Tag: Reyouque E. H. H. Hyghcock
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Arthur Colsey
Arthur Colsey, born in Kidderminster, England, in December 1872, embarked on a remarkable journey of public service and professional achievements. After joining his older brothers, John and Thomas, in America, he actively participated in the family’s thriving department store business at 9th and Market Street in Camden. In 1894, Arthur married Lillian Thompson, and their…
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George S. Tempest
GEORGE S. TEMPEST was born in Pennsylvania in March of 1869. He lived in Philadelphia virtually his entire life. As a boy, he went to Girard College, a boarding school for poor orphaned and fatherless boys. After finishing his education he secured a position as an officer with the Philadelphia police department. When the 1900…
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Dr. Reyouque E. H. H. Hyghcock
Looking at the newspaper articles about Dr. Hyghcock, we have the advantage of looking at this from the perspective of today, instead of “as it was happening.” Dr. Hyghcock, the self-proclaimed “Voodoo Doctor” apparently received a lot of press attention, and was arrested and/or investigated periodically for the rest of his life after the April…
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Dr. Hyghcock Dies, Voodoo Exponent
Camden Courier-Post – May 15, 1942 His Liberty Street House Atop Tunnels Set Camden Agog in 1925 Dr. Eryquew C. H. Hyghcock, South Camden mystery man and self-styled voodoo exponent, died Wednesday in the county hospital at Lakeland. The aged voodoo doctor whose methods of treating the ills of his “patients” had attracted the scrutiny…
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Old Doc Hyghcock Nabbed with Ancient Sedan, Gun
Camden Courier-Post – January 7, 1928 "Doctor" Reyouque E.H.H. Hyghcock, whose underground "House of Terror" at 415 Liberty Street brought him much publicity and a prison cell two years ago, was arrested today in Collingswood. He was charged with having a loaded revolver in his possession and driving a motorcar without a license. When the…
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Old Doc Hyghhat Hyghcock
Camden Courier-Post – January 9, 1928 Old Doc Hyghcock comes back into the news, wearing hip boots and a high hat. The hip boots and the high hat and the crazy old car he drove are funny. The absence of a driver’s license and the presence of a loaded revolver were fair business for the…
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Sorcerer Held on New Charge
Syracuse Herald, Syracuse NY – April 19, 1925 Camden, N.J., April 18.— The charge of suspicion of murder under which H.H. Hyghcock, alleged “Voodoo doctor” was held by the police for more than a week was dropped today and he was held in $2500 bail on charges of obtaining money under false pretenses and illegally…
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Camden Voodo Man Once Kept Den in Norfolk, VA
Camden Courier-Post – April 14, 1925 Police Learn Hyghcock Ran Another Underground Hotel Years Ago Driven Out of Town Came to Philadelphia Excavation of Cellar Here for Bodies Starts as Owner Gives Consent Mayor King to Direct Armed with picks, axes, and shovels a detail of police and firemen started this afternoon to tear up…
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‘Girl Farm’ At Voodoo Cavern
Camden Courier-Post – April 11, 1925 Doc Hyghcock Brought Maids from Florida Got Them Jobs as Domestics at Eight Dollars Each—Used Half Dozen Cars P.O. Inspectors Grill Him This Afternoon Will Charge Him with Using Mails to Defraud – Scan His Letters Worries over Silk Hats Investigations of the various activities of “Doctor” H.H. Hyghcock,…
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Voodoo Doctor’s List Of Murders
Helena Independent, Helena, Montana – April 11, 1925 Kept Data on People Slated “To Go” Camden, N. J., April 10. – Mysterious memoranda, which name persons listed "to go" and others "to be ruined," have been uncovered by police, while investigating the home of the 71-year-old negro, who, police say, was an alleged voodoo doctor.…
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Mystic’s ‘Library’ is Full of Weird Jargon
Camden Courier-Post – April 10, 1925 ‘Cures’ Told in Old Recipe Book A weird “library” of “voodoo literature” was discovered by the police in the strangely under-tunneled and unusually equipped home and offices of “Doctor” H.H. Hyghcock, 413-415 Liberty Street. In many “composition books” like those used by school children, the negro voodoo doctor had…
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Voodoo’s Raven Room Shocks Society Editor
Camden Courier-Post – April 10, 1925 “Black Bird Pounced on My Head and I was Breathless,’ She Says After Tour of ‘Doc’ Hyghcock’s Former Domain By M. IRENE FROST, Society Editor of The Courier Touching in the highlights of my tour of the “Voodoo” house the thing that impressed me most, perhaps, was the black…
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Voodoo Man Confesses Bigamy
Camden Courier – April 10, 1925 Cops Discover Secret Vault, Baby Skeleton Police investigating the “voodoo den” of H.H. Hyghcock, 413-15 Liberty Street, whose arrest on suspicion of murder made several important discoveries today. They are: When informed of the finding of the supposed vault, Director Tempest instructed Captain Gordon to “tear it out if…
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‘Voodoo’ Is Held For Murder
Camden Courier – April 9, 1925 Daughter of ‘Mystic’ Says Old Man Killed Woman in His ‘Den’ Police Find Body of Baby in Tunnel Under Liberty Street Houses; Weird Stuffed Birds and Fantastic Symbols in “Chambers of Horrors” Under Houses in Liberty Street “Dr. Hyghcock” Is Under Arrest Discovery of the body of a white…
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Negro Voodoo Dug In Toils of Police
Helena Independent, Helena Montana, April 10, 1925 By Associated Press. Camden, N. J., April 9—Bones believed to be those of humans and other gruesome articles in caves and passages under the home of H. H. Hyghcock, a negro voodoo doctor, and the statement of his seven-year-old daughter that he had killed a woman two weeks…