Third Street
Third Street runs north and south, parallel to the Delaware River. Several notable buildings are on 3rd Street corners, but carry the east-west street address, such as the Security Trust Building at 301 Market Street, and the Mickle Tower Apartment House, at 200 Mickle Boulevard.
Camden Councilman Beaten and Robbed
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Chales [sic] H. Greer Assaulted by Auto Thieves—Fifty Men and Women Taken in Raids
In an effort to prevent three men from stealing his automobile from in front of the Helena apartments, Third and Cooper streets, Camden, yesterday afternoon, Councilman Charles H. Greer, 48 years old, superintendent of the Philadelphia and Camden Ferry Company, was so badly beaten that he had to be taken to Cooper Hospital. Physicians stated that he suffered a cut head and body contusions where he was kicked, but no serious results are expected. The automobile was found abandoned at Newton avenue and Eighth street, Camden, half an hour later, and taken to police headquarters.
Persons in the neighborhood of where the machine was abandoned stated that one of the bandits had but one arm, was tall, while another was tall and the third a short man. They disappeared in different directions.
Drink-Sellers Arraigned
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Efforts to Stop Violations of the Sunday Law in Camden.
The Camden police are keeping up their efforts to suppress Sunday liquor selling. The following saloon keepers appeared before Mayor Westcott, of Camden, yesterday, and pleaded not guilty: F. A. Shuster, of Front street and Kaighn avenue; Tim. Clayton, of Third and Mechanic streets; James Croker, of Fourth and Jasper streets; F. Joseph Rouk, of Eighth street and Ferry avenue; John Murschell, of Broadway and Jefferson street, and Gottlieb Jung, of Ferry avenue and Jackson street.
Warrants have also been issued for Adam T. Davis, Jr., of Second street and Kaighn avenue, and Mary [?]ang, of Fillmore and Jackson streets, on similar charges. Davis is seriously ill and was unable to be present yesterday.
Chief of Police Dodd is the complainant in all the cases. The saloon keepers will be given a hearing next Friday.
Smoke Overcomes Fireman
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Fireman Charles Gladney, driver for Deputy Chief Patterson, was overcome by smoke while fighting a fire at the Wearwell Gasket Company on the second floor of the building at 32 North Third street, Camden. He was carried out by Fireman Edgar Ellender and quickly revived. The fire was quickly extinguished with a loss of $500.
Head of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records.
Houseboat
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Franklin Reed |
19 North 3rd Street — Harry Rose Plate Glass Advertisement
Camden Courier-Post —
Plate Glass
Window and Plate Glass—Cut to Order. Bring Measurements
Duco Demonstration Sat. Feb. 4th. Expert Factory Demonstrator
SPECIAL THIS WEEK
YALE Made Night Latch, No. 80. Regular $2.25 With 3 Keys...... $1.45
Harry Rose
19 N. 3rd St.
OPPOSITE POSTOFFICE
19 North 3rd Street — Harry Rose “Paint Up” Advertisement
Camden Courier-Post —
PAINT UP
Spec. Weather Proof Roofing Paint, gal...... 65c In 5-Gal Lots, 60c
Household Paint, $1.95 Pure Linseed Oil, gal.
Roofing Paper, roll.. $1.20
Full Line of Stove Pipe and Furnace Repairs
Harry Rose
19 NORTH THIRD STREET
Hardware—Electric Supplies
Opposite Postoffice
19 North 3rd Street — Harry Rose Keys Advertisement
Camden Courier-Post —
KEYS
Cut to Any Door, Lock or Safe Door Checks Repaired
Harry Rose
Hardware—Electric Supplies
19 North Third Street
Opposite Old Postoffice
Cassady Block Party to Continue Tonight
Camden Courier-Post —
A block party being held at Third and State streets by the Cassaday Fathers’ Association will be continued tonight and tomorrow nights.
Funds raised from the event are used during the year for welfare work among pupils at Cassaday School, Third and State streets. Charles Glover is chairman of the carnival committee and W. P. Johnson heads the welfare committee. Elwood Eskridge is president of the association.
Cassaday School Pupils Hail Merry Outing at Knight Park
Camden Courier-Post —
Courier-Post Photos
If you don’t think the pupils of the Cassaday Public School, Third and State streets, enjoyed their annual outing at Knight Park, Collingswood, yesterday, check up on the grins and hilarity in this crowd of youngsters. From “hail, hail, the gang’s all here,” to a ride on the lake was a short step, and below shows one voyage of the good ship, “Good Time,” with passengers Charles Weber, Mrs. William Hale and James and Thomas Hale, Frances Gorman and Alma Arrington. The picnic is sponsored each year by the Cassaday School Fathers’ Association.
16 North 3rd Street — Three men arrested at Local 80-A, Packing House Workers
Camden Courier-Post —
Three men arrested early Wednesday on charges of breaking into the headquarters of Local 80-A, Packing House Workers, 3rd and Arch sts., were held without bail for grand jury action.
They gave their names as Calvin Hamilton, 30, of the 800 block S. 2nd st.; John Sharp, 30, of the 700 block Spruce st., and Fred Gary, 32, of the 400 block Stevens st. Police who surrounded the place following a telephone call from a neighbor said they arrested Hamilton as he left the rear of the building, and took the other two into custody later.
10 North 3rd Street — City Building and Loan Association, No. 2, of Camden, N. J.
Camden Post-Telegram —
The 32d annual meeting of this Association will be held at Post 5 Hall, Fifth and Taylor avenue, on Saturday evening, July 21st, 1906, at 7 p. m. Officers will be elected and the 32d series of stock will be issued.
Money to loan at par.
FRANK C. SAYRS, Secretary,
No. 10 N. Third St., Camden, N. J.
Man Hurt in Auto Crash
Camden Courier-Post —
Bus Passengers Hurled From Seats In Market Street Mishap.
Ten passengers in a Camden-Gibbsboro bus were thrown from their seats and the driver of the second machine in a collision was severely injured at Third and Market streets early today.
The driver, Stephen Jaross; 45 years old, 934 North Thirty-third street, was taken to Cooper Hospital with internal injuries and a possible fracture of the leg.
The bus was driven by Harry Holloway, 572 Mickle street. He told police that as he reached Third street, Jaross, who had been traveling east on Market street, swung from behind a truck and made a left turn into Third street. The front of the coupe was crushed when it was struck by the bus.
Holloway was released on his own recognizance.
Final Honors for Mrs. Jos. Maxwell
Camden Post-Telegram —
From the residence of her husband, 620 North Third street, the funeral of Mrs. Katherine Maxwell, wife of Fire Captain Joseph Maxwell, who died on Saturday from pneumonia, was held this afternoon. Rev. Rudolph B. Brestell, rector of St. Paul’s Episcopal Church, conducted services, and interment was made in New Camden Cemetery. The pallbearers were Harry Green and William Walton, of Engine Company No. 1, of which house Mr. Maxwell was captain, and Rollo Jones and Joseph Daly, of Engine Company No. 4. The floral designs were in abundance and very beautiful. Pretty floral tokens were received from members of the Camden Fire Department and Engine Companies Nos. 1 and 4.
Hospital Cases
Camden Courier-Post —
HOSPITAL CASES
WEST JERSEY — John Coney, 5, of 2035 Kossuth st., cut scalp. Danny Sampolski, 5, of 1114 Broadway, burns of back. Joseph West, 15, of 325 Baird ave., Mt. Ephraim, cut forehead. Dennis Trice, 3, of Evergreen Trailer Park, cut forehead. Lester Fuller, 5, of 694 Van Hook st., contusions of face. Frencisco [sic] Colon, 34, of Cemetery ave., Hammonton, cut scalp and injured shoulder.
COOPER — Charlotte Taylor, 8, of 2106 Master st., puncture wound of foot. Sam Smith, 38, of 720 Silver st., cut hand. Edward J. Carroll, 4, of 1012 N. 3rd st., cut fingers.
1024, 1022 & 1020 North 3rd Street, July 9, 2012.
1022 North 3rd Street, July 9, 2012.
1022, 1020 & 1018 North 3rd Street, July 9, 2012.
1018 North 3rd Street, July 9, 2012.
1018 North 3rd Street, July 9, 2012.
Intersection of North 3rd Street & Byron Street. Northeast Corner of North 3rd Street & Byron Street - July 9, 2012.
1016 North 3rd Street, July 9, 2012.
1012, 1014 & 1016 North 3rd Street, July 9, 2012.
1014 & 1012 North 3rd Street, July 9, 2012.
Southeast Corner 938 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
2 CAMDEN YOUTHS HELD ON BURGLARY CHARGES
Two Camden youths were held today in $2500 bail each, on charges of breaking and entering, and possession of firearms.
Benjamin Shablack, 16, of 425 Pierce street, and Peter Norman, 1022 North Third street, were arraigned before Judge Pancoast on complaint of Robert A. Allen, 208 Burns street.
Allen charged that they entered his home last night, stole two revolvers and a set of tools. The boys admitted the break, police say.
1000 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1929–2012.
1010 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Theodore Lovallo |
1012 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1956 | Edward J. Carroll |
1022 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Peter Norman |
900 Block of North 3rd Street
939 North 3rd Street. Sam & Esther Greenberg brought this building in the early 1950's, either in 1951 or 1952. They operated a grocery store there until about 1960 or 1961.- Jack Greenberg December 2004. Photograph taken 1972.
939 North 3rd Street, around 1954. Esther & Jack Greenberg Inside the Grocery Store.
939 & 937 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011. 2011 B&J Mini Market.
938 North 3rd Street. 1908-1966 Lynch's Cafe 1941-1943 Club Royal 1990s-1994 R & R Bar.
938 North 3rd Street, November 3, 2003. 1908-1966 Lynch's Cafe 1941-1943 Club Royal 1990s-1994 R & R Bar.
938 to 930 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
936 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
936 North 3rd Street. Robert & Edith Hawkins & Family. The Hawkins Children 1962-1963 Front: Clinton. Middle, from left: Karen, Susan, Jessica. Rear, from left: Robert Jr., Virginia, Allen, & Francis. Francis Hawkins is named for his uncle Francis Knox.
931, 933 & 935 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
934 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011. 1954-1967 Albert Bedell aka Dino the Clown.
932 & 930 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
931 North 3rd Street, January 15, 2015.
931 North 3rd Street, January 15, 2015.
925, 927 & 929 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
927 & 925 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
925 & 927 North 3rd Street. Fire on June 27, 2011. Battalion Chief 1 reported smoke showing from a two story End-of-row, All Hands Placed in Service. Command requested an additional Two Engines Above the All Hands. Fire extended to Cock Loft and to the Exposure. Fire was reported as 932 N 3rd Street. There Was No Fire There, according to residents on July 5, 2007.
923 & 925 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
923 North 3rd Street, July 5, 2011.
907 North 3rd Street. 1910s-1930s Captain Charles T. Humes.
901 North 3rd Street. 1955 Spanish American Groceries. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.
900 Block of North 3rd Street. 916 North 3rd Street. Left: Rev. Roland Banes.
Intersection of North 3rd Street & Grant Street. Looking East on Grant Street -.
900 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1883–2011.
901 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1909–1920 | Harry Rodenbach (saloon) |
| 1931–1947 | A&P Grocery Store |
| 1955 | Spanish American Groceries |
905 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1896 | Harry Curtis |
907 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1930s | Captain Charles T. Humes |
916 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914 | Matthew Banes, Roland Banes & Raymond Banes |
917 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1883–1885 | William J. Lyons |
933 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1949 | Lena Lawrence |
934 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1954–1967 | Albert Bedell, aka Dino the Clown |
935 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | The Carelli Family |
936 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| c. 1962–1963 | Robert & Edith Hawkins & Family |
938 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1927 | Patrick J. Brady & Family |
| — | Patrick J. & Mabel Brady |
| 1908–1966 | Lynch's Cafe |
| 1941–1943 | Club Royal |
| 1990s–1994 | R & R Bar |
939 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1931 | Brady's Saloon |
| 1935 | Clem Bridgeman's Bar |
| c. 1951–1961 | Sam & Esther Greenberg, grocery store |
| 2011 | B&J Mini Market |
938 North 3rd Street — Patrick J. Brady
Camden Courier-Post —
After a week’s illness, Patrick J. Brady, former well known hotel proprietor, succumbed of pneumonia in the Bellevue hospital last night. He was 44 years old.
The deceased was a well known figure in the First Ward in addition to being prominent in fraternal activities. He owned and managed a small hotel at Third and Erie streets before the World War, and since then had operated a store at the same address. He was a member of the Camden Lodges of Elks and Moose, and the Wyoming Tribe of Red Men.
Brady is survived by his wife, Mrs. Mabel Brady, and four small children. Funeral services will be held Saturday afternoon in the Schroeder Chapel, Broadway and Royden streets.
Sunday Raids on 2 Saloons Trap Owners
Camden Courier-Post —
Nine Drinkers Nabbed as Witnesses as Police Continue War
THREE WOMEN ARRESTED IN NORTH CAMDEN PLACE
Continuing their drive against alleged violators of the Sunday closing ordinance, police yesterday raided two cafes and arrested the proprietors and nine patrons.
The drive was widened Saturday at the direction of Chief of Police Arthur Colsey to include investigation that minors were being sold alcoholic beverages in saloons and taprooms here.
In Sunday raids a week ago three saloon owners were arrested. Two were fined and one of them obtained a continuance of his hearing on the charges.
The first raid yesterday was made by Police Lieut. George Frost and Detective Marshall Thompson on a saloon at 939 North Third street.
Clem Bridgeman, 36, was arrested as the owner, while Mrs. Mary Frank, 64, who lives in an apartment over the taproom, was named by him as his partner. She was released in $10 bail, with bail for Bridgeman set at $500 for a hearing in police court today.
Frost said he found six customers sitting at tables in the saloon with drinks in front of them.
The customers were held in $10 bail each as material witnesses. They said they were Miss Monica Aument, 23, of 1493 Kenwood avenue; an unidentified woman, who, Frost said, was too intoxicated to talk; Albert Moyer, 53, of 419 Erie street; Charles Luers, 30, of 10 York street; Charles Sevcik, 45, of 225 Milton street; Ernest Ridge, 42, of 619 Cedar street, and Archibald Knox, 25, of 97 North street.
In the second place, at 773 Central avenue, Detectives Frank Wilmont and Joseph Schultz arrested the licensee, Louis Bruten, 58, colored, of that address; Eugene Clark, 43, of 907 Ferry avenue, and William Clark, 41, and Davis Ray, 34, both of New York City. Bruten was released in $500 bail and the patrons in $10 for hearings today.
In Camden Police Court Saturday the hearing of John Lynch, 32, former Camden policeman and proprietor of a saloon at 201 Cooper street, was continued by Judge Lewis Liberman until Wednesday on application of City Prosecutor John H. Reiners.
Lynch is charged with violating Section 422 of the city ordinance in allowing disorderly persons to congregate on his premises and is at liberty in $500 bail.
Cafe Owner Fined for Sunday Sales
Camden Courier-Post —
South Camden Saloonkeeper Granted Continuance of Hearing After Raid
A North Camden saloonkeeper was fined $50 with the alternative of serving 50 days in Camden County jail yesterday by Police Judge Lewis Liberman as police continued the drive against Sunday sales.
The saloonkeeper is Clement Bridgeman, 36, of 939 North Third street.
Louis Bruten, 58, colored, who operates a saloon at 773 Central avenue, was arrested for illegal Sunday sales of alcoholic beverages. He was granted a continuance yesterday by Judge Liberman until September 3. Bruten told the court he wanted to obtain the services of an attorney.
Meanwhile Camden police under orders of Chief Arthur Colsey were continuing their investigation opened last Saturday into reports that minors were being sold liquor in various sections of the city. It was reported proprietors of a number of liquor establishments would be ordered to appear before Chief Colsey today for questioning. The probe resulted from facts uncovered by Patrolman John V. Wilkie with the arrest of a runaway Maple Shade girl last week.
It was reported the State Department of Alcohol Beverage Control had detailed several investigators to Camden to conduct a separate inquiry into the matter of selling liquor to minors. At Newark, Deputy Commissioner Garrett in charge of law enforcement said he knew nothing of the report.
Bridgeman entered a plea of not guilty to a charge of violating Section 5 of the Camden city ordinance covering the sale of liquor on Sunday.
Lieutenant Frost presented as evidence 13 glasses, all of which contained beer, which he said were seized when he and Thompson followed a customer into Bridgeman’s establishment Sunday afternoon.
Five men and two women were in the place, Lieutenant Frost testified, three of the men standing up against the bar and two men and the women along with Bridgeman were seated in the backroom.
Bridgeman protested he sold no beer, giving away to all who were in his place because they were friends of his. Mrs. Mary Frank, 64, who resides in an apartment above the saloon and said she was a half-owner of the establishment, was also arrested by the raiders.
Seven of the eight persons arrested in addition to Bridgeman, appeared in police court yesterday. They were charged with disorderly conduct and being material witnesses. The missing person, Ernest Ridge, 42, of 619 Cedar street, forfeited $10 security which he posted.
The others who were discharged with 30-day suspended sentences included: Mrs. Frank, Miss Monica Aument, 23, of 1493 Kenwood avenue; Mrs. Marie Fisher, 41, of 1031 Segal street; Albert Moyer, 53, of 419 Erie street; Charles Luers, 30, of 10 York street; Charles Sevcik, 45, of 225 Milton street and Archibald Knox, 25, of 97 North street.
In finding Bridgeman guilty, Judge Liberman declared the saloonkeeper had no authority to sell or even give beer away to his friends in a taproom on Sunday.
938 North 3rd Street — It’s the Big Time in Camden Tonight
Camden Courier-Post —
IT’S THE BIG TIME IN CAMDEN
TONIGHT
and
Tomorrow Nite
Grand Opening
SALLY’S CLUB ROYAL
Sally Burke, Mgr.
Russell Utter, Prop.
3rd and Erie Streets
Wed., Thurs., July 23, 24
FREE PLATTER
SALLY’S ROYALATEERS
ORCHESTRA
and Every Fri. and Sat.
All Your Friends Will Be
There—Be Sure to Join Them
BEER DIRECT FROM KEG
It’s Always Cool at Sally’s
933 North 3rd Street — Mother Seriously Ill, Blood Donors Sought
Camden Courier-Post —
Mother Seriously Ill,
Blood Donors Sought
An urgent appeal for blood donors was made today by Miss Lena Lawrence, 933 North Third street, on behalf of her mother, Mrs. Anna Slingbaum, seriously ill at her home, Greentree road, Marlton.
Miss Lawrence said her mother is in immediate need of a pint of type B RH positive. She requested that prospective donors call HA 9-4137-J 11.
Three Men Held Without Bail in Tavern Holdup
Camden Courier-Post —
Trio Nabbed at Shore Identified by Victim Of $2000 Theft Here
Three men suspected of the $2000 robbery of a Camden woman tavern owner last Friday were held without bail for further hearing by Judge Dzick today.
Dzick acted in compliance with a request by Detectives Marshall Thompson and George Ellis, who said the investigation was not complete. The three were arrested Sunday in Atlantic City.
Booked on charges of armed robbery were Stanley Slagle, 22, of 1408 Broadway; James J. Lenahan, 24, of 1734 Broadway, and Robert Sharp, 26, of 19 N. Johnson blvd., Gloucester.
Identified as Boxer
Slagle was identified as a middleweight boxer, who started to fight last fall and appeared twice at a Philadelphia club.
Arrested at 2 a. m. Sunday the men were returned to Camden, where they were identified by Miss Mary Lynch, 44, who operates Lynch’s Cafe at 3rd and Erie sts. Charles Clark, 33, of 538 N. Front st., a patron who was slugged on the head with a blackjack, was able to identify Lenahan and Sharp as participating in the daylight holdup, according to Detective Capt. Thomas Murphy.
Murphy said the men will be included in a police lineup Tuesday at 8 p. m. so that other victims of holdups in the area during the past year may view the suspects.
Atlantic City police said Patrolmen Adelmo Fidelli and Edward Shaw, acting on information from Camden detectives, nabbed Lenahan in the Nomad Club.
Fifteen minutes later, other officers took Sharp and Slagle into custody in the Jockey Club.
Shore police said they had been notified Camden authorities in a raid on an apartment in Camden had learned from a girl-friend of one of the men that she was to meet them in Atlantic City.
Some Money Recovered
Murphy said $600 of the stolen money was recovered on the men, in addition to $125 discovered in the apartment in the 1700 block on Broadway.
The detective captain said Detectives George Ellis and Marshall Thompson, who along with Detectives Harry Tracey and Sgt. William Kelly returned the suspects from the shore, had spent 43 hours without sleep on the trail of the bandits.
Murphy said the key to the capture was a license number obtained by Patrolman Oliver Morgan from an automobile seen near the scene of the holdup.
Car Was Stolen
The car, Murphy said, had been stolen from John J. Hegar, 640 Federal st., a certified public accountant, who was unaware of the theft until after the car was recovered Saturday on 7th st., between Liberty st. and Kaighn ave.
Later Saturday, Murphy related, Detective Harry Kyler and Detective Sgt. Vincent Conley obtained information linking Lenahan to the job and, still later, the apartment in Camden was raided.
Discovered in the apartment, Murphy said, were a .45-calibre automatic and the cash, found hidden under a chair cushion.
Murphy said Lenahan and Sharp, under questioning Sunday night in Camden, admitted their part in the holdup. Slagle, however, denied knowledge of the crime, Murphy added.
Discarded Weapons
Reconstructing the holdup and the trail of the gunmen, Murphy named Sharp as driver of the getaway car and said the men drove around the city and then later threw a shotgun and blackjack from the car.
The men went to Philadelphia, Murphy continued, where they purchased new clothes and wrist watches and other accessories and agreed to meet in Atlantic City.
Murphy said all have police records, Lenahan having been paroled in July from state prison after serving a term for grand larceny in Atlantic City. Sharp was released from state prison last year after serving a term for larceny of an automobile in Camden County and Slagle was released from the prison where he was sent for robbery, Murphy said.
800 Block of North 3rd Street
800 Block of North 3rd Street. 828 North 3rd Street.
800 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1888–1968.
807 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1905–1908 | William Weber Sr. & Family |
| 1905–1908 | William & Sarah J. Weber |
| 1905–1908 | William Weber Jr. |
| 1905–1908 | Louis Weber |
| 1905–1908 | Albert Weber |
811 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1964 | Michael R. Mauser & Family |
823 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1888 | George Hoffman |
828 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Matthew Banes, Roland Banes & Raymond Banes |
832 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1968 | Mrs. Girlene Garrett |
Family of Six Escapes Fire
Camden Courier-Post —
A Camden mother and her six children escaped without injury from a two-alarm fire that destroyed the interior of their home at 832 N. 3rd St. last night, but two firemen were slightly burned while fighting the blaze.
Acting Btn. Chief John Gryckiewicz, 50, of 36th and Fairfax Streets and Hoseman Edmund Goreznski [sic], 36, of 272 N. 33rd St. were treated at Cooper Hospital for burns of the face and hands.
Mrs. Girlene Garrett and her children fled to homes of neighbors when the 6 p.m. fire broke out. Firemen controlled the blaze within 20 minutes.
823 North 3rd Street — Injured While at Work
Camden Post —
George Hoffman, aged 23 years, living at 823 North Third street, and employed at No. 25 Market street, this city, was admitted to the Homeopathic hospital at noon suffering from a terrible laceration of the face, involving the eye, caused by a belt on one of the machines slipping and striking him in the face.
Louis Cavallo Marries Miss Jennie Maroccia
Camden Courier-Post —
More than 1500 guests attended a reception following the wedding last night of Miss Jennie Maroccia, 822 South Third street, and Louis Cavallo, 314 Kaighn avenue, which was held at the Sons of Italy Hall, Fourth and Spruce streets. The ceremony was performed in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Fourth and Division streets, by Rev. John Prosseda.
The bride and groom cut a five-foot wedding cake. The hall was gayly decorated. William Troncone led the grand march. Guests from New York, Atlantic City and Hammonton and representatives of virtually every Italian organization in Camden attended both the wedding and reception.
Richard Troncone, 336 Spruce street, was best man. Rocco Palese and Nicholas Martella, 411 Viola street, were second and third best men. Miss Rose Marini was maid of honor. The ushers were Daisy Pucci, Mary Doria, Lilian Geordano and Grace Merocra. After a few weeks Mr. and Mrs. Cavallo will reside at 1204 South Third street.
811 North 3rd Street — MAUSER—On Jan. 17, 1964, Michael R...
Camden Courier-Post —
MAUSER—On Jan. 17, 1964, Michael R., husband of Emma of 811 N. 3rd st., Camden, N.J. Due notice of the funeral will be given from the Gustav Roedel & Son Funeral Home, 804-06 N. 27th st., Camden.
807 North 3rd Street — William Weber
Camden Post-Telegram —
William Weber, aged 60 years, of 807 North Third street, died yesterday. The funeral will be held on Friday morning with interment at Mount Peace Cemetery. The remains can be viewed to-morrow evening.
700 Block of North 3rd Street
Intersection of North 3rd Street & Vine Street. 226 Vine Street - Southwest Corner of North 3rd Street & Vine Street - December 28, 2011. 219 to 227 Vine Street - Northwest Corner of North 3rd Street & Vine Street - December 28, 2011.
700 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1910s–1929.
