People
Josiah Sage
Josiah Sage was born in New Jersey in May 1862, according to the 1900 U.S. Census. His older sister, Hannah, married Charles Henry Peters in the late 1860s. By 1880, Sage was single and working as an oil cloth painter.
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Joseph Mose Flannery
People
Eli E. Conaghy
Eli Edward Conaghy was born on August 24, 1900, in Camden, New Jersey. His father, James P. Conaghy, was involved in the Eagle Coal and Ice Company, a business he co-operated with his uncle, Joseph Henry Conaghy, located at 246 Pine Street by 1906.
People
Nicholas Scarduzio
According to Social Security records, Nicholas Scarduzio was born on June 16, 1899, although census records and newspaper accounts indicate him as a year younger.
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Andrew Scarduzio
Andrew Scarduzio (c.1897-1939) was a Camden, NJ crime figure tied to Eighth Ward politics who was shot to death outside a Bellmawr taproom in 1939.
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Joseph "Mose" Flannery
Joseph "Mose" Flannery (1902-1928) was a Camden, NJ Eighth Ward political worker and crime figure shot dead outside a Kaighn Avenue saloon in 1928.
Government
Sixth Ward Republican Club
The Sixth Ward Republican Club was active in Camden as early as the 1890s through at least 1947. Richard J. Richardson was the club president for several years around the turn of the century.
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Samuel P. Orlando
Samuel P. Orlando, born on April 26, 1900, in Italy, was the son of Tony and Fortune Orlando. He immigrated to the United States in 1909, along with his family. In the 1910 Census, the Orlando family was residing in Bridgeton, New Jersey.
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Doris Indictment Studied by Police
Begins Probe of Flannery Case Records; May Press Connors Charge First Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Palese yesterday began to prepare his office to take John Doris to a quick trial for the murder of Joseph "Mose" Flannery .
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Gangster Shot As Racketeers Open War Here
Gloucester Man Near Death After Attack at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue Felled Near Quarters of Camden Gamblers Brother of Frank Doris Accused After Police Round up 10 Men Shooting of an alleged racketeer at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, near the threshold of one of South Jersey's notorious reputed gambling joints threw Camden police into renewed warfare on gangdom yesterday.
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Found Wounded on Sidewalk at Kaighn Point
Joseph "Mose" Flannery, 26, Eighth ward political worker and slot machine distributor, lay dying in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital after being shot before dawn outside a saloon at Front street and Kaighn avenue. He refused to name his assailants — "My lips are sealed" — as Camden police and county detectives rounded up eight men and hunted for a motive.
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Soft Voice Made Mose Like Teacher Of Sunday School
A character sketch of Joseph "Mose" Flannery printed the day he was mortally wounded — a soft-voiced, neatly groomed slot machine operator who "would have passed for a Sunday school teacher or a bank teller," and a feared political worker in Camden's "bloody Eighth" ward who was arrested eight times at one municipal election without a single prosecution.
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Safe Combination Blown; $350 Stolen
A 1928 Camden Evening Courier report on the burglary of three Haddon Avenue offices, where $350 was blown from a safe and linked to the Flannery shooting.
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Flannery Promises to explain Slaying
Statement Will Set Forth Facts of G.O.P. Club Murder, Attorney Says With Joseph "Mose" Flannery at liberty under $3000 bail, a statement setting forth his part in the Sixth Ward Republican Club affray which resulted in the slaying of Joseph Cimini last Saturday, was promised today by his attorney, Samuel Orlando .
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"Mose" Flannery Released on Bail
Shay Signs Order After $5000 Bond is Posted in 6th Ward Fuss Joseph 'Mose' Flannery , declared by detectives to have precipitated the battle in the Sixth Ward Republican Club which resulted in the slaying of Joseph Cimini last Saturday, was released from the Camden county jail us afternoon under $5,000 bail.
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Grand Jury Will Consider Slaying After Probe Ends
Camden Evening Courier - January 18, 1928 Investigation in the slaying of Joseph Cimini in the Sixth Ward Republican Club Saturday, is "far from completed," Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Varbalow announced today.
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Battle Echo of Murder at Club
Mrs. Rosalie and Her Rival for 'Chick' Hunt Describe Event in Court Pretty, piquant Katherine Rosalie - for love of whom men are declared to have fought to the death in the rooms of the Sixth Ward Republican Club , today waged her own fight against her self-avowed rival for the attentions of Charles "Chick" Hunt .
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Love Plot Fades as Motive Behind Clubhouse Killing
Camden Evening Courier - January 17, 1928 Mrs. Katherine Rosalie Denies She is "Chick's Girl" or "Anybody's Girl," But Thinks Flannery and Cimini May Have Used Her as Excuse for Starting Fatal Fight.
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Murder Motive at G.O.P. Club Splits Sleuths
County Detectives Contend Philadelphia Gangster Was Slain in Quarrel Over Woman Police Claim Hold-up Attempt Caused Fight Deven Charged with Crime, Flannery and Taxi Driver Held Without Bail With city and county authorities definitely divided on the motive and circumstance if the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph "Polack Joe" Deven was arraigned in Camden police court today and held without bail on a murder charge.
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Gangster Shot During Melee In Sixth Ward
Joseph Deven Held On Murder Charge After Death Boxer's Brother; 'Mose' Flannery and 4 others Held as Witnesses; Was Craps Game Says County Police Holdup Attempted City Cops Declare Victim of a shot fired in a melee, the exact cause of which remain undetermined, Joseph Cimini, 31 years old, was killed in the Sixth Ward Republican Club , 908 Broadway .