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Joseph Anthony Hooven Jr. (1915–1996) was a Camden police detective who graduated Camden Catholic High School in 1933 with a Villanova scholarship, joined the Camden Police Department in 1940, and rose to Detective Sergeant by December 1957.
A 1974 Courier-Post feature on reporter Philip W. Buxton's phone call to the Unruh house during the 1949 siege, and detective William E. Kelly's sworn account that a policeman answered it.
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.
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."
Patrolman Joseph Carpenter recognized Robert Bailey, 49, of 236 Kaighn avenue, sought since 1947 on a robbery indictment; Municipal Judge Dzick held Bailey without bail for the grand jury.
Air war hero Staff Sgt. William "Bill" Kelly was honored by more than 200 friends and neighbors at the First Ward Republican Club, 47 York Street, March 1944.
Camden Public Safety Commissioner Mary W. Kobus announced in December 1940 that her appointment of 22 patrolmen and 10 firemen had restored the public safety department to 1938 strength, and said she would seek money for more officers because of defense needs; John Gryckiewicz of 810 North Front Street was among the fire appointees.