Tag: Sixth Ward Republican Club
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Carl Kisselman
Introduction is sourced from South Jersey: A History, 1624-1924 CARL KISSELMAN — Among the younger members of the legal profession who are prepared to fill the ranks as the older and noted men of the legal fraternity come to years of retirement, is Carl Kisselman, who was admitted to the bar of the State of…
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Charles Hunt
Charles Hunt was born on March 29, 1900. Charles, also known as ‘Chick’ Hunt, registered for the draft on September 12, 1918. He was then living with his mother, Mrs. Amelia Smith, at the foot of Jackson Street near Ferry Avenue in Camden’s Eighth Ward, and working as a wharf builder. When the Census was…
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Sixth Ward Republican Club
The SIXTH WARD REPUBLICAN CLUB was active in Camden as early as the 1890s through at least 1947. Richard J. Richardson was the club president for several years around the turn of the century. Camden Fire Department Captain William Deno was another long-time member. As early as February of 1899 the club’s headquarters was at…
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6th Ward Group Backs Leadership of Kobus
Camden Courier-Post – February 17, 1938 Support of City Commissioner Mary W. Kobus as “leader of the Republican Party in Camden County” is pledged in a resolution adopted by the Sixth Ward Republican Association, meeting in headquarters of the Camden County Republican Association, 506 Broadway. Text of the resolution, signed by Elwood A. Fritz, president,…
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Banquet to Honor John S. M’Taggart
Camden Courier-Post – March 10, 1934 Popular Patrolman Will Be Guest at G.O.P. Club in Sixth Ward A testimonial dinner will be tendered Patrolman John S. McTaggart, well known member of the Camden police force, at 8 p.m. next Friday at the Sixth Ward Republican Club. Officer McTaggart, who resides at 806 South Sixth street,…
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Four Camden Men Are Among Those Who Get Paroles
Camden Courier-Post – June 23, 1933 Lesslie Orr, ‘Polack Joe’ Deven, Jackie Hindle and Walter Kennedy Freed Public Not Informed Four well-known Camden county men who had been in the state penitentiary at Trenton for at least one year are now at liberty on parole. It was revealed at Trenton yesterday that the State Board…
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Pallbearers Named for Stehr Funeral
Camden Evening Courier, Morning Post – December 12, 1930 Body Will Lie in State Tonight—Burial Tomorrow Afternoon Funeral arrangements were completed yesterday for Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died Wednesday in Cooper Hospital following a heart attack. The body will lie in state tonight between 7 and 10 p.m. at the Schroeder Chapel,…
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Lewis H. Stehr, Chief of Police, Dies Suddenly
Camden Morning Post – December 11, 1930 Head of Camden Force Succumbs to Heart Disease in Cooper Hospital City Flags Ordered At Half-Staff for Month Body to Lie in State Friday Night; Final Rites at 2 P.M. Saturday Funeral rites for Chief of Police Lewis H. Stehr, who died suddenly at 11.30 a.m. yesterday in…
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‘Chick Hunt’s Girl’ Gone
Camden Courier-Post – January 25, 1928 Husband Dismissed When Brunette of Sixth Ward Shooting Fails To Appear in Court Back into the notice of Camden’s Police Court, but not into its courtroom, Katherine Rosalie came today. The attractive 23-year-old brunette “who was known as “Chick Hunt‘s girl” during the investigation of the Sixth Ward Republican…
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Flannery Promises to explain Slaying
Camden Evening Courier – January 20, 1928 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…
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“Mose” Flannery Released on Bail
Camden Evening Courier – January 19, 1928 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…
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Grand Jury Will Consider Slaying After Probe Ends
Camden Evening Courier – January 18, 1928 Investigation in the slaying of Joseph Cimini in the Sixth Ward Republican Club Saturday, is “far from completed,” Assistant Prosecutor Joseph Varbalow announced today. Although the Camden County grand jury went into session this afternoon, he added, the case will not be presented to that body today. “We…
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Battle Echo of Murder at Club
Camden Evening Courier – January 18, 1928 Mrs. Rosalie and Her Rival for ‘Chick’ Hunt Describe Event in Court Pretty, piquant Katherine Rosalie – for love of whom men are declared to have fought to the death in the rooms of the Sixth Ward Republican Club, today waged her own fight against her self-avowed rival…
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Love Plot Fades as Motive Behind Clubhouse Killing
Camden Evening Courier – January 17, 1928 Mrs. Katherine Rosalie Denies She is “Chick’s Girl” or “Anybody’s Girl,” But Thinks Flannery and Cimini May Have Used Her as Excuse for Starting Fatal Fight. The suspected “love motive” in the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying broke down today under the glaring light of investigation. It was…
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Murder Motive at G.O.P. Club Splits Sleuths
Camden Evening Courier – January 16, 1928 County Detectives Contend Philadelphia Gangster Was Slain in Quarrel Over Woman Police Claim Hold-up Attempt Caused Fight Deven Charged with Crime, Flannery and Taxi Driver Held Without Bail With city and county authorities definitely divided on the motive and circumstance if the Sixth Ward Republican Club slaying, Joseph…