703 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1929 | Manuel Kane & Family |
| 1910s–1929 | Manuel & Florence Kane |
| 1910s–1929 | Elva Kane |
| 1910s–1929 | Earl Kane |
620 North 3rd Street. 1910s-1920s William Van Pfefferle & Family William & Elsie Maxwell Pfefferle William Pfefferle Jr. Warren Pfefferle Walter Pfefferle.
626, 624, 622, 620 & 618 North 3rd Street. April 2, 1912.
626, 624, 622, 620 & 618 North 3rd Street. April 2, 1912.
at the [?] Ann & Hattie was to the Doctors & I went & got her [?] we knowed [?] it at all. Good Byears [?]
624 N 3d St [?] Hattie
[?] 5.
Dear [?], here is where we live we are very lucky indeed that it didn't hit us any harder it was a big Ball of fire & was all over in 2 minutes time you ought to see it when it was over roofs for three squares all off all caved in it is a [?] to see there was no one home only the Border Jones she was shocked very much. [?] came & told me I was at the [?]
POST CARD
CORRESPONDENCE HERE FOR ADDRESS ONLY
Mercantile Studio, 911 So. 20th St. Phila., Formerly 4130 Haverford Ave
CAMDEN, N. J. APR 6 1:30 AM 1912
Miss J. Z. Henry
Lewisburg Pa
R F D #2
Intersection of North 3rd Street, Main Street, & Cedar Street. May 1936 - Looking Northeast on Main Street towards the intersection of North 3rd Street , Cedar Street , and Main Street.
607 & 609 North 3rd Street. After the 1885 Cyclone.
609 North 3rd Street. 1909-1911 Mrs. Katherine L. Epright cigars. Katherine Louise Maxwell Epright was born in 1848 in PA. She was the daughter of Robert Maxwell and Catherine Lower of Tyrone, PA, and sister of Mary, Martin, George, Ann and Jane Maxwell. "Kate" married James Epright in 1870 and they lived in Philadelphia. In Later Life As a Widow, "Aunt Kate" was the proprietor of a candy store on 3rd and Main Streets in Camden. Photo Courtesy of Bruce J. Smith.
601 North 3rd Street. 1955 Angelus Pacific Company decals. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages listing.
601 & 603 North 3rd Street 1970s-2004 Mancine's Liquors.
600 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1885–2004.
600 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906–1910 | J. Scott Veasey, barber shop |
| 1914–1917 | Joseph Brenner, barber shop |
| 1917 | John Wissinger, barber shop |
| 1924–late 1940s | Pasquale 'Pat' Iarossi, barber shop |
601 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Jennie Fargnoli |
| 1955 | Angelus Pacific Company (decals) |
| 1970s–2004 | Mancine's Liquors (601 & 603) |
603 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1887–1911 | Mrs. Susan Franks, widow of Chief of Police Harry H. Franks |
607–609 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1931 | Mrs. Annie Pappon |
| 1947 | Mancine's Bali Club |
| 1947–1970s | Mancine's Tavern |
609 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1908 | James T. Sharp |
| 1909–1911 | Mrs. Katherine L. Epright, cigars |
620 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1917 | Joseph Maxwell & Family |
| 1910s–1917 | Joseph & Katherine Maxwell |
| 1910s–1917 | Warren Maxwell |
| 1910s–1917 | Harry Maxwell |
| 1910s–1917 | Elsie Maxwell |
| 1910s–1917 | Helen Maxwell |
| 1910s–1917 | Frank Maxwell |
| 1910s–1920s | William Van Pfefferle & Family |
| 1910s–1920s | William & Elsie Maxwell Pfefferle |
| 1910s–1920s | William Pfefferle Jr. |
| 1910s–1920s | Warren Pfefferle |
| 1910s–1920s | Walter Pfefferle |
637 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1902 | John T. Hunter & Family |
| 1902 | John T. & Sophia Hunter |
Hospital Cases
Camden Courier-Post —
West Jersey
George Rice, 63, of 1143 North Fawn street, Philadelphia, contusion of abdomen. Joe Brancho, 12, of 334 Sycamore street, fracture of arm. Jennie Falknoll, 31, of 601 North Third street, fishbone in throat. Harry Goff, 40, of 1229 Sheridan street, cut of arm. Edward Chase, 8, of 106 Jasper street, cut of scalp. Carmen J. Ante, 18, of 410 Spruce street, crushing contusion of toe. Ruth Whiteman, 43, of 218 York street, cut of lip. Clifton Fublman, 40, of 1017 Bulson street, cut of arm. Dave Pronchick, 27, of 317 Jasper street, cut of chin.
Cooper
Alexander Locantore, 65, of 576 Walnut street, fractured ribs. Howard Kenny, 46, of 514 Mickle street, infection of hand. Charles Neff, 59, of 39 North Thirty-third street, sprained wrist. Florence Cicchini, 20, of 2253 North Forty-first street, sprained ankle. Anna Fitch, 50, of 744 Cherry street, swallowed a fish bone. Jennie Fargnoli, 31, of 601 North Third street, swallowed a fish bone. William Geitz, 36, Mantua, injury to eye. Mary Healey, 32, of 408 Haddon avenue, eye injury. Maybelle Vanderslice, 8, of 506 Beideman avenue, scalp injury. Paul Mastraianni, 24, of 413 Benson street, cut of hand. Robert Yarnell, 2, of 2022 Broadway, cut of hand. May Davis, 25, of 1146 Clover street, cut of mouth.
637 North 3rd Street — John T. Hunter Death Notice
Philadelphia Inquirer —
HUNTER—On October 19, 1902, John T., husband of Sophia Hunter, in his 69th year. Residence 637 North Third street, Camden, N. J. Due notice of the funeral will be given.
609 North 3rd Street — William Weber Committed for Assault
Philadelphia Inquirer —
William Weber was committed to the county jail without bail by Justice McClong yesterday, to await the result of the injuries he is alleged to have inflicted upon James T. Sharp, of 609 North Third street. Sharp was attacked by Weber, and may die. The man has both jaws and an arm broken, besides other injuries.
607–609 North 3rd Street — Allen High Scorer in Dart Matches
Camden Courier-Post —
Defeats Kane in Close Tilt. 116-112; Lennox, M’Kenna, Cline and Yoder Win
A number of fine scores were made last night in the South Jersey Dart Tournament at 609 North Third street with Allen taking top honors.
Allen defeated Kane 116 to 112 in a thrilling match to gain leading laurels, while Lennox was a close second by whipping O’Boyle, 113 to 93. In the other three matches last night, McKenna licked C. Seitz, 106 to 94, while Cline routed McNamara, 102 to 69 and Yoder set down Ballint, 101 to 84.
In tonight’s tussles Hart meets C. Miller; Paul Saunders tackles Zimmer; George Saunders plays Burke; Burkhardt tangles with G. Seitz and Dobbins opposes Dent.
500 Block of North 3rd Street
529 North 3rd Street. 1883-1885 Mrs. Mary Cook Dry Goods.
MRS. M. COOK,
DRY GOODS AND REMNANT DEPOT,
THIRD AND ELM STREETS,
CAMDEN, N. J.
(OVER.)
DRY GOODS,
RIBBONS,
LACES,
EMBROIDERIES,
NOTIONS,
ETC., ETC.,
—AT—
LOWEST PRICES.
527 & 529 North 3rd Street. Photograph Taken April 18, 2004.
523 North 3rd Street. Photograph Taken April 18, 2004.
523 North 3rd Street. Photograph Taken April 18, 2004.
521 North 3rd Street. Rhoda Morton.
519 & 521 North 3rd Street. Photograph Taken April 18, 2004.
517 North 3rd Street. Gus Hempel butcher. 1919 Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook Ad.
515-517 North 3rd Street. Albertson's Quality Meat Market. 1928 Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook Ad.
Birch Street West from North 3rd Street. April 18, 2004.
Birch Street West from North 3rd Street. April 18, 2004.
Birch Street West from North 3rd Street. April 18, 2004.
500-506 North 3rd Street. 1870-1924 Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church. Photograph from 1893.
500-506 North 3rd Street. 1870-1924 Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church. Photograph from 1924.
Camden Market For Farmers Open At 3rd and Pearl
The farmer’s market at Third and Pearl streets, under Camden Bridge, was formally opened at 4 p. m. yesterday with more than 50 farmers occupying stalls.
Because of rigid rules adopted in protection of consumers, the market has proved popular with Camden residents since it opened last year.
The market is under supervision of the city and no farmer may occupy a stall unless he certifies that he has grown 75 percent of the produce he offers for sale. Anything not grown by the farmer must be bought in New Jersey.
The market will be open from 4.30 p. m. to 10 p. m., except on Saturday, when it will open at 2 p. m. The stalls are rented by the farmers by the month, week or night. Various farmers retained stalls in the market throughout the Winter.
500 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1870–1956. This block was eradicated in 1924 when the Delaware River Bridge (Ben Franklin Bridge) was built.
500–506 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1870–1924 | Tabernacle Methodist Episcopal Church |
509 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1899–1900 | W. Elwood Campbell |
510 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1883 | Frederick T. L'Esperance & Family |
| 1883 | Frederick & Elizabeth L'Esperance |
| 1883 | Frank F. L'Esperance |
515–517 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| c. 1928 | Albertson's Quality Meat Market |
516 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1907 | J.R. Carson Grocery |
| 1940–1943 | Three Brothers Markets (George W. Wagner, owner) |
| 1955 | Powell's Delicatessen |
517 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| c. 1919 | Gus Hempel, butcher |
| 1956 | Harry Grebowich |
518 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1870s–1880s | John & Mary Barnett Family |
519 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Edith Holmes |
521 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| c. 1900s | Rhoda Morton |
522 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Mrs. Anna Wilson |
526 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1898–1899 | Frank S. Warren & Family |
529 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1883–1885 | Mrs. Mary Cook, dry goods |
John Humes Hurt in Runaway
Philadelphia Inquirer —
In a runaway that aroused the business section of the city, John Humes, a driver for J. R. Carson, a grocer, of Third and Birch streets, was thrown beneath the wagon, resulting in his shoulder being broken. The horse ran into a tree at Third and Market streets and was so badly injured that it was subsequently killed.
3 Bros. Markets
Camden Courier-Post —
GOOD TO YOUR BUDGET
NORTH CAMDEN — 7th & VINE STREETS
3rd & BIRCH STREETS
SOUTH CAMDEN — 9th & PINE STREETS
6th & WALNUT STS.
3 Bros. MARKETS
Thurs., Fri., Sat., July 24-25-26
SHORT FORES, 1941 LAMB, lb 12c
LOTUS BRAND DRY CURED Bacon, Whole or 1/2 Strips, lb 22c
Fully Tenderized—9-12 lb. average: KAHN’S SMALL TENDER HAMS and RATH’S Blackhawk PONY HAMS, 29c lb
Strictly Fresh, Whole or Half PORK LOINS lb 21c
Small, Fresh PORK SHOULDERS lb 20c
3 Bros. Special BONELESS OVEN or POT ROASTS lb 29c
All Cuts—Choice Steer RIB ROASTS lb 24c (Quality Steer Beef—Satisfaction Guaranteed)
Swift’s Young, 9-12 lb. average HEN TURKEYS lb 25c
LEGS GENU. LAMB lb 23c — Choice Shldrs. Veal lb 17c
LOIN LAMB CHOPS lb 29c — Sliced Boiled Ham 1/2 lb 25c
Whole or Half Pieces STRAIGHT BOLOGNA lb 16c
GENUINE BEER SALAMI lb 25c
SMOKED LIVERWURST lb 21c
Old-Fashioned Roll Butter 2 lbs. 75c
FRIDAY ONLY! Fresh Killed Philadelphia-Dressed FATTED FOWL lb 22c
EASY PARKING
3 Bros. Markets — Thurs., Fri., Sat., July 24–25–26
North Camden: 7th & Vine Streets — 3rd & Birch Streets. South Camden: 9th & Pine Streets — 6th & Walnut Sts.
Short Fores, 1941 Lamb, lb 12¢. Lotus Brand Dry Cured Bacon, whole or 1/2 strips, lb 22¢.
Fully Tenderized—9-12 lb. average: Kahn’s Small Tender Hams and Rath’s Blackhawk Pony Hams, 29¢ lb. Strictly Fresh, Whole or Half Pork Loins lb 21¢. Small, Fresh Pork Shoulders lb 20¢. 3 Bros. Special Boneless Oven or Pot Roasts lb 29¢. All Cuts—Choice Steer Rib Roasts lb 24¢ (Quality Steer Beef—Satisfaction Guaranteed). Swift’s Young, 9-12 lb. average Hen Turkeys lb 25¢.
Legs Genu. Lamb lb 23¢ — Choice Shldrs. Veal lb 17¢. Loin Lamb Chops lb 29¢ — Sliced Boiled Ham 1/2 lb 25¢. Whole or Half Pieces Straight Bologna lb 16¢. Genuine Beer Salami lb 25¢. Smoked Liverwurst lb 21¢. Old-Fashioned Roll Butter 2 lbs. 75¢.
Friday Only! Fresh Killed Philadelphia-Dressed Fatted Fowl lb 22¢. Easy Parking.
526 North 3rd Street — Mary G. Warren Death Notice
Philadelphia Inquirer —
WARREN.—On the 5th inst., Mary G., relict of the late Joseph G. Warren, in her 81st year. The relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services, on Saturday, 7th inst., at 10 o’clock, from the residence of her son, Frank S. Warren, 526 North Third street, Camden, N. J. Interment at Pointville, N. J.
522 North 3rd Street — 3 Women Get Divorces on Desertion Pleas
Camden Courier-Post —
Three women who charged desertion were cited in approvals for divorce decrees by Advisory Master William B. Knight in Chancery Court here yesterday.
Mrs. Anna Wilson of 522 North Third street sued her husband, Clarence, now of Cleveland, O. They were married June 8, 1926. Mrs. Wilson said their married life ended in September, 1933.
“He called me a squarehead,” Mrs. Wilson testified. “He was cruel. He left me only a dollar a day to run the house.”
Mrs. Estella E. Massey of 9 Lees avenue, Collingswood, sued her husband, Norman, of Rochester, N. Y. They were married Aug. 4, 1911. Massey left her, his wife testified, in June, 1935.
Mrs. Veronica E. Fairbanks of 325 Harvard avenue, Collingswood, charged that her husband, Harold, of 116 East Madison avenue, Collingswood, left her in May, 1934. They were married in August, 1930. Mrs. Fairbanks said they were both “tired of married life.”
Girl, 15, Drowns Trying to Catch Minnows
Philadelphia Daily News —
A group of six young boys and girls went to catch minnows along the Cooper River, 300 yards south of the State St. bridge, in Camden, at 7 last night.
Donna Binder, 15, of 1000 Segal St., Camden, was wading, trying to scoop up a school of minnows when she stepped into a deep hole.
While her friends watched, horrified and helpless, she disappeared. Her friends ran to the bridge-tender’s shack and told attendant William Caffrey what happened. He called police.
AT 9 O’CLOCK, after continuous dragging for almost two hours, firemen brought up the girl’s body. She was taken to Cooper Hospital and was pronounced dead on arrival.
Donna and a friend, Georgia Hazel, 13, of 522 N. 3d St., Camden, had left Donna’s home to visit Donna’s grandmother in Ablett Village, a Camden housing development. But on the way they met four boys.
The boys invited the girls to join them in their “minnow hunt.” So the girls went along.
IN THE GROUP were Georgia’s brother, James, 14; James Luciano, 9, of 522 N. 3d St.; William Stavlick, of 616 Linwood Ave., and Curtis Platt, 10, of 908 Elm St.
The spot where Donna was drowned has been a danger area during hot days. Two weeks ago a boy drowned in almost the exact spot.
And yesterday four boys in a boat got in trouble and were hauled ashore by police.
Donna was identified at the hospital by her mother, Mary, 38, and her stepfather, William Kunitz.
Seven Violate Trucker Rule On Boulevard
Camden Courier-Post —
City Court Scene:
Four truck drivers paid fines of $25 and $5 costs in Camden Municipal Court today on charges of failing to keep to the right on Admiral Wilson blvd.
Three out-of-state truckers failed to appear for hearings before Judge Dzick and forfeited their $25 security. Warrants were issued for two New Jersey drivers who did not appear.
Paying the $25 fines and $5 costs were Bernard F. Beri, 28, Jessup rd., Thorofare; Hanlon Harris Sr., 20, Union Mill rd., Kresson; Harold T. Howard Jr., 34, Rt. 130, Burlington, and Joseph A. Salla, 28, of Springfield, Pa.
Forfeiting $25 by failure to appear were Socrates R. Dixon, 30, Pottsville, Pa.; Elijah Wright, 20, of 1212 N. 15th st., Philadelphia, and James M. Owens, 32, Seminola, Fla.
Warrants for failure to appear were issued for Harry Grebowich, 27, of 517 N. 3rd st., Camden, and Felix, [sic] Trapani, 34, of 147 Griffith st., Salem.
All were arrested by Motorcycle Patrolmen Charles Voll and William Miller.
* * *
Two Camden men were fined $200 and their licenses revoked for two years after being found guilty of drunken driving charges.
Walter Zienynski, 40, of 20th st. near Pierce ave., pleaded not guilty to the tipsy driving charge. He was arrested last Friday by Patrolmen John Moffa and William Haines. It was testified he was examined by Dr. Lee J. Hammett and pronounced unfit to drive.
Stanley Kiersznieswski, 49, of Jackson st. near 12th, pleaded guilty to the charge. He was arrested Friday by Patrolmen David Hainsworth and John Opfer.
400 Block of North 3rd Street
425 North 3rd Street. 1907-1911 Harry L. Freidel & Family Harry L. & Annie R. Nicholson Freidel Lawrence E. Freidel.
HERE AND THERE IN CAMDEN
A Criminal Court jury convicted Pasquale Iaconelli of a charge of slashing Donato Di Torio with a knife. Sentence was deferred. Di Torio was freed of a counter charge.
His face lacerated by a falling casting, Albert Garrison, twenty-nine years old, of 2211 South Tenth street, was treated at Cooper Hospital.
Falling from a step, Howard Sendings, eighty-five years old, of 425 North Third street, fractured his right arm. Breaking a finger while engaged in a game of basketball, Walter Danford, seventeen years old, of 218 North Sixth street, went to Cooper Hospital for treatment.
425 & 423 North 3rd Street. Photo from February 1940. 1947 - L & M Cleaners 1947 - Louis H. Haines. (At Left, with store window and awning). 1930s-1947 Schindler's Confectionery.
424 North 3rd Street. 1947-1958 Dominick Yemmallo & Family Shoe Repair. Photo Courtesy of Donna Yemmallo Meidt.
400 Block of North 3rd Street.
HOLC FORM PM 429-E REVISED 2-20-39
HOME OWNERS' LOAN CORPORATION
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT DIVISION
DATE 2/1/40
PM NO. NJ E-1016 PO
CONTRACT SALES BROKER Leon E. Todd, Inc.,
CONTRACT MANAGEMENT BROKER Camden, N. J.
DATE AVAILABLE
MO. RENTAL $
TYPE 1 fam. brick
SIZE LOT 12.9 x 77
NO. ROOMS 6 & store
TRANSP. 1 block
NO. BED ROOMS 4
WATER yes
BATH 1
GAS yes ELECT. yes
SUN ROOM
SEWER yes
BKFST. RM.
STREET paved
SLEEPING PORCH
GARAGE
FIREPLACE
SERV. QTRS. BATH
HEAT hot air
ANNUAL TAXES
ROOF tin
ANNUAL GRD. RENT
SALES PRICE $1200.00
ADDRESS 425 No. 3rd St., Camden, N. J.
THIS LISTING SUBJECT TO TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF H.O.L.C.
413-417 North 3rd Street. The Cooper School.
Job in North Jersey Wins Release in Court
When Wharton Lafayette, 27, of 401 North Third street, told Police Judge Pancoast yesterday he was leaving for North Jersey to start working, Judge Pancoast gave him a suspended sentence on a disorderly conduct charge as a parting gift.
Lafayette was arrested after an argument with two other men who lived at the Third street address. He was recently released from the county jail after serving 30 days on charges made by his wife.
Records Altered, Court Rebukes Cop
Pancoast Angered Because Name of Youth Was Removed From Complaint
Police should not consider themselves as judges, nor have they the privilege of mutilating records of the police court, Judge Pancoast said yesterday in rebuking Patrolman Charles Smith for altering a complaint and warrant.
Smith, according to the testimony offered at the hearing of Leon Crank, 18, of 1460 Louis street; Ray Jenkins, 22, of 1220 Princess avenue, and Stanley Busko, 17, of 1187 Sycamore street, in a complaint charging them with loitering with intent to steal, and being suspicious characters.
Smith arrested Crank and Jenkins, but scratched off the name of Busko on the complaint and warrant, Pancoast said. Smith said he pursued three youths in a car Wednesday and recognized Crank and Jenkins. He said he thought the other youth was Busko, but later came to the conclusion he had been mistaken in the identity.
“It is not your place to judge persons you or any other person names in a complaint and warrant,” Judge Pancoast said. “I’ll make that decision. You arrest them and bring them in, and if they are innocent, I’ll turn them loose. You are not to decide the innocence of anyone.
“Furthermore, you have no right to mutilate the records of this court. No official of this court is permitted to change any records and you are not going to do it.” Pancoast found Crank and Jenkins not guilty and released them. Busko was not in court.
400 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1878–1958.
411 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1899 | J.M. Dougherty |
| 1932 | Wharton Lafayette |
413–417 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| c. 1900s–1940s | The Cooper School |
421 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878 | Frederick Himmelein Sr. & Family |
| 1878 | Frederick & Helena Himmelein |
| 1878 | John Himmelein |
| 1878 | Lizzie Himmelein |
| 1878 | Frederick Himmelein Jr. |
| 1878 | Lena Himmelein |
423 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930s–1947 | Schindler's Confectionery |
424 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947–1958 | Dominick Yemmallo & Family, shoe repair |
425 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1907–1911 | Harry L. Freidel & Family |
| 1907–1911 | Harry L. & Annie R. Nicholson Freidel |
| 1907–1911 | Lawrence E. Freidel |
| 1919 | Howard Sendings |
| 1947 | L & M Cleaners; Louis H. Haines |
428 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Guss Hudson; Anna M. Grover |
Neighbors in Argument Ex-Prisoner Arrested
Camden Courier-Post —
Wharton Lafayette, 27, of 401 North Third street, was arrested on a disorderly conduct charge last night after an argument with two other men living there. He recently was released from the county jail after a 30-day sentence on charges preferred by his wife.
Epidemic of Crime
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Evil Rampant on Both Sides of the Delaware.
Two Men Severely Wounded in Trying to Protect an Unhappy Woman—Police Records of a Week.
A cutting affray occurred in Camden on Saturday night, which may result in a homicide. In a neat three story frame house, at No. 434 Berkley street, lives Mrs. Gamble, a widow, her married son, married daughter and a single son and daughter. About 11 o'clock on Saturday evening Samuel Kessler, alias “Rebel Sam,” an ex-member of the late Democratic Fire Department, and the husband of the married daughter came home somewhat under the influence of liquor. Seated around the sitting room were his wife, her youngest brother, George Gamble, and his most intimate young friend, Theodore Johnson, who resides at No. 447 South Third street.
It seems that Kessler had always been jealous of his wife, and on numerous previous occasions had threatened to take her life. He called her from the sitting room to the yard and commenced to quarrel with the woman.
As alleged, after a few minutes of this kind of conduct, he drew a penknife from his pocket. Mrs. Kessler made an outcry, which brought her brother and friend from the sitting room to the yard; the two young men attempted to prevent Kessler from killing his wife, which so enraged him that he turned around and plunged the knife into his brother-in-law’s side, felling him to the ground. Then he seized Johnson and slashed him in ten different places about the body and left him lying apparently lifeless on the ground, and endeavored to escape, but was captured about two hours later by Policemen Bob Miller and Shannon, and taken to the city hall, where he was locked up for a hearing before the Mayor to-day.
In the meanwhile Dr. E. R. Smiley was summoned and made an examination of the young man’s wounds. He found ten different cuts about the body of Johnson, the most serious being in the breast, where the knife blade had penetrated the left lung and caused considerable loss of blood. Last night Dr. Smiley stated to an Inquirer reporter that the recovery of Johnson was doubtful, and that he might die before morning.
Kessler, the accused, tells two conflicting stories. One is to the effect that he was leaving the yard by means of the back gate, when he was met by his brother-in-law and young Johnson, who jumped on him and commenced beating his head with a blackjack, and that he did the cutting in self defense. While the other story is that he did not do the cutting, but that it was done by his thirteen-year old son.
The unfortunate young man was taken to the residence of his brother, George Johnson, on Berkley street, below Third, where he now lies in a precarious condition. The neighbors say that the reputation of the family, with the exception of Kessler, is above reproach, while the latter was ill tempered, it is said, owing to his jealousy, which was wholly without provocation. Only a few weeks ago he locked his wife, it is said, in her bed room before going to work in the morning, exhibited a revolver and threatened to shoot her.
428 North 3rd Street — Marriage license
Camden Courier-Post —
MARRIAGE LICENSES CAMDEN
Guss Hudson, 44, and Anna M. Grover, 34, both of 428 North Third street.
