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Beckett Street, named for Henry and Mary Beckett who owned land in South Camden around 1853, originally ran from Front Street to West Street. After 1947 the eastern portion was demolished for an industrial building; today it runs only from South 3rd Street to West Street.
Fourth Street, one of Camden's original streets, ran with few interruptions from Chelton Avenue in South Camden north to Pyne Point in North Camden. City-directory records, photographs, advertisements and newspaper clippings for every block from the 2000 block of South 4th Street to the 1000 block of North 4th Street.
The police committee of Camden City Council directed Solicitor Bleakly to draft an ordinance partially reorganizing the Police Department, reducing the number of captains to one and retiring seven veteran officers on pension.
Boleslaw Ziemba confessed to Captain of Detectives Schregler that he set fire to 1426 Broadway at the instigation of his employer John Makel, so Makel could recover $3,000 Ziemba had put into the business.
Charles E. Hemphill, a former asylum inmate, confesses to abducting three-year-old Carl Carlin of East Camden; Captain Schregler moves to have him adjudged insane and returned to the asylum.
Captured at the Keystone Hotel in Chester, Pennsylvania, fugitive murderer Wilson Ashbridge waives extradition and is driven back to Camden by Captain of Detectives William Schregler, his wife beside him.
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.
Four men, including Charles Young of 233 Beckett Street, were arrested for confessing to robbing the S. C. Childs Company warehouse at the foot of Walnut Street.
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 Camden Post-Telegram account of the April 1912 police raids on two alleged South Camden gambling houses. Eli Johnson and Daniel Bussey were discharged or fined; among those caught at 829 Locust Street was former prize fighter Walter "Kentucky Rosebud" Edgerton.
Camden police were left without a clue after five armed men held up the State Street bridge tender, blew up a safe, and terrorized the outskirts of East Camden. Chief John Foster and his detectives chased leads as far as Elizabeth, New Jersey, without result.
Philadelphia Inquirer - October 9, 1902 While Authorities Are at Work, Public Watch and Wait.
Mayor Cooper B. Hatch launches a campaign against Camden's speak-easies; the first raid, led by Captain Stanley and Sergeant Hyde, seizes a house full of liquor, while saloonkeepers are fined for operating gambling machines.
Successful Raid on an Alleged Pool Room in Camden Seven Men Captured Keefer, Who Says He Spent His Employers' Money in the Place, Identifies the Prisoners The Camden police yesterday raided the alleged poolroom at 25 South Third street, where Walter H. Keefer, former manager of the Merchantville Light and Power Company, claims he lost $254, belonging to his employers.
Mayor Westcott announces four members of the Board of Public Instruction and a fresh batch of new policemen, including Edward Hyde of the Seventh Ward, while asking Democratic holdovers to resign.
The Camden Daily Telegram's account of Mayor Westcott's appointments to the Board of Commissioners of Instruction and the police force, including Edward Hyde of the Seventh Ward, followed by a column of political notes.
Account of the funeral of Chief of Police Harry Houston Franks, held at his home at Third and Royden Streets, with burial at Evergreen Cemetery.