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John C. Voll Jr. (1900-1979) was born in Camden and served the Camden Fire Department for 40 years, entering the department on January 15, 1925 and retiring on December 1, 1965. He lived his later years at 2737 Garfield Avenue in the Cramer Hill section of Camden.
Charles H. Truitt (1859-1936) was a Camden native who worked 53 years for the Pennsylvania Railroad as a tugboat fireman and ferry engineer on the Delaware River before retiring in 1929.
Thirty-Sixth Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road, to Federal Street, and forms Camden's northern border with Pennsauken Township at intervals along its length. It became part of Camden when Stockton Township was annexed in 1899, and had been known in Pennsauken as Cove Avenue into the 1890s.
Federal Street, originally called Joseph Cooper's Lane, is one of the primary east-west streets in Camden, running from the Delaware River waterfront through Stockton Township to Mount Holly. The intersection of Federal Street and Broadway is considered by most to be the center of center city Camden.
Mrs. Fannie May, 72, of 1223 North 21st Street was critically injured when her car skidded into a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train at River Avenue and Federal Street; she died that afternoon.
Mrs. George Beitzel of 124 North 32nd Street shot her husband, a Pennsylvania Railroad policeman, in the arm and fired at their 15-year-old son, who ducked and escaped. Judge Benjamin Dzick refused her guilty plea and held her for the grand jury.
Junior Fire Captain Eli Hunt of Engine Company No. 3, 1813 Broadway, retired March 1 for disability, took formal leave of his comrades as Battalion Chief Charles Erickson and Commissioner Mary W. Kobus praised his service since 1918.
Funeral services for Charles H. Valentine, 67, for 42 years an engineer on Pennsylvania Railroad ferryboats, held at 319 North 38th Street. He was survived by his widow Martha A. Valentine and three sons. Burial in Evergreen Cemetery.
Fred Coursey and Harry Duffield collapse in Police Court as Detective John Painter recounts the robbery killing of 18-year-old Karl Kellmann at Twenty-seventh and Sherman streets; Linnans Staley is committed as a principal.
Nothing has yet been learned as to the whereabouts of John H. Coffin, the eleven-year-old son of William Coffin, division agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Price Jennings, fourteen years old, son of Joseph Jennings, leader of the Third Regiment Band, the two Camden boys who disappeared on Wednesday when they left, it is presumed, for the Trenton fair.
John Coffin, 11 years old, son of William Coffin, division freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Price Jennings, 14 years, son of Leader Joseph Jennings, of the Third Regiment Band, are missing from their homes and the Camden police have been asked to locate them.