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Halftone newspaper portrait of Earl Wright, a young man in a police-style uniform cap.
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Earl Wright

Earl Wright joined the Camden police force in 1928, serving as a motorcycle patrolman and later Sergeant. He is best known as the officer who arrested mass murderer Howard Unruh on September 6, 1949.

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Herman F. Niessner

Herman F. Niessner was born on March 8, 1891, in Pennsylvania to German immigrant parents. His father, Frederick Niessner, worked as a machinist for Baldwin Locomotive in Philadelphia and moved the family to the Cramer Hill section of Camden in 1894.

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32nd Street at Farragut Avenue - 1931
Streets

32nd Street

32nd Street runs from the Delaware River through Cramer Hill and East Camden to the city limits at Highland Avenue, with North and South addresses dividing at Federal Street. At Westfield Avenue an acre of cultivated land and an old house called the "Mansion" were razed for the Westfield Acres housing project, which was itself razed in 2000 and replaced by Baldwin's Run.

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George R. Thompson

George Robeson Thompson was born in New Jersey around 1871, belonging to a family with a rich history in Camden.

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Market Street looking east, c. 1893: a wide street lined with brick buildings and tall utility poles, with horse-drawn wagons.
Streets

Market Street

Market Street in Camden was likely named because it linked via the ferry to Market Street in Philadelphia, which it follows on the map; no known market existed on it. Includes a circa 1893 photo looking east from N. 2nd Street.

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Courier-Post article, 'Two Suspects Held in Bail of $25,000 Each', Camden, December 19, 1957
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Two Suspects Held in Bail of $25,000 Each

William J. Porter, 26, and Howard James, 25, linked by Camden police with 10 burglaries in six weeks, were held in $25,000 bail each by Municipal Judge Marino. Among the jobs James admitted was a break-in at a grocery at 635 Carman Street.

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Ransackers Tour Building on Market St., Camden Courier-Post, December 10, 1957
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Ransackers Tour Building on Market St.

Burglars took $30 to $40 in cash and 200 three-cent stamps after ransacking office and warehouse space of five firms in a building at 10th and Market Streets, entering by a ladder at the rear of 1011 Market Street.

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Newspaper clipping "Three Men Held Without Bail in Tavern Holdup," Camden Courier-Post, Jan. 12, 1953.
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Three Men Held Without Bail in Tavern Holdup

Three men arrested in Atlantic City in the $2000 holdup of Lynch's Cafe at 3rd and Erie Streets were held without bail by Judge Dzick; the getaway car had been recovered on 7th Street between Liberty Street and Kaighn Avenue.

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Cops Seek Owners of Chance Boards, Camden Courier-Post, April 6, 1940.
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Cops Seek Owners of Chance Boards

Acting on Commissioner Mary W. Kobus' orders, Camden detectives seized 60,000 illegal punchboards in a raid on a three-story building on the south side of Viola Street and searched for their owners.

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False Alarm Leads to Arrest of Three

A false fire alarm for a smoking stove at 230 Taylor Avenue led police to a 17-year-old girl hiding in a closet; she was held for vagrancy and two others as material witnesses.

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Newspaper clipping, "Four Men Arrested in Shooting Threat," Camden Courier-Post, October 11, 1933
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Four Men Arrested in Shooting Threat

Four men were arrested after Michael Di Orio of Pine Street allegedly threatened to kill George Hettrick; Di Orio was held in $1000 bail and the others as witnesses.

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Boxer Running a Speakeasy - AI Photo
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Jimmy Rodgers is Given 180 Days

Former Boxer Jailed on Speakeasy Charge, Held on Stolen Goods Count James "Jimmy" Rodgers , 28-year-old former boxer who on numerous occasions has run afoul of the law, was sentenced yesterday to serve 180 days in the county jail for operating a speakeasy at 1000 Segal Street .

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