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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
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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'Bus Bandits' Found Guilty; Face 15 Years
Reino A. Thompson, 19, of 805 Linden Street, and Henry N. Mallet, 21, of 119 North Ninth Street, were found guilty of holding up two bus drivers by a jury of eleven, after juror Charles B. Kay was excused saying he had been beaten and "put on the spot."
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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 .
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Court Sends Girl, 15, To Home of Her Sister
Camden Courier-Post - October 21, 1931 One of the five children of Joseph White, a former Camden hotel proprietor, who have been county charges, found a home yesterday.
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Shay Gives Wright 6 Years in Shooting
Judge Samuel M. Shay sentenced Philadelphia barber David E. Wright, 32, to six years in state prison for shooting O. Nelson Kelley at Brooklawn after a card-game argument, reported October 20, 1931.
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Robbery Gang of 4 Given Long Terms
Two Figured in Wounding of Cop and Slaying of Pal Four members of the notorious North Cramer Hill gang, two of them participants in the robbery in which one bandit was killed after wounding a city detective, were sentenced to state prison terms by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday.
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'Forgotten' Holdup Recalled in Capture of Fifth as Bandit
Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1931 Police last night cleaned up an old case of highway robbery that occurred at Second and Mt.
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Judge Shay to Speak at Moore Meet Here
Judges Samuel M. Shay and Frank F. Neutze will be among the speakers at an A. Harry Moore rally to be held Friday night by Democratic clubs of the Eleventh Ward at Maennerchor Hall, Twenty-seventh Street below River avenue.
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Fake 'Floyd Gibbons' Seeks Freedom Here
Counsel for Henry Luellowitz, 28, of Los Angeles, who was arrested here last June after posing as Floyd Gibbons , will seek his freedom from the county jail today in application for a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Samuel M. Shay .
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Store Robber Given 10 Years in Prison
Floyd Alter Bell sentenced to 10 years for robbing the Star Beef Company; accomplice Frank Bank of 717 Baxter Street to face grand jury.
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Hotel Holdup Denied By 3 On Witness Stand
Rollie Waterhouse, Joseph McKenna and Ralph Endt, on trial for the November 21 Hotel Camden holdup, testified they were gambling in Gloucester; the state called three taxi fares, among them Joseph Dent of 318 Taylor Avenue.
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Holdup Victims to Scan Bandit Suspects Held in Terror Reign
Four men and two women, including Marco Reginelli and his wife, were arrested in East Camden by the police vice squad and indicted within seven hours on weapons and narcotics charges; victims of recent holdups were to try to identify them.
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Boys Held in Gem Theft
Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.
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Second Mrs. Murry Drops Estate Fight
Eight-Year Controversy over Property of Former Detective Ends Here An eight-year controversy over the estate of former City Detective George Murry , one time alleged vice czar of the Third Ward, ended yesterday when Wife No.2 withdrew her claims.
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C. F. Squillace Gets Suspended Sentence
Year in Prison Withdrawn Because Lawyer Has Made Restitution After he had changed his pleas of not guilty to non vult Charles F. Squillace , former Camden attorney, was given one year in state prison by Judge Samuel M. Shay yesterday afternoon and then the sentence was suspended.
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Gun Toter Fined $150 After Leniency Plea
Camden Courier-Post - March 12, 1930 Found guilty of carrying a gun, Richard H. Morrow, 24, of 2319 Howell Street , as fined $150 by Judge Shay in Criminal Court yesterday. He will be permitted to pay the fine in installments.
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Doris Convicted at Quick Trial; Gets Ten Years
John Doris, 30, a Philadelphia gangster, was tried, convicted and sentenced by Judge Samuel M. Shay to 10 years in New Jersey State Prison for the April 29 shooting of Joseph Connors in Kaighn avenue near Broadway; his wife fainted in court as the penalty was set.
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Aged Man's Sanity Debated as Nephew Contests His Will
A nephew, John Donahue, contested the will of Nicholas Joseph Donahue, a former East Camden restaurant proprietor who had kept a restaurant on Federal Street near Twenty-fourth, before Judge Samuel M. Shay in the Camden County Orphans Court in September 1928, with executor Raymond Donges defending the will.
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Orlando Raids 35 Gambling Haunts in Slot Machine Drive
Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando took evidence from raids on 35 alleged gambling haunts to the Camden County grand jury in a drive against slot machines, while Republican leaders reportedly wanted him called off.
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Enos B. Dellmuth Dies from Stroke
Enos B. Dellmuth, 43, civic leader, former Ninth ward councilman and foreman of the June term Camden county grand jury, died at his home at 426 Chambers street after a stroke suffered at the jury's last session. Camden Courier-Post, September 10, 1928.
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'Polack Joe' Enters Plea of Not Guilty
Joseph "Polack Joe" Devon, who shot and killed Joseph Cimini of Philadelphia in the Sixth Ward Republican Club at 908 Broadway, entered a plea of not guilty to a manslaughter charge before Judge Samuel M. Shay.
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Polack Joe Out on Bail Despite Murder Charge
Although still technically charged with murder in the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph ("Polack Joe") Devon was released from the Camden county jail under $2,500 bail fixed by Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Varbalow, without Judge Samuel M. Shay or Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott being consulted.
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Colanduno Guilty of Dope Peddling
Jury Out Less Than Hour; 'Babe Paradise' Up Next Week Convicted by a Criminal Court jury of conspiracy and the possession and sale of narcotics, Joseph Colanduno, 29 years old, 431 Walnut Street , said by police to be a member of a powerful dope ring in Camden, will be sentenced by Judge Shay tomorrow morning.
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Judge Shay to be Next Prosecutor
Camden Trenton Bureau Trenton, Jan. 31 - The name of Judge Samuel M. Shay , of the Camden County Court of Common Pleas, has been handed to Governor Moore as the choice of the Camden Democratic organization for prosecutor, succeeding Ethan Wescott .
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Patrons, Patronesses Announced Today for First Military Ball
Patrons and patronesses for the first military ball of the Camden Post No. 960, Veterans of Foreign Wars, to be held on Friday evening February 3 in the Elks auditorium, Seventh and Cooper Streets, are announced today.
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Flannery Promises to explain Slaying
Statement Will Set Forth Facts of G.O.P. Club Murder, Attorney Says With Joseph "Mose" Flannery at liberty under $3000 bail, a statement setting forth his part in the Sixth Ward Republican Club affray which resulted in the slaying of Joseph Cimini last Saturday, was promised today by his attorney, Samuel Orlando .
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"Mose" Flannery Released on Bail
Shay Signs Order After $5000 Bond is Posted in 6th Ward Fuss Joseph 'Mose' Flannery , declared by detectives to have precipitated the battle in the Sixth Ward Republican Club which resulted in the slaying of Joseph Cimini last Saturday, was released from the Camden county jail us afternoon under $5,000 bail.
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Brothers Refute Batchelder Plea of Self Defense
Harry Batchelder, taken to Cape May County jail, planned a self-defense plea in the killing of Constable William T. Cramer — a claim refuted by the Albright brothers and by the fact that no revolver was found on Cramer's body.
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Camden Democrats to Invade Trenton
The Camden Democratic Club prepares to send a thousand men to Trenton for the inauguration of Governor-elect Edwards; John T. Cleary is named among the committee aiding chairman George Fisher.