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Camden police Sgt. John V. Wilkie remained in the county jail on $50,000 bail while his 17-year-old son James, whose death was ruled a suicide, was buried without formal service after Wilkie admitted his accidental-shooting story was a hoax.
Camden Courier-Post, December 26, 1953: Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie remains in jail on $50,000 bail after admitting his "confession" to accidentally killing his son was invented to win Catholic burial rites for the youth.
A twenty-year friendship between neighbors Pete Rademow and William Krawczyk of 1544 Louis Street ended in Camden Police Court in February 1940 over Russia's invasion of Poland; Judge Gene R. Mariano's call for an armistice failed.