411 North 3rd Street — Funeral of Mrs. Catharine Eck
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The funeral of Mrs. Catharine Eck, whose corpse was badly charred by fire at the home of her son-in-law, J. M. Dougherty, No. 411 North Third street, on Monday, was held yesterday from the Church of the Immaculate Conception.
Josephus Jennings, Sr
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Josephus Jennings, Sr.
After a week’s illness from pneumonia, Josephus Jennings, Sr., died yesterday at his home, 319 North Third street, Camden. He was 69 years old and is survived by three sons and a daughter. Mr. Jennings was widely known as leader of the Sixth and later the Third Regiment Band, N. G. N. J. Of late years he was leader of Jennings’ Band, known throughout this section of the country. The funeral will be held Wednesday.
323 North 3rd Street. 1917-1943 Harry W. Peacock & Family retired bartender Harry & Augusta Peacock Lewis Rebstock (son-in-law) Lillian Rebstock (daughter) Theodore Rebstock (grandson). Left: Lillian Rebstock, 1942.
325 North 3rd Street — W. Kempton Browning, 1894.
300 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1882–1947.
305 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1902 | William Coffin & Family |
| 1902 | William & Sallie Coffin |
| 1902 | William Coffin Jr. |
| 1902 | John Coffin |
| 1902 | Kingston B. Coffin |
| 1902 | Margarette F. Coffin |
| 1902 | Nancy B. Coffin |
| 1947 | Daniel Ryrie |
307 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924–1935 | Albert B. Loose & Bertha E. Loose |
311 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Hilda Fitzgerald |
312 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1931 | Marion Blair |
| 1932 | Jack Gannon; Walter Lynch; Nicholas Parisi |
| 1933 | Charles Richards |
314 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1941 | Mary Moran |
315 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914–1916 | Thomas Kirkley & Family (restaurant) |
| 1914–1916 | Thomas & Sarah Hires KIrkley |
317 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Ernest Reed |
319 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914 | Josephus Jennings & Family (bandleader) |
| 1914 | Josephus & Hanny Jennings |
| 1914 | Rollin Jenkins |
| 1914 | Merritt Jenkins |
| 1914 | Josephus Jenkins |
| 1914 | Florence Jenkins |
322 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1882–1885 | Francis F. Patterson Sr. & Family |
| 1882–1885 | Francis Ford & Catherine Patterson |
| 1882–1885 | Francis Ford Patterson Jr. |
| 1882–1885 | Theodore Patterson |
| 1882–1885 | Wolcott J. Patterson |
| 1914 | Josephus Jennings & Family (bandleader, salesman) |
| 1914 | Josephus & Hanny Jennings |
| 1914 | Rollin Jenkins |
| 1914 | Merritt Jenkins |
| 1914 | Josephus Jenkins |
| 1914 | Florence Jenkins |
323 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1917–1943 | Harry W. Peacock & Family |
| 1917–1943 | Harry & Augusta Peacock |
| 1917–1943 | Lewis Rebstock (son-in-law) |
| 1917–1943 | Lillian Rebstock (daughter) |
| 1917–1943 | Theodore Rebstock (grandson) |
325 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1894 | W. Kempton Browning |
331 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1917 | Private Philip C. Wendell |
Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Rev. Dr. Lawson, of the North Baptist Church, is delivering a series of sermons to young men.
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Borden have just returned from a month’s trip to Florida and other Southern points.
Charles H. Harrington, of this city, has been elected secretary of the State Young Men’s Christian Association.
Dr. George E. Reading and William J. Adamson are candidates for County Collector of Gloucester county.
W. Kempton Browning, son of Postmaster Browning, who has typhoid fever, has been taken to Brown’s Mills.
John R. Read, who has been appointed Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, is a son of Joseph J. Read, of this city.
Heulings Lippincott and Clayton Conrow have been appointed receivers of the Westfield and Camden Turnpike Company.
James P. Gragen, of 203 North Ninth street, was a member of the crew of the ill-fated Kearsage, when she was wrecked on Roncador Reef.
Frank H. Burdsall, Jr., who has been seriously ill with typhoid fever, is recovering.
Carrol Reeves, makes weekly visits to the city by the sea.
Admiral Benham, who recently distinguished himself at Rio, was a classmate of Mr. E. R. Shubrick, of this city, between whom a warm personal friendship has always existed.
William Todd Peacock, on the occasion of his marriage to Miss Mary B. Baird, wore a pair of stockings over 125 years old. The stockings have been worn for five generations at similar events.
Mrs. Cyrus H. K. Curtis, who has been at Atlantic City for about two months for the benefit of her health, is improving. She is contemplating a trip to Lakewood upon her return from Atlantic City.
Professor Horatio Draper, principal of the High and Manual Training School, of this city, wears a handsome gold watch and chain, the gift of the teachers of the Third district schools.
Miss Mary A. Livermore will deliver a lecture under the auspices of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, on Tuesday evening next, in the First Presbyterian Church, subject “The Boy of To-Day.”
Captain H. L. Hartshorn, the retiring Department Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic of New Jersey, was presented with a life-size crayon bust of himself by his staff.
315 North 3rd Street — Restaurant Opening Notice
Camden Post-Telegram —
Mr. and Mrs. Kirkley, formerly of The Sunbeam Cafe, will be glad to see their old patrons at
315 North Third Street,
on and after Wed., Dec. 16th.
Lunch at 11.30 A. M.
Dinner at 5.30 P. M.
314 North 3rd Street — Moran Funeral Notice
Camden Courier-Post —
MORAN— On July 27, 1941, Mary Moran, of 314 N. 3rd St., Camden, N.J., age 67 years.
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral on Thursday morning at 8 o’clock, at the Harry Leonard Funeral Home, 2850 Federal St., Camden. Low Mass at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception at 9 a. m. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call Wednesday eevning [sic], 7 to 9 o’clock.
314 North 3rd Street — Mary Moran Services Notice
Camden Courier-Post —
MARY MORAN
Services will be held today at 9 a.m. at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, for Mary Moran, 67, of 314 North Third Street, who died Monday. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
312 North 3rd Street — Holdup Men Sentenced
Camden Courier-Post —
Lynch Gets Four Years in Prison and Gannon 3 for Chestnut Street Job
Charged with holdup in a Chestnut street store in which an attendant was bound and robbed, Walter Lynch, 22, of 312 North Third street, was sentenced to four years in state prison by Judge Austin H. Swackhamer in criminal court yesterday.
John Gannon, 24, same address, an alleged accomplice, was sentenced to three years after he pleaded non vult to a charge of robbing Fiore Mascarusi, of 245 Chestnut street, on May 13.
Mascarusi testified the men entered the place armed with revolvers, bound and gagged him and stole $36.
307 North 3rd Street — Albert B. Loose Death Notice
Albert B. Loose, 50, of 307 North Third street, died yesterday after a week’s illness, at his home. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Bertha E. Loose. Funeral services will be held at 6.30 p.m. Sunday at the Murray Funeral Home, 408 Cooper street. Burial will be private.
200 Block of North 3rd Street
223 North 3rd Street. 1955 Delaware Valley Ornamental Iron Works. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.
223-225 North 3rd Street. Harbaugh & Hall wholesale confections 1920s-1940s. Camden High School. Purple & Gold Yearbook Ad January 1928.
223-225 North 3rd Street. Harbaugh & Hall wholesale confections 1920s-1940s. Camden High School Purple & Gold Yearbook Ad February 1940.
Services for Mrs. Roseanna Currie, 83, who died Sunday of a heart attack in her home at 219 North Third street, will be held at 2 p. m. Thursday in the home directed by B. C. Schroeder and Sons, 715 Cooper street. Mrs. Currie was born in Camden and lived here all her life. She was the widow of Howard H. Currie, who died 25 years ago. Surviving are a son, Howard L., of Camden; a grandson, John Currie, of Delaware Gardens, a member of the Delaware River Bridge Police department; a daughter, Estella Currie, of Atlantic City, and three sisters; Mrs. Margaret Dunn, Mrs. Kathryn Genther and Mrs. Louisa Curlis, of Camden.
200 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1860–1975.
223 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Delaware Valley Ornamental Iron Works |
221 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1905–1906 | John Leighton Westcott, Mayor of Camden |
220 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Howard H. Currie |
| 1918–1921 | Howard L. Currie |
219 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900–1914 | Josephus Jennings & Family |
| 1922–1944 | Mrs. Roseanna Currie |
| 1900–1914 | Joseph & Anna Smith Jennings |
| 1900–1914 | Merritt Jennings |
| 1900–1914 | Rollin Howard Jennings |
| 1900–1914 | Josephus Jennings Jr. |
| 1900–1914 | Walter Price Jennings |
| 1900–1914 | Frances M. Jennings (sister) |
| 1900–1914 | Emma Fayetta Jennings (sister) |
214 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1860 | General George M. Robeson & Family |
| 1890–1940 | Edwin S. Carlin & Family |
213 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943–1975 | Elwood P. Martz & Family |
| 1943–1975 | Elwood P. & Anna Martz |
| 1943–1975 | Elwood P. Martz Jr. |
| 1943–1975 | Anna Martz |
| 1943–1975 | William Martz |
| 1930s | Mrs. Mary Kenney |
How the Y. M. C. A. Benefits Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Great Interest Taken in Association Work and Results Are Most Satisfactory.
A “Gym” Worth Praising
The New House of Muscle Is One of the Finest in the Eastern Section of the Country—Its Features, Methods and Instructor.
The inestimable benefit of a Young Men’s Christian Association branch to a large city has never been more forcibly demonstrated than in Camden, where for the past eighteen years an association has flourished, accomplishing good work with the most satisfactory results.
From the time of organization the work has been constantly enlarging, until now the association is one of the most healthy, in a financial way, in this section. Its splendid facilities for every branch of association work, the gymnasium, college, literary and religious departments make it exceedingly popular and its work is supported by a large number of Camden’s best known citizens.
The enthusiasm in matters relating to the association is at times remarkable and the churches assist greatly in the work, by pulpit utterances and help by the members of the congregations. The Y. M. C. A. and the churches work harmoniously together, and by co-operation mutual benefit is the result.
The present organization was formed at a private house, corner Front and Cooper streets, October 1[?], 187[?], it being the outgrowth of a union young people’s prayer meeting. Meetings were held for a short time in the rear room of what was then the Trinity Baptist Church, now known as the Hatch Post Building. Later quarters were secured at [?]18 Federal street, where they were located for more than a year. Then a move was made to Lincoln Hall, Third and Market, the second and third stories of that building being secured, where for ten years they remained. Then the Third and Federal streets building was used and from there the association moved to its present quarters.
Since the association moved from its old quarters at Third and Federal streets, the membership has been almost doubly increased, principally by the construction of one of the finest gymnasiums in this section of the country, being more complete than the central association of this city and possessing a fine swimming tank, which the mother branch here has not.
The “Gym’s” Great Attraction
There can be no doubt but that the athletic work in the Y. M. C. A. is its greatest attraction. It draws young men to the building, gets them interested in the work and lays the foundation for the accomplishment of the association’s purpose, leading them in the right path.
The Camden Association has had long and varied experience with gymnastics, and the addition of this great feature has more than proven its value to the work. The first “gym” in Camden was in the old building at the southeast corner of Third and Market streets. The space was very small, the athletic work suffering severely in the cramped quarters. However, the work was carried on there with great success for nearly four years, when the building at the southwest corner of Third and Federal streets was erected and the two upper floors engaged.
This change proved to be successful. A large gymnasium floor space was now at hand, with shower baths, dressing rooms and other features necessary for the carrying on of gymnastic work. The great drawback, however, was the ceiling, which was not more than fifteen feet in height. This prevented any development of flying and traveling ring work, while horizontal bar work was also handicapped to a certain extent. However, for nearly six years the work progressed there in the most satisfactory manner, the classes being large and interest at times very great.
The Present Quarters.
The building now in use at Broadway and Federal streets is the most complete the Camden Association ever had, and while the reading rooms, parlors and game rooms were not constructed especially for the work, yet they are almost exactly the desired arrangement. Just above the house was a space of ground nearly one hundred feet wide and very deep. On this space the “gym” was erected, and a beauty it is. It runs east and west, the front facing Federal street, and getting a good Southern sun exposure.
The gymnasium has a thoroughly modern equipment and, as said above, it has no superior in this section of the country. It is 43x7[?] feet, with a peaked roof thirty-two feet high. The running track overhead is a good feature in the “gym,” and it is, of course, very largely patronized.
Then the pool has been the means of drawing many men into the Association work. It is 21x39 feet, with a depth of water from four feet four inches to six feet. The sides and bottom are lined with white enameled bricks, and has a capacity of 33,000 gallons of water.
Physical Instructor Villee.
The gymnastic work is under the direction of A. G. Villee, who during his two years’ connection with the Camden Association has advanced and created great interest in the work. Mr. Villee is a follower of the Chicago Training School system, having received his gymnastic education there, and naturally believes in its teachings. He is 25 years old, a native of Lancaster, Pa., and has been in gymnastic work for the past five years. After his course at the training school he was appointed assistant at Milwaukee, going from there to Newcastle, Pa., then to Allentown, and then to Norfolk, Va., where he was stationed when he received his appointment as physical instructor at Camden.
Through Mr. Villee athletics have taken a healthy, vigorous turn, and there is a live, wide-awake interest in everything gymnastic in the Camden Association. The classes average eighteen a week, while the usual attendance by the senior members is thirty and the junior members thirty-five. The business men’s class at 5.15 has a usual attendance of fifteen.
With this year came a new feature in the association’s gymnastic work, that of indoor competitive athletic sports. The third of the series took place last evening. These meetings are trials or preliminaries to the final, which is slated for April. The men who have qualified in these trials will be handicapped according to their abilities for the finals, and the first three competitors will receive gold, silver and bronze medals respectively.
The class drill system introduced by Instructor Villee is an excellent one, and a person having a knowledge of gymnastic work will readily appreciate its good points. First there comes the health drill, which includes the free hand, arm, leg and body movement. Then the educative, which means work on the various apparatus, while the third, or recreative, covers games of various sorts on the floor of the gymnasium, exclusive of basket ball. This system is always maintained.
A leaders’ class is also a new feature adopted by Mr. Villee. The men who are included in this class are the best athletes in the association, who lead the different classes and assist the physical instructor. They meet once a week, practicing advanced work and becoming better acquainted with Mr. Villee’s system of physical education.
The junior membership is very large and among the boys, all of whom are under 16 years of age, there are some clever athletes. Mr. Villee also has junior leaders, the boys doing the best work being honored with the positions. This junior department also has a class of twelve club swingers, in which Mr. Villee takes great pride. He has them under his particular care, and without doubt they are a clever lot of boys.
There are many other interesting features in the gymnastic work, and the two fine bowling alleys and shuffleboards should not be forgotten in this brief review.
A feature in the winter’s work has been the series of “Health and First Aid to the Injured” talks. These began in November and will continue until April, the course being closed by Dr. E. M. Howard. The Saturday outings in summer will be continued the coming season. These delightful affairs are under Mr. Villee’s direction. A crowd of probably twenty leaves the association about 10 o’clock of a Saturday morning, riding as far as they can in the trolleys, then walking to some pretty spot, where all sorts of sports and games are indulged in.
The Association Officers.
The officers of the association are composed of Camden’s best-known men, and there is not a better known and more highly respected citizen than Walter M. Patton, who is now president. For years he has been an enthusiastic worker and supporter of the association. The secretaryship is in the hands of Harry Curtis, who has now been with the Camden Association about two years. Mr. Curtis is very popular with the members and has done much toward placing the branch where it is to-day.
The vice-president and treasurer is William J. Coxey, who has been long identified with the work. C. L. Craig is recording secretary. The Board of Directors is composed of Schuyler C. Woodhull, Joseph E. Roberts, William C. Lore, W. A. Davis, M. D., W. Bechtel, Gelbert Landis, Judge Frank Burdsall, Frank Sitley, Samuel D. Goff and Dr. E. M. Howard. The trustees are Abraham Anderson, Wilbur F. Rose, Harry Humphreys, Luther H. Kellum, W. J. Coxey, Carlton M. Williams, Joseph B. Van Sciver, Joseph E. Robert and Thomas E. Gifford. Frank Pierson is assistant secretary.
Camden Y. M. C. A. Gymnasium.
News of a Day in the City of Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Fremont Shaw, aged 22 years, said to be the son of wealthy South Jersey parents, is locked up at the city prison in Camden until his people are heard from. The young man appears to be suffering from hallucinations as the result of taking morphine. He was found wandering about the streets yesterday by Policeman Murray.
Albert Birney, a Florida negro, was tried and convicted before Judge Joline in the criminal court in Camden yesterday on a charge of attacking Alexander Shorts with a razor. He was sentenced to two years in State prison.
The body of Charles Larsen, aged 22 years, who was killed Monday as the result of a fall from an eight-story Philadelphia building, arrived at his home, 710 Florence street, Camden, to-day.
Ethel Elzener, aged 1[?] years, of 322 Division street, Camden, had a portion of her hand crushed off in a factory at Ninth and Market streets yesterday, when it was caught in machinery. She was taken to the Cooper Hospital.
Charles Illupie, aged 3 years, of 560 South Second street, Camden, yesterday swallowed the contents of a bottle containing ammonia and turpentine while he was temporarily left alone. The child’s mouth was badly burned.
A man who has been collecting clothes presumably for the Salvation Army, was arrested in Camden yesterday. Instead of turning the clothing over to the Army the fellow sold it for whisky. He said his name was Walter Hunt. He was sentenced to thirty days in the county jail by Recorder Stackhouse.
Former Mayor J. Leighton Westcott, who died Friday, was buried yesterday from his home, 221 North Third street, Camden, many officials and business men being in attendance. The services were in charge of Rev. John Lyell. The pall bearers were Mayor Charles H. Ellis, former Mayors C. B. Hatch and Joseph E. Newrey, Senator William J. Bradley, S. S. Iszard and William Shillingsburg. Interment was made in Evergreen Cemetery.
Postmaster Berber yesterday appointed John Holland a regular letter carrier to succeed the late John Amer.
The first of a series of organ recitals was given last night at St. Paul’s P. E. Church under the direction of S. Wesley Sears, of St. Clement’s Church, Philadelphia.
The Dilmore New Year’s Association has reorganized by electing these officers: President, William Yann; vice president, William Hunsinger; recording secretary, Charles Mathis; treasurer, William Dilmore; scribe, George R. Thompson.
With a million dollar capital the National Window Glass Company was incorporated yesterday with John A. MacPeak, D. M. Callahan and J. C. Clow as incorporators.
223–225 North 3rd Street — Two Burglaries Net Candy, Watch, Cash
Camden Courier-Post —
Five cartons of candy, valued at $50, were stolen overnignt [sic] from the warehouse of the Harbough & Hall Confectionery Co., 225 North Third street, company officials reported to police today.
Theft of a wrist watch valued at $55 from a desk drawer and an undetermined amount of office petty cash also was reported by officials of the Haddon Metals Corporation, 509 Cherry street.
Both burglaries were discovered when employes reported for work today.
220 North 3rd Street — Howard H. Currie
220 North 3rd Street. 1918: Howard H. Currie. 1918–1921: Howard L. Currie.
214 North 3rd Street — Burglary at Edwin S. Carlin’s Home
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The Camden police are investigating a bold daylight robbery at the home of Edwin S. Carlin, 214 North Third street, last Saturday. The booty secured included a gold watch and chain, a valuable diamond pin and miscellaneous jewelry.
213 North 3rd Street — Elwood Martz, 84, 33 Years Fireman, Marshal for City
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Elwood P. (Ike) Martz, a retired Camden deputy fire marshal, will be at 11 a.m. Thursday at the Harry Leonard Funeral Home, 2850 Federal St., Camden.
Friends may call Wednesday evening at the funeral home. Burial will be in New Camden Cemetery.
Mr. Martz, 84, of 213 N. 3rd St., Camden, died Sunday in Our Lady of Lourdes Hospital, Camden.
He retired from the Camden Fire Department in 1955 after working there for 33 years, the last 13 of which he spent in the fire marshal’s office.
He was a member of the Firemen’s Mutual Benevolent Association Local 5, the Police and Firemen’s Association, and the International Association of Firefighters.
Surviving are his wife, Anna; a daughter, Anna, Camden; two sons, Elwood P. Jr., Gloucester City and William, Camden; three sisters; five grandchildren and 12 great-grandchildren.
219 North 3rd Street — The Jennings Family
Anna Jennings died prior to 1900 Census. Walter Price Jennings and John H. Coffin were murdered in October of 1902 by Paul Woodward, who was arrested, tried, and hung for this crime.
100 Block of North 3rd Street
125 North 3rd Street 1910s-2008 The Helene Apartments.
120, 122 & 124 North 3rd Street. Photograph Taken November 4, 2011.
124 & 122 North 3rd Street. Photograph Taken November 4, 2011.
119 North 3rd Street. 1955 Parrish & Read, Inc. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.
119 North 3rd Street. 1955 Parrish & Read, Inc. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.
118 & 116 North 3rd Street. 1890s-1914 Frank Dumbleton Sr. Ftrank & Henrietta Dumbleton Dr. Frank Dumbleton Jr. DDS Florence Dumbleton Ruth Dumbleton Walter Dumbleton 1900 Walter S.Keown 1900 Charles S. Braker. Photograph Taken November 4, 2011.
115 North 3rd Street. Photograph Taken 2013.
114 & 112 North 3rd Street. Photograph Taken November 4, 2011.
113 North 3rd Street. 1883-1917 Christopher C. Chew & Family Christopher & Jennie Chew Mildred Chew Veronica Chew. Left: Mrs. Jennie F. Chew.
113 North 3rd Street, about 1910. 1883-1917 Christopher C. Chew & Family Christopher & Jennie Chew Elizabeth Chew - Mildred Chew Mary Chew - Veronica Chew. Left: Mrs. Mabel Clark, At Wheel, With Her Friend, Mrs. Jennie Chew.
112 North 3rd Street. 1955 Graphic Press Layout & Art Service Thomas Bittner Alfred Bittner. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Advertisements.
101 North 3rd Street. 1955 Ace Service Agency 1955 Industrial Engraving Company. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Advertisements.
100 Block of North 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1880s–1955.
125 North 3rd Street — The Helene Apartments
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–2008 | The Helene Apartments |
| 1929 | Horace L. Brewer & Family |
| 1938 | Helen Lodge |
120 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1917 | Josiah E. Boardman, painting business |
| 1932 | Camden Tire Repair |
119 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Parrish & Read, Inc. |
118 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890s–1914 | Frank Dumbleton Sr. & Family |
| 1890s–1914 | Ftrank & Henrietta Dumbleton |
| 1890s–1914 | Dr. Frank Dumbleton Jr. DDS |
| 1890s–1914 | Florence Dumbleton |
| 1890s–1914 | Ruth Dumbleton |
| 1890s–1914 | Walter Dumbleton |
| 1900 | Walter S. Keown |
| 1900 | Charles S. Braker |
113 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1883–1917 | Christopher C. Chew & Family |
| 1883–1917 | Elizabeth Chew |
| 1883–1917 | Mary Chew |
| 1883–1917 | Christopher & Jennie Chew |
| 1883–1917 | Mildred Chew |
| 1883–1917 | Veronica Chew |
| 1938 | Mrs. Maud Gaff |
112 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Graphic Press Layout & Art Service |
109 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Wilbur J. MacAlister |
107 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Welch & Topkis Inc. |
101 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Ace Service Agency; Industrial Engraving Company |
Man Hurt as Bus Crushes Coupe
Camden Courier-Post —
Here is what happened to a coupe driven by Stephen Jaross, 934 Thirty-third street, when it collided with a Camden-Gibbsboro bus at Third and Market streets today. Jaross was severely injured when a piece of the steering wheel was forced into his body. Ten passengers in the bus were thrown from their seats.
120 North 3rd Street — Camden Tire Repair Co. Advertisement
Camden Courier-Post —
O’Brien & Hoover
2107 Federal Street
FRANK J. McHUGH, Manager
Bell: Camden 4121—Key.: 32191
Camden Tire Repair Co.
120 North Third Street
Phone 4423-W
109 North 3rd Street — Young People’s Societies Outing
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The young people’s societies of the evangelical churches of Camden have formed an organization to give outings during the summer months to poor children of Camden and vicinity. Wilbur J. MacAlister, of 109 North Third street, is chairman of the Financial Committee that is collecting subscriptions.
107 North 3rd Street — Welch & Topkis, Inc. Auto Loans Advertisement
Camden Courier-Post —
19
Money to Loan
AUTO LOANS
Low rates, lower than you would ordinarily pay. Let us obtain your next loan.
WELCH & TOPKIS, Inc.
107 N. 3rd ST.
PHONE CAMDEN 7487
Unit Block of North 3rd Street
Howard Woolston and Lewis Rothkogle, two lads, have been held in ball [sic] by the Mayor for larceny of pigeons from L. W. Frome, a fruit dealer.
W. Harry Smith, of 320 Birch street, formerally [sic] of the Columbia Hotel, 224 Market street, but now with George W. Fry’s buffet, 29 North Third street, was receiving the congratulations of his many friends yesterday, upon his birthday anniversary. Harry kept Uncle Sam busy delivering post cards during the day.
