Introduction
CHARLES T. MURRAY was born in Camden around 1893 to Joseph H. and Georgie Murray. His father had worked for the Pennsylvania Railroad, in the ticket office of the Pennsylvania Railroad Ferry, and at the Camden Post-Telegram newspaper before opening up a undertaking business in 1900. Joseph H. Murray was an active member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of Camden, at South 6th and Stevens Streets, was at one time the Sunday School superintendent, and was on the board of directors of the church for 50 years. Grandfather Wesley Murray was captain of the Weccacoe Hose Company, a volunteer fire-fighting organization that served Camden prior to the establishment of the paid Camden Fire Department in 1869.
After operating in three other locations, Joseph H. Murray finally opened his funeral home at 408 Cooper Street in Camden. Charles T. Murray attended the Cooper School on North 3rd Street near Linden, and graduated from the Camden Manual Training and High School on Haddon Avenue. After graduating from undertaking school, Charles T. Murray followed his father into the family business full time in 1912, and after serving with America’s armed forces during World War I, returned to Camden, and married Emeline McBurney. When his father retired in 1929, Charles T. Murray carried the business on, as Joseph H. Murray and Son.
A Republican in his politics, Charles T. Murray served at different times during the 1920s and 1930s as Camden County coroner, a post that was also held during these years by Camden-born funeral director Arthur H. Holl. Charles T. Murray held the post in 1926 and 1928, ran for election again in 1934, and again served from 1938 to 1940.
Possessing a fine baritone singing voice, Charles T. Murray was well known, and performed on radio with Charles L. Bowen. Socially he was a member of the Corporal Raymond C. Thoirs American Legion Post, Ionic Lodge No. 94, F. & A. M., and Camden Lodge 293 of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks, among others.
Charles T. Murray had moved with his wife Emeline to 114 White Horse Pike in Haddon Heights NJ in the 1930s, and to 235 Bellevue Avenue in Haddonfield NJ by 1947, where he resided into the 1960s. By October of 1970 he had moved into to the Cooper River Apartments in Pennsauken NJ. He was still playing an active part in the business at the time, which was still located at 408 Cooper Street. By 1977 Charles T. Murray was no longer listed in the New Jersey Bell Telephone Directories for Camden County, and the Murray Funeral home was no longer in business in Camden. A business known as the Murray-Paradee Funeral Home appeared on Route 70 in Cherry Hill, in the building formerly occupied by the Schetter Funeral Home, by this time.
“Manual Training and High School, Haddon Ave., Camden, N. J.”
“Manual Training and High School, Haddon Ave., Camden, N. J.” – Postcard from around 1915
410, 408, & 406 Cooper Street
410, 408, & 406 Cooper Street – The Joseph H. Murray Funeral Home – 1978. The funeral home used both 410 and 408 Cooper Street for business purposes. In the 1990s, these buildings were razed to make way for the Judge Mitchell Cohen Federal Courthouse.
Isaac Shreve Dies, Veteran Policeman
Camden Courier-Post —
The Day’s Deaths
Fatally Stricken With Apoplexy in Responding to ‘False Alarm’
Nearly forty years a policeman, Isaac M. Shreve died last night “with his boots on.” He was fatally stricken while on duty. He was 6[?] years old.
The veteran bluecoat was stricken with apoplexy as he was about to step into the Third District auto patrol after a false-alarm call to Thirty-sixth and Federal streets, a short distance from his home.
With Policeman George Clark, driver of the machine, Shreve answered the call. When the officers arrived with the “wagon” they were informed that their services were not needed because the complainant had decided not to make a charge.
Shreve started to walk back to the machine when he suddenly toppled over unconscious. He was placed in the police auto and taken to Cooper Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Coroner Charles T. Murray issued a death certificate.
Shreve is survived by his wife, Jennie, and a son, Joseph, who is a policeman attached to the Third District. He lived at 17 South Thirty-sixth street.
Previous to being appointed a policeman Shreve served three years in the fire department. He was appointed a policeman by Mayor Pratt in 1886. In a political shakeup in 1886 he resigned from the force but was reappointed by the late Cooper B. Hatch in the “Committee of One Hundred” campaign days.
Although small in size, Shreve had a reputation for having “nerve.” He patrolled “beats” in South Camden for many years, but for the last eighteen years he was on duty in East Camden.
