Introduction
NATHANIEL WINSTON WINE JR. was born on June 8, 1896 to Nathaniel W. Wine and the former Mary Angelo. He was the second child, coming after Adelbert and before Anna, Donald, Harry and Walter. The 1910 Census shows the family on Hanover Street in Philadelphia.
Nathan Wine married Charlotte Martina Hollerman on May 31, 1914 in Wilmington, Delaware.
The 1915 Census shows the family living at 678 Bulson Street in Camden, New Jersey. By 1916 the family had moved to 743 Florence Street. He worked as an elevator operator, then found work at the McAndrew & Forbes licorice plant. The 1920 Census shows the family living at 749 Woodland Avenue, where they remained into 1929. Nathan Wine was still working at McAndrews and Forbes as late as 1922. In January of 1923 he was appointed to the Camden Police Department. Officer Wine was still serving as a Camden policeman as late as 1949.
The Wine family was living at 837 Sylvan Street when the Census was taken in 1930 and 1940. By that time the family included children Paul, Thelma, Elmer, Elizabeth, and Doris Wine. By April of 1942 Nathan Wine was living at 675 Sylvan Street. He was still residing there when the 1947 Camden City Directory was compiled.
Nathan Wine passed away on July 9, 1962. He was survived by his wife and children.
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Manager Is Shot In Second Holdup Of Store In Week
Camden Morning Post —
Same Gang Returns and Flees With Only $5 Loot
VICTIM NEAR DEATH: HE ATTACKS THUG
Two Boys, Imprisoned, Later Give Alarm From Lansdowne Avenue
Shot down last night by the same bandits who robbed him of business papers a week ago, John Cullen, 22, manager of an American Store at 1201 Lansdowne avenue, is near death in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
Physicians fear he will not recover from a bullet wound in the lung under the heart inflicted by one of the holdup men when Cullen struck out at them in an effort to protect himself.
Police have obtained descriptions of the assailants from Cullen and from two youthful employes whom they forced into a rear section of the store. The boys, John Drexel, 16, of 1242 Lansdowne avenue, a clerk, and Gordon Feltz, 13, of 1417 Louis street, an errand boy, notified police and aided Cullen after he dropped to the floor of the store.
Bandits Flee With $5
Unable to obtain the day’s receipts from the safe, the bandits escaped with $5 from a cash drawer. Last week’s holdup occurred at 6.05 p. m., November 19, as Cullen was leaving the store. As he stepped out the door, the two men stepped up to him, drew pistols and grabbed a packet of letters he was about to mail. The letters contained sales reports and requisitions for stock. They ran around the corner and disappeared down Louis street.
At 5.55 p. m., last night, Cullen, who lives at 1088 South Commons road, Fairview, had just placed the day’s receipts in the safe. He directed Drexel to lock the front door.
Drexel was about to turn the key when the same bandits forced open the door. Stalking into the store with pistols drawn, one of them covered Cullen. The other man ordered the two boys into a narrow passage behind an ice box and forced them to lie down between bags of sugar.
Victim Describes Event
The wounded manager, questioned at the hospital by Detective Sylvester McGrath, and the boys, who told their stories to Detective Lieutenant Samuel Thompson, described the events which followed in quick succession.
The bandit covering Cullen gruffly ordered him to open the safe.
Cullen knelt and attempted to follow the order, but he said he was so nervous he was unable to work the combination.
“Come on, open it. Hurry up!” the bandit ordered as his companion, after warning the boys to remain silent behind the icebox, joined him.
“I’m doing the best I can,” Cullen replied. Then, attempting to stall for time, he told the bandits: “Go outside. I can’t open this with you standing over me. I’ll bring the money to you.”
At that remark one of the bandits struck him in the jaw. Cullen said he was uncertain whether the man used his fist or the butt end of his gun.
“Don’t hit me again,” Cullen pleaded. “I’m doing this as quickly as I can.”
The same bandit drew off to strike him again.
Shot Attacking Bandit
“I went for him,” Cullen told police, “and then he shot me.”
The bandits then ran from the store. The terrified boys, when they heard the door slam, ran from their uncomfortable prison.
“I’m shot, Jack,” Cullen gasped to Drexel.
As Feltz ran to his side, Drexel dashed across the street to the Camden Meat Company, on the opposite corner of Lansdowne avenue and Louis street and telephoned police. Motorcycle Policeman Nathan Wine was dispatched to the scene.
Meanwhile Feltz with difficulty aided the wounded man to stagger to the steps outside, where a passerby assisted in making him as comfortable as possible until Wine arrived.