SEVERAL SEEKING LICENSE TRANSFERS
The following applications for transfers of retail liquor licenses will be heard at the meeting of the Excise Commission on next Wednesday night: George W. Fry, of No. 29 North Third street, to John P. Scannell. John P. Scannell, of No. 45 York street, to Harry Bailey. Charles Fuchs, of 697 Sylvan street, to Jacob Pfisterer. John Thompson, of 306–08 Federal street, to George Schu. George Schu, of 1075 South Second street, to John Hagenbusher.
WIDOW’S HOME ROBBED
$1000 in Items and $100 in Cash Taken by Burglar During Night
Thieves entered the second-floor apartment of Mrs. Flora B. Scannell, a widow, at 29 North Third street, last night, and stole jewelry valued at $1000 and $100 in cash which she had hidden in a bureau drawer.
Mrs. Scannell discovered the robbery when she returned home early today. City Detectives Joseph Carpani and Sylvester McGrath were detailed to investigate. Among the stolen jewelry were two expensive diamond rings.
Entrance was gained by forcing a door to the apartment.
The North 3rd Street Side of the former Camden Courier-Post Press Building June 27, 1977 The building was then Fire Headquarters.
On North 3rd Street above Federal Street Looking South October 25, 1936. Scene at 3rd and Federal Streets as 279 Employees of a South Camden clothing plant paraded city streets with a band and banners Saturday to show their appreciation of Roosevelt "ruination" that brought Them Shorter Hours and Higher Wages. Their employer, Anthony Di Paola, Marched With Them.
44 North 3rd Street. 1897-1910 Frederick Himmelein Jr. & Family Frederick & Minnie Himmelein Frederick E. Himmelein Minnie Himmelein Lillian Himmelein.
31 North 3rd Street (at right) 1880s-1890 Isaac Woodrow Sexton of Tabernacle ME Church. 1910s-1920s Boardinghouse. 1930 Gone.
The Elks Home at Broadway and Federal Street was rebuilt in 1910. While under construction, the Elks had temporary quarters at 29 North 3rd Street, later the home of a tavern run by John P. Scannell in the late 1910s and early 1920s. Although this photo has been described as from 1880, note the F.A. Poth Beer wagon in front — Poth acquired the Camden brewery in 1910 also.
28 North 3rd Street. 1880 Amedee S. Middleton & Family Amedee & Mary Middleton Rena Middleton. Left: Amedee S. Middleton.
7 North 3rd Street. 1906 Davis Camden & Philadelphia Express Robert G. Hann & Son, proprietors Robert G. Hann & Edward T. Hann.
United States Post Office Northwest Corner of 3rd & Arch Street - 1875-1899 Photograph circa 1890.
Northeast Corner of 3rd Street & Federal Street & 4 North 3rd Street 1900-1931 United States Post Office. 4 North 3rd Street 1900-1931 United States Post Office.
Northeast Corner of 3rd Street & Federal Street. Camden Fire Department Fire Headquarters. erected 1978.
For 62 Years Faithfully Serving Camden and South Jersey
Camden Courier-Post — 1928
BAKER FLI[CK] CO
for 62 Years Faithfully Serving Camden and South Jersey
Death Notice of Charles S. Humphreys
Philadelphia Inquirer —
HUMPHREYS.—On the 24th instant at Long Branch, N. J., CHARLES S. HUMPHREYS, in the sixty third year of his age.
The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, No. 41 N. Third street, Camden, N. J., on Friday, the 29th instant, at 2 o’clock P. M.
Building Permits
Camden Daily Courier —
Charles W. Austermuhl, 8 two-story brick dwellings, 16.4x56 feet, at 1501-3-7-9-13-15-19-21 Baird avenue.
The Mockett Construction Company, for Dr. O. W. Saunders and Freeholder Thomas W. Leeson, 6 two-story brick dwellings, 14x59 feet, at 913-15-17-19-21-23 Florence street.
Barclay White Company, for S. Chew & Sons Company, three-story brick building, at 37-39 North Third street.
Unit Block of South 3rd Street
3 South 3rd Street. 1906 D.W. Knowlton Movers. 1906 Camden City Directory Ad.
10-16 South 3rd Street. 1907-1923 Domestic Laundry Company Frank Smith Rodan.
10-16 South 3rd Street. 1907-1923 Domestic Laundry Company Frank Smith Rodan.
10 to 16 South Third Street
This New, commodious, sanitary building occupied exclusively by the Domestic Laundry.
..NOTICE..
Reduction in Prices
On January 4, 1909
the prices for flat and rough dry work were reduced as follows:
30c Per Dozen
and 2c for each Additional Piece.
Ten Pieces or less, 3c per piece
Please notice that at these prices you can have two dozen pieces washed, dried and ironed for 54c, which is practically the same as you would pay to the wet wash laundries for the same number of pieces.
DOMESTIC LAUNDRY,
10 to 16 S. 3rd Street, Camden, N. J.
28 South 3rd Street. Demolished October 1901 to make room for elevated railroad aka "The Chinese Wall".
The Dog I Left Behind Me.
W. Moris
28 South Third St
Camden N J
Unit Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1890s–1970s.
3 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | D.W. Knowlton Movers |
| 1938 | Martin Prangian, cleaners |
6 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Central Used Furniture Warehouse |
9 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1929 | Mrs. Mary Campbell |
| 1931–1946 | Raymond Campbell |
| 1947 | Chic Campbell's Cafe |
| 1949–1959 | Campbell's Tavern |
10 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930s–early 1970s | New Jersey Rivet Company |
10–16 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1907–1923 | Domestic Laundry Company |
11 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890s–1915 | Thomas Madden's Saloon |
| 1900 | Thomas Madden & Family |
| 1918–1934 | Charles Klump & Marion Klump, cafe |
| 1935–1936 | Joseph J. O'Brien's Cafe |
24 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1945 | Benjamin DeCastro & Family |
| 1945 | Benjamin & Yolanda DeCastro |
25 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1899 | W. Harry Getty |
| 1899 | Charles Metz, poolroom & gambling hall |
26–30 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1901 | Razed for elevated railroad ('The Chinese Wall') |
28 North 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1880 | Amedee S. Middleton & Family |
| 1880 | Amedee & Mary Middleton |
| 1880 | Rena Middleton |
Grim Reaper’s Work
Camden Post-Telegram —
Charles G. Burk, aged 65 years, of 533 Mechanic street. Funeral to-morrow 9.30 a. m.
Annie M. Albertson, wife of George W. Albertson, 145 Boyer’s court. Funeral to-day, 2 p. m.
Mary A. Mowery, 58 years, 360 Jefferson avenue. Funeral to-morrow, 1 p. m.
Joanna Ryan, wife of Thomas Ryan, Tenth and Cherry streets.
Ann Winters, Third and Washington streets. Funeral to-morrow, 7.30 a. m.
3 South 3rd Street — Thief Takes 3 Suits From Truck of Cleaner
Camden Courier-Post —
While Martin Prangian, 24, operator of a cleaning and pressing establishment at 3 South Third street, was loading his truck with freshly pressed suits last night at his plant, a passer-by leaped in, snatched three suits and raced to safety with Prangian in pursuit.
Prangian called police who started looking for the man. Prangian said a brown suit, a gray one, a brown coat and a pair of gray trousers were stolen.
24 South 3rd Street — 31 Medals Given Vets in Hospital
Camden Courier-Post —
Atlantic City, Feb. 3.—Medals were awarded by the Army yesterday to 31 soldier patients at Thomas M. England General hospital, including the husband of a Camden woman, and a Gloucester youth.
Heading the list was Pvt. Benjamin De Castro, 24, former track athlete at South Philadelphia High school, whose wife, Yolanda, lives at 24 South Third street, Camden.
The Gloucester soldier was Pfc. Edward J. Lee, who received the Combat Infantryman’s Badge.
De Castro, sole survivor of a group of seven infantrymen who went on a scouting mission in Normandy last July, was struck in three parts of the body by shell fragments from a German artillery barrage.
It was De Castro’s second wound. He landed with the Fourth Division on D-Day and was hit on June 8 as the Yanks started their drive toward Cherbourg. German mortar fragments blinded him temporarily. He was hospitalized in England and returned to his unit.
De Castro, son of Carmen De Castro, 2418 South Hutchinson street, Philadelphia, was awarded the Bronze Star medal for “heroic achievement in action” and the Combat Infantryman’s Badge for “exemplary conduct in action.” He also holds the Purple Heart with Oak Leaf Cluster.
The awards were made by Col. Sidney L. Chappell, commanding officer of the Army hospital.
100 Block of South 3rd Street
196 South 3rd Street 1898-1947 Pennsylvania Railroad Branch YMCA.
100 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records.
196 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1898–1947 | Pennsylvania Railroad Branch YMCA |
30 Cops Shifted Today in Opening of New District
Camden Courier-Post —
Shake-Up in Camden Force is Most Drastic in History
SMITH AT CITY HALL
Drastic shifts in the Camden police department, affecting more than 30 members of the force became effective at 8 a.m. today.
The shake-up, announced yesterday by Commissioner David S. Rhone, director of public safety, is the result of creation of a fourth police district.
The outstanding changes are the promotion of Sergeant of Detectives George Ward to acting lieutenant in the First district, supplanting Sergeant Samuel Nayler, who is sent to headquarters, and the return to the city detective bureau of Acting County Detective Howard Smith.
Smith was detailed to the second district today and was assigned to a robbery investigation in the thirteenth ward.
District Captaincies Abolished
With the shifts, the rank of district captain is abolished. Instead, lieutenants will be in charge of the districts. Captains will be in charge only of the traffic and detective bureaus and headquarters, Commissioner Rhone said.
The removal of Sergeant Naylor from the First District was not unexpected, since he had been “on the carpet” last October as a result of a speakeasy shooting in his district. Naylor, though holding the rank of sergeant, was acting captain of the district.
He was threatened with dismissal by Chief Stehr and Commissioner Rhone if the vice conditions in the First District were not cleaned up. The situation came to a climax with the wounding of Charles Arini and Louis Dei Duca in a speakeasy at Third and Mickle streets in October. It was reported Naylor was to be removed from the district several times since.
Ward Again Promoted
Ward was promoted to sergeant of detectives two months ago. Under the transfer, he is promoted again, remaining as acting lieutenant for a year, until he takes an examination for a lieutenancy.
Other police officers now acting-lieutenants will become lieutenants after examination.
Naylor, who was in charge of the First district for several years, will serve as desk sergeant under Capt. A. Lincoln James.
The return of Smith to the city detective bureau was requested by Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin, it is understood. Smith has been a county detective for more than eleven years. He first was transferred to the prosecutor’s office at the request of Prosecutor Charles A. Wolverton. Although a Republican, he was retained there under Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott. Although some surprise was occasioned by the announcement of Smith’s return to the city force, inasmuch as the new prosecutor is a Republican, it was said that Baldwin wished to begin his term with an entire new force.
Worked For City Also
Although Smith acted for the county and was paid by the county, he received a salary of $1 a year to retain him in the city so that he could be recalled at any time.
Through the shift, Sergeant Charles Laib, serving under Traffic Inspector Charles T. Humes, is elevated to acting captain of the traffic department. In the future all motorcycle men with the exception of George Clayton will report direct to Humes and Laib instead of to headquarters.
Ralph Bakley, who has been acting sergeant of the First District, has been named acting lieutenant of the Second District, and Thomas Cunningham, who was acting captain of the Second District, becomes acting lieutenant of the new Fourth District. William Horner, who has been acting captain of the Third District, is elevated to the rank of acting lieutenant and remains in charge of that district.
300 Block of South 3rd Street
309 South 3rd Street. 1917-1920 Frank Saia & Family Frank & Susie Saia Bennie Saia Pauline Saia. 1919-1920 Mrs. Rosie Angemi & Family Tony Angemi John Angemi Anna Angemi Salvatore Angemi Frank Angemi Mary Angemi. 1919-1920 Frank Boltoni & Family Frank & Jennie Boltoni.
Man Held for Jury In Firing of Shot
Charged with firing a shot through the door of a friend’s home, Albert Wallace, 46, of 316 South Third street, today was held for grand jury action in municipal court.
Police told Judge Dzick the shooting occurred Sunday at the home of Lucius Randolph, 211 Berkley street. Randolph refused to sign a complaint.
Wallace, who denied the charge, was released in his own recognizance. Sgt. Charles Stone testified they recovered a .45 caliber bullet in the wall of the Randolph home.
300 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1887–1967.
301 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940–1964 | Egizi's Cafe |
| 1964–1967 | Primrose Inn |
302 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1887 | Richard F. Shannon, sailmaker |
303 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1896–1910 | Robert Colkett |
307 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | John Strang |
309 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1917–1920 | Frank Saia & Family |
| 1917–1920 | Frank & Susie Saia |
| 1917–1920 | Bennie Saia |
| 1917–1920 | Pauline Saia |
| 1919–1920 | Mrs. Rosie Angemi & Family |
| 1919–1920 | Tony Angemi |
| 1919–1920 | John Angemi |
| 1919–1920 | Anna Angemi |
| 1919–1920 | Salvatore Angemi |
| 1919–1920 | Frank Angemi |
| 1919–1920 | Mary Angemi |
| 1919–1920 | Frank Boltoni & Family |
| 1919–1920 | Frank & Jennie Boltoni |
313 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890s–1910s | Harry C. Sharp |
316 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1950 | Albert Wallace |
Two Suspects Held in Bail of $25,000 Each
Camden Courier-Post —
10 Burglaries:
Two suspects, linked by police with 10 burglaries in the city during the last 6 weeks, were held in $25,000 bail each today by Municipal Judge Marino.
Held on one count each, pending a continuing investigation and a further hearing Tuesday, the men were identified as William J. Porter, 26, of Fern st. near 8th, and Howard James, 25, of Fogarty ave. near Federal st.
Marino commended police work in cracking the case and four detectives assigned to it, Marshall Thompson, Thomas Scarduzio, George Ellis and Russell Young.
James, a brother-in-law of Porter, was in the county jail to await grand jury action on a charge of breaking into a Cooper st. service station Dec. 11, police said, when the case broke Wednesday.
Street Attack Suspect
Porter was wanted for questioning in the stabbing of Miss Joann Green, 19, of 313 Chestnut st., Tuesday night, according to police.
Scarduzio said police searched Porter’s house Tuesday night but he could not be found. However, Scarduzio said, Ptl. Richard Brooks picked up a cash box in the house.
Wednesday, when the box was shown to Sgt. Earl Quinton, he suggested it may have been taken from the Asam Wallpaper Co., 1001 Market st., Nov. 17, according to Scarduzio. The box was later identified as the one taken from that concern, Scarduzio added.
Caught at Gun-Point
Detectives returned to the house Wednesday in an effort to pick up Porter. While Thompson and Young covered the front of the house, Scarduzio went to the back. Scarduzio said he apprehended Porter at gun-point as Porter fled from a rear door.
A search of the place by daylight turned up loot believed connected with robberies in which the two suspects are implicated, Thompson said. Included in the find were 20 new paint brushes, barber shop supplies and a letter scale.
At first, Porter denied any knowledge of breaking and entering, Thompson stated. James was brought from the jail and questioned by Thompson more than three hours. Thompson said James finally admitted the jobs and implicated Porter, who later confirmed James’ statements, Thompson said.
Thompson reported James admitted breaking into a grocery at 635 Carman st. Nov. 2 and looting a barber shop at 303 S. 3rd st. of $304 in equipment Nov. 9.
Other Victims
The two of them allegedly broke into the office of an engineering firm Nov. 7, taking a computing machine valued at $500 and took $650 in appliances from Thrifty Buyers Store, 313 Market st., Nov. 13.
The wallpaper firm was entered Nov. 17 when $712 in cash and $200 worth of postage stamps was taken. On Dec. 10, they purportedly entered Asam’s again and ransacked the second-floor offices of Camden Ink and Color Co. and Cutler Metal Co.; the Fitwell Coat Co. on the third floor, and the Wilkie W. Faust Co., next door at 1011 Market st.
Scarduzio said a warrant has been issued for Porter’s wife, Jean, charging her with assault and battery on the Green girl. The girl underwent an emergency operation Tuesday night in Cooper Hospital, after being left there by Porter, Scarduzio said.
Police also disclosed that Porter was wanted on an assault and battery warrant issued on complaint of his wife.
400 Block of South 3rd Street
Intersection of South 3rd Street & Royden Street Looking East from South 3rd Street - February 22, 2004.
Proprietor Fined For Short Weight
Proprietor Fined For Short Weight
Phillip Livecchi, proprietor of a store at 423 South Third street, today was fined $25 in municipal court on a shortweight charge brought by a state inspector from the bureau of weights and measures.
Guy Naddeo, the inspector, testified he purchased on Oct. 20 a steak weighing one pound four ounces at $1 a pound and was charged $1.25. Upon reweighing the steak, he said, it was an ounce short and he was overcharged five cents.
"When I told the woman clerk it was an ounce short," Naddeo testified, "she replied that I forgot to include the weight of the wrapping paper. She was apparently under the impression it was permissable to weigh the paper with the meat."
Livecchi, who was not represented by counsel, pleaded not guilty to the charge. He said he was ill that day and that his wife was tending the store. Livecchi said she was not familiar with the management.
Judge Dzick said the proprietor is responsible for the actions of anyone who works in the store.
400 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1870s–1970.
402 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | George Brunner, 3rd Ward Democratic Club |
| 1947 | George E. Brunner 3rd Ward Democratic Club |
406 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1946–1947 | Anthony J. Broccoli |
| 1946–1947 | Anthony J. & Catherine Dorothy Broccoli |
| 1946–1947 | Joseph Broccoli |
| 1946–1947 | Thomas F. Broccoli |
413 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1885 | Howard Lee |
| 1885 | Louis A. Lee |
419 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| c. 1920s | Joseph Giacapello |
421 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1891–1893 | Isaac McKinley |
| 1891–1893 | Isaac & Sophia McKinley |
| 1914 | Wright Ellis Cox |
| 1918–1920 | Clarence T. Madden |
422 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1870s–1911 | Dr. William A. Davis |
| 1870s–1911 | Dr. William A. & Isabel M. Burrows Davis |
| 1870s–1911 | Albert Burrows Davis |
| 1870s–1911 | Jean I. Davis |
| 1870s–1911 | Beatrice Davis |
| 1940–1943 | Joseph Fimiani Cafe |
| 1947 | Washington Restaurant |
423 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1880s–1890s | Gen. John A. Mather Jr. |
| 1902–1903 | Mrs. Ann Winters |
| 1931–1951 | Phillip Livecchi |
| 1880s–1890s | General John A. Mather Jr |
424 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Frank S. Turner Sr. |
| 1915–1918 | Solomon Becker |
| 1915–1918 | Solomon & Esther Becker |
426 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1879 | William H. Osler |
| 1890 | Armer P. Shannon |
429 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1891–1893 | Isaac McKinley |
| 1891–1893 | Isaac & Sophia McKinley |
430 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1880–1884 | George W. Kelley |
434 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1877 | Elijah Morehouse |
| 1900 | John H. Sparks |
| 1900 | John H. & Mary Sparks |
| 1900 | Mary Sparks |
| 1900 | John Sparks Jr. |
| 1900 | Joseph Sparks |
| 1900 | William Sparks |
| 1900 | Ellen Sparks |
| 1900 | Agnes Sparks |
| 1900 | Florence Sparks |
| 1900 | Mabel Sparks |
| 1900 | Annie Sparks |
| 1900 | James Sparks |
| 1935 | Third Ward Republican Club |
438 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930s–1940s | George E. Brunner, 3rd Ward Democratic Club |
| 1947 | Ace Control & Engine Co. |
| 1885 | George W. Kelley |
444 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914 | William Ruppel |
| 1927–1928 | Liberty Jewelry & Furniture |
451 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1892–1898 | John W. Elliott, saloon |
| 1904–1905 | Harry B. Middleton, saloon |
| 1905–1914 | Elizabeth J. Middleton |
| 1918–1943 | James Monahan, saloon |
| 1947–1964 | Berkeley Bar |
450–452 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1921 | John W. Sutton Saloon |
| 1939 | Pietro Bernardo Cafe |
| 1946 | Patsy's Coffee House |
| 1954–1959 | Cinderella Cafe |
| 1964–1970 | Blevin's Cove |
Orlando Raids 35 Gambling Haunts in Slot Machine Drive
Camden Evening Courier —
The second blow within 24 hours at the slot-machine “racket” in Camden was to be made this afternoon in the grand jury rooms in Camden County Court House.
[illegible] with evidence secured in [illegible]ay’s surprise raid, Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando was to ask the jury to inquire into the illegal operation of the machines in Camden saloons, cigar stores and cafes.
The grand jury convened at 1:30 p. m.
[illegible]teen of the “money” devices were seized, and as many proprietors of the places where they were found were summoned to appear before the jurors when county detectives and constables swooped down on 35 alleged gambling haunts.
A conference of Republican organization leaders was held this morning, at which the slot machine raids and the impending grand jury investigation were discussed. According to authentic reports, it was the opinion of the leaders that an intensive grand jury probe would be “bad politics.”
It was decided to bring pressure to bear upon Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott to “call off” Assistant Prosecutor Orlando, who engineered the raids last night.
This afternoon, when the grand jury convened, both Wescott and Orlando went before the jury, in their closed session.
Orlando made it clear, in a statement, that he is not after “small fry” but intends to get the “higher-ups” in the slot machine “game” in Camden city and county.
“I am not going to give the proprietors of the slot machines time to exert their usual political pull, but I intend to have them before the grand jury immediately. I am going to find out, with the help and co-operation of the members of the jury, where they got their machines, how they arrive at their percentage and who is protecting them.
“I have been making a survey of Camden county, including the city, since I took office ten days ago,” he continued, “and I have considerable evidence. I believe that there are, conservatively, 500 slot machines in Camden county and that the income from each of them averages from $50 [illegible] a week. You can make your own multiplication. I believe nearly $[illegible],000 a week is split up, in various ways, from the slot machine racket in the city and county. That money, wherever it goes, is coming from many people who can ill afford to lose it. They need it to pay their butchers and grocers.”
Several Places ‘Tipped Off’
Although Orlando struck quickly, there were several places where the coming of his men had been “tipped off.” A few places, where the noise of machines had been heard for weeks by passersby were strangely silent last night when the county raiders got busy.
Orlando, co-operating with Prosecutor Wescott, will go before Judge Shay soon to ask for a court order to destroy all seized machines.
The raiders were led by Lawrence T. Doran, chief of county detectives. The party included County Detectives Wren, Smith, Cleary, Lyons and Cocherailly, and Constable Max Beals.
Five p. m. was set as the zero hour, and the raiders, two to an automobile, set out from the courthouse at 4:45 p. m. The raids were timed so as to be almost simultaneous.
The raiders walked into the suspected places. If no slot machine was in sight, they bought a cigar or a package of cigarettes and walked quietly out. If they saw a slot machine, they seized it.
Raiders Carried Subpenas
For the first time, the raiders carried subpenas, and where machines were seized, the proprietors were summoned to appear before the grand jury today.
They found no machines in saloons. Bartenders grinned at them when they went in, they reported. In several stores they were met with smiles, they said.
The places where machines were found were: 450 South Third street, store of D. Auletto, 200 Clinton street; Third and Mickle streets, Third and Stevens streets 106 South Second street, Eighth and Spruce streets, store of Earl Sanderson; 656 South Third street, store of Antonio Auduini; 530 South Third street, store of Frank Delgarzo; 452 South Third street, store of Peter Bernardo, and store of Betty Leopold, 215 Line street. In some places two machines were found. They ranged from penny to quarter affairs.
Carriage Accident
Philadelphia Inquirer —
While responding to an alarm of fire early yesterday morning the carriage containing Assistant Chief George Cox and Driver Seth Monnell struck and ran over Dennie Ryan, 53 years old, of 439 South Third street, at Broadway and Kaighn avenue. At the Cooper Hospital it was found Ryan had been badly cut and bruised, but not seriously injured.
406 South 3rd Street — Man and Woman Seized For Disorderly Conduct
Camden Courier-Post —
Marie Smith, 23, of 743 South Second street, and Anthony J. Broccoli, 29, of 406 South Third street, were arrested shortly after 11 p. m. last night and charged with disorderly conduct by Pennsauken police.
In addition, a charge of carrying concealed deadly weapons was lodged against Broccoli after a blackjack was found in his car, police said.
According to Patrolmen Wyman and Morgan, the pair were found on Route 25 at Drexel avenue. Both are being held for investigation.
423 South 3rd Street — Philip Livecchi, Livecchi Bros.
Camden Courier-Post —
Philip Livecchi
Livecchi Bros.
423 S. 3rd St.,
Camden, N. J.
424 South 3rd Street — Thief Takes $84 From Becker Home
Philadelphia Inquirer —
[text cut off] With the family of Solomon Becker, of 425 South Third street, lay sleeping early yesterday morning, a thief entered the house and purloined $84 from the top of a bureau in their bedroom, according to a report made to the police.
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438 South 3rd Street — Brunner Club Denies Guilt
Officers of the George E. Brunner Third Ward Democratic Club, 438 South Third street, pleaded not guilty to selling to non-members on July 30. Two agents said they joined the Relief Truckers Association of Camden County to obtain entrance to the club. They testified you had to join the relief association to get into the bar room on the second floor. William Brooks, Norman Myers and Lockwood testified they obtained drinks in the club house.