Twelve years ago he engaged in a pistol battle with a robber and was shot in the abdomen. For weeks he hovered between life and death but finally recovered.
Many years ago Shreve drove the old horse-drawn “ding-ding” in the First District. Previous to being assigned to the Third District auto patrol he served for several years as acting house sergeant at the East Camden station house.
Coroner Will Probe Woman’s Fatal Fall
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Coroner Charles Murray will conduct an inquest into the death of Mrs. Milly Hall, 65 years old, of 764 Cherry Street, who died in the Cooper Hospital last night. The probe will start this afternoon at 3 o’clock. According to Dr. H. E. Limas, he was called to the home yesterday afternoon and found Mrs. Hall in a serious condition. She told him that she had fallen down a stairway and struck her head against a radiator. The physician took her to the hospital where it was believed that she had a fractured skull. However, when X-ray plates revealed that there was no fracture, physicians were puzzled by the cause of her death and the inquest was ordered.
Gangster Shot During Melee in Sixth Ward
Camden Courier-Post —
Joseph Deven Held On Murder Charge After Death Boxer’s Brother; ‘Mose’ Flannery and 4 Others Held as Witnesses; Was Craps Game Says County Police
HOLDUP ATTEMPTED CITY COPS DECLARE
Victim of a shot fired in a melee, the exact cause of which remain undetermined, Joseph Cimini, 31 years old, was killed in the Sixth Ward Republican Club, 908 Broadway.
Cimini, declared by police to be a Philadelphia gangster, was killed before the eyes of two district detectives, Clarence Arthur and Clarence Bunker, who had been summoned to the club by warning that a fight was in progress.
Joseph Deven, 28 years old, known to his associates as “Polack Joe” and a colorful figure in Third Ward politics, fired the shot that killed Cimini.
Declaring that he had fired in self-defense, after Cimini struck him with the butt of a revolver, Deven was locked up without bail on a charge of murder.
Joseph ‘Mose’ Flannery, 26 years old, picturesque Eighth ward political worker, was held as a material witness. Detectives had seized Flannery who was to have precipitated the battle by brandishing a revolver just before Cimini was shot. The officers say that Flannery fled –after the shooting and was captured afterward at Broadway and Federal Street.
The name of the dead man was given as Joseph Gannon, but shortly before one o’clock this afternoon, he was identified as Joseph Cimini, 1301 Ellsworth Street, Philadelphia. The identification was made by a brother, William Cimini, a pugilist who has boxed in this city several times under the name of “Billy” Gannon.
Six Others Quizzed
Six other men who were present at the time of the shooting, or when the argument began, were questioned by city and county detectives.
They are Newton Blanchard, 30, 923 St. John Street, former Camden boxing referee and declared by some of the witnesses as the man who conducted the crap game at the club; Michael Dandrea, 26, 1067 Norris Street; Russell Sage, 26 years old, of 1102 Marion Street a taxicab driver who is said to have driven Gannon and Flannery to the club in his car; Maurice O’Brien, 27 years old, of 1429 Bradley Avenue, a former New Jersey State Trooper, Harry Trooper, Harry Waterhouse, 28 years old, whose address was given as the same as Sage’s; and Charles “Chick” Hunt, 27 years old, of 1218 Broadway, a former Camden boxer.
Blanchard and Dandrea were released after questioning and after each had made a statement to Chief of County Detective Lawrence T. Doran. The others were held with Flannery as material witness.
Differences of opinion between county and city detectives investigating the shooting were heightened during the afternoon. The county sleuths insisted upon the theory that the shooting had resulted from a feud between Flannery and Hunt, with Cimini taking the former’s side and Deven the latter and said that the heat of the argument had possibly been heightened by disagreement over a crap game.
The city police, on the other hand, declared that the entire affair was the result of an attempt by Flannery to hold up the other men. Deven’s statement to Chief Doran made no mention of a hold-up.
Building up a case against Flannery, the officers this afternoon lodged charges of attempted hold-up, carrying concealed deadly weapons, atrocious assault and battery and assault to kill against him. The two latter charges were made as the result of identification of Flannery as a participant in two recent robbery attempts. J.E. Feinstein, café proprietor of 508 Kaighn Avenue, declared that Flannery, Cimini, and Sage were thereof four men who held him up on New Year’s Day. He defied them and they left when he said, “Go ahead and shoot,” he asserted. Flannery was also identified, according to police, as the man who had beaten and attempted to rob Henry Mehrer, an Audubon policeman, and his two companions outside the Ringside Inn, on the Black Horse Pike, a fortnight ago. Mehrer and Feinstein were taken to police headquarters by County Detective Howard Smith, who is authority for the statement that they identified Flannery.
