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Isadore Birch, 29, of New York City, formerly of Kaighn Avenue, was sentenced by County Judge Rocco Palese to five to seven years in State Prison for manslaughter in the 1947 death of Zatch McGriff after a fight at 233 Kaighn Avenue.
Banker Alfred L. Sayres, 86, founder of the Parkside Trust Co., suffered a stroke while visiting Vincent Raczykowski at the Newport Bottling Works, 1101 Morton Street, and was taken to West Jersey Hospital in critical condition.
A seriously ill three-month-old baby at 1145 Cambridge Street was transferred between Camden hospitals in a record dash by Collingswood police officers.
Fairview gunsmith Edward Drzewucki, 24, was admitted to West Jersey Hospital with a leg wound after a .25 calibre pistol he was testing in his basement shop at 1439 Collings Road accidentally discharged.
Obituary of Mrs. Emma M. Grover, 81, of 910 North 27th Street, a Cramer Hill resident of 65 years, February 1954.
Obituary of Thomas P. Leach of 1360 Park Boulevard, a Philadelphia-born Girard College graduate, 40-year Camden resident and former Naval Reserve quartermaster who died in West Jersey Hospital.
Angel M. Rodriguez, 35, of 300 Penn St., and Fernando Reyes, 52, of 708 Carman St., were beaten in January 1954; Rodriguez's car was stolen and Reyes said he was robbed of $150.
Giuseppe A. "Hoover" Cuffari, 65, of 310 Beckett Street, who had run Hoover's Cafe at 941 South 4th Street since 1930, died in West Jersey Hospital in December 1953.
Vincent Del Pidio, 71, of 1873 South 4th Street, an Italian-born Camden resident of 45 years who worked 35 years for the Pennsylvania-Reading Seashore Lines, died in West Jersey Hospital.
Pilot William A. Kreusser, 26, of 873 Fairview Street survived when his light monoplane tore down power lines and crashed in front of 843 Sylvan Street in South Camden on September 30, 1953.
Howard A. Groth of 242 South 32nd Street, a Camden resident of 40 years and a member of Camden Lodge 15 F&AM, died in West Jersey Hospital in April 1953.
A daughter, Marie Frances, was born December 14 at West Jersey Hospital to Mr. and Mrs. Peter Pitner of 852 Woodland Avenue; a son, Don Michael, was born the same day to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Di Camillo of 1029 Monitor Road.
Edward Tyler, 37, of 761 Ferry Avenue was in critical condition after being stabbed with a table knife by Isaac Jackson during a quarrel over ownership of copper piping.
Roofer John Weadership, 54, of 1630 Pulaski St., was injured when a wooden frame broke and he fell from a two-story roof on 5th St. near Royden, according to his employer, Walter Spaeth of 513 Benson St.
Obituary of Mrs. Flora E. L. Langdon, 68, of 1137 North Twentieth Street, a member of Epiphany Lutheran Church, who died in West Jersey Hospital in April 1952.
A Camden Courier-Post account of a father who carried his three children from their smoke-filled apartment at 216 State Street, and of a Haddon Avenue gift-shop fire in which two firemen were injured.
A two-alarm fire sweeps a grain pit at Camden Grain Co. on Kossuth Street. The blaze, discovered at 4 a.m. by night watchman Caspar Krispin of 2046 Arlington Street, spreads smoke and fumes over a mile-wide area.
Leonard Buffetta, 32, of 604 Point Street, a World War II veteran and supermarket checker, was found dead in a field near Timber creek in Bellmawr; police listed the death as suicide, the Camden Courier-Post reported on August 25, 1951.
Mary Burke, 9, of 1241 North 26th Street, was scalded when a pan of hot water spilled in her lap and was held for observation at West Jersey Hospital.
Robert Gess, 63, foreman at Howland Croft Sons & Co. for 32 years, died at the plant on Broadway and Jefferson Street in June 1950.
Samuel Napierkowski, 60, of 1257 Morton Street was fatally stricken on his job in the power house of the New York Shipyard and pronounced dead at West Jersey Hospital.
Charles Foulon, 74, of 1453 Ormond Avenue, who operated the Foulon bakery in the 500 block of Federal Street for many years, died in West Jersey Hospital in January 1950. The business had been established by his father.
A 60-year-old South Camden woman, Mrs. Lillian Heard, suffered a broken left arm battling two youths who stole her purse on Broadway near Liberty street while she was on her way to church.
Joseph Wright, 69, of 1716 Ferry Avenue, was struck and killed by a hit-and-run driver at Broadway and Van Hook Street, one of three hit-run accidents in Camden early that day that also injured a Philadelphian and damaged a parked car.
Policeman James McTaggart, 54, of 3135 Waldorf Avenue, a World War I veteran appointed to the Camden police force in 1927, died in West Jersey Hospital. He was a brother of the late Policeman John McTaggart, who worked a beat on Broadway from Pine Street to Kaighn Avenue.