444 South 3rd Street — William Ruppel Injured
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Sliding down a board, William Ruppel, aged 12 years, of 444 South Third street, had his thigh badly lacerated when he encountered a protruding nail. He was treated at the Homeopathic Hospital.
449 South 3rd Street — J. Edward Way Republican Candidate
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Stalwarts in the Third ward have agreed on J. Edward Way as the Republican candidate for City Council. His supporters declare nothing in that district can defeat him.
452 South 3rd Street — Legal Notice: Cinderella Cafe
Camden Courier-Post —
Take notice that The Flame, Inc., trading as Cinderella Cafe, has applied to the Municipal Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control of Camden for a Plenary Retail Consumption License for premises situated at Basement and 1st Floor of 450-452 S. 3rd St., Camden, N. J.
The names and addresses of the officers, directors and stockholders of applicant corporation are as follows:
Ralph Tedeschi, President, 1904 Merchantville Ave., Pennsauken, N. J.
Mary Tedeschi, Vice President, 2345 Browning Rd., Merchantville, N. J.
Nicholas Tedeschi, Secretary and Treasurer, 2345 Browning Rd., Merchantville, N. J.
Objections, if any, should be made immediately in writing to John T. Odorisio, City Clerk of Camden.
(Signed) THE FLAME, INC., RALPH TEDESCHI, President, 1904 Merchantville Ave., Pennsauken, N. J.
($15.66)
500 Block of South 3rd Street
503 South 3rd Street. 1942-1952 Tisa's London Barber Shop Dominick Tisa.
506 South 3rd Street. 1914 Morris J. Steelman.
513 South 3rd Street. 1920-1029 Costa's Food Market. Founded in 1920 by Theodore S. Theodoris & Constantine "Costa" Theodoris. Moved to 1100 South 3rd Street in 1929 and operated as the Italian-Greek Importing Company, Selling Wholesale and Retail Groceries.
FOR RENT—
122 Clay street, 4 rooms… 6.00
430 Chambers avenue, 9 rooms… 25.00
618 North Eighth street, 7 rooms… 11.00
728 Pearl street, 7 rooms… 16.00
532 South Third street, 7 rooms… 14.00
222 Senate street, 5 rooms… 7.50
337 Chester street, 6 rooms… 6.00
815 Federal street, 6 rooms… 12.00
517 Bailey street, 7 rooms… 14.00
511 Felton street, 5 rooms… 8.50
631 North Fifth street, 9 rooms… 15.00
640 Willard street, 6 rooms… 9.00
REAL ESTATE INVESTMENT CO., (See Courier). 325 Federal street.
544 South 3rd Street. 1955 Lalli Brothers. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.
Two men were badly burned yesterday afternoon while working in the power house of the Pennsylvania Railroad, at Washington avenue and Delaware avenue, Philadelphia.
Thomas Armitage, of 1171 Lemon street, Camden, and Kelly Parker, of 2218 Palethorp street, Philadelphia, were burned about the face and hands when a transformer exploded. They were taken to the Jefferson Hospital, where their injuries were pronounced not critical.
500 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1886–1955.
501 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Victory Meat Market |
502 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1886 | Richard Kerswell |
| 1947 | Tedeschi & Son, grocery |
503 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1942–1952 | Tisa's London Barber Shop (Dominick Tisa) |
506 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1887–1888 | Charles M. Lane |
| 1914 | Morris J. Steelman |
507 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890 | Mary L. Wilson |
| 1938 | John Gallucci & Family |
509 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Leonard Galasso |
| 1943 | Leonard & Carmelia Pinto Galasso |
| 1943 | Joseph Galasso |
| 1943 | Hazel M. Galasso |
| 1943 | Mary Galasso |
| 1943 | Daniel Frank Galasso |
| 1943 | Angelina Galasso |
| 1943 | Rose Marie Galasso |
| 1943 | William A. Galasso |
| 1943 | Kathleen Galasso |
| 1943 | Leonard C. Galasso |
510 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Yolanda Mascia |
513 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920–1929 | Costa's Food Market |
519 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Anthony Orsini |
521 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Mrs. Sarah E. French |
| 1920s–1947 | Saverio Recchia |
523 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915 | Jacob Kotloff |
| 1933 | Wiley M.E. Church Haven for Girls |
| 1943 | John Palazzo |
| 1947 | Flamini Jewelry |
526 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1912 | Kelly Parker |
527 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1896 | William F. Keegan |
| 1896 | William F. & Sarah E. Boileau Keegan |
| 1913–1914 | Mrs. Emma V. Stanton |
532 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1895 | Real Estate Investment Co. |
542 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900 | John C. Voll Sr. & John C. Voll Jr. |
544 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Lalli Brothers |
550 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1899–1900 | Horace Hewlings |
| 1899–1900 | Horace & Rachel Hill Hewlings |
| 1899–1900 | Albertha Hewlings |
| 1899–1900 | Grace Hewlings |
| 1899–1900 | Nathan W. Hill & Elizabeth Hill (in-laws) |
| 1899–1900 | Albert Hill (Brother in Law) |
| 1900s–1910s | Leonard J. Megee |
556 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890 | Isaac McKinley |
| 1890 | Isaac & Sophia McKinley |
| 1920s–late 1940s | Pasquale Di Renzo, grocery |
566 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1885–1888 | Isaac McKinley |
| 1885–1888 | Isaac & Sophia McKinley |
Marriage Licenses
Camden Courier-Post —
Camden
Franz Henterleitner, 22 and Mary Kenzler, 18, both of 673 Woodland avenue. Joseph Carbone, 22, of 317 Clinton street, and Yolanda Mascia, 22, of 510 South Third street.
Media
Michael Duffy, 29, of 529 Gilham street, Philadelphia, and Catherine Sharp, 26, of 1138 Thirty-first street, Camden.
502 South 3rd Street — Camden Press Club Organized
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The Camden Press Club yesterday permanently organized by electing Alexander Schlesinger president; Joseph M. Engard, vice president; Richard W. Kerswell, secretary; Samuel E. Hudson, treasurer.
Named to Look After Refreshments
Camden Daily Courier —
At a meeting of the Excise Board last night, Peter Morgan was granted a license to dispense wet goods at 210 Market street, and Louis Ederle to do likewise at 34 Erie street. These retail transfers were granted: Thomas Tracy, 601 North Front street, to Frederick Speck; John Thompson, 1075 South Second street, to George Sheer; Peter F. Morgan, 800 Fern street, to John Graham; Harry B. Middleton, deceased, 551 South Third street, to Elizabeth Middleton, his widow.
507 South 3rd Street — Miss Josephine Gallucci Betrothed
Camden Courier-Post —
MISS JOSEPHINE GALLUCCI
Whose engagement to Joseph D’Angelo, of 239 Royden street, has been announced by her father, John Gallucci, of 507 South Third street, this city.
509 South 3rd Street — Daniel Galasso in the Navy
Camden Courier-Post —
Daniel Galasso, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Galasso, 509 South Fourth street [sic], who entered the Navy last July, is at Bainbridge, Md. He is a former Democratic committeeman of the Third ward and was a meter repairman in the Water Bureau.
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519 South 3rd Street — Wife Wins Freedom for Accused Husband
Camden Courier-Post —
Charged with carrying two five-inch bladed knives in his clothes, Anthony Orsini, of 519 South Third street, was released by Judge Samuel M. Shay in Criminal Court yesterday after the man explained his wife placed the weapons in his pocket to prevent them from falling into the hands of their two small children.
Orsini was arrested January 28, at Front and Erie streets when police answering a telephone message of a holdup, found Orsini in a parked car with the knives in his clothes.
Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin questioned the man, who said he used the knives in his work at a Camden laundry. He was released when the prosecutor explained the case to Judge Shay.
521 South 3rd Street — Mrs. Sarah E. French Dies
Philadelphia Inquirer —
A resident of Camden for thirty years, Mrs. Sarah E. French, an aunt of District Court Judge William C. French, died yesterday at her home at 514 South Third street.
523 South 3rd Street — Chase Ends in Arrest
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Arrested in the store of Jacob Kotloff, Third and Clinton streets, Camden, Harry J. Johnson, aged 24 years, of Atlantic City, is being held by the police pending a hearing today on the charge of larceny. Another man who was with him escaped. It was shortly before 3 o’clock when Policeman Stanton saw the two men in the store. They also saw him and immediately fled. The policeman gave chase and succeeded in capturing Johnson. Prior to this arrest the police had received reports from various sections of the city that two young men were noticed acting suspiciously.
527 South 3rd Street — William F. Keegan Death Notice
Philadelphia Inquirer —
KEEGAN.—Suddenly, on the morning of February 28, 1896, William F. Keegan, beloved husband of Sarah E. Boileau, aged 46 years and 9 months. The relatives and friends of the family, also Grace Church Beneficial Society, of Twelfth and Cherry streets, Philadelphia, are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, on Monday afternoon, at 1 o’clock, at his late residence, 527 South Third street, Camden, N. J. Interment at Fernwood Cemetery.
527 South 3rd Street — Weldys at Pitman
Philadelphia Inquirer —
WELDYS AT PITMAN.
Mr. and Mrs. Lemuel R. Weldy, of 810 Broadway, spent yesterday with friends at Pitman. Their son, Russell L. Weldy, left yesterday to spent [sic] a week at Ocean Grove.
JOE METZEL MAKE HAUL.
Joseph Metzel, seretary [sic] of the Louis Pfeifer Liquor Company, of 1105 Broadway, returned last evening from Anglesea loaded with fish. He carried away some of the largest caught this season on the fishing banks.
MRS. PFEIFER RETURNS.
Mrs. Louis Pfeifer and son Walter, returned yesterday morning from a visit to her mother’s home at Buffalo, New York, and had a very good time renewing old acquaintances.
CLIMES RECOVERING.
Policeman Rudolph Climes is recovering at the Jefferson Hospital, Philadelphia, where he underwent an operation for stomach trouble last Wednesday.
BUTCHER OUTING NEXT SUNDAY.
Butchers’ Beneficial Society, No. 1, will give an outing next Sunday to Wildwood. The meat cutters expect to take a big crowd with them.
GOING DOWN EAST.
Paul Sands, of Kaighn avenue, is planning an auto trip through the New England States.
MRS. STANTON RETURNS.
Mrs. Emma Stanton, of 537 South Third street, has returned from a pleasant stay at Wildwood.
550 South 3rd Street — Nathan W. Hill Death Notice
Philadelphia Inquirer —
HILL—At Camden, May 13, 1899, Nathan W. Hill, aged 80 years. The relatives and friends of the family are respectfully invited to attend the funeral services, at his son-in-law’s residence, 554 South Third street, Camden, Tuesday evening, 16th instant, at 8 o’clock. Services at the M. E. Church, Woodbury, Wednesday morning, the 17th instant, at 10 o’clock. Interment at Green’s Cemetery.
600 Block of South 3rd Street
600 South 3rd Street 1928-1929 Eleuteria DeFilippo Cafe 1931 Joseph Griffo Cafe 1934-1936 Bert Bottura Bar 1939-1965 Roma Cafe. 2003 Closed.
616 & 618 South 3rd Street, September 8, 2011. 1912-1915 Thomas Cunningham & Family Thomas & Ida Lang Cunningham Ida Cunningham.
Hospital Cases
COOPER
Frank Pippett, 13, of 430 Walnut st., injured hip.
Joseph Kelly, 15, of 67 S. 28th st., cut scalp.
Dolores Smith, 8, of 2163 Westminster ave., cut ankle.
Raymond Ross, 19, of 1223 N. 28th st., cut arm.
Richard Mortorano, 14, of 14 Leonard ave., fractured arm.
Leon Cunningham, 27, of 217 Mt. Vernon st., injured ankle.
Charles Sherman, 6, of 812 Bailey st., cut under eye.
Ida Mae Jorden, 45, of 619 S. 3rd st., hot grease burn of arm and leg.
WEST JERSEY
Carl Schindle, 29, of 1528 W. Moreland st., Philadelphia, multiple cuts of face.
Cheri Herbert, 53, of 1116 Mechanic st., cut finger.
Carmeh Capric, 30, of Sunnyside ave., Bellmawr, eye condition.
Larry Cox, 8, of 2725 Gadfield ave., cut hand.
R. Wayne Morton, 5, of 227 Shisler circle, Runnemede, cut forehead.
Willie Howard, 26, of 280 Liberty st., injured hand.
Alfred Numella, 36, of 1575 Louis st., cut face.
Jo Anne Venezelia, 5 1/2, of Grant ave., Mt. Ephraim, injured leg.
Walter Matyasik, 48, of Richmond ave., Hilltop, bruised leg.
Martin Pagan, 45, of 913 Howard st., bruised forehead and chest.
Richard Olsen, 22, of 615 Hunter st., Gloucester, cut eyebrow.
Camden Courier-Post — November 8, 1958
617 South 3rd Street. 1890s William G. Hillman.
620 & 622 South 3rd Street, September 8, 2011. 1929 Matthew Fanelli aka Battling Mack. 1929 Anthony Malatesta realtor.
600 Block of 3rd Street. 601 South 3rd Street. 1940-1960s Giovanni Vendetti Family John & Julia Vendetti James Vendetti Tony Vendetti Angeline Vendetti Helen Vendetti Pasquale Vendetti & neohew John Soldo 1940s Pool Room 1940s-1950s Jim's Luncheonette. At Far right: Giovanni Vendetti. My parents, Giovanni and Guiditta (Julia) Vendetti , lived at 524 South 2nd Street from the late 20's until around 1940 when they moved into the 601-603 building. It was actually 2 houses on the Corner and Eventually Made Into One. When my parents bought the house on 3rd street, there was a closed Store Front But No Pool Room. My brother, Jim, who passed away in 1954 at the age of 39, opened the pool room prior to World War II. It had a small candy store front room and the back room had 2 Pool Tables, A Pot Belly Stove, And Some Card Tables. The guys all Hung Out at the Pool Room, Played Cards, pool, etc. It Was a Typical Corner Hangout. I Was Very Young at the Time, but I use to stand on A Soda Box to Shoot Pool. I remember during the 2nd World War, as the Guys Got Drafted Into the Army, their pictures usually were listed in the Courier- Post newspaper. My brother would cut out the Pictures and Started a Bulletin Board. I remember there Were Quite a Few Pictures Listed. A Few of Them Never Returned. Never new What Happened to That Bulletin Board. Tony Vendetti February 2009.
Southwest Corner of South 3rd Street & Beckett Street. Postcard circa 1906.
Looking east on Beckett Street from South 3rd Street. Photos taken September 8, 2011.
Southwest Corner, South 3rd & Beckett Street — 1920s–1930s, Wiley Methodist Episcopal Church; 1927–1930s, Rev. John S. Hackett; 1947, Little Rock Baptist Church.
Another 10-cent rooming house will be opened today by Wiley M. E. Church, 635 South Third street. The new quarters, with a capacity of 25 beds, will be located at 741 Kaighn avenue. The church will operate a store on the first floor.
The Wiley Haven for Homeless Men, at 601–03–05 South Third street, is in its second year of existence. The Haven has 65 beds. Men are given supper, lodging and breakfast for 10 cents.
Rev. J. S. Hackett, pastor, is in charge of the work.
641 South 3rd Street. 1919-1920 William Vangeley & Family William & Mary Vangeley Adeline Vangeley Frank Vangeley Jennie Vangeley Rose Vangeley.
Jury Action Set Today in Fraud Trial
Jury Action Set Today in Fraud Trial
The trial of a Camden attorney accused of embezzlement was expected to go to a jury today after a charge by County Judge Dzick.
Charles F. Murray, 37, whose office was in the 1300 block, Broadway, and who was indicted for embezzlement by bailee on complaint of the National Express Co., went on trial here Monday. The jury includes seven men and five women.
The state rested its case Tuesday after hearing testimony from Mrs. Bernice Brown, of 614 S. 3rd st., former secretary to Murray. Mrs. Brown testified her employer asked her to tell police her husband had stolen $858.50 from a filing cabinet in the lawyer's office.
A motion was made for dismissal but was denied by Judge Dzick.
Murray testified he took no part in the money order business for the express company. He said Mrs. Brown was to receive all commissions. He testified he had told the company representatives he would repay all the stolen money.
Assistant Prosecutor Asbell presented the case for the state. Murray is represented by Everett Jones.
600 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1886–1970s.
600 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| c. 1920s | DeFilippo Cafe; Joseph Griffo; Bert Bottura |
| 1939–1965 | Roma Cafe |
601 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1896 | Harry Miller |
| 1932 | Wiley Haven for Homeless Men |
| 1940–1960s | Giovanni Vendetti; Jim's Luncheonette |
602 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929–1947 | J. DiStanislao |
603 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1886–1887 | H.H. Franks |
| 1947 | C. Thomas DeLuca |
604 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1917 | Walter J.A. Stanton Sr. & Family |
605 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Joseph E. Andre |
607 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Anthony Chico & Daniel Chico |
611 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914 | Miss Marion Knox |
612 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1946–1947 | P.A. Curcio |
614 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920–1956 | Joseph Sioli |
| 1920–1956 | Jospeh & Nancy Sioli |
| 1920–1956 | Anthony Sioli |
| 1920–1956 | Frank Sioli |
| 1920–1956 | Frances Sioli Anastasia |
| 1920–1956 | Rose Sioli Fisholi |
| 1920–1956 | Lucy Sioli Martino |
| 1920–1956 | Anna Sioli Angelastro |
| 1957 | Mrs. Bernice Brown |
616 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1912–1915 | Thomas Cunningham |
| 1912–1915 | Thomas & Ida Lang Cunningham |
| 1912–1915 | Ida Cunningham |
617 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890s | William G. Hillman |
619 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920 | Paul George & Family |
| 1920 | Paul & Josephine George |
| 1920 | Frank George |
| 1920 | William George |
| 1920 | Josephine George |
| 1920 | Nicholas George |
| 1950s–1960s | Ida Mae Jordan; Shoemaker Family |
620 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Matthew Fanelli, aka Battling Mack |
622 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Anthony Malatesta |
625–635 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906–1930s | Wiley M.E. Church |
| 1947 | Little Rock Baptist Church |
626 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Max Winigrad |
637 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1922 | Rocco Giacabona |
638 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Nicholas Marchisello |
641 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919–1920 | William Vangeley |
| 1919–1920 | Adeline Vangeley |
| 1919–1920 | Frank Vangeley |
| 1919–1920 | Jennie Vangeley |
| 1919–1920 | Rose Vangeley |
646 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1894–1897 | Charles M. Lane |
649 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1880s–1890s | Charles H. Truitt |
651 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1950 | Mary Bisanti |
653 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1887–1888 | William P. Marsh |
656 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1885 | Emma Neal |
| 1916–1917 | Dominick Morello |
| 1917–1918 | Lino Mercantini |
| 1917–1918 | Lino & Garzai (Grace) Mercantini |
| 1917–1918 | Camilo Nercantini |
| 1917–1918 | Mario Mercantini |
| 1917–1918 | Secondino Peter Mercantini |
| 1917–1918 | Romeo Mercantini |
| 1917–1918 | Frank Mercatini |
| 1917–1918 | Gilda Mercantini |
| 1920–1921 | Antonio Santoni |
| 1923–1949 | Antonio Arduini |
657 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Quality Dairy Co. |
603 South 3rd Street — Chief of Police Franks Funeral Notice
Philadelphia Inquirer —
day.
Chief of Police Franks will be buried from his late residence, No. 603 South Third street, today.
Is Zat So!
Camden Courier-Post —
YOU can always rely on Camden to bring back the normal balance. The more I see of this city the more it is impressed on me that realism can be found anywhere in the place. Camden is a good antidote for pessimism and cynicism, if you only want to find the cure and are fortunate enough to locate it.
This thought seeped into my ken the other day after I had read one of those kind of magazine articles, that always give me a pain in the neck. It was one of those “expert” articles telling youth how to find its proper sphere in the business world.
The dame who was dishing out the piffle-paffle on that score had the decency to admit that one of her students wanted to “know how he would get a job” rather than listen to all the ballyhoo about how to fill in your own conspicuous niche.
Accompanying the article was the usual honey from personnel managers about openings that their corporation possessed for the paragons who could answer all the requirements. The fact that these personnel managers declared there was always room for such material made me laugh. For, argued the Mackay, if all these positions are crying and begging for men, how come there are 10 million unemployed in this country, according to unemployment census.
Of course the whole business was a lot of guff and meant nothing in the face of the facts. Certainly these positions couldn’t go begging without being filled from the raw material that might be found in the army of 10 million idle workers. That type of hooey is even too tough for an incurable optimist like myself to swallow.
Laughabilities Rise at Detective “Mag”
My laughter increased as I read one of those “true detective” publications. What made me laugh was that every article, factually correct, ended with the admonition that crime does not pay. That suited me all right, too. Until I cast a surreptitious eye over the advertisements in this magazine; only to discover that it was packed from cover to cover with all the gyp and sucker advertisements that one can shake up.
The fact that this magazine was pushing out its message that crime does not pay and then purveying to the lads that trim the suckers whenever the trimming was good was too much for my blood. I began to want to exercise profanity, which is something that intimate friends know is a thing that Mackay rarely uses.
So we went for the domestic hearth in both sorrow and anger, only to bump into Mark Marritz. Mark will never be president of the United States but if Haddon Township remains a G.O.P. citadel it is a fair assumption that Mark will always be solicitor for the township unless he rebels and becomes a Democrat.
Now Mark Marritz is an excellent antidote for skepticism, pessimism and cynicism regarding America and her institutions. Mark was born in Kiev, Russia where he remained until he was 10 years old, when the family migrated to Wilmington.
“You can’t tell me anything about Russia today,” Marritz ventured to the writer. “Because I know how it was before the World War. I was born in Kiev and we were compelled to keep a picture of the Czar in the house, in fact every household in Russia had to display the Czar’s picture.”
“Jewish boys in Kiev, where they had massacres and pogroms against the Jewish people, were not allowed to go to school. They were prohibited from getting an education.”
Had His Fight to Get Ahead
“The only way we Jewish boys—my father was a merchant in Kiev—could get an education was through the rabbi. He couldn’t have a regular school either, he was compelled to teach each boy as a separate pupil.
“I got a good working knowledge of mathematics from the rabbi and also some of the Russian and Jewish culture. Imagine how I felt, too, when my father came to America and we settled in Wilmington. For I had to go into the first class in the lowest grade at school, because I could not speak English.”
“I had to learn the alphabet just like youngsters who were going to a school for the first time. As soon as I mastered English, though, I went ahead more rapidly, for the rabbi’s teaching had given me education along the lines that were necessary to me.”
Marritz is a walking advertisement for the destiny and glories of the melting pot. Energetic, good-looking, personable and with a talent for conversation and a penchant for the law. Mark assuaged some of the indignation that was wrought when we read the hooey that had been printed in those magazines.
Next we get a further advance back to normalcy when we bumped into Pat Iarossi. Pat is a barber but that doesn’t deter him from basking in the sunshine at Miami and thanking his lucky stars that his family moved from San Marco in Italy to Camden years ago.
Pat is another excellent example of the melting-pot. His barber-shop is now located at 600 North Third Street, site having been Pat’s for the past 14 years. Before that he had a shop on Front Street, where he barbered the native sons and daughters for 20 years.
Make no mistake, Pat has carried the tradition of the America that benefited him so much into his own activities. The years of service of his four employees amount to 52.
The oldest employee has been stropping the razors there for 18 years while the baby of the outfit, who is not so old either, has been employed by Pat for 10 years. Two others enjoy terms of 14 and 12 years.
Pat’s greatest memories cluster about Ann Pennington, Camden’s gift to the Follies and the stage, and the Dooleys, a theatrical family which also is a proud Camden possession.
“I used to cut Ann Pennington’s hair when she was a child,” Pat recalled. “And the Dooleys always made my shop their headquarters. Billy Dooley worked for me. The kids, six of them, trained in a patch we called the ‘cow lot.’ Rae and May were the two girls, while Johnny was the big shot of the boys.”
“They used to turn cartwheels right out in the lot there and come into my shop to do a little vocal rehearsing. Ann Pennington was always dancing, you couldn’t keep her feet still. I remember one day Ann, Johnny Dooley and a girl named Moore went over to Lubin’s in Philadelphia, trying to break into the movies.
“Lubin wouldn’t handle them and they all came crying into my shop.” Whereupon Pat produced a post card dated in 1911 showing Johnny Dooley starring in the old Bijou Theatre in Philadelphia.
So Pat has no envy of the thespians or of anybody else. Why should he—Miami is some place to spend the Winter.
Funeral of “Ike” Toy
Bridgeton Evening News —
One of the largest funerals witnessed in Camden for many months was that of Policeman Isaac Toy, which took place yesterday from his home, 604 South Third street. One of the most popular officers of the force and known throughout South Jersey as a base ball player, hundreds of persons viewed the body, which reposed in a quartered oak casket, almost hidden amid beautiful floral emblems.
Rev. Alfonso Dare, pastor of the Wiley M. E. Church, had charge of the services at the house. Mayor Charles H. Ellis, Chief of Police Elisha A. Gravenor and a squad of fifty officers attended in a body. There were also delegations from Massascit Tribe of Red Men, Camden Aerie of Eagles, the Third ward Republican Club and other organizations.
The pall-bearers were Policemen Harry Mines, Albert Shaw, Robert Colkett, Albert Keaser, William Todd and William Lyons. Interment was made in Harleigh Cemetery.
