakeup Today; Ax for 4th District
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.
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Pallbearers Named for Stehr Funeral
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.
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2 Police Officers Made Lieutenants
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.
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Youth Given 10 Days for Emulating Sniper
Walter Anderson, 18, of Carteret Street near Wright Avenue, was sentenced to ten days in jail by Police Judge Bertman for imitating the "phantom sniper" near Newton Avenue and Carteret Street.
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'Voodoo' Is Held for Murder
Police held "Doctor" H. H. Hyghcock without bail after discovering a maze of tunnels, "witch caves," and gruesome remains beneath 413 and 415 Liberty Street; Police Judge Cleary first held him on lesser charges.
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Hurry-Up Court Gamblers Fined
Seven men arrested for playing cards openly at Second and Pine streets by Policeman Herbert Anderson were sent to the "hurry-up" court and each fined $10.