Tag: Liberty Street
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‘Girl Farm’ At Voodoo Cavern
Camden Courier-Post – April 11, 1925 Doc Hyghcock Brought Maids from Florida Got Them Jobs as Domestics at Eight Dollars Each—Used Half Dozen Cars P.O. Inspectors Grill Him This Afternoon Will Charge Him with Using Mails to Defraud – Scan His Letters Worries over Silk Hats Investigations of the various activities of “Doctor” H.H. Hyghcock,…
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Voodoo Doctor’s List Of Murders
Helena Independent, Helena, Montana – April 11, 1925 Kept Data on People Slated “To Go” Camden, N. J., April 10. – Mysterious memoranda, which name persons listed "to go" and others "to be ruined," have been uncovered by police, while investigating the home of the 71-year-old negro, who, police say, was an alleged voodoo doctor.…
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Mystic’s ‘Library’ is Full of Weird Jargon
Camden Courier-Post – April 10, 1925 ‘Cures’ Told in Old Recipe Book A weird “library” of “voodoo literature” was discovered by the police in the strangely under-tunneled and unusually equipped home and offices of “Doctor” H.H. Hyghcock, 413-415 Liberty Street. In many “composition books” like those used by school children, the negro voodoo doctor had…
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Voodoo’s Raven Room Shocks Society Editor
Camden Courier-Post – April 10, 1925 “Black Bird Pounced on My Head and I was Breathless,’ She Says After Tour of ‘Doc’ Hyghcock’s Former Domain By M. IRENE FROST, Society Editor of The Courier Touching in the highlights of my tour of the “Voodoo” house the thing that impressed me most, perhaps, was the black…
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Voodoo Man Confesses Bigamy
Camden Courier – April 10, 1925 Cops Discover Secret Vault, Baby Skeleton Police investigating the “voodoo den” of H.H. Hyghcock, 413-15 Liberty Street, whose arrest on suspicion of murder made several important discoveries today. They are: When informed of the finding of the supposed vault, Director Tempest instructed Captain Gordon to “tear it out if…
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‘Voodoo’ Is Held For Murder
Camden Courier – April 9, 1925 Daughter of ‘Mystic’ Says Old Man Killed Woman in His ‘Den’ Police Find Body of Baby in Tunnel Under Liberty Street Houses; Weird Stuffed Birds and Fantastic Symbols in “Chambers of Horrors” Under Houses in Liberty Street “Dr. Hyghcock” Is Under Arrest Discovery of the body of a white…
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Negro Voodoo Dug In Toils of Police
Helena Independent, Helena Montana, April 10, 1925 By Associated Press. Camden, N. J., April 9—Bones believed to be those of humans and other gruesome articles in caves and passages under the home of H. H. Hyghcock, a negro voodoo doctor, and the statement of his seven-year-old daughter that he had killed a woman two weeks…