As the squad of officers were marching in the funeral procession Policeman Alonzo Dyer fell to the asphalted pavement at Broadway and Berkley street. A physician found the officer’s heart had been affected through an overdose of medicine he had taken for rheumatism. Dyer was taken to his home on Elm street.
Murder and Bloodshed in Camden Primary Elections
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Philadelphian Shot Dead, Another Fatally Wounded and a Policeman Terribly Slashed in Fights at the Republican Congressional Primaries
JOE GODDARD
Blood was shed in Camden city and county last night, the result of the fiercest political battle that was ever fought in the First Congressional district of New Jersey, and the sum total of the casualties is one man dead, another lying at the point of death in the Cooper Hospital, another, a policeman, on a cot near by, suffering from stab wounds, from which he is not likely to recover, and numerous cracked skulls.
So vigorously were the Republican primaries contested that numerous fights developed. Crowds of repeaters went from Philadelphia to Camden, and these were the cause of the numerous riots, for such they were, at the polling places.
With it all no one can yet positively tell who will receive the Congressional nomination at Woodbury to morrow. At midnight both the adherents of Congressman Loudenslager and the supporters of J. Alpheus Vansant were claiming the victory.
Shot and Killed
A few minutes before the closing of the polls at the Fifth precinct of the Third Ward, Camden, last night, John Morrisy, of Manayunk, wearing a Vansant badge, was shot and killed. During the melee Policeman Harry Miller, aged 40 years, of 321 Beckett street, was cut in the abdomen. Both were taken to Cooper Hospital.
Surgeon Stewart pronounced Morrisy dead on his arrival. Policeman Miller was operated on, and the surgeons say he has a fighting chance for his life.
The police have under arrest George Murray, colored, aged 35 years, of 649 Locust street, and Henrietta V. Bland, of 639 Locust street, who are said to be eye-witnesses to the shooting. The arrest of the man who it is claimed fired the fatal shot is, the police say, a question of a few hours.
Joe Goddard Shot
Joseph J. Goddard, aged 35 years, of Phoenixville, Pa., a once noted pugilist, was shot by Constable Robert Washington at “Dog Corner” during the primary election. The bullet, a thirty-two caliber, entered the left temple about an inch and a half above his eye and imbedded itself in his brain.
He was taken to Merchantville and treated by Dr. Lawrence and afterwards removed to Cooper Hospital. Surgeons there say he will die.
Washington immediately surrendered to Chief of Police Linderman, of Merchantville, was given a preliminary hearing before Justice Longstreth, and committed to the county jail.
Been Living at Matchtown
Goddard of late had been living with Benjamin Forrest, a saloonkeeper at Matchtown, a settlement just outside of Merchantville, and in Pensauken [sic] township. It is said he led a gang of repeaters to the “Dog Corner” primaries. Soon after their arrival a row was started and Washington felled to the ground by a blow from a base ball bat. While lying on the ground Goddard attempted to beat him and he fired the shot which will likely prove fatal.
During the melee Constable Isaac Fowler was stabbed in two places by an unknown man. The wounds are not considered serious. Fighting continued from the opening to the closing of the polls.
Ed. Matlack, of Dudley, was badly cut in a fight on the Camden line. He went to Merchantville and Dr. Jennings sewed six stitches in his wounds.
Morrisy’s Appearance
Morrisy, the dead man, was about 35 years old. He was in the company of several Philadelphians and spent nearly all the afternoon in the Third ward in the company of a policeman, by whom he and his companions were introduced as members of the Washington, D. C., police force on a short vacation.
The Third ward was the battleground of the Loudenslager-Vansant contest yesterday. A large majority of the city officials live there. From the minute of the opening of the polls in the various precincts there were outbreaks on either side that were only quelled by cooler heads.
It became noised about shortly after the polls opened that repeaters under the guidance of three Philadelphians, one of whom was colored, were at work in the ward.
Help Summoned
Shortly before 8 o’clock word was sent to the Second precinct of the Third ward by a police officer working in the interest of Vansant in the Fifth precinct that unless help arrived Loudenslager would carry the precinct.
In less than five minutes Policeman Edward Hartman, in citizen’s clothes, and several other men, one of whom was deceased, came on the scene. At that time there were at least 500 persons around the polls, many of whom were women.
What followed is told by John G. Helm, a butcher, of 600 South Third street, and Eli Hunt, son of Deputy Game Warden Hunt. Both agree that Morrisy attempted to vote. As he did so Policeman Robert Miller, a Loudenslager worker, took him by the arm and told him he could not vote. At that instant the policeman was struck by a blackjack and knocked towards the gutter. Policeman Albert Keaser, a Loudenslager worker, pushed his way into the crowd and tried to prevent trouble. Policeman Harry Miller, a Vansant worker, struck Keaser with a blackjack, knocking him to his knees. As Keaser fell he grappled with Harry Miller and they rolled on the pavement.
Took the Blackjack
Keaser took the blackjack away from his brother officer. In the meantime Policeman Robert Miller went into the thick of the fight and struck George Murray, now under arrest, over the eye with a blackjack. The man who was killed worked his way into the centre of Beckett street, and as he stood facing the crowd half a dozen pistols were drawn and five shots rang out in quick succession.
Morrisy staggered across Beckett street to an alley in the rear of the houses on the east side of Third street, reeled and fell to the ground. He was carried into the yard of one of the adjoining houses and the patrol wagon summoned.
Murderer Escaped
According to Mr. Helm, the colored man who fired the fatal shot ran down Beckett street to Locust street.
With the shooting of Morrisy the fight did not end. Help came to Policeman Keaser and during his rescue Policeman Harry Miller was cut across the abdomen a distance of about four inches.
Coroner F. Neall Robinson held a view on Morrisy’s body. He stated that the bullet pierced Morrisy’s thumb of his right hand and entered his body near the centre of his heart.
In the dead man’s clothes were found a 48-calibre centre fire revolver with the chambers filled, a note book with a number of addresses in Philadelphia, and a small photograph of two girls, one of whom is evidently his sister.
Mayor Investigates
Besides the investigation being conducted by the county authorities one is being made by order of Mayor Nowrey. According to a statement made by the latter official last night, all kinds of propositions had been made to him looking to the relieving from duty of a number of policemen, that they might take part in the primaries. He instructed the captains of police to see that all policemen should do duty on their respective shifts.
During the progress of the primaries a reporter of The Inquirer saw Morrisy and several others standing around the polls in the Second precinct of the Third ward. The reporter asked a prominent city official what the men were doing there. The official replied: “They are not here to vote. We heard an attempt was to be made to take these polls by force, and we’ve got them here to fight and hold our end up.”
When Assistant Prosecutor Archer asked Policeman Harry Miller in Cooper Hospital if he knew who the dead man was, he replied that he only knew him as Reddy, and that he came over from Philadelphia to help out in the Third ward.
Joe Goddard’s Career
Joe Goddard, who was born in Pyramid, N. S. W., November 25, 1861, came to this country in 1892. He claimed the Barrier championship, and under the direction of Billy Madden was touted as a world beater. He was present at the fight between Sullivan and Corbett at New Orleans, and subsequently challenged Corbett, but the latter would not accept. At that time there were many good judges of pugilism who really thought that Goddard would have a chance against the then champion, and the latter (Corbett) was severely criticised for not taking up Goddard’s defi, particularly as it was accompanied by a good sized forfeit. Later on it became apparent that Goddard was nothing but a big, strong fellow, willing to take a punching for the purpose of getting the coin. His most important fight, and the one that gave some prominence for a while, was with Peter Maher at Coney Island on December 8, 1892. Peter was knocked out in the third round after having Goddard at his mercy in the second. For the last five years or so Goddard has lived in Philadelphia or Phoenixville.
POLICEMAN HARRY MILLER.
Four Men Arrested in Shooting Threat
Camden Courier-Post —
Four men were arrested last night as the result of an alleged threat to shoot one of them.
Michael Di Orio, 30, of 245 Pine street, was held in $1000 bail on a charge of threatening to kill George Hettrick, 23, of 905 Moore street, who was held in $500 bail as a material witness to the case. Others held as witnesses are Ralph Di Servio, 21, of 307 Pine street, and James Liccketto, 24, of 640 South Third street.
Hettrick, according to Sergt. Gustav Koerner, said Di Orio threatened to “give him the works” while he was attending a party Monday night. The others were with the accused, Hettrick said. Detectives Walter Smith, John Trout and Marshall Thompson nabbed the trio at a restaurant and said Hettrick identified them at police headquarters.
607 South 3rd Street — Auto Mishaps Kill 3 as Gale Lashes Jersey
Camden Courier-Post —
Corito was killed when he was struck by an automobile while crossing Fourth street between Viola and Winslow streets Saturday night. It was raining heavily. Corito, a brick pointer, was a widower and is survived by four children.
Anthony Chico, 25, of 607 South Third street, driver of the car, took the victim to West Jersey Hospital, where he was pronounced dead. Chico was arrested and held in $1000 bail for the grand jury on a charge of manslaughter by automobile. He was also charged with driving without a license when police found he was carrying the license of his brother, Daniel, 29. The latter was ordered by Detective Edwin Mills to appear in police court this morning with Anthony.
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Michael Milas, 41, of 221 Lincoln avenue, Collingswood Heights.
Albert Corito, 46, of 1865 South Fourth street, Camden.
Joseph Brooks, 70, of 166 South Virginia avenue, Atlantic City.
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614 South 3rd Street — Joseph Sioli
Camden Courier-Post —
Joseph Sioli, 78, of 614 S. 3rd st., died Sunday in Cooper Hospital. A native of Italy, he lived in Camden 39 years.
Surviving are four daughters, Mrs. Anna Angelastro and Mrs. Lucy Martino, both of Camden, and Mrs. Rose Fisholi and Mrs. Frances Anastasia, both of Philadelphia; two sons, Anthony and Frank, both of Camden, and nine grandchildren.
Requiem high Mass will be celebrated Wednesday at 10 a. m. in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel R. C. Church. Relatives and friends will meet at 9 a. m. Wednesday in the Joseph A. and Frank V. Falco Funeral Home, 1018 S. 4th st., where they may call Tuesday night. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery.
637 South 3rd Street — Child Struck by Auto Succumbs in Hospital
Camden Post-Telegram —
CHILD STRUCK BY AUTO
SUCCUMBS IN HOSPITAL
Rocco Giacabona, seven years old, 637 South Third street, died in Cooper Hospital today from a fracture of the skull. The lad was struck by a motor truck at Third and Beckett streets, while returning home from school at noon yesterday.
Albert Stengle, driver, said the boy darted from behind a trolley car and ran into the side of the truck. He was held in $1,000 bail at police headquarters.
651 South 3rd Street — False Pretense Charge Holds Camden Woman
Camden Courier-Post —
False Pretense Charge
Holds Camden Woman
A charge of obtaining money under false pretenses against Mary Bisanti, 651 South Third street, today was referred to the grand jury for action by Municipal Judge Dzick
The complainant, John Catucci, of 409 Wharton street, Philadelphia, said she failed to yield title to a car he bought for $250 last October. A not guilty plea was entered by defense counsel. The defendant was permitted to remain free in custody of her attorney.
656 South 3rd Street — Here and There in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Thrown to the street when a trolley car struck an ice wagon in which he was riding, 5-year-old Camille Mercunkin, of 656 South Third street, was treated at Cooper Hospital for lacerations and bruises.
Accused of operating his automobile without lights, Herman Bernstein, aged 20 years, of 4181 Mantua avenue, Philadelphia, was yesterday fined $5 by Recorder Stackhouse.
Funeral services for Captain Robert L. Leyburne will be held this evening at the home of his son-in-law, County Clerk F. F. Patterson, 327 Cooper street, under the direction of Rev. R. E. Brestell, rector of St. Paul’s P. E. Church. Interment will be made tomorrow at Tamaqua.
Kicked by a horse, Frank Levin, aged 59 years, of Merchantville, was treated at Cooper Hospital for laceratnions [sic] of the arm.
His team struck by a trolley car, Anthony Kochoroski, aged 65 years, of 1045 Mechanic street, went to Cooper Hospital with lacerations of the scalp.
700 Block of South 3rd Street
704 South 3rd Street Late 1910s-1920s John Grassi.
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Take notice that Vasco’s Cafe, Inc., trading as Vasco’s Cafe, has applied to the Municipal Board of Alcoholic Beverage Control of the City of Camden, for a Plenary Retail Consumption license for premises situated at 713 South Third Street, Camden, New Jersey. The names and residences of all of the officers, directors and stockholders are: Armando Canzanese, 3217 Braxton Walk, Camden, N.J.; Kathryn Canzanese, 3217 Braxton Walk, Camden, N.J., and Eleanor B. Huber, 453 Dickinson Road, Oak Valley, N.J. Objections, if any, should be made immediately in writing to John T. Odorisio, Clerk of the City of Camden, New Jersey.
VASCO’S CAFE, INC. (Signed) KATHRYN CANZANESE, President, 3217 Braxton Walk, Camden, N.J. ($16.00)
700 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1870s–1980.
700 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1897–1929 | Harriet 'Hattie' L. Schotts |
702 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| late 1870s–1880s | John Foster |
703 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915 | James Falconiero |
| 1935–1962 | Achille Flamini & Family |
| 1935–1962 | Achille & Adelina D'Angelo Flamini |
| 1935–1962 | Vito Flamini |
| 1935–1962 | Angelo Flamini |
| 1935–1962 | Mario Flamini |
| 1935–1962 | Louis F. Flamini |
| 1935–1962 | Clenentine Flamini |
| 1935–1962 | Josephine Flamini |
| 1935–1962 | Anna Flamini |
704 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| late 1910s–1920s | John Grassi |
706 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Giacomo Daraio |
713 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910–1920 | Antonio DiPaolo |
| 1931 | Joseph Harris |
| 1933 | Frank Cipriani |
| 1939 | Vasco Canzanese |
| 1947 | Seven Brothers Cafe |
| 1956–1980 | Vasco's Cafe |
714 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1889 | William Deith |
703 South 3rd Street — Chemical Worker Tumbles Into Acid
Camden Post-Telegram —
CHEMICAL WORKER
TUMBLES INTO ACID
Suffering severe acid burns of the head, face and particularly of the eyes, James Falconey, aged 25 years, of 703 South Third street, was taken to Cooper Hospital yesterday from the plant of the General Chemical Company, head of Linden street. Whether the man’s sight will be permanently impaired as a result of his falling into a small tank of acid will not be known for a couple of days. In the meanwhile he is under observation.
It was while Falconey was working about the plant that he tripped and fell into the tank. The fact that he leaped out almost immediately is believed to have saved him from fatal burns. He was hurried to the hospital by the uptown ambulance crew who thought he had been fatally injured.
703 South 3rd Street — Man Seized After Chase Of 10 Miles
Camden Courier-Post —
Five Shots Fired At Speeder by Camden Cops
Two Camden policemen, firing five shots and traveling at speeds of almost 100 miles an hour, early today arrested a 22-year-old Camden man after a 10-mile chase ending in Berlin Township.
The driver, whom the officers charged they had to physically subdue, was identified as Louis F. Flamini, of 703 S. 3rd st. He was treated at Cooper Hospital for face injuries and jailed on charges of speeding, passing 14 red lights, resisting arrest and disorderly conduct.
Patrolmen David Kelly and Louis Prucella said that they first observed Flamini speeding west on Linden st. at 11th st. about 1.30 a. m. today.
Chase Starts at 1.30
They gave chase, according to their report, and Flamini turned south on 7th st. and headed out Haddon ave. at blazing speed.
At this point, Prucella said he fired three shots in the air but Flamini failed to stop.
The officers said the chase then led through Collingswood, Westmont and Haddonfield.
Warning Shots
At Ellis st. in Haddonfield, Kelly fired two warning shots, one of which struck the side of Flamini’s car, he reported, but the latter continued on out Ellis st. to Berlin rd. where he was finally run down at White Horse pike and Tansboro rd.
“He was abusive when he got out of the car, rushed at us and we had to subdue him,” Kelly reported.
The officers said they notified Berlin barracks state police who accompanied them into Camden with their prisoner.
800 Block of South 3rd Street
810 South 3rd Street. 1932 Josephine M. Chestnut. Camden Courier-Post June 4, 1932.
MARRIAGE LICENSES
PHILADELPHIA
Asbury Williams, 78, Camden, and Louise Kaye, 40, 1325 Roosevelt boulevard, Philadelphia.
WEST CHESTER
John E. Kenna, 23, and Gertrude M. Shand, 21, both of Atlantic City.
DOYLESTOWN, PA.
Anthony De Rico, 32, 229 E. Front St., Trenton, and Helen C. Packer, 22, 1810 Riverside Drive, Trenton.
Edward K. Thoday, 21, Salem, and Helen H. Klein, 21, 288 Walnut avenue, Trenton.
William Sabatino, 22, 101 Sweets avenue, and Rose De Feo, 21, 123½ Fountain avenue, Trenton.
ELKTON, MD.
Anthony S. Kwasizur, 21, 127 Pemberton street, and Josephine M. Chestnut, 19, 810 South Third street.
829 South 3rd Street. 1947 Joseph Valeriano aka Joe Reno.
830 South 3rd Street. 1918-1919 Marco Marino Saloon. 1947 Emmanuel Turse Cigar Store. 2003 Vacant.
845 South 3rd Street. 1923-1947 Pasquale Aruanno & Family Pasquale & Rosa Mongelli Aruanno Vito Aruanno Concetta "Jean" Aruanno Joseph Aruanno.
845 South 3rd Street. 1923-1947 Pasquale Aruanno & Family Pasquale & Rosa Mongelli Aruanno Vito Aruanno Concetta "Jean" Aruanno Joseph Aruanno Vito Aruanno & Family Dry Goods, variety store at 908 South 3rd Street Vito & Angelina T. Cassino Aruanno Rita Rose Aruanno Pasquale Salvatore Aruanno Vito Richard Aruanno Peter John Aruanno Joseph Aruanno. Left: Vito Aruanno.
COLLINGSWOOD—Lot 11, plan of Frank B Pyram—Turner E McMullin to John M Starr, $1.
CAMDEN—N side Atlantic, 220 ft E Norris—Rudolph Detwyler to Max Schoemen et al, $350.
CAMDEN—1129 Penn—Frank H. Smith to Mary Facht, $875.
CAMDEN—W side 35th, 220 ft N Herrison—Alfred Cramer, Jr. et als, excrs. to Charles W Lang et ux. $200.
CLEMENTON—Six acres, Emily Hawkes et al to Mary Carless, $400.
COLLINGSWOOD—Cor of Atlantic and Dayton—J Edward Fagen to Frank A Knight, $1100.
HADDON TOWNSHIP—S W cor Wyoming & Pine—Charles Bauer to Tillie Lieberstein, $4500.
CAMDEN—845-847 and 849 S Third—G Frank Travis to Joseph Palese. $13,000.
CAMDEN—321 Cherry—Rocco Fanelle to Domenico A Loscalzo, $1180.
GLOUCESTER CITY—S side Market, 60 ft E Third—Annie E Powell to Mary Lynch. $1650.
WINSLOW—10 acres—Joseph Torrieri to Seraffino Angeline et ux, $1.
849 South 3rd Street aka The Travis Building. 1910-1914 G. Frank Travis Steamship agent & undertaker.
Intersection of South 3rd Street & Spruce Street. 1900s-1930s Northwest Corner of South 3rd & Spruce Street - The Travis Building Photo from 1912.
IN A MIX-UP OF EGGS
Camden Man Was Nearly Smothered in a Runaway
Frightened at a passing train, a horse attached to a wagon driven by Matthew Menders, of 830 South Third street, Camden, ran away at Mt. Ephraim avenue and Mt. Vernon streets yesterday. The wagon was overturned, Menders being pinioned beneath. Policeman Appley found the man almost smothered with broken eggs, several crates of which had been in the wagon.
Aside from that Menders was not injured.
800 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1883–1971.
808 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1935 | Joseph Nuzzi |
809 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1901 | Joseph T. Daley |
| 1901 | Joseph T. & Emma Daley |
| 1901 | Walter J. Daley |
810 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Josephine M. Chestnut |
811–815 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | South Jersey Bottling Co. Warehouse |
812 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1883–1884 | John Wolff Saloon |
| 1912 | James Lomurno |
814 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Camden Fuel Supply |
815 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900s–1920s | Michele DiSalvio & Family |
| 1900s–1920s | Michele & Rose DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | Anna DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | Frank DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | Harry DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | Donata DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | Mary DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | alexander "al daley" DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | Daisey DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | Albert DiSalvio |
| 1900s–1920s | Rose DiSalvio |
824 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Henry Hayes, tavern |
| 1906–1947 | LaMaina Tavern |
829 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Joseph Valeriano, aka Joe Reno |
830 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Matthew Menders |
| 1918–1919 | Marco Marino Saloon |
| 1947 | Emmanuel Turse |
835 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1940s | Doganiero Family (grocery & barber) |
838 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1920 | Dominick Ceciro |
| 1910s–1920 | Dominick & Philomena Ceciro |
| 1910s–1920 | Anthony Ceciro |
| 1910s–1920 | Carl V. Ceciro |
| 1910s–1920 | James Cecero |
| 1910s–1920 | John Ceciro |
839 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910 | James Leon |
| 1923 | Rocco Benevento |
841 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1923 | John Russo, barber |
842 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1971 | Mrs. Elizabeth Reid |
845–847 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1923–1947 | Pasquale Aruanno |
848 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910–1959 | Emedio Cinelli |
849 South 3rd Street — Travis Building
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910–1914 | G. Frank Travis |
| 1914–1915 | Joseph Palese |
| 1940–1947 | Camden Summer Clothes Mfrs. |
850 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1935 | Morris Slim |
852 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1958 | James E. Hawkins |
Camden Policemen Raid a Sunday Liquor Seller
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Swoop Down on a Saloon Where Three Men Were About to Quench Their Thirst With Foaming Lager Beer. Other Violations Reported
Despite the vigorous crusade of the Camden County Law and Order League and the heavy penalty imposed by Judge Armstrong last week, when he sentenced several Camden saloonkeepers to State prison and the county jail for Sunday liquor selling, some liquor dealers continued to violate the law and defy the authorities yesterday. The police were on the alert, and swooped down on one saloon, where they said they found several men about to quench their thirst with beer. The place raided was the saloon of Henry Hayes, at 824 South Third street.
The raid was made by Captain Stanley, Sergeant Hyde and Policemen Cunningham, Nowrey, Weaver and Harvey, on a warrant issued by Justice Stackhouse, on complaint of Mrs. Ida Buckingham, of 25 North Second street, a member of the Salvation Army. The proprietor, Robert Forbes, John McKenna and William Ivins, who were in the barroom at the time, were taken in custody. Hayes was given a hearing at once by Justice Stackhouse. It was testified that on July 8 James Buckingham, husband of the complainant, went into Hayes’ saloon and bought several glasses of beer. When he got ready to leave Hayes declined to let him go, saying the police were watching on the outside. Buckingham swore he was kept a prisoner for over two hours.
“Judge, can’t I sue Hayes for falsely imprisoning my husband?” asked Mrs. Buckingham, at this point.
Captain Stanley was then sworn, and testified that he saw six colored men come out of Hayes’ gate while he was waiting for an opportunity to make the raid, and then McKenna, Forbes and Ivins went in and he followed them. This was a signal to the policemen in waiting, who jumped an adjoining fence, and, pushing their way by the person tending the back door. When they entered Hayes was back of the bar. Captain Stanley said Hayes had three glasses of beer in his hand, and placed them in front of the men just as the policemen came in.
“I got between the men and the beer and the officers took charge of the barroom,” said Captain Stanley. “I know it was beer because I tasted it. That is something I have not done for over twenty years.”
Sergeant Hyde and the policemen corroborated Captain Stanley as to the facts of the raid and two of the policemen testified that it was beer which Hayes placed on the counter.
When McKenna, Forbes and Ivins were asked if they had anything to say Mrs. Hayes tried to stop them from testifying. Chief of Police Foster threatened her with arrest and as she would not desist he put her out of the hearing room. McKenna was the only one of the three to testify. He said he ordered the beer, but did not have time to pay for it before the policemen came in. Hayes denied selling beer to Buckingham on July 8.
Captain Stanley then made a charge against Hayes of selling liquor yesterday and he pleaded not guilty. He was committed in default of $500 bail. The other three prisoners were held in their own recognizance to appear when wanted as witnesses.
The reports of the captains and sergeants of police to Chief Foster last night show that six saloonkeepers in the southern part of the city were selling liquor yesterday.
First Dry Sunday in Half a Century
Gloucester City Saloonkeepers Dispensed Soft Drinks or Closed Their Places
For the first time in fifty years Gloucester City experienced a dry Sunday yesterday. The sentence of several Camden saloonkeepers to imprisonment for Sunday liquor selling had its effect and at last the Camden County Law and Order League crusade against violators of the excise laws is bearing fruit.
“Positively no intoxicating liquors sold to-day. All kinds of soft drinks for sale, and birch beer on draught,” was the sign displayed on many of the summer gardens along the Gloucester City beach yesterday. The hotelkeepers had their doors thrown wide open so that all who passed could see what was going on inside. Many of the liquor dealers, instead of dispensing “soft” drinks to the thirsty, closed their saloons and went away for the day.
