Tag: Joshua C. Haines
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Webster Elected Executive Head of Camden Boy Scouts
Camden Courier-Post – February 1, 1938 30 Men Get Certificates as Leaders and Five Troops Receive Star Awards Trophy for Veteran Warren Webster, Jr., was elected president of the executive board of Camden County Council, Boy Scouts of America, at its annual dinner meeting last night. He succeeds J. William Markeim. The meeting was in…
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Baird, Stokes Lash Richards Ambitions And ‘Horse Trading’
Camden Courier-Post – June 30, 1933 Dinner to Reesman and Mrs. Verga Packs Whitman Local Delegates Get High Praise Ex-Governor Denounces Roosevelt Program, Hits Inflation By Ransloe Boone Bitter criticism of the “horse trading” of the Legislature and the gubernatorial aspirations of Senate President Emerson L.Richards, were coupled with appeals for party loyalty and praise…
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Hacked Remains of David Paul, Missing Bank Messenger, Discovered by Gunners
New Jersey Mirror (Mt Holly) – October 20, 1920 The Authorities of Burlington county have another baffling murder mystery to solve. On Saturday four duck hunters, William and James Cutts, and C. B. Inston, of Tabernacle, and George W. Duncan, of Audubon were passing through the pine forest at Irick’s Crossing, near Tabernacle, when their…
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Thousands View Jailors Remains
Camden Post-Telegram – July 20, 1916 Great Crowds Pay Tribute to Memory of Daddy Isaac Hibbs, Slain Keeper Casket Banked by Handsome Flowers Thousands of persons last night paid tribute to the memory of Daddy Isaac J. Hibbs, the jailor, who in Monday night was murdered by Wilson Ashbridge. The humble Hibbs residence at 913…
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Revolver, Smuggling It in Covered By Fruit, Murderer’s Wife Supplied It
Camden Post Telegram – July 19, 1916 Confessing Supplying Pistol, in Spike of Husband’s Denial That She Was Guiltless, Mrs. Ashbridge Is Held Without Bail on Charge of Conspiracy in Aiding and Abetting Escape From Jail With Wilson T. Ashbridge under guard in a cell in what was formerly known as Murderer’s Row, the police…
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Murders and Forger Escape Jail After Shooting Keepers, Killing One
Camden Post-Telegram – July 18, 1916 Wilson Ashbridge, Who Shot and Killed Mrs. Elizabeth Dunbar and George E. Thompson, Check Swindler, Trap Jailor Hibbs by a Ruse and After Slaying Him Shoot Joe Ellis Who Intercepted Them in Flight. Used Revolver Smuggled Into Prison by Confederates and Leave Jail Wide Open in Their Flight, a…