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Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.
Jiminy's "Checked and Double-Checked" column in the Camden Courier-Post of February 4, 1939: Commissioner Frank J. Hartmann's uncertain place in the coming city commission campaign and his budget clash with Mayor George Brunner, followed by personal notes, including Dr. Richard Cranmer of 3416 Federal Street arranging a Cranmer School reunion.
Camden Courier-Post - February 14, 1938 7 Arrested in Bingo Numbers Racket; 4 Seized in Betting Place Ten men and a woman were arrested in gambling raids over the weekend by Camden city and county authorities.
Luigi Tortu, 21, of 426 Line Street, and two girls, Pearl Wills of Delair and Evelyn Buffa of 810 Florence Street, were held by Camden city and county police after Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot in the January 11, 1938 holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street, died in Cooper Hospital 13 days later.
Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1112 Langham Avenue, a chef and father of 13 who was shot when two bandits held up a card game at 725 Penn Street on January 11, 1938, died in Cooper Hospital, and a murder warrant was issued for his assailant.
Police of four states hunted a known suspect in the holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street in which Angelo Margolis, 38, of 1110 Langham Avenue was seriously wounded; the card players were held as material witnesses.
Two prisoners who fought police appeared before Judge Lewis Liberman: Frank Wade, who swung at Patrolman Earl Wright, got 60 days, and Thomas Golden, who kicked Acting Desk Sergeant Frank Evans, received a suspended six-month sentence.
Two Camden policemen were injured in battles with alleged drunken prisoners at police headquarters; Earl Wright suffered a fractured nose.
Jesse Seybold of 923 St. John Street, the victim of a "thrill" holdup in March 1936, was arrested as the proprietor of a speakeasy after a police raid led by Patrolman John V. Wilkie.
A former U. S. marine who spent a week in the basement of city hall helping veterans make out their bonus applications while police searched throughout the city for him, was arrested by Acting Detective John V. Wilkie Saturday night.
Cooper Hospital cases reported in the Camden Courier-Post of October 14, 1933, including Alexander Ellis, 27, of 715 South Eighth Street, stabbed in the chest with an ice-pick.
Vice Chancellor Orders Transport Corporation to Pay Girl $10,000 Damages Agreeing with the contention that transfer of the Public Service Cab Company to Public Service Coordinated Transport was fraudulent, Vice Chancellor Francis B. Davis late yesterday ordered the latter to pay $10,000 in damages to Ralph M. Chorpenning for injuries suffered by his daughter, Ida M., when she was struck by a taxicab.
James Brody, 22, was sentenced to Rahway Reformatory for a $20 robbery at a High Street candy store in 1930, committed with Harry Schultz of 2162 Berwick Street and another accomplice.
Birth announcement: Mr. and Mrs. Harold G. Locke announced the birth of a daughter, Dorothy Virginia Locke. Mrs. Locke was formerly Miss Grace Ogden, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Lincoln Ogden of 421 Carteret Street.
Funeral services were held in Camden for Nicholas Romaine, 48, a member of Engine Company No. 11, who died of injuries suffered fighting a junk-shop fire nearly eight years earlier.
Despite protests by South Jersey veterans' organizations, government officials closed the Camden branch of the veterans administration in the postoffice building and moved it to the Lyons Hospital at Millington; veterans' groups appealed to Congressman Charles A. Wolverton and met at 308 Broadway to protest.
Six alleged number writers were arrested by Camden's traffic squad on downtown street corners, spreading the belief that Atlantic City racketeers had set up "branch offices" in Camden; two were jailed for 60 days by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando took evidence from raids on 35 alleged gambling haunts to the Camden County grand jury in a drive against slot machines, while Republican leaders reportedly wanted him called off.
Joseph Tisso [sic], 22, of 214 Benson Street, was arrested at Second and Market streets on a charge of stripping plumbing fixtures and lead pipe from a vacant house at Third and Mickle streets; Captain of Detectives John Golden said he had confessed.
Camden patrolman John V. Wilkie, the "notebook cop," found a cave behind Harleigh Cemetery and arrested two men found intoxicated inside; each got 20 days in the county jail.
A February 1928 Camden Courier-Post report that ten passengers in a Camden-Gibbsboro bus were thrown from their seats and coupe driver Stephen Jaross was severely injured in a collision at Third and Market Streets; bus driver Harry Holloway was released on his own recognizance.