There were a number of Law and Order agents about looking for evidence of Sunday liquor selling, but they met with little success.
Louis Cavallo Marries Miss Jennie Maroccia
Camden Courier-Post —
More than 1500 guests attended a reception following the wedding last night of Miss Jennie Maroccia, 822 South Third street, and Louis Cavallo, 314 Kaighn avenue, which was held at the Sons of Italy Hall, Fourth and Spruce streets. The ceremony was performed in Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Fourth and Division streets, by Rev. John Prosseda.
The bride and groom cut a five-foot wedding cake. The hall was gayly decorated. William Troncone led the grand march. Guests from New York, Atlantic City and Hammonton and representatives of virtually every Italian organization in Camden attended both the wedding and reception.
Richard Troncone. 336 Spruce street, was best man. Rocco Palese and Nicholas Martella, 411 Viola street, were second and third best men. Miss Rose Marini was maid of honor. The ushers were Daisy Pucci, Mary Doria, Lilian Geordano [sic] and Grace Merocra. After a few weeks Mr. and Mrs. Cavallo will reside at 1204 South Third street.
811 –815 South 3rd Street — Legal Notice: South Jersey Bottling Co.
Camden Courier-Post —
NOTICE OF APPLICATION
Take notice that Ursula Moles, Vito Moles, Lawrence J. Moles and Frank Paul Moles, a partnership, (Trading as South Jersey Bottling Co.) have applied to the State Commissioner of Alcoholic Beverage Control for a State Beverage Distributor’s License for premises situated at 811-813-815 South Third St. and 262-264 and first floor 266 Pine St., Camden, N. J., and to maintain a salesroom at first floor 266 Pine St., Camden, N. J. Objections, if any, should be made immediately in writing to the State Commissioner of Alcoholic Beverage Control, 1060 Broad St., Newark, N. J.
(Signed) URSULA MOLES, 266 Pine St., Camden, N. J.
VITO MOLES, 1240 Princess Ave., Camden, N. J.
LAWRENCE J. MOLES, 1345 Decatur St., Camden, N. J.
FRANK PAUL MOLES, 527 Pine St., Camden, N. J.
($7.20)
812 South 3rd Street — Police raid on alleged speak-easy at 812 South Third street
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Police Captain Stanley and a squad of officers raided the alleged “speak-easy” kept by James La Moeno, at 812 South Third street, yesterday. Beside La Moeno four other men were arrested. A large quantity of beer, wine and whiskey was confiscated.
839 South 3rd Street — Item on James Leon jumping from a trolley car
Philadelphia Inquirer —
James Leon, 12 years old, of 839 South Third street, jumped from a trolley car directly in front of Motor Cycle Policeman Ray at Broadway and Royden streets yesterday. At the Homeopathic Hospital it was found he had contusion of the right shoulder.
842 South 3rd Street — 4 Camden Homes Damaged by Fire
Camden Courier-Post —
Four Camden homes were damaged yesterday by two fires which possibly were caused by carelessness, fire officials said.
A fire at the two-story frame home of Mrs. Maria George at 706 Mt. Vernon St. spread to a home at 708 and to a vacant house at 704. An alarm was struck at 11:59 a.m.
Battalion Fire Chief John Mojck, who said the fire apparently started in a rear kitchen at 706, said it possibly was caused by careless smoking or by children playing with matches. No one was injured.
Possible careless smoking also was blamed for a fire which apparently started on a windowsill in a second-floor rear bedroom at 842 S. 3rd St., according to Battalion Fire Chief Thomas Blair.
Occupant of the two-story brick row home is Mrs. Elizabeth Reid. No one was injured in the fire, which was reported at 11:13 a.m.
848 South 3rd Street — Mrs. Giovannina Cinelli
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Giovannina Cinelli, 70, died Monday in her home, 843 S. 3rd st., after a long illness. Born in Italy, she lived in Camden 46 years. She was a member of the Aussunta Society of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church.
Surviving are her husband, Emedio; three daughters, Mrs. Anna Sindoni and Mrs. Jennie Giannavei, both of S. Merchantville, and Mrs. Vera Salvioni, of Camden; one step-daughter, Mrs. Lucy Bonelli, of Pennsauken; three stepsons, William and Phillip Cinelli, of Camden and John Cinelli, of Collingswood; fourteen grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Solemn requiem Mass will be celebrated at 11 a. m. Thursday in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church. Friends will meet at 10 a. m. in the Bocco Funeral Home, 4th and Walnut sts., where friends may call Wednesday evening. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery, Delaware Township.
852 South 3rd Street — George Tribbett Held for Grand Jury
Camden Courier-Post —
George Tribbett, 27, of the 500 block Liberty st., was held without bail for the grand jury on charges of atrocious assault and battery. He was arrested on complaint of James E. Hawkins, of 854 S. 3rd st. Hawkins said Tribbett assaulted him in a taproom on Kaighns ave. near 6th st. on Friday night.
Third & Cherry Streets — Camden Police Active
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Two More Sunday Raids on Alleged
Disorderly Houses
The Camden police, following plans to wipe out disorderly houses in the city, made two raids early yesterday morning. They were conducted by Police Captain Stanley. The first place raided was at 519 Liberty street, where George Forman, the alleged proprietor, was captured, together with Stanley Grey, Joseph Morton and John McIntire.
The other raid was at Third and Cherry streets, a house alleged to be kept by Jennie Hansey, colored. The police arrested her and Lizzie Stevenson, Alice Moore, Alfred Davis, John Daisy, Jeremiah James, Manuel Nash and James Houser, all colored.
900 Block of South 3rd Street
908 & 910 South 3rd Street, October 3, 2011. 1943-1952 Vito Aruanno & Family Dry Goods, variety store at 908 South 3rd Street Vito & Angelina T. Cassino Aruanno Rita Rose Aruanno Pasquale Salvatore Aruanno Vito Richard Aruanno Peter John Aruanno Joseph Aruanno. October 3, 2011. 910 South 3rd Street was abandoned and subsequently vandalized in the late 2010s. On October 3, 2011 a small trash fire in the basement was extinguished by a mutual aid Fire company from Gloucester City, Camden's Fire Department being then occupied by a fire at 738 Walnut Street . Photograph taken October 3, 2011.
908 & 910 South 3rd Street. December 22, 2005.
910 & 912 South 3rd Street. December 22, 2005.
Looking East on joint alley from South 3rd Street. December 22, 2005.
Looking East on joint alley from South 3rd Street. September 1, 2006. Photo by Enrico Doganiero.
912 South 3rd Street. December 22, 2005.
913 South 3rd Street. 1881-1887 Joseph A. Till.
JOSEPH A. TILL,
Shaving & Hair Cutting Saloon,
913 SOUTH THIRD STREET,
CAMDEN, N. J.
Ladies' Hair Trimming and Shampooing a Specialty.
Tobacco and Spanish Hand-Made Cigars.
COPYRIGHT 1881 BY H.N. PETER.
913 South 3rd Street. 1959 Unique Italian Bakery.
WOodlawn 4-9589
Unique Italian Bakery
913 South Third Street
Camden, N. J.
924 South 3rd Street. 1955 Law-Mar Manufacturing Company. 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages Ad.
927 South 3rd Street. 1904-1906 George Owens Addison & Family George & Emma V. Garwood Addison George O. Addison Jr. Matilda Addison John T. Addison.
900 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1860s–1959.
900–906 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1860s–1870s | Adam Kolb Sr. |
| 1883–1884 | John Lack |
| 1895–1896 | John McIntyre |
| 1906–1914 | Joseph Palese |
| 1918–1919 | Antonio Abbott |
| 1926–1929 | Antonio Abbott |
| 1931–1970 | Rocco Palese |
| 1947–1970 | Palese's Cafe |
901–905 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Attilio Piarulli, gas station |
907 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1911 | Francisco Bucci |
908 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1869 | George Horneff |
| 1882–1910s | Michael H. Lindsey & Family |
| 1882–1910s | Michael H. & Martha LIndsey |
| 1882–1910s | Fannie Lindsey |
| 1882–1910s | Edward Lindsey |
| 1882–1910s | Harry Lindsey |
| 1915 | Samuel Valentine |
| 1943–1952 | Vito Aruanno & Family (dry goods) |
| 1943–1952 | Vito & Angelina T. Cassino Aruanno |
| 1943–1952 | Rita Rose Aruanno |
| 1943–1952 | Pasquale Salvatore Aruanno |
| 1943–1952 | Vito Richard Aruanno |
| 1943–1952 | Peter John Aruanno |
| 1943–1952 | Joseph Aruanno |
910 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1860s–1871 | John George Holl |
| 1917–1959 | Antonio Abbott (Abate) & Family (confectioner) |
| 1917–1959 | Antonio & Ursula Abbott |
| 1917–1959 | Frank Abbott |
| 1917–1959 | Anna Abbott Scena |
| 1917–1959 | Rose Abbott DiMona |
912 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878 | James Rutherford, second-hand dealer |
| 1902 | George Harris |
| 1913 | Wilson James |
913 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1881–1887 | Joseph A. Till |
| 1899–1913 | Aaron Pinsky |
| 1959 | Unique Italian Bakery |
914 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900 | Pearl Welcome |
915–917 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Schmidt Brewery Garage |
918 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878 | Solomon Clark |
920 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878 | William Campbell, second-hand dealer |
921 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1926 | Michael Daley, cafe |
922 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1885–1931 | John H. Carroll, cafe |
| 1940 | Mrs. Rachel Pastor, bar |
| 1936 | Johnny Carroll's |
| 1936 | William Asheville |
| 1936 | Henry Williams & Family |
| 1936 | Henry & Ida Williams |
| 1947 | No Bar |
| 2003 | Gone |
924 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Max Sbar, dry goods |
| 1936 | Joseph Sbar |
| 1947 | Mrs. Esther Sbar, dry goods |
925 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Joseph Buck, oysters |
927 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1904–1906 | George Owens Addison & Family |
| 1904–1906 | George & Emma V. Garwood Addison |
| 1904–1906 | George O. Addison Jr. |
| 1904–1906 | Matilda Addison |
| 1904–1906 | John T. Addison |
| 1917–1941 | Rocco LaBattaglia & Family |
| 1917–1941 | Rocco & Mary LaBattaglia |
| 1917–1941 | Leonard LaBattaglia |
| 1917–1941 | Lucy LaBattaglia Leo |
| 1917–1941 | Fannie LaBattaglia Morelli |
929 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Mrs. Pauline Balducci & Family |
| 1930 | Margaret Balducci |
| 1930 | Philip Balducci |
| 1930 | Sophia Balducci Guidotti |
| 1930 | Joseph & Sophia Balducci Guidotti |
| 1930 | Felix J. Guidotti |
| 1930 | Joseph Guidotti |
| 1930 | Lena Guidotti |
| 1930 | James Guidotti |
| 1930 | William Guidotti |
| 1952 | Mrs. Theresa Auletto |
931 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Mrs. Pauline Balducci, fruit |
933 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Cosparo Esposito |
935 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Anthony Rosso |
937 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Vito Fruggiero |
| 1941 | Mrs. Accursia Lazzarone |
939 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Dominico Costino |
941 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Matthew Coccia |
943 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Nicholas Colanesti |
945 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1908–1912 | Joseph T. Daley & Family |
| 1908–1912 | Joseph T. & Emma Daley |
| 1908–1912 | Walter J. Daley |
947 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918 | Rose Arcani |
| 1929 | John Scavette |
949 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | John Leo |
| 1933 | Louis Brown |
951 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | American Stores grocery |
Mrs. A. Lazzarone
Camden Courier-Post —
Mrs. Accursia Lazzarone, 59, of 937 South Third street, died Monday after a brief illness. The funeral will be held Saturday at 8.30 a. m. from the home of a daughter, Mrs. Calogera Costantino, 617 Line street, with a Solemn Requiem Mass at the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel at 9.30 o’clock. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Mrs. Lazzarone, the widow of Stefano Lazzarone, leaves three other daughters, Mrs. Josephine Parker and Mrs. Jennie Gariano of Philadelphia; Mrs. Mary Rossi, Westmont, and eight grandchildren.
Lazzarone Death Notice
Camden Courier-Post —
LAZZARONE—On July 28, 1941, Accursia, beloved wife of the late Stefano Lazzarone, age 59 years.
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral on Saturday morning, at 8.30 o’clock, from the residence of her daughter, Mrs. Calogera Costantino, 617 Line St., Camden. Solemn Requiem Mass at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church at 9.30 a. m. Interment Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call Friday evening.
Cases Treated at the Homeopathic
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Claiming that he was banged brutally i nthe [sic] mouth wiht [sic] a pair of the barbaric bludgeon, brass knuckles, Wilson James, aged 61 years, of 912 South Third street, had badly lacerated lips dressed at W. J. Homoeopathic Hospital on Saturday night.
Additional cases cared for since late on Saturday afternoon are as follows:
Maggie O’Neil, aged 42 years, of 126 Arch street, ran needle in right thumb and fell against a door, causing contusions of right leg.
John Yeager, aged 32 years, of 1112 Line street, fell from a wheel and sustained contusions of left shoulder.
Charles MacFarlane, aged 62 years, of 1034 South Fourth street, plank fell on him and lacerated scalp.
Round-Up by Police Over in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Vigorous Crusade Against Vice in a Down-Town District
Several Persons Were Captured in Raids and Held on Policy and Disorderly Charges
Police Captain Stanley, of Camden, began a crusade yesterday against alleged policy-writers and speak-easies in this district. With a squad of officers and fortified with warrants, sworn out by Charles W. Noyes, an agent of the Law and Order League, Captain Stanley raided the houses of Pearl Welcome, colored, at 914 South Third street, and Lizzie Purnell, colored, at Second and Division streets. The alleged proprietresses and several other persons were arrested and a quantity of policy paraphernalia was seized.
Charles Green, white, was arrested at Eighth street and Kaighn avenue, on a charge of being a “writer.”
Lizzie Purnell was committed to the county jail in default of $500 bail, on the policy charge, and $1000 bail on charges of maintaining a disorderly house and selling liquor without a license. Pearl Welcome was committed in default of $500 bail, and Green was held for a hearing to-day. All the warrants were issued by Justice Stackhouse.
Last evening Captain Stanley made another series of raids on warrants sworn out by Noyes before Stackhouse. The following were captured and committed to the county jail on the charges named: Maud Moore, alias Givens, 721 Baxter, selling without license; Jennie Wilson, alias Rose Mitchell, 721 Baxter, Sunday selling and selling without license; Mary Susan Jones, 70[?] Baxter, selling without license; William Lockman, 275 Spruce street, selling without license; John and Kate Eckert, 738 and 739 Sycamore street, disorderly house, Sunday selling and selling without license; Robert Mathews, 700 Sycamore street, Sunday selling and selling without license; Norman Simmons, 701 Baxter street, selling without license and Sunday selling; and Maggie Dilks, 705 Baxter street, selling without license.
The prisoners were committed in default of $500 bail on each charge.
900–906 South 3rd Street — Lizzie Worthington Burned to Death
Philadelphia Inquirer —
From burns sustained when her apron string caught fire at 906 South Third street, where she was employed, Lizzie Worthington, 42 years old, colored, of 328 Camac street, Philadelphia, died at the Cooper Hospital. She was taken to the hospital Friday.
907 South 3rd Street — Italians Mobbed in Camden Raid
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Nine Italians and six cases of beer were captured yesterday in a raid made by the Camden police on the place of Francisco Bucci, of 907 South Third street. It is alleged the occupants of Bucci’s home were having rather a hilarious time when Captain Stanley and a squad descended on them. The alleged revellers will be given a hearing before the Recorder today.
908 South 3rd Street — Man Attacked on Street
Philadelphia Inquirer —
With eight knife thrusts, some of them requiring half a dozen stitches, in his neck and shoulder, Samuel Valentine, aged 26 years, of 908 South Third street, Camden, was taken to Cooper Hospital yesterday. Although he lost much blood and was severely injured he refused to remain in the hospital after having his wounds dressed He said he was attacked while walking along Second street near Pine. Dominick Stepi, aged 48 years, of 337 Lane street, was arrested by Policeman Thompson on suspicion of knowing something about the attack
Burglary Victims Recover $4360 In Stolen Goods
Camden Courier-Post —
Display at City Hall Rivals Oriental Bazaar In Variety Shown
Loot valued at $4360 by detectives was returned to its owners in detective headquarters in city hall Tuesday night.
Headquarters resembled an Oriental bazaar as the stolen articles were spread over seven tables, two large desks, and hung on clothing racks.
Detectives are holding George Wilmer, 30, of 521 Liberty street, a parolee, whom they suspect of being Camden’s daytime “phantom burglar” who has been plaguing the department for the last three months. To date police say they have charged Wilmer with 29 counts of breaking and entering and two counts of attempting to break and enter.
Captain of Detectives Thomas Murphy said that Tuesday night’s display was only a portion of the loot and that police believe Wilmer pawned a quantity of the goods in Philadelphia. They also suspect he sold some to secondhand and antique dealers, Murphy said.
The display that met the claimants when they went to headquarters looked like a mail order catalog come to life. There were women’s dresses, men’s suits and top coats, several types of radios, an oil space heater, binoculars, cameras; costume jewelry, empty wallets and even a clothes chest with the clothing still in it.
Missing from the collection were two parakeets which detectives returned to their owner Thursday because—unlike the other items—the birds had to be fed.
Assisting Capt. Murphy in the identification and return of the stolen items were: Detective Sergeants Earl Quinton, William Neal, William Kelly and Clifford Carr, and Detectives William O’Brien, John Huston, August Pfleiderer, George Ellis and Marshall Thompson.
Crowd Views Articles
According to Capt. Murphy the claimants, their addresses, the stolen objects and their estimated value are:
Mrs. Waid Young, 526 Washington street, electric sewing machine, woman’s jewelry, $358; Miss Catherine Sparks, 110 South Fourth street, table model radio, $19; Mrs. Ethel Kelly, 1068 Princess avenue, jewelry, $155; Mrs. Leo Jekel, 548 Haddon avenue, table model radio, portable typewriter, woman’s ring, $85; William Snyder, 1304 Park boulevard, table model radio, $55; Milfred Layser, 416 Chambers avenue, carpenter’s tools, a dress coat, $175; James Glennon, 802 Mt. Ephraim avenue, jewelry, $300; Mrs. Williams Cogswell, 914 Linden street, clothing and jewelry, $1242.50.
Mrs. Lena Bruns, 772 Line street, metal clothes chest with clothes, tool chest, jewelry, $125; Mrs. Anna Halliwell, 870 Haddon avenue, foreign money, no value given; Mrs. Martha Oehlert, 643 Mt. Vernon street, oil space heater, jewelry, $138; Mrs. William J. McCaffrey, 1030 Spruce street, antique clock, $400; Mrs. Lillian Simons, 412 Taylor avenue, clothing and jewelry, $20.
Veteran Boxers’ association, 868 Mt. Ephraim avenue, record player, amplifier and recorder, $100; John McNutt, 1620 Ferry avenue, jewelry and clothing, $300; Romeo Simonelli, 404 Haddon avenue, men’s and women’s clothing, $94; Mrs. Theresa Auletto, 929 South Third street, jewels, $405; Mrs. Vera Doughton, 1023 South Sixth street, table model radio, $16; Emidio Giorgi, 1353 Princess avenue, clarinet and man’s suit, $125.
Camden Detectives Get Escaped Felon
Camden Courier-Post —
Trap Police Character in Phone Booth at Airport Circle
A Camden police character, who escaped Sunday from the Bordentown state prison farm, was captured late yesterday by two city detectives in a telephone booth of an airport circle taproom while he was talking with a former girl friend.
The convict, Anthony Mona, 26, of 947 South Third street, who had served only a month of a two-to-three year sentence for larceny of a saddle and violation of parole, was trapped in the booth and meekly submitted for arrest.
Detective Sgt. Thomas Murphy and Detective Clifford Carr captured Mona about an hour after they received a tip he had been seen in East Camden and Pennsauken township. On this information John L. O’Hara, principal keeper of the state prison, and Thomas A. Mahaney, parole officer, came to Camden to aid in the search. Last night they took Mona back to prison.
Mona made himself conspicuous by wearing a heavy dark beard and dark glasses. The detectives first checked the escaped convict’s home and were told he had not visited there. A second unsuccessful clue led to a house on River avenue near Thirtieth street.
Warned that Mona was armed the detectives received a “sure tip” he was seen entering the Pennsauken taproom. Detective Capt. Gus Koerner told Murphy and Carr to fire their pistols if Mona moved to use a revolver.
Entering the taproom the detectives converged on the telephone booth with drawn revolvers. They kicked in the booth door. Mona was heard to say to the woman he was talking with: “Here’s the law now. No use talking now.”
Mona fled from Bordentown while doing farm work. He was sentenced by Judge Sheehan Nov. 17, 1943, after his conviction on a charge of stealing a saddle from a Haddonfield riding academy. The court suspended sentence and fined Mona $100, payable in weekly installments. When he failed to keep up the payments he was brought before Judge Sheehan on May 10 and sentenced to serve the term.
Mona’s Camden police record dates from Feb. 9, 1938 when he was arrested for a holdup. On March 2, he was given a suspended sentence of 18 months to three years. In February, 1940, he was arrested on a statutory charge and a support order was later made against him. He was arrested on May 8, 1940, on an assault and battery charge. No disposition was made of this charge.
Picked up as a fugitive on Jan. 1, this year, he was turned over to state police of the Columbus station. On Feb. 3, he was arrested on suspicion in Pennsauken township and later fined $10 and costs for failing to have his driver’s license.
910 South 3rd Street — Antonio Abbott Dies at Age of 85
Camden Courier-Post —
Antonio Abbott (Abate), 85, father of Public Works Director Frank Abbott, died Monday night, in his home, 910 S. 3rd st.
A native of Italy, he came to the U. S. 75 years ago and was a resident of Camden for 65 years. He operated a candy store at the 3rd st. address and was a member of the Basilicate Society of Camden.
He is survived also by two daughters, Mrs. Anna Scena, of Camden, and Mrs. Rose DiMona, of Haddonfield, a brother, Rocco, of Westmont; twenty-three grandchildren and thirty-three great-grandchildren.
Relatives and friends will meet at 9 a m. Friday in the Bocco Funeral Home, 4th and Walnut sts. Requiem high Mass will be celebrated at 10 o’clock in Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church.
A viewing will be held Thursday night in the funeral home and burial will be in the Calvary Cemetery, Delaware Township.
913 South 3rd Street — Carl Green Pleads Guilty
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Pleading guilty to a charge of breaking and entering the store of Aaron Pinski, 913 S. Third street, and stealing tobacco, cigars and cigarettes, Carl Green, a negro youth, told Recorder Stackhouse that it was his intention to start in business for himself. He was committed without bail.
922 South 3rd Street — John H. Carroll’s Cafe
922 South 3rd Street. 1885–1931: John H. Carroll, cafe. Camden Daily Telegram, November 2, 1893. View is of the Cherry Street side of the bar.
922 South 3rd Street — Registrations From John Carroll’s Saloon
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Of the seventeen men registered from John Carroll’s saloon, at 922 South Third street, only five, it is said, are entitled to vote. Notices were left at the place yesterday for the other twelve men to appear in person and show cause why their names should not be stricken from the list.
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922 South 3rd Street — Dies of Heart Attack
Camden Courier-Post —
Henry Williams, 35, of 922 South Third street, died suddenly at his home last night. His wife, Ida, told police he suffered a heart attack. The body was removed to Cooper hospital morgue. Coroner Charles H. Jackson will perform an autopsy today.
924 South 3rd Street — Joseph Sbar Petroleum Products Advertisement
Camden Courier-Post —
JOSEPH SBAR
924 South Third Street
PETROLEUM PRODUCTS OF EVERY DESCRIPTION
LIQUID FUELS
PHONES: CAMDEN 3572
KEYSTONE 2-5723
927 South 3rd Street — Rocco La Battaglia
Camden Courier-Post —
Rocco LaBattaglia, 75, a resident of Camden more than 30 years, died Monday at his home, 927 South Third street, after a brief illness. The funeral will be tomorrow, with Solemn Requiem Mass at the Church of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel at 9.30 a. m. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery. Surviving are his widow, Mary, and three children, Mrs. Lucy Leo, Mrs. Fannie Morelli, and a son, Leonard.
1000 Block of South 3rd Street
1015 South 3rd Street 1875-2007 Richard Fetters Public School.
1000 Block of 3rd Street.
HOSPITAL CASES
COOPER
Russell Edwards, 38, of 1013 Spruce street, cut arm.
Lillie Sutton, 23, of 1027 South Sixth street, cut leg.
Anna Albano, 11, of 413 Line street, cut foot.
Stanley Cappelli, 8, of 332 Clinton street, cut foot.
Joseph Amato, 15, of 625 Line street, cut foot.
David Lucnio, 5, of 615 Newton avenue, cut chest.
Gloria Katz, 3, of 451 Atlantic avenue, dog bite of ear.
Alberta Cunningham, 8, of 217 Mt. Vernon street, dog bite of wrist.
Jerry Neisner, 5, of 1030 North street, dog bite of hand.
Patricia Titus, 8, of 2005 Arlington street, dog bite of arm.
William Baker, 6, of 819 North Sixth stret [sic], fractured arm.
