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Police held "Doctor" H. H. Hyghcock without bail after discovering a maze of tunnels, "witch caves," and gruesome remains beneath 413 and 415 Liberty Street; Police Judge Cleary first held him on lesser charges.
Four Camden accidents reported January 20, 1919, including Emma Steck of 905 Point Street, hurt in a fall from a trolley car and taken to Cooper Hospital.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Ragan of 1238 Vanhook street sued jitney driver Nathan Obus of 1422 Wildwood avenue for $15,000 after a motorcyclist collided with his machine at Mt. Ephraim and Atlantic avenue and threw them out.
Former Councilman John A. Furey, 65, a fifty-year resident of Camden's Eighth ward, died at his home at Broadway and Vanhook street after a long illness. He had also served as a freeholder, Excise Commissioner, policeman and constable.
A Philadelphia Inquirer column of Camden items from March 1, 1906: a railroad power house going up at Seventh and Vanhook streets, bids for a lift bridge over Cooper Creek, and six-year-old Emma Jones of 1066 Louis Street badly burned in a bonfire.
Dr. Francis J. Bickers, of 1701 Fillmore Street, saw an elderly man fall from a stroke of apoplexy on Broadway near Vanhook Street; the man was recognized as Arthur M. Sitley, of 506 Broadway, founder of Sitley & Son's grain elevator at Sixth and Chelten Avenue, and his condition was critical.
A January 1897 Philadelphia Inquirer report of liquor license transfers granted by the Camden board, including Caroline Hoelzle's to John S. Smith, and Commissioner Cooper's complaint about Xavier Schnurr's fine before Mayor Westcott.
Three frame houses near the corner of Van Hook and Kossuth streets were destroyed by fire before daybreak on December 11, 1894.
Albert Beck and George S. Jordon of 1051 Diamond Street were struck and killed by the West Jersey Railroad's Bridgeton accommodation train at the Van Hook Street grade crossing in Camden.