Cimini was shot shortly after 3:00 this morning and died almost instantly. Doctors at Cooper Hospital pronounced him dead on arrival. He had been shot just above the heart by a bullet from Deven’s gun.
Events preceding the shooting remain, to some extent clouded today. Chief Doran said he learned of an enmity existing between Flannery and Hunt. Deven appeared to have attempted to quiet “Mose,” the county detectives said. Cimini struck Deven and Deven fired.
Chief John Golden of the Camden city detective bureau stated, on the other hand, that the shooting had apparently followed an attempt to hold up the other men in the room. Golden based his view on the statements of Clarence Arthur, a city sleuth. According to Arthur, when he and Bunker appeared at the door of the room, Flannery and Cimini held revolvers and the other men in the room were standing with their hands upraised.
According to the story pieced together by county detectives from the statements of witnesses, a group of men had apparently gathered at the club for a crap game. Blanchard, it was stated, acts as the “stick man,” the term used in gambling parlance to designate the man who conducts a crap game.
City and County agree that Flannery and Cimini arrived together in Sage’s taxicab. Whether there was an argument, the result of an enmity between Flannery and Hunt, or whether the attempted hold-up theory is correct, remains to be learned by additional official investigation.
Chief Doran stated the witnesses had told him that words passed between Flannery and Hunt and that the former had gone downstairs. Returning he brandished a revolver.
Two Flee Place
It was at this point that Blanchard and Dandrea left the room and fled down the stairs. On the street, they encountered Detectives Arthur and Bunker, who were patrolling Broadway in a police automobile.
In describing the subsequent events today, Arthur declared that Blanchard had informed him that “two Philadelphia gunmen are up in the Sixth Ward Club holding up a bunch of fellows.”
The detectives did not immediately go to the club, but found Patrolman Frank Del Rossi and followed him up the stairs of the building.
“There were about fifteen men in the room,” Arthur asserted. “When we got to the door Flannery and Cimini had their guns out and apparently were about to search the others. The other men had their hands in the air.”
“When they saw us Flannery and Cimini threw their guns down and the others lowered their hands. I went up to Flannery and started to frisk him. Bunker went to another man, whom I don’t know, and started to frisk him.”
It was then he said that he heard the shot. Believing that it was Bunker who was shot, he released his hold on Flannery and swung around. As he did Flannery turned and fled downstairs, Arthur declared.
Bunker said he believed that it was Arthur who had been shot and he too released his grasp on the man he had been searching. The detectives turned in time to see Cimini fall.
“I did it! I shot him!” Deven is declared to have shouted, throwing his revolver on the table.
According to the story told by witnesses to the county detectives, however, Deven had stepped up to Flannery just before the shot was fired and had said “Mose, you can’t get away with this here.”
Flannery is said to have had a gun in his hand at the time.
As Deven spoke, the witnesses say, Cimini stepped behind him and struck him with the butt of a revolver. Just then detectives entered. Devin whirled and, drawing his gun, fired.
Cimini was placed in a police ambulance and taken to the hospital. After he had been pronounced dead his body was taken to the morgue, where it was awaiting identification today. Neatly dressed, Cimini is of Italian extraction. He has coal-black hair, brown eyes and a dark complexion. Coroner Charles T. Murray will perform a post-mortem examination, he said.
Flannery Captured
When he fled from the club, according to Arthur, Flannery jumped on a Public Service bus driven by David Smith, of 423 Haddon Avenue, which was passing at the time.
“Faster! Faster” he is declared to have urged Smith as the latter drove along Broadway in the direction of Federal Street.
At Federal Street and Broadway, Arthur and Bunker caught up to the bus and arrested Flannery as he descended from the vehicle.
“Why don’t you give me a chance to get to Philadelphia?” Arthur declares Flannery asked him. “I can get bail over there.”
Seek Written Statement
Chief Doran stated this afternoon that he was attempting to obtain a written statement from Flannery and would also seek to have Deven sign a statement regarding the shooting. During the morning, Flannery refused to talk while Devin, although admitting that he fired the shot, declared that he shot in self-defense. He made no reference to the hold-up attempt, according to the county detectives.
