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Third Street runs north and south, parallel to the Delaware River, through North and South Camden, featuring notable corner buildings like the Security Trust Building at 301 Market Street and the Mickle Tower Apartment House at 200 Mickle Boulevard.
Policeman Joseph Sparks, a city employee for 17 years, died at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital from spinal meningitis. He lived at 20 North Twenty-eighth Street and had served as a patrolman since 1918, after seven years as a junior captain in Fire Company No. 7.
Mayor Charles H. Ellis ordered an investigation into the $200,000 fire that destroyed the Economy Store and adjoining buildings at 427-429 Kaighn Avenue, injuring five Camden firemen — one of them, Captain Martin B. Carrigan, critically.
The Camden County Bar Association's special committee caused several more arrests in the 1910 election fraud investigation; John Stockton, Martin Carrigan and Joseph Sparks were held in $500 bail on a charge of urging a fraudulent vote.