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Leon Grenkwicz

Two-story red brick corner building at 1176 Mount Vernon Street with people seated at a table out front.
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Louis Street

Louis Street runs between Haddon Avenue and Mount Ephraim Avenue, from Mount Vernon Street south to Sheridan Street. Primarily residential with many corner businesses, it passes Whitman Park and was devastated by the crack epidemic of the 1980s.

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Streets

Linden Street

Linden Street runs east from the Delaware River to North 12th Street in Camden; large portions were demolished for the Benjamin Franklin Bridge, Rutgers University and the toll plaza.

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Courier-Post article, Police Seek 'Break' in Sadowski Death, December 2, 1945
News Articles

Police Seek 'Break' in Sadowski Death

Camden police and county detectives had no definite leads in the shotgun slaying of ex-convict Mitchell Sadowski outside the Camden Pottery plant, and were weighing vengeance by the Mickey Quinn mob or reprisal for an $1800 holdup as motives.

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Camden Evening Courier, March 23, 1945: De Sanctis Dies in Parked Car, Pal Wounded, with a photo of the bullet-riddled car
News Articles

De Sanctis Dies in Parked Car, Pal Wounded

Romeo DeSanctis, star witness against suspects in the Casablanca roadhouse holdup, was shot dead in a parked car on Mt. Ephraim Avenue near Kaighn hours after testifying before the grand jury; his companion Leon Grenkwicz was critically wounded.

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Pair Held for Jury in Theft of Liquor

Charged with possession of stolen goods, Leon Grenkwicz, 21, of 1213 Louis Street, and George Sanders, 22, of 307 Walnut street, Haddonfield, yesterday were held without bail for the grand jury by Police Judge Lewis Liberman.

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Judge Gavel and Book Stock Photo
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Pancoast Refuses to Let Cops Bare Holdup Evidence

Police Judge Then Holds Two Camden Suspects Without Bail Cash Not Recovered After refusing defense counsel's request that the city police bare their evidence, Police Judge Pancoast yesterday held two suspects without bail in the recent $11,790 Radio Condenser Company holdup and two other youths as material witnesses.

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Courier-Post clipping, Nov. 27, 1930: youth killed as three boys skip school to hunt in Pennsauken Township
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Youth Is Killed As Three 'Skip' School to Hunt

Theodore Jakucki, 14, of 1207 Whitman Avenue, was killed in Pennsauken Township when Meyer Albert, 16, of 1186 Kaighn Avenue, fired a shotgun at a rising quail during a hunting trip the boys took instead of going to school; Leon Grenkwicz, 15, was with them.

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