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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.