Cimini has a Philadelphia police record but, according to his pugilist brother, “was not bad but just wild.” He was recently arrested in Philadelphia after a fight with policemen.
“But he never held up or robbed anybody,” his brother declared this afternoon after identifying the body. “He got into a jam now and then. Yes, I know that he knew ‘Mose’ Flannery, but I never mixed with that crowd.”
It was reported at City Hall this afternoon that Samuel Orlando had been retained as attorney for Flannery and that Walter Keown, Camden county solicitor, would represent all the other men. The presence of Keown at detective headquarters, during which he had a conference with Captain Golden, seemed to lend credence to the latter report but neither rumor could be confirmed.
Flannery for years has figured in police cases and in political warfare in the Eighth Ward, where he was sometimes a lieutenant and sometimes an opponent of “Mikey” Brown, the Republican leader of the ward. Last March he was arrested and indicted on charges of atrocious assault and battery on his wife and her mother. At one time he was held as a suspect is a Philadelphia shooting but later was released.
The accused man, Deven, is a short, slim little man with an air of meek complaisance. He has been a taxicab driver and was last arrested on a charge of drunken driving. In May of 1926 he attempted suicide by shooting himself after he had failed to effect a reconciliation with his estranged wife. At that time, he shot himself but the bullet only grazed his chest.
Joe Deven, long a political power in the Third Ward, first flashed into citywide prominence in 1925, when he was employed by federal authorities as a deputy U.S. Marshal to guard the padlocked Poth brewery at Bulson Street, just off Broadway. At the time Deven was thus maintaining the sanctity of the Eighteenth Amendment, he was also operating a bootlegging establishment downtown and had been arrested once or twice for violating the Volstead Act.
The Courier at that time exposed this paradoxical situation, with the result that the U.S. Marshal summarily dismissed Deven. He keenly resented the political chicanery that had been used to put Deven in office. In explaining how Deven was appointed, the Marshal said that he had been recommended by “prominent Republican leaders” in Camden, chief among whom was William D. Sayrs, now a city commissioner but then a field agent in the office of the Internal Revenue Department.
Sought City Job
Not long after Deven’s dismissal as brewery guard, Sayrs and other Republican leaders made strenuous efforts to secure a city job for him under the Non-Partisan administration. They sought to exact a promise from The Courier that this newspaper would remain silent in the event Deven was appointed to a city position. No such promise was made and Deven remained jobless, politically at least.
Then came a humorous twist to the situation. Sayrs disagreed with some of the Organization leaders and, for a time, walked his own political footpath. Some of the leaders, fearful of what Sayrs might attempt politically, killed two birds with one stone by hiring Joe Deven to shadow Sayrs and to report to them the number of times he conferred with Non-Partisans. Thus, Joe had a job and Billy was watched.
Sayrs knew he was being shadowed by his old friend, and apparently he knew who had hired Deven to do the work, but he refused to take the situation seriously and chortled, frequently, when he would see his “Shadow” trailing about town.
In the last year, however, Deven has again been the particular political protégé of Commissioner Sayrs and also has won the friendship of many other political leaders. Nevertheless, he has not been, so far as can be determined, the recipient of any particular political patronage, though his political influence in the Third and Fifth Wards is said to have expanded rapidly under the new administration.
Flag Day Service Planned by Elks
Camden Courier-Post —
Elaborate Ceremonies Monday Night Will Be Open to Public
An elaborate Flag Day celebration to be open to the public and broadcast over the radio is planned by Camden Elks for Monday night.
Ceremonies will open at 7.30 p. m., in the lodge room, Seventh and Cooper Streets, with a musical program by the Elks Band, under direction of William H. Townsend. Presentation of the colors will be made by August F. Walters Chapter, Disabled American Veterans; Corp. Raymond C. Thoirs Post, American Legion, and Matthews-Purnell Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars.
The invocation will be made by the lodge chaplain, D. Truman Stackhouse. An altar service will be held by officers headed by James MacMillan, exalted ruler. An organ solo of “America” by Charles L. Bowen, solos by Charles T. Murray, Mrs. C. Richard Allen and Albert B. Poland, will feature the musical program.