Frank Banks, 38, of 700 Baxter Street, stabbed in the chest and arms by a gang near his home and taken to West Jersey Hospital.
Romeo DeSanctis, star witness against suspects in the Casablanca roadhouse holdup, was shot dead in a parked car on Mt. Ephraim Avenue near Kaighn hours after testifying before the grand jury; his companion Leon Grenkwicz was critically wounded.
Children in Camden Join Outcry after Hand on Throat Awakens Her A woman's screams and the outcries of her two frightened children drove off a robber choking her in bed early Thursday morning.
Fireman William Getner, 51, of 1205 North Twenty-sixth Street, a member of Engine Company No. 11, was overcome by heat on June 7, 1942, while fighting a dump fire on River Road between Federal and State Streets, and was admitted to West Jersey Hospital.
The clothing and jewelry store of S. Lester at 713 Broadway was destroyed by a two-alarm fire of undetermined origin following an explosion. Eight companies fought the fire for seven hours, and damage was estimated at $100,000.
Fire damaged homes at 125 and 127 North Twenty-third Street; Junior Captain Howard Gick suffered a nail through the foot and Fireman Edward Peira was wounded in the hand.
A High Mass was set at the Church of the Sacred Heart for Dennis Conway, 40, of 693 Fairview Street, who died in West Jersey Hospital of injuries from an automobile accident in Gloucester; burial in Calvary Cemetery.
Dennis Conway, 42, of 693 Fairview Street, died in West Jersey Hospital of injuries suffered when a car in which he was riding struck a pole on Essex Street near Johnson Boulevard, Gloucester.
Obituary for Mrs. Mary E. String, 76, of 1131 Baring Street, who died after weeks of illness; her husband summoned a police ambulance but she was dead on arrival at West Jersey Hospital.
Camden Courier-Post - July 1, 1941 William Boyle, 19, of Ashland, and his grandmother, Mrs. Margaret Aubacher, 63, of Osage, were pulled through the door of their car, shown above, yesterday after a crash at Eighth street and Central avenue .
Death notice for William Seibert, 56, of 653 Grant Street, a Railway Express Co. employee who died at West Jersey Hospital in May 1940.
Camden Courier-Post, April 8, 1940. Capt. George M. Townsend, 45, of Fire-Engine Company No. 3 at Broadway and Emerald Street, died at his home on Stevens Street days after the death of Battalion Chief Rollo R. Jones of the same station.
Retired Sergeant, 73, Stricken With Pneumonia at Seashore Home Robert T." Bobby" Abbott , 73, retired Camden police sergeant and brother of William S. Abbott , former member of the Board of Education, died yesterday at West Jersey Hospital after a week's illness of pneumonia.
Camden Courier-Post - January 7, 1939. Two drivers in an automobile accident which resulted Sunday in the death of Robert Bumbrey, 57, of 735 Walnut street, were held in $1000 bail each for the grand jury.
Obituary for John Lester Dyer, 48, pensioned Camden fireman of 139 North Eleventh Street, who died in West Jersey Hospital; survived by his widow Mrs. Anna Ironfield Dyer and several children.
Hospital case log from Cooper and West Jersey hospitals including Irving Yerks, 9, of 1134 Baring Street, treated for a lacerated thumb.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital on February 26, 1938, including Marie Cahill, 5, of 2168 Berwick Street, treated for brush burns on her hand.
A mixed jury convicted William Dillon, 22, of manslaughter in the death of his brother-in-law Frank Webley following a fight aboard a barge off Twenty-ninth Street. Webley died in West Jersey Hospital on December 13.
Emergency room cases from Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital, February 14, 1938. Includes Cecelia Homan, 32, of 511 Ray Avenue, treated for a foreign body in the eye.
Emergency room cases at Cooper Hospital and West Jersey Hospital on February 14, 1938, including Mary DiVincenzo of 311 Beckett Street.
Hospital cases reported in Camden on February 14, 1938, including Ralph Williams of 413 North 29th Street treated at West Jersey Hospital for a laceration of the knee.
Camden Courier-Post - February 9, 1938 Mrs. William B. Scott today announces the organization of a Junior Women's Board to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital .
Camden Courier-Post - Feburary 4, 1938 Four persons in a small coupe were injured last night when the machine crashed into a pole at Seventeenth Street and Admiral Wilson Boulevard during a dense fog.
Requiem mass was celebrated in Sacred Heart Church for Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, 46, of 915 Broadway, wife of Patrolman John McTaggart, with burial in Calvary cemetery. Camden policemen formed a guard of honor and served as pallbearers.
Fellow officers of Policeman John McTaggart will form a guard of honor for Mrs. Ruth McTaggart, 46, at the Frank J. Leonard funeral home, 1451 Broadway. She died in West Jersey hospital while her husband's friends were holding their annual frolic in his honor at Eagles' Hall.