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10th Street
City directory records and newspaper accounts for 10th Street, one of Camden’s longest thoroughfares, running from State Street in North Camden through Cramer Hill and Whitman Park to Morgan Village, 1870s–1970s.
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Samuel M. Shay
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Louis C. Schlam
Louis Charles Schlam was born in Pennsylvania on January 31, 1887, to Henry Schlam and his wife, Catherine Spicer Schlam. He was the second of at least twelve children. His father worked as a shoemaker.
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Carman Street
Carman Street ran from Broadway through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at South 31st Street, named for William Carman whose home stood at the corner of Broadway and Federal Street until 1902.
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Howell Street
Howell Street runs through East Camden from 20th Street to 30th Street, parallel to the Pavonia railroad tracks. Homes were built by the 1880s, and several businesses operated here during Camden's industrial years, including Nick's Auto Parts and the Pavonia Ice & Coal Company. The first Catholic parish in East Camden, St. Joseph Church, stood at 25th and Howell Street.
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Baxter Street
Baxter Street (formerly Newton Street and locally known as "Hog Alley") ran from South 7th Street to Mount Ephraim Avenue in South Camden, notorious for decades as a hub of illegal activity; largely demolished, the 700 block survives as an overgrown alley.
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28th Street
28th Street runs from the Delaware River south, across River Road to the Pavonia railroad switching yard, then to Westfield Avenue, Federal Street and Washington Street. It is North 28th Street above Federal and South 28th below.
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Atlantic Avenue
Atlantic Avenue runs east–west through the heart of Camden, three blocks south of Kaighn Avenue, from Front Street to Haddon Avenue. East of 7th Street it was and remains a mix of homes and commercial properties; the street crosses under I-676 and the elevated rail between 7th and 9th Streets before becoming primarily residential toward Haddon Avenue.
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Father, Son Win Claims Against Truck Driver
Camden Courier-Post - February 2, 1938 Woodbury, February 1.
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Truck Owner Cleared In Injuries to Boy, 6
Camden Courier-Post - February 1, 1938 Woodbury, Jan. 31 — A truck owner was absolved of liability today In a suit In the Supreme Court to recover damages for injuries suffered by a six-year-old National Park boy last June.
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6 To Make Pleas Next Monday to Murder Charges
Baldwin Will Move for Speedy Trials Before Judge Shay Number Largest in Last 20 Years Several Reported Ready to Throw Themselves on Mercy of Court Six alleged slayers will appear in Camden Criminal Court Monday to enter pleas to indictments.
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Schiller Indicted on Murder Charge
Slain Politician's Son Must Stand Trial for Killing of Father William Schiller, 30-year-old former summer cop, was indicted for murder today and must stand trial for the fatal shooting of his father, Jacob Schiller , 72, well-known and well-liked politician.
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Five Women Faint As Court Jails Men
Turmoil Caused as Judge Acts to End Vandalism in County A court room crowded to the doors was thrown into a turmoil of excitement yesterday when five women became hysterical upon hearing Judge Samuel M. Shay impose prison terms on three men who pleaded guilty to vandalism in special session of criminal court.
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Ex-Policeman Who Turned Bandit Jailed 18 Months for $70 Holdup
DESERTER OF CHILD MUST SHUN WOMEN TO KEEP FROM CELL 10 Lawbreakers Imprisoned Out of 12 Arraigned Before Judge Shay ALIBI FAILS GUN TOTER Five state prison sentences, four "light" terms in the county jail, a fine, a suspension of sentence and a sending of a youth to reform school were among the rulings of Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday in Special Sessions of the Camden County Criminal Court.
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4 Judges Guests On Lawyers Cruise
Camden Courier-Post - June 30, 1933 Camden Attorneys Go With Cumberland County Bar on Trip in Bay Millville, June 29.
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Mothers Hysterical in Boy Vandal Trial
Refuses Leniency to Sons, Blames Hartmann, Who Hits Back, Charges Inconsistency and Reveals Threat Hysterics among three mothers, one of whom fainted, as their young sons were held for court yesterday inspired another attack on Police Judge Garfield Pancoast by Frank J. Hartmann, Jr. , secretary of the North Camden Civic Association.
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New Citizens Graduate From Y.M.C.A. Classes
Camden Courier-Post - June 24, 1933 Diplomas and certificates were awarded 25 graduates of the Y.M.C.A. naturalization class last night. They were presented by Herman Hensgen, chairman of the naturalization committee.
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Klosterman Boys Found Guilty In Numbers Case
Camden Brothers Released in Bail Awaiting Sentence They Are Big Shots,' Prosecutor Declares Both Defendants Deny Connection With Raided Saloon Joseph and Fred Klosterman were convicted in Camden Criminal Court yesterday of operating a numbers racket.