The history of the flag will be given by George S. Dunkelberger, a senior member of the lodge and chairman of the Flag Day committee. The program will be broadcast over WCAM by courtesy of Rud Preisendanz Jr., past exalted ruler and lessee of the station.
Elks to Observe Flag Day Tonight
Camden Courier-Post —
Uniformed Veterans to Join Lodge Members in Colorful Ceremonies
Arrangements are completed for the Flag Day celebration to be held tonight by the Camden Elks Lodge at Seventh and Cooper Streets.
The program will open at 7.30 p.m. Doors of the lodge room will be opened to the public at 7:15 p. m. The program will be broadcast over WCAM.
The Elks Band, led by William H. Townsend, will open the ceremonies. Presentation of the colors will be made by uniformed units of the August F. Walters Chapter, Disabled American Veterans; Corporal Raymond C. Thoirs Post, American Legion; Matthews-Purnell Post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, and the lodge patrol.
D. T. Stackhouse, chaplain of the lodge, will make the invocation and an altar service will be held by James A. MacMillan, exalted ruler, and the other officers.
There will be musical selections by Charles L. Bowen, organist; Charles T. Murray, Albert B. Poland and Mrs. C. Richard Allen, vocalists.
George S. Dunkelberger, a senior member of the lodge, and chairman of the Flag Day committee, will give the history of the flag. A patriotic address will be given by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast, a past exalted ruler.
The radio program will be presented through courtesy of Rud Preisendanz Jr., past exalted ruler and lessee of the station.
Mrs. Murray Named To Y. W. C. A. Presidency
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Charles T. Murray, of Haddon Heights, has been named to fill the un-expired term of Mrs. Guy C. Morrill, of Merchantville, as president of the board of the Camden Branch, Young Women’s Christian Association. Mrs. Morrill resigned from office last month.
Mrs. Murray is a former vice president of the board, and will now serve as president until February when election of officers will take place.
Mrs. Arthur J. Casselman, member of the board, has been recommended by the Camden group for membership on the committee for the new program for younger girls which the national Y. W. C. A. is organizing for activity in the Fall. The program will be developed along educational lines to particularly interest girls of college and high school ages.
MURRAY REFUSES BID FOR ASSEMBLY
Camden Courier-Post —
Former Camden Coroner Says He Would Rather Have That Job
Charles T. Murray would rather be a coroner than a member of the House of Assembly from Camden county.
He made that decision when approached by both factions in the local G.O.P. fight several weeks ago, when invitations were extended to him to become an Assembly candidate at the primaries May 15.
“I told both factions that while I appreciated their offers I could not spare the time from my business to seek such a post,” Murray said.
“I had no intention of becoming a candidate for coroner again until my friends urged me to be a candidate,” added Murray who is associated with his father in the firm of Joseph H. Murray & Son at 40[3?] Cooper street.
Was Coroner in 1926
The younger Murray was a Camden county coroner from 1926 to 1928.
His designation on the ballot is “Popular Republican.” He selected that title because of the popularity with which he is held by the leaders of both factions in the Republican battle in Camden city and county.
Murray is 40 years of age, and a graduate of Cooper School and Camden High School. Next month he will observe his twenty-fifth year in business with his father. He is married, his wife being the former Emily McBurney. She is president of the Camden Young Women’s Christian Association. They have two children, Kathryn, 13 and Emily, 8. The Murray residence is at 114 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights.
Hobbies of the candidate for coroner are golf and singing. He is a member of the Tavistock Country Club and admits he consistently hits a “93” or a “94” on the home course.
Sings in Radio
He is a baritone and his voice has been heard in many entertainments and also over the radio. For the past three years he has collaborated with Charles L. Bowen in the presentation of the “Optimistic Organist” over WCAM.
One of his most ardent supporters in his fight for the nomination for coroner is Mrs. A Haines Lippincott, widely-known clubwoman and Republican leader.
Murray is also a member of the Ionic Lodge of Masons, No. 94, F. & M., the Camden Lodge of Elks No. 293, the Camden Kiwanis Club, the Penn Athletic Club and the Coporal Raymond C. Thoirs, American Legion Post. He is a past vice-commander of the Thoirs Post.
Mrs. Selina Taylor, 92, Dies; Relatives Sought
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Selina Taylor, 92, was found dead in a bed room yesterday on the second floor of 406 Vine Street, by William Pedrick. Mrs. Taylor had been living with the Pedrick family for the past four years.
