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Samuel E. Johnson

South 11th Street looking east toward the Armory-Public Works building, 1950s
Streets

11th Street

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.

·7 min read
John-T-Garrity-1934-09-11
People

John T. Garrity

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.

·2 min read
Engles - 952 N Front Street - 1948
Streets

Front Street

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.

·17 min read
Lottery and Gambling - Stock Photo
News Articles

Arrest of Six Links Numbers And Fake Cash

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.

·3 min read
News Articles

Faulty Alarm Causes Bank Robbery Scare

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.

·1 min read
Cops Are Shifted by Mayor Stewart newspaper clipping
News Articles

Cops Are Shifted by Mayor Stewart

Cops Are Shifted by Mayor Stewart newspaper clipping Camden Courier-Post, December 31, 1932 Mayor Roy R. Stewart reshuffled the police force. Detective William…

·1 min read
Manager Is Shot in Second Holdup of Store in Week
News Articles

Manager Is Shot in Second Holdup of Store in Week

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.

·5 min read
Samuel Johnson, promoted to Lieutenant
News Articles

2 Police Officers Made Lieutenants

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.

·2 min read
Police Stock Photo
News Articles

Gangster Shot As Racketeers Open War Here

Gloucester Man Near Death After Attack at Broadway and Kaighn Avenue Felled Near Quarters of Camden Gamblers Brother of Frank Doris Accused After Police Round up 10 Men Shooting of an alleged racketeer at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, near the threshold of one of South Jersey's notorious reputed gambling joints threw Camden police into renewed warfare on gangdom yesterday.

·7 min read
Found Wounded on Sidewalk at Kaighn Point newspaper clipping
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Found Wounded on Sidewalk at Kaighn Point

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.

·13 min read
Philadelphia Inquirer, October 15, 1922 -- Wed Man and Girl Located in Camden
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Wed Man and Girl Located in Camden

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.

·1 min read