The Camden Courier-Post of February 13, 1928 reports that George Zimmerman and John Connors, who had claimed they were wounded by the "phantom sniper" near the Federal street bridge, were held for the grand jury on charges of having explosives after City Detective McGrath testified to a mysterious blast at Zimmerman's home.
With orders to "shoot on sight" issued to suburban police hunting South Jersey's "phantom sniper," a man giving a fake name reported a 16th shooting that investigators could not verify, while a 15th victim came forward separately in Collingswood.
Stanley Company of America theater advertisements from the Camden Courier-Post of January 24, 1928, for the Stanley at Broadway and Market, the Towers at Broadway and Pine, and the Grand at Broadway and Mickle.
Wright Cox, a Camden fireman and policeman for more than 40 years, died in Homeopathic Hospital in his 66th year. His funeral was set for the Schroeder Funeral Chapel at 538 Broadway, with interment in Bethel Cemetery.
Captain Martin B. Carrigan of Engine Company No. 2 died at Cooper Hospital of a fractured skull and severe burns received while leading his men at the Economy Store fire on Kaighn Avenue.
The Kentucky Rosebud was slated to meet an unknown in the windup at the outdoor carnival at Haddon Avenue and Mickle Street on the evening of September 25, 1920.
Seven classified business notices from the Camden Post-Telegram of February 14, 1920, including a sign painter named Goldy at 21 Wood Street.
Henry Thomas and "Brownie" Jones were arrested at 636 Locust Street by Detectives Moffett and Murry as suspects in the highway murder of Francis Martin Hageney at Twenty-seventh Street and Marlton Avenue.
Fourteen firemen were overcome by smoke and roughly $20,000 in damage was done during a twelve-hour fire at the Frank G. Hitchner Wall Paper Manufacturing Company at Fifth and Mickle streets; water from the plant flooded nearby cellars, including John Orr's home at 441 Judson Street.
During a wind storm in Camden, Mary Dewalt was struck by a jitney at Broadway and Spruce Street and W. P. Miller was hit by an auto driven by Anthony Valentine at Broadway and Mickle Street; both chauffeurs were released after the accidents were found unavoidable.
Police located two more witnesses in the Karl Kellmann murder case: Berthold Neuman of 2813 High Street, who crossed the Twenty-seventh street bridge shortly before the shots, and railroad man Stewart Dahm, who was confronted by Duffield near Twenty-sixth street.
The Camden Excise Board revoked the liquor license of Nicholas Verratti, jailed after his conviction for keeping a disorderly house at his saloon at 842 Locust Street, and granted license transfers to several other saloonkeepers.
Three firemen — George Shields, William Hillman, and William Jobes — are killed and nine people injured when fire destroys the old Sixth Regiment Armory in Camden.
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 1, 1905 Attacked at Third and Mickle street s, Camden, late Monday night by a man, Mrs. Bessie O. Day, of Seventh and Clinton streets , had her clothing cut in strips.
Camden's Fourth of July in 1904 passed without serious accidents; eight people were admitted to Cooper Hospital, and flag raising and Pyne Point Park exercises were held.
Rain stopped the morning exercises at the Pyne Point Park Fourth of July celebration in Camden in 1903, while the East Side's leading fireworks display was at the fire house at Twenty-seventh and Federal streets under Captain Amadee Middleton. Blank cartridges and toy cannon caused a string of injuries treated at Cooper Hospital and Homeopathic Hospital.
An 1899 newspaper account of Walter S. Jones, arrested in a Camden swamp near 17th and Mickle Streets after cries of murder were heard near Cooper's Creek.
The Philadelphia Inquirer's Camden roundup of December 22, 1898: an incorporation, a missing boy, a burglary, a man charged with stealing overcoats and captured at the Federal Street Ferry, and city officials and policemen down with the grip.
Philadelphia Inquirer - February 18, 1897 A dog, supposed to be mad, was shot by Policeman Anderson at Sixth and Mickle streets yesterday, after the animal had terrorized the neighborhood.
A column of Camden local items from the Philadelphia Inquirer of April 28, 1895, including Captain Andrew B. Frazee's retirement from the Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company and the O'Brien-Longworth wedding.
City Council authorized the construction of a market house on Market Street at the intersection of Third Street on March 13, 1837. This market house containing 8 stalls was erected at a cost of $250, and was ready for use December 28, 1837.
The Camden Cemetery, known in modern times as Old Camden Cemetery, adjoining the Newton Friends' burying grounds, through an action of a town meeting of the Township of Camden, was founded on March 10, 1836.