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Two days after Detective William Feitz was buried, Emma Heisler, whose suicide came as a tragic sequel to his death, was laid to rest in New Camden Cemetery after a funeral from Frank J. Leonard's establishment at Broadway and Lansdowne Avenue.
Camden police under Chief Arthur Colsey opened a city-wide hunt for the bandits who shot Detective William T. Feitz four times in the back when he surprised a holdup of 20 persons in a house at 243 Sycamore Street.
The murder of Detective William Feitz by bandits marked the first slaying of a policeman in the history of the Camden department; police records showed three other members had been shot, two stabbed and a sixth beaten with an iron pipe, but all survived.