Coroner Charles T. Murray issued a certificate of death due to a heart condition. Detective William Marter, investigating Mrs. Taylor’s death, said he is seeking two nieces, reported to be residents of South Camden. Marter said he did not know their names.
Funeral services will be held at 11 a. m. tomorrow at the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray and son, 408 Cooper Street.
Joseph H. Murray, Undertaker, Dies
Camden Courier-Post —
Founder of Firm Succumbs at Age of 82 After Six-Week Illness
Joseph H. Murray, 82, Camden’s oldest undertaker, died yesterday in his home at 408 Cooper street, of complications. He had been ill for six weeks. Members of his family were at the bedside when he died. He was the father of Coroner Charles T. Murray.
Mr. Murray was the oldest member of the First Methodist Episcopal Church. He had been a member of the official board of the church for 50 years, and at one time was superintendent of the Sunday school.
Born in Camden on February 6, 1855, Mr. Murray became employed, after graduation from the Camden schools, by the Pennsylvania Railroad and later was in the ticket office at the Pennsylvania ferries.
Always deeply religious, Mr. Murray quit his post at the ferries because he felt that it was not right to work seven days a week. He then became associated with the old Camden Post-Telegram, now the Morning Post.
In 1900 he started in the undertaking business at 105 North Seventh street, later moving to 106 Broadway, then to 629 Market street and finally to the present Cooper street address, where he also made his home.
While Mr. Murray, in years gone by, had been a member of several organizations, he dropped all of those interests and centered on the one thing that was paramount in his life, his church work with the First M. E. He was well-known for his charitable work, although he did his missions of charity without any flare of publicity.
Mr. Murray retired from active business 10 years ago, and the business has since been carried on by his son, Coroner Murray, as Joseph H. Murray & Son. Coroner Murray entered his father’s business in 1912, when he graduated from school.
Mr. Murray’s father, Wesley Murray, was well known in Camden and at one time was captain of the old volunteer fire company, the Weccacoe Hose Company, which for many years had its headquarters on Arch street, east of Fifth street. That building was torn down when the present city hall was built.
In addition to Coroner Murray, Mr. Murray is survived by one other son, Carlton J. Murray, Camden florist; three daughters, Mrs. Sarah Dollar, of Camden; Mrs. Matilda Clark, of Sparrows Point, Md., and Mrs. Georgie Schwatka, of Baltimore, seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Mr. Murray’s wife, Georgie, died 18 years ago.
Funeral services will be held privately by the family tomorrow. Rev. James S. Pemberton, pastor of the First M. E. Church, will preach the sermon. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery.
First Methodist Episcopal Church
First M. E. Church, CAMDEN, N. J.
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Harry F. Walton Dies from Wound
Camden Courier-Post —
Former Freeholder’s Death Pronounced Suicide; Ill Health Blamed
Former Freeholder Harry F. Walton, 52, died in Cooper Hospital last night from a self-inflicted bullet wound in the temple.
Walton shot himself at his home, 520 Bailey street, last Wednesday. Coroner Murray issued a certificate of death by suicide.
“He was melancholy over ill health,” Murray said.
Walton was the first president of the Pyne Poynt Social Club and was its treasurer at the time of his death. He was employed as a bookkeeper in the stock room of the New York Shipbuilding Corporation for nearly 25 years. Two weeks ago he suffered a nervous breakdown. He partially recovered and returned to work, relatives said. But he was again stricken.
Walton was alone in his home when he shot himself. He was unconscious when his sister, Irene M. Walton, found him. He never regained consciousness. Miss Walton found the gun beneath a radiator near his hand.
Walton became president of the social club when it was organized in 1911 at 939 North Fifth street. He served two years and became treasurer. He was custodian of the building and spent all of his leisure time there seeing to it that the younger members had a good time and maintained order.
The Pyne Poynt Athletic Association, of which he was financial secretary for years, met in the same building. His father, the late Franklin M. Walton, was one of the organizers of the athletic association 40 years ago.
Walton was elected in 1925 as Tenth ward freeholder and served three years. He was born in Philadelphia and when he was a boy his parents moved here. His mother, Mrs. Mary G. Walton, died six months ago. A brother, William, of 633 Pearl street, and his sister are the only other survivors.
Services will be held at 11 a. m., Wednesday at the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray and Son, 408 Cooper street. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery.