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W. Price Jennings

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Jenning's Band

Jennings' Band, originally known as the National Cornet Band, was a well-known musical group in Camden from the 1880s until America's entry into World War I in 1917.

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Newspaper article, Unraveling the Camden Mystery
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Unraveling the Camden Mystery

"Beyond all question the murderer of these little boys is now in jail and the public's anxiety can now be allayed," said Prosecutor Frank T. Lloyd last night in making the first important statement concerning the tragedy of last week, when John Coffin and W. Price Jennings, two Camden lads, were murdered in an uncultivated field near Haddon Heights.

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Paul A Woodward as shown in the Philadelphia Inquirer. 1902-10-09.
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Camden's Mystery Is Still Unsolved

It is now generally believed that the Camden county authorities have succeeded in establishing a clear case against young Paul Woodward, who is in the county jail, charged with the crime of taking away the lives of little John Coffin and Price Jennings.

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Newspaper article with photographs, Woman Involved in Camden Mystery
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Woman Involved in Camden Mystery

While mystery apparently as absolute as ever still obscures the motive and the criminal in the case of John Houseman Coffin and W. Price Jennings, the unfortunate Camden lads whose trip to the country at Haddon Heights last Wednesday resulted so tragically, it is surmised from hints dropped now and again the matter may soon be cleared.

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Newspaper article with photograph, Two Camden Boys Are Still Among Missing
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Two Camden Boys Are Still Among Missing

Nothing has yet been learned as to the whereabouts of John H. Coffin, the eleven-year-old son of William Coffin, division agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Price Jennings, fourteen years old, son of Joseph Jennings, leader of the Third Regiment Band, the two Camden boys who disappeared on Wednesday when they left, it is presumed, for the Trenton fair.

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Newspaper article, Two Camden Boys Have Disappeared
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Two Camden Boys Have Disappeared

John Coffin, 11 years old, son of William Coffin, division freight agent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, and Price Jennings, 14 years, son of Leader Joseph Jennings, of the Third Regiment Band, are missing from their homes and the Camden police have been asked to locate them.

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