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Eleventh Street ran north from Market Street through to Pearl Street. Over time, North 11th Street was erased block by block, until only a short segment between Penn and Linden Streets survives. South 11th Street is a connecting road with no residential addresses.
John Thomas Garrity was born on January 27, 1884, in Pennsylvania to John J. and Letitia Garrity. The family moved to Camden in the 1890s, where John J. Garrity worked as a blacksmith in one of Camden's many shipyards.
Front Street runs north and south through Camden, west of Second Street and parallel to the Delaware River, from Erie Street in North Camden as far south as Atlantic Avenue. Known historically as North Front Street and South Front Street, it was home to saloons, livery stables, churches, and waterfront industry before early-1970s redevelopment broke its once-continuous run.
Liberty Street, listed in the 1850 Camden City Directory, was in the early 20th century a culturally diverse area west of Broadway, home to ethnic communities employed in nearby factories and stores.
Four Camden police officers and four firemen won approval of pensions under the mandatory age-65 retirement law in July 1950, to retire Aug. 31; also approved was a widow's pension for Mrs. Carrie Bean, whose husband, Patrolman Howard Bean, had died June 8.
Capt. Gustav Koerner, a 26-year veteran of the department, was named Camden police chief by Public Safety Director Aaron and sworn in by County Judge Sheehan. Detective Capt. Edward Carroll was promoted to police inspector and Lieut. Walter Mattison to captain. Camden Courier-Post, November 29, 1949.
New Camden police officers including William Bennett of 313 North 11th Street and James J. Large were sworn in and photographed at the signing ceremony in January 1949.
Camden Courier-Post, July 23, 1941: Detective Lieut. Samuel Johnson warns motorists of gasoline thieves; six garages behind the Liberty Bottling Company at 1135 Liberty Street were broken into.
Stanley Powell, 28, of 1256 Whitman Avenue, was jailed without bail in connection with the $10,380.50 robbery of Mrs. Mary Shane on Broadway near Kaighn Avenue, while police questioned Frank Gromacki, 28, of 412 Broadway, in the same case.
By Charles L. Humes In a shakeup of Camden police officials yesterday afternoon Lieutenant Samuel E. Johnson was named acting chief of detectives by Commissioner Mary W. Kobus , director of public safety.
Men Nabbed Here Believed to Be Members of Ring A tie-up between a huge counterfeiting ring and a gambling syndicate backing the "numbers" was believed unearthed by Camden police and Federal authorities following the arrest here yesterday of six colored men on charges of attempting to pass bogus money.
Calls for 100% Efficiency and Promises Square Deal for All in Talk to Commanders; Stresses Fact Colsey is Chief "I want 100% efficient police department and not a political machine.
Camden Courier-Post - June 2, 1933 A crossed wire in the Camden Safe Deposit & Trust Company 's burglar alarm system caused a bank robbery scare for a few minutes yesterday afternoon.
As pension retirements opened vacancies in December 1932, Mayor Roy R. Stewart reassigned Camden police, naming Sergeant Nathan Petit head of the traffic bureau to succeed Lieut. Charles L. Laib.
Store manager John Cullen was shot and near death after the second holdup of his American Store on Lansdowne Avenue in a week. Mounted Policeman Earl Wright arrested an armed suspect hours later at Third and Penn Streets.
Sergeants Samuel Johnson and Thomas Cunningham were sworn in as Camden police lieutenants, and reports circulated that five patrolmen — among them Edward Hahn of the third district — would soon be promoted to sergeant.
John Doris, brother of the electrocuted Frank Doris, was arrested after Joseph Connors of Gloucester was shot in front of the American Restaurant, 506 Kaighn avenue, near Broadway; a police roundup netted 10 men held as material witnesses.
Joseph "Mose" Flannery, 26, Eighth ward political worker and slot machine distributor, lay dying in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital after being shot before dawn outside a saloon at Front street and Kaighn avenue. He refused to name his assailants — "My lips are sealed" — as Camden police and county detectives rounded up eight men and hunted for a motive.
Eugene Marshall, 21, of 404 Jasper Street, admitted he was the man Camden police sought after an anonymous letter named him the "phantom sniper," but charged he was framed by an enemy he believed to be the real sniper. The same day a fire-alarm box at Kaighn Avenue and Hyde Park was drilled, and a weekend shot narrowly missed Joseph Carone.
Detective Captain Schregler traces runaways John Mabe and 17-year-old Ethel Griffen to Camden, and the pair are arrested and returned to Bristol, Tennessee.
Samuel Johnson of 526 North Front Street, driver of the downtown ambulance, sprained his ankle in a fall at home.