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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.
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.
At the funeral of Mrs. Charlotte Guthridge on Walnut Street, the pallbearers were all policemen, including Captain Edward Hyde and detective John Brothers.
City Detectives Schregler and Brothers and Captain Stanley arrest two Jamesburg Reformatory escapees at a Camden home; both boys are returned to the reformatory.
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.
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.