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Mysterious Piece of Paper Enlivens Numbers Trial Here
Judge Shay Enjoys Verbal Tilt Between Gotshalk and Walter Keown, But it Fails to Enter Into Evidence A mysterious piece of paper yesterday precipitated a verbal battle between Assistant Prosecutor William C. Gotshalk and Defense Attorney Walter S. Keown upon opening of the trial of Joseph and Fred Klosterman on charges of number writing.
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Numbers Writer Sent to Jail for 60 Days
Camden Courier-Post - June 20, 1933 Chester Lewandowski, 27, of 1000 Atlantic Avenue , was sentenced to 60 days in the county jail by Judge Samuel M. Shay after he pleaded non vult in Criminal court to possession of numbers lottery slips.
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Man Given 30 Days In Stolen Goods Case
Camden Courier-Post - June 20, 1933 Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday sentenced Spencer Murray, 52, colored, of 1181 Sycamore Street , to 80 days in the county jail after finding him guilty of receiving stolen goods.
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3 Youths Sentenced for Robbery of Store
Camden Courier-Post - June 20, 1933 Pleading guilty to robbery of a chain store at Twenty-seventh and Westfield Avenue , three youths were sentenced yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Criminal Court.
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'Numbers' Slips Just Ain't They're Only Timetables!
Porter, Held for Papers Found in Possession, Convinces Jury 'Evidence' Is Only Data on 'Choo-Choo'; Change Is 'Tip' Believe it or not, but slips such as those used by numbers lottery players and patrons are really not numbers slips at all — they are train schedules!
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Democrats Arrange for 'Maloney Day'
July 9 Set for Reception and Picnic to New Revenue Collector "Harry L. Maloney Day" will be celebrated by South Jersey Democrats, Sunday, July 9, when the newly-appointed collector of internal revenue will be guest of honor at a picnic at Silver Lake Park.
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Safecracker Escapes from Mt. Holly Jail
Prize Prisoner Held Secretly Seven Weeks Saws Way Out Guarded Rigidly, Segregated From Others, Accused of Two Robberies Slips Through Hole 'Too Tiny for Any Man' Drops to Yard by 'Rope' of Sheets; Saw Horse Helps Him Over Wall "Eddie" Adamski, most notorious of local gangland's safecrackers, has escaped from a Mt. Holly jail.
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East Camden Barber Freed in Assault Case
Camden Courier-Post - June 8, 1933 An East Camden barber, charged with assault and battery on a neighbor's son, was acquitted in Criminal Court by a jury before Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
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Stolen Goods Cost Man $50 In Fine
CamdenCourier-Post - June 8, 1933 Pleas Received by Shay as 20 Cases Come Up in Criminal Court A South Camden man charged with receiving stolen goods was fined $50 by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Criminal Court yesterday.
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Squire In Assault Case Is Given Probation
Albert Mungioli , 31, of 314 Stevens Street , a justice of the peace, who pleaded not guilty before Judge Samuel M. Shay on April 17 to charges of assault and battery on a brother-in-law, received a suspended sentence of three months in jail yesterday.
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Maker of Money Is Convicted Here
Marlton Man Found Guilty in 20 Minutes After $2200 Theft It took a jury in Criminal Court only 20 minutes yesterday afternoon to return a verdict of guilty against Joseph Dombrowski, 39, of Marlton, also known as Adolph Bachynsky, charged with larceny of $2200 from Samuel Schultz, of 738 Fern Street .
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Thief Gets Six Months; Took Vacuum Cleaner
Camden Courier-Post - June 6, 1933 James Crosby, alias William Caldwell, 32, of 577 Mickle Street , was sentenced yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Special Sessions Court, to six months In the Camden county jail.
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Youth Admits Trying to Steal River Piling
Camden Courier-Post - June 6, 1933 Leo Kuchinski, 18, of 14 Jasper Street , pleaded guilty to a charge of larceny before Judge Samuel M. Shay in Special Sessions Court yesterday. He received a suspended sentence to Rahway.
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Auto Thieves Jailed
Camden Courier-Post - June 6, 1933 Daniel Ryrie, 16, of 2009 Fillmore Street , and Vincent Storer, 16, of 879 Florence Street , pleaded guilty to charges of larceny before Judge Samuel M. Shay , in Special Sessions Court here yesterday.
