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One of Camden's major east-west streets, running from Kaighn's Point at the Delaware River east to Admiral Wilson Boulevard and the Airport Circle in Pennsauken, with block-by-block address histories from the 1860s through the early 2000s.
Carman Street ran from Broadway to South 8th Street downtown and, across the Cooper River, from 15th Street through East Camden to Woodrow Wilson High School at 31st Street. It is apparently named for William Carman, whose home at Broadway and Federal Street stood until 1902.
Langham Avenue runs south through Parkside from Walnut Street to Baird Avenue; in the decades after World War I it was home to many prominent members of Camden's Jewish community.
Camden Courier-Post May 7, 1958 Ten retired members of the Camden Police Department answered their last roll call Tuesday night.
Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie was released from the Camden County jail after the grand jury returned a no bill on a manslaughter charge in the death of his son James, 17, at 1144 Princess Avenue. Camden Courier-Post, December 31, 1953.
Camden Courier-Post, December 26, 1953: Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie remains in jail on $50,000 bail after admitting his "confession" to accidentally killing his son was invented to win Catholic burial rites for the youth.
James S. Wilkie, 17, son of Camden Police Sgt. John V. Wilkie, was found shot to death in the family home at 1144 Princess Avenue, his father's service revolver beneath his body; the coroner ruled the death a suicide. Camden Courier-Post, December 21, 1953.
Three men arrested in Atlantic City in the $2000 holdup of Lynch's Cafe at 3rd and Erie Streets were held without bail by Judge Dzick; the getaway car had been recovered on 7th Street between Liberty Street and Kaighn Avenue.
Woodley Rex Snyder, 26, of 737 Kaighn Avenue, was held by Camden police on a charge of atrocious assault and battery with intent to kill in the near fatal beating of Mrs. Rachel Weiner in her candy store at 763 Kaighn Avenue on October 1, 1952.
Camden detectives returned about $4360 in stolen goods to burglary victims at City Hall in April 1952 and held parolee George Wilmer as the suspected daytime "phantom burglar."
Camden police and county detectives had no definite leads in the shotgun slaying of ex-convict Mitchell Sadowski outside the Camden Pottery plant, and were weighing vengeance by the Mickey Quinn mob or reprisal for an $1800 holdup as motives.
A runaway bakery horse at Admiral Wilson Boulevard and Baird Avenue triggered a chain-reaction crash injuring three people; Harold B. Ash, 20, of 982 North Twenty-third Street was among those treated at Cooper Hospital.
Acting on Commissioner Mary W. Kobus' orders, Camden detectives seized 60,000 illegal punchboards in a raid on a three-story building on the south side of Viola Street and searched for their owners.
Courier-Post, December 26, 1939: Camden police doubted the "brawl" explanation for the fatal shooting of Eighth ward political worker Andrew Scarduzio in a Bellmawr taproom.
City detectives raided a house at 1039 Jackson Street in February 1938, seizing numbers slips representing $138 in play and arresting Joseph Orlowski, Mary Stanska and John Pawela of 1564 Louis Street.
Four men arrested in a raid on 433 Broadway, who said they were only listening to a radio broadcast of War Admiral's latest turf triumph, were held for grand jury action by Judge Gene R. Mariano. Camden Courier-Post, February 22, 1938.
Police raided a room in the rear of a cigar store at 433 Broadway and arrested four men, confiscating a telephone and horse-racing sheets as evidence of bookmaking on races. Camden Courier-Post, February 21, 1938.
Barber Held in Slaying Case Pending Formal Indictment by Grand Jury Sam Bosco , mid-city barber, was held for the county prosecutor's office on the charge of murder, following court action yesterday termed by Police Judge Gene R. Mariano as unprecedented in Camden legal annals.
Lent Car to Others He Says; Denies Charges Frank Palese , 26, of 900 South Fourth street , wanted as one of the alleged operators of the new "bingo" lottery racket, surrendered yesterday to County Detective Wilfred Dube .
Camden Courier-Post - February 14, 1938 7 Arrested in Bingo Numbers Racket; 4 Seized in Betting Place Ten men and a woman were arrested in gambling raids over the weekend by Camden city and county authorities.
Camden Courier-Post - February 8, 1938 Joseph Spada, 24, of 312 Royden Street , was arrested on suspicion by Detective Thomas Murphy yesterday when Murphy said he found 72 blank numbers racket books in Spada's automobile.
Jury List Prepared for Coroner's Action in Holdup Fatality The coroner's inquest to decide the cause of death to Angelos Magalas, Greek chef, who was shot during a card game holdup at 725 Penn Street on January 11, will be held today at 10 a. m. Coroner Franklin P. Jackson III, of Collingswood, will conduct the inquest and will select his jury of 12 from a list of 15 persons prepared by the office of County Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando .
Luigi Tortu, 21, of 426 Line Street, and two girls, Pearl Wills of Delair and Evelyn Buffa of 810 Florence Street, were held by Camden city and county police after Angelos Malagas, a restaurant cook shot in the January 11, 1938 holdup of a card game at 725 Penn Street, died in Cooper Hospital 13 days later.
Francis Drury, 66, scared off two youths who tried to hold him up on Eighth Street between Vine and State Streets by pretending to reach for a gun. Camden Courier-Post, October 27, 1936.
Joseph Auletto, 40, of 909 South Fourth Street paid a $25 fine after detectives raided a craps game in his poolroom; five others, including Joseph Bailey of 1354 Morton Street, received suspended sentences.
Anthony Carrozza, a 20-year-old RCA Manufacturing Company employe, admitted faking a kidnaping and robbery story after cashing 12 fellow workers' pay checks at the West Jersey Trust Company, Third and Market streets; Detectives Thomas Murphy and August Fortune recovered the money in Philadelphia.
Charged with stealing seven diamond rings valued at $4000, two men were discharged by Police Judge Lewis Liberman yesterday when the complaining witness failed to appear in court.
Sergeant Thomas J. Murphy and switchboard operator Joseph "Si" Pedigree of 49 South Twenty-seventh Street were among 13 Camden policemen and firemen retiring on pension before the first of 1933, and Mayor Roy R. Stewart said none of the vacancies would be filled. Camden Courier-Post, October 8, 1932.