Wine commandeered a laundry truck operated by Russell Kaighn, of 642 North Eighth street, in which Dorothy Austin, 1443 Broadway, was also riding. They took Cullen to the hospital.
Dr. Charles Ley, police surgeon, who examined the wounded man, said he feared he was suffering from an internal hemorrhage.
Suspect Not Identified
Cullen and the boys failed to identify as one of the bandits an armed man who was arrested several hours later at Third and Penn streets by Mounted Policeman Earl Wright.
Wright became suspicious of a hatless man whom he saw leaving a house at 219 Friends avenue. As the man saw Wright he ran north to Penn street. Wright chased him and, threatening to shoot the fugitive, halted him at Third street. A 22-calibre pearl-handled pistol was found on him. One of the five chambers was empty.
Taken to police headquarters, the man said he was John Yovankin, 22, of Forked Landing road, Maple Shade.
Immediately after his arrest Detectives Walter Smith and Alfred Shires raided the house on Friends avenue and arrested Irma Marconi, 18. She and the Maple Shade man are being held on suspicion.
Though police brought several suspects before the holdup victims, one of them a former employe of the store, they were unable to identify any as the bandits.
Police said they had an establishment under surveillance and expected an arrest early today.
According to Cullen and the boys, both bandits appeared to be foreigners. One was about 18 and the other, 22. The younger man, about 5 feet 6 inches tall, wore a dark overcoat and cap, while the other, slightly taller, wore a dark gray overcoat and a light felt hat.
Cullen has a wife, Virginia, and a daughter, Jacqueline, a year old.
2 Bandits Face Death as Manager of Store Dies of Holdup Wound
Camden Courier-Post —
BANDITS ROUTED BY CAMDEN GROCER
Four Held for Grand Jury in Drive to Curb Crime
Trapped by police in Harleigh Cemetery, two alleged gangsters were arraigned in police court today and held without bail for the Grand Jury when they pleaded not guilty to carrying concealed deadly weapons.
Arrest of the pair marked a weekend in which two bandits were routed in a battle with a South Camden grocer and two other suspects were arrested on charges of carrying concealed deadly weapons.
One of the latter was nabbed by police in the automobile of Dr. Charles Ley, police surgeon, 20 minutes after the car was reported stolen early Sunday morning.
According to Detective Sylvester McGrath who signed the formal complaints against the two alleged gangsters caught in the cemetery, both are out on parole from prison in Pennsylvania.
The pair gave their names and addresses as Michael Quinn, 22, of 856 Craney street, and Harry Schwartz, 27, of 608 Cantrell street, both of Philadelphia. They were represented in court today by Walter S. Keown.
According to Motorcycle Policeman Nate Wine, he arrested Murray near Broadway and Federal street Saturday night after customers in a nearby store told him the man was carrying a gun. The policeman said Murray threw away six bullets before he was captured.
Guns Found
A sawed-off shotgun, a .38-calibre revolver and several boxes of shells were found by the police in Harleigh Cemetery a short distance from where they captured the other two suspects.
The suspects were alleged to have fled into the cemetery when their automobile hit a pole at Lansdowne and Princess avenues, but they told the police after their arrest that they were in the cemetery “to keep a date with two girls.” They denied knowledge of the guns.
Shortly before noon yesterday police were notified of an automobile crash. Their informant said two men had jumped from the car, one carrying a carpetbag, and dashed in the direction of Collingswood.
Patrolman Howard Bean and George Schuyler went to the scene in a bandit chaser car. They followed the general direction taken by the men and were informed by several pedestrians they had entered Harleigh cemetery.
The patrolmen started to make a search of the cemetery and saw two men standing beside a tree. They fled.
In the meantime Motorcycle Policeman George Smith, of the Collingswood police, joined in the chase and helped trap the men as they were about to climb a fence.
They were arrested on suspicion and placed in a cell. Questioned by Detective McGrath, the men admitted to having served time in jail but would not disclose the reason.
According to Philadelphia police records Schwartz was sentenced to from three to ten years in jail after his arrest on April 4, 1927, for forcing his way into a Pennsylvania railroad gasoline station and was released on parole, Nov. 4, of this year.
The records also show Quinn was sent to a reformatory in 1917 for removing fixtures from a vacant house, again in 1924 on suspicion of arson. He was put on probation for larceny of an automobile. He was twice found not guilty on the same charge in 1925 but later the same year was sentenced to from five to ten years in jail for larceny of an automobile. He is still on parole from that sentence, according to police records. In September of this year Quinn was found not guilty of stealing an automobile in Philadelphia.