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Youth Gets 5 Years for Iron Bar Attack on Ex-employer in Robbery Plot
Shay Stunned on Brutality of First Offender Merchant Bludgeoned When He Went to Cellar to Repair Lights YOUNG ASSAILANT GRINS A Camden youth, who confessed brutally beating a former employer with an iron bar in a robbery attempt, yesterday was sentenced to serve five to six years in State's Prison at Trenton.
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Judge Releases Youth For Crippled Parent
Camden Courier-Post - June 3, 1933 When a father pleaded he needed his son to drive a truck, Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday suspended a Rahway Reformatory sentence, for the youth and placed him on probation.
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Arrest in Court Ends 2-Year Hunt
Visitor at Hearings Before, Pancoast Jailed for Failure to Pay Fine The urge which prompted Albert Barlow, 37, of 755 Spruce Street , to visit police court yesterday as a spectator landed him in the county jail as a prisoner.
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Man Held in N.Y. Indicted Here As Stock Swindler
Grand Jury Returns 45 True Bills to Judge Samuel M. Shay Many Charges Covered Now in Tombs Prison, New York, Frank Osborne, 32, alleged Camden stock embezzler, was one of 45 persons named yesterday in indictments, returned by the April grand jury.
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License of Driver Freed, Is Revoked
A South Camden man, convicted in police court of drunken driving, but acquitted on his appeal to Judge Samuel Shay, will seek reinstatement of his driver's license which was revoked officially today by Motor Vehicle Commissioner Harold G. Hoffman.
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Suspended Jail Sentence is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid
Pleading non vult to charge of operating a "numbers" headquarters raided by the police last July, Dominic Olivette , 28, of 444 Royden street , was fined $100 and given a suspended sentence of six months in criminal court yesterday.
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'Blackie' Battino Gets 3 to 5 Years
Sentenced by Judge Shay After Pleading Guilty to Holdup Charge Pleading guilty in criminal court to holding up two South Camden men last February, and to a gun toting charge Louis "Blackie" Battino , 23, of 805 South Fifth street , was sentenced to three to five years in state prison by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
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2 Year Sentence Is Given Pernier
Pal of Shooey Bonner Jailed on Gun-Carrying Charge Despite his plea that he was still suffering from a gunshot wound received October 30, William Pernier , 32, of 293 Liberty street , was sentenced to serve from two to three years in the state prison for carrying deadly weapons.
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Suspended Jail Sentence Is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid
Dominic Olivette, 28, of 444 Royden Street, pleaded non vult to operating a numbers headquarters and was fined $100 with a suspended sentence. Herbert Lantry, 35, of 519 Ray Street, received a separate fine.
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Man Freed in Attack as Father's Defender
Salvatore Garvano, 24, was dismissed by Judge Samuel M. Shay after being charged with beating two youths who had attacked his father with stones near Rose Street.
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Sentence Suspended on 2 With Blackjack
Two Woodbine brothers received suspended sentences after a blackjack was found in their car, which had been halted for passing a red light. They had been arrested by Motorcycle Patrolman Earl Wright.
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Holdup Man Given 4 Years in Prison; Burglar Gets 2
Alfred Swindell of 8 North Twenty-eighth Street pleaded guilty to assault and battery on his wife Anna and was sentenced to six months.
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Bandit Suspects Leaves Bermuda For Camden
Camden Courier-Post - March 21, 1932 Charles "Jack" Kelly, wanted as one of the bandits who held up and robbed the Pennsauken Township National Bank December 11, sailed from Bermuda yesterday handcuffed to County Detective Fiore Troncone .
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Justice Comes Last?
Camden Courier-Post - October 28, 1931 Editorial Page Do gangsters laugh at the law? Here are some curious facts in a curious case.
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Lloyd Against Use of Trooper Here to Protect Polls
Defers Democratic Request; Sure Election Here Is Clean and Honest 40 Allege Vote Frauds Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd has deferred action on a Democratic application for additional police protection in Camden to assure a "fair and honest election" November 3.
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Mickey Duffy Aide Goes on Trial Today
George E. "English George" Sampson, erstwhile "valet" to the late Mickey Duffy , slain gang chieftain, will go on trial today before Judge Samuel M. Shay on a charge of carrying concealed deadly weapons.
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Missing Girl Weds Bandit on Way to Pen
Camden Courier-Post - October 23, 1931 Bridegroom Linked in Ashenfelter Case; Mother Faints By ERNIE TALBOT A prisoner in the Camden county jail awaiting removal today to state prison, married his sweetheart yesterday afternoon.
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'Gibbons' Free After 46 Days 'Extra Time'
Judge Shay Calls Holding of Impersonator An Outrage Declared to have been illegally detained in Camden County jail, Henry Luellowitz, 28, of Los Angeles, who posed as Floyd Gibbons, was ordered released yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay .