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Fred Klosterman, also known as Frederick Klostermann Jr., was born on September 13, 1900, to Frederick and Catherine Klostermann. His father worked as a cigar maker, and the family lived at 1148 Kaighn Avenue until 1929.
Joseph Peter Klosterman was born on November 8, 1898, in New Jersey, to Frederick and Catherine Klostermann. His father was a cigar maker. By the time of the 1910 census, and through at least 1929, the family lived at 1148 Kaighn Avenue .
Two men alleged by city and county authorities to have succeeded the Klosterman brothers in controlling the Camden numbers racket last Spring, were exonerated by the Camden county grand jury.
At the second trial of Fred and Joseph Klosterman on 12 lottery counts, five witnesses testified they had worked for the brothers' numbers bank, while five convicted numbers writers, among them Walter Hart of 1245 Thurman Street, were returned from state prison to testify.
Unidentified benefactors paid in scrip the fines of three convicted numbers writers, including Crawford Smith of 702 Carman Street and Arthur Woodridge, two state witnesses whose wavering testimony led to the acquittal of Fred and Joe Klosterman.
The arrest of Crawford Smith on numbers-writing charges brought to 10 the number of people apprehended that week in Camden's numbers-racket crackdown, running alongside the investigation into the murder of Detective William T. Feitz Jr.
Camden Brothers Released in Bail Awaiting Sentence They Are Big Shots,' Prosecutor Declares Both Defendants Deny Connection With Raided Saloon Joseph and Fred Klosterman were convicted in Camden Criminal Court yesterday of operating a numbers racket.
Detectives raided a florist shop at 1409 Mt. Ephraim Avenue used as a blind for a numbers lottery, seizing adding machines and slips and arresting Joseph Klosterman and three others, including Charles Selanski of 1286 Sheridan Street.