Tag: Samuel M. Shay
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Safecracker Escapes from Mt. Holly Jail
Camden Courier-Post – June 19, 1933 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…
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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. He is Nicola Saccomanno, of 3418 Federal street, charged with beating Paul Agnew, of 3408 Federal street. Mrs. Elizabeth Agnew, the boy’s…
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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. He was charged with disposing of several cartons of cigarettes allegedly stolen from chain grocery stores. He…
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‘Numbers’ Slips Just Ain’t They’re Only Timetables!
Camden Courier-Post – June 20, 1933 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! At least, that…
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Squire In Assault Case Is Given Probation
Camden Courier-Post – June 7, 1933 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. Mungioli was put on probation for…
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Maker of Money Is Convicted Here
Camden Courier-Post – June 7, 1933 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…
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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. Kuchinski was arrested through Charles Salvaggio, a watchman at the Pusey & Jones Shipyard, Gloucester, who said he…
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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. Ryrie was sent to the Rahway Reformatory and Storer to the State Home for Boys, both for…
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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. He had pleaded guilty to the theft of a vacuum cleaner, a waffle iron, a cigarette lighter and other…
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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. The youth is Raymond Kocinski, 19, of Liberty Street near Mt. Ephraim Avenue. He was sentenced to Rahway last…
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Arrest in Court Ends 2-Year Hunt
Camden Courier-Post – June 3, 1933 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. Sought for more than two years on charges of failing…
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Man Held in N.Y. Indicted Here As Stock Swindler
Camden Courier-Post – June 2, 1933 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. Osborne, alias Allen Drake, is being held…
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License of Driver Freed, Is Revoked
Camden Courier-Post – May 11, 1933 South Camden Man Cleared of Tipsy Charge to Again Permit 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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‘Blackie’ Battino Gets 3 to 5 Years
Camden Courier-Post – February 2, 1933 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…
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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. Olivette was arrested by a detail of police led by former Director of Public Safety Charles V.…