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More than 2000 members of the I.B.P.E., Colored Elks, participated last night in a colorful parade here as climax to the opening day of the tenth annual state convention of the order.
George Murry, the ex-city detective who resigned after being charged with promoting vice in the Third and Fifth Wards, was found dead on a doorstep near Locust and Line Streets; his death ended the planned Grand Jury presentation of his tenderloin activities.
The Camden Courier of January 13, 1922 reports Mayor Ellis's order that new policemen must have clean records after the expose of graft and vice protection in the downtown tenderloin, which cost Policemen William Draper, Tony Latorre and Ira Hall their places and led Detective George Murry to resign.