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Robert P. Ashenfelter

North 36th Street and Farragut Avenue - Mosquitoes - 1964
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36th Street

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.

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Newspaper clipping: Feitz First Cop Slain Here; 6 Others Survived Wounds, Camden Evening Courier, Sept. 3, 1934
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Feitz First Cop Slain Here; 6 Others Survived Wounds

The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.

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