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Clare Street is a one-block thoroughfare in South Camden, running from Pine Street to Division Street. Originally called Pine Avenue, it was renamed Clare Street between 1878 and 1890, then later renamed Jesthroe Hunt Sr. Lane in honor of a Camden firefighter who passed away in 2005.
Royden Street, which was improperly spelled on the city plan, was named in honor of William Royden, who in 1681–82 became the owner of all the land between the present Cooper Street and Line Street.
Detective Brothers stops two five-ton trucks suspected of a big Prohibition-era liquor delivery; Assistant Chief Hyde and Captain Humes take charge, only to find the bottles hold nothing but near-beer.
Detective Brothers exonerated Undertaker Gordon C. Lindes, whose ambulance ran down James Moreland as he was crossing Broadway; Moreland, in the Homeopathic Hospital with a fractured skull and lacerations, was much better.
The body of Mrs. Maggie Donnelly, 40, was found in a vacant house at 844 Locust Street among four men stupid with drink; Detectives Painter and Brothers arrested the men pending a hearing.
Frank Thompson, 15, of 1140 Lansdowne Avenue, was committed to jail in October 1916 after confessing to Detective Brothers that he set fire to the letters in a mail box at Louis and Everett streets "just for fun."
Ebenezer Phipps, 33, of 920 Locust Street, was arrested by Detectives Brothers and Troncone on a charge of firing three shots into Annibel Williams of 208 Spruce Street.
A pet fox terrier that refused to leave the patrol box at Broadway and Spruce streets after its owner, George "Gold Tooth" Wilson, was arrested for panhandling by Detective Brothers moved Recorder Stackhouse to discharge Wilson from custody.
Wilson Ashbridge, slayer of Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar, and forger George E. Thompson shoot their way out of the Camden County Jail with a smuggled revolver, killing keeper Isaac Hibbs and wounding Joseph Ellis; a general jail delivery is averted by police summoned by the wounded men.
Mrs. Katie Maney of Philadelphia was committed to jail in Camden on a charge of stealing $450 and three diamond rings from her aunt, Mrs. Mary Cassady of 515 Fairview Street, in a robbery at 1155 Kenwood Avenue.
Two 12-year-old boys, William Shafer and George Hickman, admitted to Detective Brothers that they rifled the mail box at Broadway and Pine Street, Camden, stealing two packages of jewelry worth $102 mailed by jeweler Lewis Nelson.
John Walk, 21, of Philadelphia, was sentenced by Judge Boyle to fifteen months to seven years in State Prison for stealing a valuable lens from the Pelouze & Campbell store on Broadway; Detective Brothers captured him in Philadelphia.
Frank Hargraves, 28, of Los Angeles, was given six months in jail by Recorder Stackhouse in Camden for attempting to pass a worthless $13.50 check on Harry Galbraith, a liquor merchant of 817 Broadway. Detective Brothers and Policeman Reader made the arrest.
Joseph Evans, 14, of 225 Benson Street, and David Plummer, 12, were held by Recorder Stackhouse in September 1914 after confessing to stealing a bicycle from the home of Fireman William McCauley, 453 Liberty Street. The boys were also accused of breaking into the Asbell Brothers store at 911 Broadway.
Harry Bowen of Philadelphia and William Peters of Fifth and Berkley streets, Camden, were held under $1000 bail for obtaining a barrel of chickens from a Salem farmer under false pretenses; Detective Brothers arrested them at the Camden terminal.
Passing Turner Hall on Pine Street below Broadway, Policeman Kleaver found a bundle holding the body of a newborn male infant; Coroner Bentley sent the body to the Morgue and Detective Brothers investigated.
At the funeral of Mrs. Charlotte Guthridge on Walnut Street, the pallbearers were all policemen, including Captain Edward Hyde and detective John Brothers.
Joseph Broadway, 53, shot Mrs. Lydia Harris at her furnished room house at 512 Kaighn Avenue, Camden, after she rejected his advances, then turned the revolver on himself; he died at Cooper Hospital, where she was expected to recover.
City Detectives Schregler and Brothers and Captain Stanley arrest two Jamesburg Reformatory escapees at a Camden home; both boys are returned to the reformatory.
Three-month-old Clarence Baker of 710 Woodland Avenue was taken dying of spinal meningitis to Cooper Hospital, and his father, Anthony Baker, was arrested by Detective Brothers on an aunt's story that he had thrown the child on the floor.
Detectives Painter and Moffett identify William Haggerty of 2806 Carman Street as the man who crossed the Twenty-seventh street railroad bridge just before Karl Kellmann's murder; he spoke to Duffield there and went on without being interfered with.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
A raid on a Cherry Street house nets long-sought counterfeiter Vincenzo Paolucci and three others; Policeman Troncone and City Detectives Brothers and Schregler take part.
Arrested by Detective Brothers on a charge made by 14-year-old Elmer Calloway, barber Alfor Printz broke away and fled until Reserve Policeman Brothers, the detective's brother, felled him with his club at Broadway and Kaighn avenue.
Detective Brothers located in a Philadelphia pawnshop silverware and other articles stolen from the home of Mrs. Emma Thompson of 210 Taylor Avenue.
Mayor Ellis adds twenty-five officers to the Camden police force and orders several promotions, elevating Edward Hyde and A. Lincoln James from sergeants to captains.
Thousands attended the funeral of Camden Chief of Police John Foster in March 1906; among the donors of floral tributes was John Carroll.
Policeman Albert Keaser was severely injured when an automobile ran him down at Broadway and Chestnut streets, Camden; Policeman John Brothers arrested the occupants, Alexander and Leon Rudolph, who were discharged after the affair was shown to be accidental.
Police raided a house at 624 Kaighn Avenue, one of the "New York Flats," and arrested proprietress Rosie Woolford and four others; arraigned before the Mayor, she pleaded not guilty and her bail was fixed at $800.