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Saint John Street

Jesse D. Seybold - 1936-08-06
People

Jesse D. Seybold

Jesse D. Seybold was born in New Jersey in February 1892 to Charles and Lizzie Seybold, though records vary on the exact date, listing February 2, 7, or 8.

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570 Girard Place, photographed July 2012
Streets

Girard Place

Girard Place was a short, dead-end street running east from 916 St. John Street in Camden, NJ. First appearing in city directories in 1890 with eleven homes, it dwindled to a single occupied house at 570 Girard Place by 1980 before disappearing as a through street.

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Historical Accounts

Playground Planned

To the Editor: I am, happy to inform mothers and fathers of the Sixth Ward that Commissioner Mary W. Kobus has assured me a playground is being planned for children of this ward, realizing their danger playing in the streets.

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News Articles

Murder Motive at G.O.P. Club Splits Sleuths

County Detectives Contend Philadelphia Gangster Was Slain in Quarrel Over Woman Police Claim Hold-up Attempt Caused Fight Deven Charged with Crime, Flannery and Taxi Driver Held Without Bail With city and county authorities definitely divided on the motive and circumstance if the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph "Polack Joe" Deven was arraigned in Camden police court today and held without bail on a murder charge.

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News Articles

Gangster Shot During Melee In Sixth Ward

Joseph Deven Held On Murder Charge After Death Boxer's Brother; 'Mose' Flannery and 4 others Held as Witnesses; Was Craps Game Says County Police Holdup Attempted City Cops Declare Victim of a shot fired in a melee, the exact cause of which remain undetermined, Joseph Cimini, 31 years old, was killed in the Sixth Ward Republican Club , 908 Broadway .

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