Harry Yates, an employee of the cemetery, found the shotgun and revolver, as well as the carpetbag which proved to be empty, near where the police first saw the men.
The automobile figuring in the crash was a sedan, that had been reported to police as stolen on October 31, from Broad and Buttonwood streets, Philadelphia. It is the property of the Guy A. Willey Motor Company, 415 North Broad street, Philadelphia.
Two bandits held up and attempted to rob Bronislaw Zemba, who operates a small grocery store at 160 Norris street. When the grocer grabbed a knife and attempted to chase the bandits they fired their gun at him and then fled. One bullet pierced a window directly over the head of the grocer.
The men jumped into a waiting automobile and escaped. Zemba, however, noticed the license number of the car and reported to police.
Several hours later Detective Joseph Carpani located the automobile on Mt. Ephraim avenue, opposite Evergreen Cemetery.
The tags on the automobile were those of Arthur Quigley, 2014 Broadway, while the car had been stolen from Herman Natal, 1254½ Kaighn avenue.
Carpani found two revolvers, both a .38-calibre and the other .38, and a sawed-off shotgun under the front seat of the car.
Arrested in the automobile of Charles Ley, police surgeon, 20 minutes after the car was reported stolen, Stanley Sheldon, 23, of 1621 Olympia road, pleaded guilty in police court today to charges of stealing an automobile and carrying concealed deadly weapons.
Policeman Anthony Melloch testified that he found a pair of brass knuckles on Sheldon when he arrested the man in Dr. Ley’s car at 1:20 a. m. yesterday. The car was reported stolen at 1 a. m. from Seventh and Federal streets while Dr. Ley was eating at a restaurant nearby. Melloch found it at Mt. Ephraim and Kaighn avenues.
Sheldon was held without bail for the grand jury. Brass knuckles are “deadly weapons,” according to the law.
Wilkie Threatened by Eight Men in Auto
Camden Courier-Post —
Search for a maroon-colored touring car believed by John V. Wilkie, Camden’s “notebook cop,” to contain eight beer runners was made yesterday after Wilkie had been threatened by an occupant of the automobile while in his traffic booth at Baird and Wilson boulevards.
The car containing the eight men, three in the front and five in the rear, was proceeding northwest on Admiral Wilson boulevard when one of the occupants uttered the threat against Wilkie.
“Come on out and fight; you ____” the stranger shouted. Wilkie said he placed the light at amber and sought to learn the license number of the automobile. The plates however, were indistinguishable, he said, or had been either smeared or turned around to be unrecognizable.
Wilkie said he reported to police headquarters and that Major Charles V. Dickinson, deputy director of public safety, and Motorcycle Police Sergeant Jeff Kay and Policeman Nathan Wine searched and waited for hours for the return of the mysterious car without avail.
Motorist Fined $10 for Hitting Cop’s Car
Camden Courier-Post —
A $10 fine for one motorist and dismissal for another on reckless driving charges furnished the denouement in traffic court last night to two automobile accidents.
Marshall Reinheimer, 28, of 546 Erie street, was dismissed when Burton Tunnel, of 36 Cedarcroft avenue, whose car was struck by Reinheimer’s car, testified damages in the case had been adjusted amicably.
Fiore Tiziana, 27, of 308 Cherry street, whose automobile struck the machine of Patrolman Nathan Wine, at Broadway and Everett street, was fined $10. Twenty-two motorists forfeited cash security.
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Nathaniel Wine
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Nathaniel Wine, 66, a retired policeman who died Monday night, will be held Friday at 11 a.m. in the Frank J. Leonard Funeral Home, 1451 Broadway, where friends may call Thursday night. Burial will be in Locustwood Memorial Park, Cherry Hill.
Mr. Wine was appointed a patrolman in 1923 and served nearly 39 years. Known to many people as “Neighbor,” he was a member of the Police Beneficial Association and the Police and Fire Association of Camden.
Surviving are his wife, Charlotte; two sons, Paul and Ptl. Elmer of Camden; three daughters, Mrs. Thelma Simpson of Collingswood, Mrs. Elizabeth DiGiacomo of Glendora and Mrs. Doris Dunn of Tonawanda, N.Y.; four brothers, Delbert of Camden, Harry of Mantua, Donald of Philadelphia and Walter of Glendora; a sister, Mrs. Anna Rinck of Wildwood; eleven grandchildren and a great-grandchild.