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Walter S. Mattison

Newspaper clipping headlined "2 Suspects Nabbed in Theatre Robbery" from the Camden Courier-Post, April 2, 1934
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2 Suspects Nabbed in Theatre Robbery

Two South Camden men were arrested on suspicion of robbing the Lyric Theatre at Broadway and Mt. Vernon Street, where a safe was forced open and a radio receiver stolen. Camden Courier-Post, April 2, 1934.

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Camden Courier-Post, January 6, 1933: Cops and firemen will meet rulers on 30% pay slash
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Cops and Firemen Will Meet Rulers on 30% Pay Slash

Representatives of the Camden Police and Firemen's Association, including firemen John Plum, William P. Spencer and Harry Haines, Jr., were to meet the City Commission on January 6, 1933 over a proposed 30 percent salary cut, with the basis of the reduction for 41 five-year policemen the open question.

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Suspected Sniper Charges Frameup by 'Real Phantom', Camden Courier-Post, February 13, 1928
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Suspected Sniper Charges Frameup by ‘Real Phantom’

Eugene Marshall, 21, of 404 Jasper Street, admitted he was the man Camden police sought after an anonymous letter named him the "phantom sniper," but charged he was framed by an enemy he believed to be the real sniper. The same day a fire-alarm box at Kaighn Avenue and Hyde Park was drilled, and a weekend shot narrowly missed Joseph Carone.

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