James Prococci, 14, of 1028 South Third street, fractured arm.
John Bray, 12, of 2733 River avenue, fractured arm.
WEST JERSEY
Frank Paradise, 16, of 1207 Van Hook street, puncture wound of foot.
Joy Blair, 18, of Eldridge avenue, Collingswood, cut ankle.
Leon Milcarek, 28, of 825 Lawrence street, cut nose.
J. T. Hill, 60, of 453 Haddon avenue, cut wrist.
Intersection of South 3rd Street & Mt. Vernon Street. Looking East on Mount Vernon from the 200 Block - August 2011. Southwest Corner - August 16, 2011 -. Northwest Corner - Richard Fetters School - August 16, 2011 -. Northeast Corner - August 16, 2011 -. Southeast Corner - August 16, 2011 -.
1024 South 3rd Street. Photograph Taken August 16, 2011.
1024, 1036 & 1026 South 3rd Street. Photograph Taken August 16, 2011.
10 28 South 3rd Street. 1930s-1960 Luigi Procacci & Family Luigi & Vinzera Procacci Cataldo Procacci -Anthony Procacci Nancy Procacci - Mary Procacci James Procacci - Michael Procacci Anita Procacci. Luigi Procacci and his sons Tallie, Jimmy and Mike. He had a produce company Luigi Procacci and Sons Inc. and later called it Mt. Vernon Tomato Company-. Rose Delle Donne January 2015. Photo Courtesy of Ros Delle Donne.
10 28 South 3rd Street. 1930s-1960 Luigi Procacci & Family Luigi & Vinzera Procacci Cataldo Procacci -Anthony Procacci Nancy Procacci - Mary Procacci James Procacci - Michael Procacci Anita Procacci. Cataldo "Tallie" Procacci (seated) & Anthony Procacci. Photo Courtesy of Ros Delle Donne.
1030 South 3rd Street. 1930s-1940s Antonio DiBartolomeo & Family owner Chestnut Coal & Fuel Co. Antonio & Maria DiBartolomeo Charles DiBartolomeo Philip DiBartolomeo Joseph L. DiBartolomeo Marietta DiBartolomeo Rosina DiBartolomeo Antoinette DiBartolomeo Anthony DiBartolomeo Jr.
1030 South 3rd Street. Technician Fourth Class Joseph L. DiBartolomeo.
Camden Witnessed Greatest Demonstration of Its Kind Since Gen. Sewell’s Burial
THOUSANDS PAID TRIBUTE TO DEAD
CROWD ABOUT THE FOSTER HOME AND PICTURE OF THE DEAD CHIEF
Not since the memorial funeral of United States Senator William J. Sewell has Camden witnessed such an expression of regret and sorrow as was evidenced at the obsequies of Chief of Police John Foster, which took place from his home, 292 Mt. Vernon street, yesterday afternoon. Practically all Camden paid lasting tribute to the stricken chief, who had been one of the most popular officials of the city. From other places, too, came many who swelled the throng about the house until the streets were literally packed with those anxious to give evidence of the high esteem in which they held the man.
From Philadelphia came Superintendent of Police John B. Taylor, a personal friend of Chief Foster; Captain James Hamm, Captain Dungan, Captain Campbell, Captain Callahan and thirty-four lieutenants, all in uniform. Baltimore, Washington, Norristown, Trenton, Newark, Jersey City and other places were represented by police officials. City, county and State officers were there and everyone unmistakably demonstrated the regard and respect in which he held Chief Foster, who had made such a valiant but fruitless battle against death.
Thousands Viewed Remains
From 7 to 9 o’clock Saturday night, all of yesterday morning and until the service began in the afternoon a constant stream of persons in all walks of life passed through the house, taking a last view of he who lay so peacefully amid a profusion of flowers. It is conservatively estimated that between 10,000 and 15,000 persons viewed the body. Thousands more would have done likewise, for the line constantly increased, until it reached a block or more. The doors were finally closed to permit the conducting of the services.
In a full dress black suit the body reposed in a handsome mahogany casket, with silver trimmings. On the cover of the casket was a silver plate, bearing this simple inscription:
John Foster
Born October 5, 1839.
Died March 1, 1906.
The features were life-like and gave little evidence of the weeks of intense suffering through which Chief Foster passed before the end came. At the head of the casket stood Policeman Albert Shaw, while at the foot was Policeman Camillus Appley. At the doors on guard were Policemen George Kappel, George Kleaver, Albert Snow and Casper Hart. Captain Arthur Stanley had charge of the detail of officers.
Wealth of Flowers
Surrounding the casket and extending around the walls of the room were beautiful floral emblems, roses, carnations, lillies, and in fact every variety. Some of the designs and those who contributed them follow: The patrolmen, “Gates Ajar,” six feet tall and composed of American Beauty roses, lilies of the valley, and surmounted by four white doves; Fifth Ward Republican Club, an immense urn of galax leaves and assorted flowers; Fireside New Years’ Association, a banner piece of roses, carnations, lilies of the valley and narcissus blooms; the Camden reporters of the local and Philadelphia newspapers, a four-foot scroll of galax leaves, in the centre of which was a shield of violets with a band of white carnations, on which was inscribed, “Our Friend;” from the daughters of Chief Foster, “Gates Ajar,” composed of Easter lilies, roses, carnations, daffodils, narcissus and asparagus ferns; from Mrs. Foster, the widow, a pillow of roses, carnations and lilies of the valley. Beautiful designs were also given by Mayor Charles H. Ellis, the International Association of Police Chiefs, Ionic Lodge of Masons, First Italian Republican Club, the Tall Cedars of Lebanon, Massoit Tribe of Red Men, John Carroll, John R. Campbell and various city officials. These flowers filled two carriages and a patrol wagon.
Services at the House
The services at the house took place at 2 o’clock and were in charge of Rev. Gilbert R. Underhill, rector of St. John’s P. E. Church. After the family had taken the last view the casket was borne to the hearse by Sergeant Albert Gravenor and Policeman John Brothers, representing the Police Department; former Senator Maurice A. Rogers and George Hammond, representing the Masonic bodies; former Mayor Joseph E. Nowrey, representing Massoit Tribe of Red Men, and Albert Shaw, from the Fifth Ward Republican Club.
A few minutes prior to the bringing out of the casket the members of Ionic Lodge of Masons formed themselves into a long lane through which the dead chief’s body was borne. Leading the pallbearers were six Camden policemen, who acted as a guard of honor. These included Policemen Thomas Brothers, Camillus Appley, Robert Calkett, Jules Busch, Thomas Murphy and Harry Mines, the largest men of the force. The Philadelphia police also had a guard of honor in Captain James P. Hamm, Captain Francis Callahan, Captain Dungan and Captain Campbell.
Funeral Cortege
The funeral cortege was composed of the following: Sergeant William Horner and a detail of thirty-four men from the three districts; members of the Fifth Ward Republican Club, cabs containing Mayor Ellis, Councilmen and city officials, Ionic Lodge of Masons and the hearse followed by the cabs containing the mourners. The route gone over was from the house to Third street, to Walnut street, to Broadway, to Benson street, to Haddon avenue and to Harleigh Cemetery. All along the route hundreds of persons lined the curbs, while many followed the cortege to the grave. As the procession passed the City Hall the bell in the tower was tolled at minute intervals.
At Harleigh Cemetery the casket was lowered in a cavity on a sunny slope to the southward. There the Masons held their services over their departed brother, Worshipful Master Aaron G. Matlack having charge of the beautiful ceremony.
It was a funeral that Camden will remember for many a day. And Chief Foster’s memory will be kept green for the next month by many political, and social organizations as well as private citizens, who will display black draped flags at half mast.
1000 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1896–1968.
1000 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Doganiero's Pharmacy |
1010 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1908–1957 | Theodore Lovallo & Family |
| 1908–1957 | Theodore & Lucy Lovallo |
| 1908–1957 | Joseph Lovallo & Family |
1015 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1875–2007 | Richard Fetters Public School |
1024 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929–1933 | Angelo Teto |
1028 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930s–1960 | Luigi Procacci & Family |
| 1930s–1960 | Luigi & Vinzera Procacci |
| 1930s–1960 | Cataldo Procacci -Anthony Procacci |
| 1930s–1960 | Nancy Procacci |
| 1930s–1960 | Mary Procacci |
| 1930s–1960 | James Procacci |
| 1930s–1960 | Michael Procacci |
| 1930s–1960 | Anita Procacci |
1029 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Dominick Tenerelli |
1030 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1896–1900 | Wilbur A. Drown |
| 1930s–1940s | Antonio DiBartolomeo & Family |
| 1930s–1940s | Antonio & Maria DiBartolomeo |
| 1930s–1940s | Charles DiBartolomeo |
| 1930s–1940s | Philip DiBartolomeo |
| 1930s–1940s | Joseph L. DiBartolomeo |
| 1930s–1940s | Marietta DiBartolomeo |
| 1930s–1940s | Rosina DiBartolomeo |
| 1930s–1940s | Antoinette DiBartolomeo |
| 1930s–1940s | Anthony DiBartolomeo Jr. |
| 1968 | Mae T. Mack |
Three Held Following Fight
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Although Samuel Valentine, of 90[?] South Third street, Camden, was so badly slashed that thirty five stitches were required to close the wounds on his neck, head and arms, he refused to prosecute those responsible. As a result Prosecutor Kraft yesterday ordered Detective Troncone to make formal complaint against Augusto Marino and Lawrence Stepi, who were in the fight with Valentine, it is alleged. All three were held in $500 bail by Recorder Stackhouse.
1010 South 3rd Street — Three Thugs Snatch Woman’s Handbag
Camden Courier-Post —
When one of three youths grabbed her pocketbook Monday night, it threw her off balance and she fell to the sidewalk, Mrs. Rose Lavallo, of 1010 S. 3rd st., told police.
Ptl. William Bennett said she reported $10 and personal papers were in the purse, which was snatched as Mrs. Lavallo was walking in the 300 block of Spruce st. about 7 p. m.
Bennett said she described the trio as Negroes, one about 6 feet tall, and told police they fled north on 3rd st.
1030 South 3rd Street — Mae T. Mack Death Notice
Camden Courier-Post —
Mae T. of 1030 S. 3rd St., Camden, N.J., died March 23, 1968, age 75 years. She is survived by two sons, Alvin and Paul, four grandchildren, two great-grandchildren, a sister, Mrs. Minnie L. Thomas. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services on Thursday at 8 p.m. in the Kaighns Avenue Baptist Church, 9th Street and Kaighns Avenue, Camden, where friends may call after 6 p.m. Interment at Mt. Peace Cemetery, Lawnside, N.J. Services under the direction of the Carl Miller Funeral Home.
1100 Block of South 3rd Street
1100 South 3rd Street. 1929-1967 Costa's Food Market. Founded in 1920 by Theodore S. Theodoris & Constantine "Costa" Theodoris. Moved from 513 South 3rd Street to this then-new building at 1100 South 3rd Street in 1929 and operated as the Italian-Greek Importing Company, Selling Wholesale and Retail Groceries.
1100 South 3rd Street. Photograph from 2013.
Hospital Cases
COOPER
Clement DiGaetano, 39, of 216 Mt. Vernon st., cut left side of head.
Anna Kropski, 68, 1737 S. 6th st., cut head.
Rita Procacci, 40, of 1125 S. 3rd st., burns of right hand.
George Finney, 41, of 214 Taylor ave., cut right side of chest.
Willie Chestnut, 19, of 1210 S. 8th st., cut scalp.
Betty Cohen, 15, of 428 State st., injured right hand.
David Taylor, 47, of 743 Walnut st., injured left foot.
WEST JERSEY
Marie Stone, 15, of 316 Kaighns ave., swallowed a coin.
Charlott Schmitz, 16, of 520 Vine st., possible fractured shoulder.
Suzanne Schulman, 5, of Maple ave., Haddon Heights, cut forehead.
Daniel Cook, 27, of 530 Front st., bruise of hand.
1102 South 3rd Street. 1897-1906 Peter B. Carter.
1120 South 3rd Street. Private First Class Domenick F. Mariani.
1130 South 3rd Street. 1933 John Piliere.
Intersection of South 3rd Street & Sycamore Street — March 16, 2012. Looking west on Sycamore Street from South 3rd Street; looking north and south on South 3rd Street from Sycamore Street; looking east on Sycamore Street from South 3rd Street.
My Grandmother Rosaria Tantone lived on 3rd Street in Camden for quite awhile with her daughter Nancy Martinelli. I know there was a store on the corner, so this might be at that address. Anyhow I thought you might be interested in the location and sign. I don’t remember this Church, but only some type of store; apparently it changed hands at times. (The store was Salvatore’s Cafe.) Of course there are the traditional brick sidewalks. I particularly liked this photograph with my Cousin Frankie laughing. My Brother and I are here along with my Cousin Frankie’s Sister Lorraine DeNinno.
Anthony R. Venella, March 2006
From Left: Frank DeNinno, Ronald Venella, Lorraine DeNinno & Anthony R. Venella in front of 1134 South 3rd Street, about 1947
1133 & 1135 South 3rd Street. 1890 Charles H. Fitsimmons Sr. Charles H. & Anna Fitzsimmons Charles H. Fitzsimmons Jr. 1890s-1910s Charles H. Fitsimmons Sr. Charles H. & Anna Fitzsimmons Charles H. Fitzsimmons Jr.
1134 South 3rd Street. Photograph Taken March 16, 2010. Scheduled for Demolition in March of 2012.
1135 & 1137 South 3rd Street. Photograph Taken March 16, 2010. Scheduled for Demolition in March of 2012.
1135 & 1137 South 3rd Street. Photograph Taken March 16, 2010. Scheduled for Demolition in March of 2012.
1139 South 3rd Street. Photograph Taken March 16, 2010.
1141 & 1143 South 3rd Street. Photograph Taken March 16, 2012.
1144 South 3rd Street.
1144 & 1146 South 3rd Street. December 23, 2011.
BILLIARD ROOM OWNER HELD IN GAMING RAID
The bits of ivory that flashed across the pool tables of Frank Manfredi, proprietor of a billiard parlor at 1146 South Third street, were square instead of round, Police Judge Gene Mariano decided yesterday in fining Manfredi $100 for operation of a gaming house.
Manfredi, a former Camden prizefighter known as Freddie Mack, was arrested Saturday night with eight customers after Detectives Vernon Jones and George Weber claimed that a dice game was in progress when they staged a raid.
The customers, each of whom paid $5 for gaming, gave the names of Felix Guiotti, 21, of 271 Chestnut street; Manual Lalrajo, 23, of 265 Mt. Vernon; John Bianchi, 27, of 1147 Emma; Bert DiMattao, 23, of 284 Mt. Vernon; Leroy Smith, 22, of 149 Boyer Court; William DiBatista, 23, of 943 Newton; James Abbott, 21, of 815 Haddon avenue; and Anthony Manfredi, 35, of Gloucester.
Camden Courier-Post, October 15, 1940
Grandparents to Care for Child
Vice Chancellor Backes, in Camden, yesterday gave a decree placing two-year-old Robert Kennedy in custody of his grandparents, Mr and Mrs Robert Kennedy, of 1129 South Third street. Mrs Evelyn Kennedy, the little one’s mother, has the privilege of having possession of him from Saturday noon until Monday morning of each week. Walter Kennedy, the father, had instituted habeas corpus proceedings.
WITH PISTOL ARRESTS TWO
Camden Policeman Alone Captures Alleged Store-breakers
At the point of a revolver, Policeman Andrews, in Camden early yesterday, placed under arrest Michael Egan, aged 36, of 702 New street, and his nephew, Thomas Egan, aged 21 years, of 732 New Street. They were later held in $500 bail by Recorder Stackhouse on a charge of breaking into the store of Benjamin Stout, of 1130 South Third street
The officer says the men had boxes of canned goods and when he told them to halt they at first refused. It was only after threatening to shoot them they surrendered. The police say the defendants admitted breaking into the store, although they said they were drunk and did not know what they were doing.
1100 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1890–1967.
1100 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929–1967 | Costa's Food Market (Italian-Greek Importing Co.) |
1102 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1897–1906 | Peter B. Carter |
1109 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Peter Branco |
1111 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | John Leo; Leo's Famous Yum-Yum |
1112 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900 | George R. Thompson Sr. & Family |
1113 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1901–1904 | George R. Thompson Sr. & Family |
| 1947 | Cirelli's Furniture |
1120 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Domenick F. Mariani |
1126 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1914–1918 | Charles Fitzsimmons Jr. |
1129 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915 | Robert S. Kennedy & Family |
| 1915 | Mr. & Mrs. Robert S. Kennedy |
| 1915 | Walter Kennedy aka Walter West |
1130 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915 | Benjamin Stout |
| 1933 | John Piliere |
1132 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Salvatore's Cafe |
| 1947–1970 | American Rescue Workers |
1133 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890 | Charles H. Fitzsimmons Sr. & Family |
| 1890 | Charles H. & Anna Fitzsimmons |
| 1890 | Charles H. Fitzsimmons Jr. |
1134 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1887–1918 | George H. Stineford Sr. & Family |
| 1887–1918 | George & Louisa Stineford |
| 1887–1918 | Sarah Stineford |
| 1887–1918 | Martha Stineford |
| 1887–1918 | George Henry Stineford Jr. |
1135 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890s–1910s | Charles H. Fitzsimmons Sr. & Family |
| 1956 | Rita Procacci |
| 1890s–1910s | Charles H. & Anna Fitzsimmons |
| 1890s–1910s | Charles H. Fitzsimmons Jr. |
1136 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Renato Canzanese |
| 1947 | Vincent & Nancy Martinelli Family |
1139 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1899 | Samuel Lodge |
| 1913 | Oscar Weaver |
1140 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924–1970s | Michele DiSalvio & Family |
| 1924–1970s | Michele & Rose DiSalvio |
| 1924–1970s | Anna DiSalvio |
| 1924–1970s | Frank DiSalvio |
| 1924–1970s | Harry DiSalvio |
| 1924–1970s | Mary DiSalvio |
| 1924–1970s | alexander "al daley" DiSalvio |
| 1924–1970s | Daisey DiSalvio |
| 1924–1970s | Albert DiSalvio |
| 1924–1970s | Rose DiSalvio |
1142 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947–1949 | Leonard LaBattaglia & Family |
1143 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910 | Charles Fitzsimmons Jr. |
| 1917 | Morris Singer |
1144 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Louisa F. Kohlenberg |
1146 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910 | George R. Thompson Sr. |
| 1929 | Nathan Diamond, tailor |
| 1940 | Frank Manfredi aka Freddie Mack, pool hall |
1149 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1921 | Jacob Koch Sr. Saloon |
| 1929 | Anthony McNulty |
1127 South 3rd Street — John Nacuchio Death Notice
Camden Courier-Post —
NACUCHIO—On Oct. 29, 1930, John Nacuchio, husband of Teresa Nacuchio, age [illegible] years.
Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 1930, at 9 o’clock, from late residence, 1127 S. 3rd St. High mass at Lady of Mt. Carmel, 10 a. m. Interment at Calvary Cemetery. Friends may call Monday evening, after 7 o’clock.
1134 South 3rd Street — Camden Veteran Fatally Stricken
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Conversing with a neighbor, George Steinford, a veteran, 76 years old, of 1134 South Third street, Camden, was stricken with heart disease. Before medical attention could be given him he died sitting in his chair. Mr. Steinford had been a resident of the Fifth ward for many years, where he was widely known. He is survived by a widow and four children.
1139 South 3rd Street — Jottings From South Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Budget of Chat From The Lower Section of The City
SOCIAL AND PERSONAL ITEMS
MRS. WEAVER’S FUNERAL.
Services over the remains of Mrs. Mary Weaver, mother of Patrolman Oscar Weaver, were held at the latter’s home, 1140 South Third street, yesterday afternoon by the Rev. W. W. Westcott, pastor of Kaighn Avenue Methodist Episcopal Church. Interment was made at Evergreen Cemetery. Mrs. Weaver passed away on Thursday after a long illness. She was 81 years of age. Many handsome floral tributes were sent by friends and relatives. Her three sons wish to thank their many friends for their kindness during their bereavement. The funeral arrangements were in charge of Mrs. E. E. Jefferis.
CAMDEN IN EASTERN LEAGUE
Camden will be again represented in the Eastern Basketball League during the coming season. A meeting of the Alpha Eastern League team and managers will be held at the Alpha Club, 708 Broadway, this evening. Brown, Adams, Bolin, Heron and McLaughlin are expected in the lineup and “Bill” Steele, one of the best basketball players in the East has been signed. Camden expects to land the bacon this fall with this formidable basket shooters.
MRS. STORY HAS BIRTHDAY.
Mrs. Ella V. Story of 919 Broadway, is to-day happily celebrating the sixty-first anniversary of her birth. She received a shower of postcards in the morning mail and this afternoon was tendered a reception by her son and his wife, Mr. and Mrs. Filliam [sic] C. Story. They presented her with a bouquet of sixty roses and one large lilly [sic]. i nhonor [sic] of her birthday this afternoon. Mrs. Story also received numerous gifts from admiring friends.
1143 South 3rd Street — Morris Singer Dies
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Morris Singer, 56 years old, of 1143 South Third street, died in the Samaritan Hospital yesterday from a complication of maladies. He is survived by a widow, four sons and four daughters.
1146 South 3rd Street — Lynwood and William Pitts Sentenced
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Adjudged guilty of attacking Justice George R. Thompson, when he found them hiding in an outhouse in the yard of his home, 1145 South Third street, Lynwood and William Pitts, colored, of Deerfield, N. J., were each sentenced to three months in the county jail by Recorder Stackhouse. The Justice was badly bruised in his encounter with the men.
Raiders Seize 4 Women 5 Men and Homebrew
Camden Courier-Post —
Four women, five men and 500 bottles of homebrew were seized last night when police raided an alleged speakeasy at 1067 Thurman street.
Marie Fort, 34, of that address, was held as the proprietress. The following were released in cash security as material witnesses: Helen Furhan, 29, of 300 Jersey avenue, Gloucester; Dora Gallagher, 24, of 723 North American street, Philadelphia; Betty Anderson, 19, of 5947 Trinity place, Philadelphia; George Powell, 23, of 546 Division street; Harry Wilson, 24, of 413 Pine street, Audubon; Edward Mellon, 25, of 316 Elm street; George Devon, 34, of 504 Walnut street, and George Philip, 29, of 1100 South Third street.
The radiers [sic] were Lieut. Herbert Anderson, Sergt. Edward Carroll, Detective William Wheland and Acting Detective William Schultz.
Man, Robbed, Left in Road By Kidnappers
Camden Courier-Post —
Byron P. Cobb Beaten by Autoists; Roll of $4700 Taken
Byron P. Cobb, 62, the “Sun Doctor,” was kidnapped by three men early yesterday, beaten and robbed of $4700 before being tossed from a moving automobile in Farnham Park.
Detectives found him in a sub-conscious condition laying in the middle of River Drive, after a motorist had heard his moans and notified police.
Three South Camden youths, arrested for a motor violation at about the time Cobb was found, later were identified by the awning manufacturer as the ones who kidnapped and robbed him. They are Primo Fioravanti, 20, of 435 Division Street; Anthony Scanalvilli, 20, of 326 Division Street, and John Piliere, 19, of 1130 South 3rd Street.
All are being held on charges of kidnapping, atrocious assault and battery and highway robbery. They will be given a hearing today in police court. Later a charge of larceny of an automobile was placed against them.
Cobb, who for many years operated an awning manufacturing shop at Fifth and Royden Streets, told police he met the three who robbed him in a restaurant near Broadway and Kaighn Avenue. He said he bought them food and in return they offered to take him to his home in their automobile. This was shortly before 2 a.m.
He said two of the men were dressed in brown suits and the third wore a “greenish blue suit.” All wore light hats.
As soon as he entered the machine, Cobb told Detectives George Zeitz and Leon Branch, who found him in the park, someone hit him over the head.
Two of the men then went through his clothing and took the $4700 from his pockets. He told police that he drew the money from his bank yesterday and intended to pay off a mortgage on a property today.
The men held Cobb, he told police, until they reached Farnham Park, where he was tossed out of the machine as the driver slowed up.
A few minutes after 2 a. m., William P. Tyler, of 1493 Greenwood Avenue, driving past the park, heard someone shout “murder” several times. He hurried to a telephone and called police headquarters.
Found In Roadway
Detectives Zeitz and Branch searched the section where Tyler had heard the shouts. Then they drove down through River Drive, where they discovered Cobb lying in the middle of the roadway.
The injured man was taken to Cooper Hospital where he was revived, and then to detective headquarters.
Meanwhile Motorcycle Patrolmen George Getley and Earl Stopfer stopped a car at Mt. Ephraim and Ferry Avenues, which had aroused their suspicions as it sped down Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
Piliere was driving the machine and could not produce either a registration card or driver’s license. He said he had borrowed the car from a man he knew as “Pete.”
The car was claimed yesterday by Pietro Tocco, 35, of 717 South Fourth Street. He told Zeitz and Branch the car had been stolen from in front of his home “sometime around 2 a. m.” yesterday.
Piliere and his pals were taken to police headquarters where the former was booked on a motor-vehicle charge. When police found two pieces of rubber hose in the rear of the machine, all three were taken to detective headquarters.
There Cobb identified them as the three who had robbed him. He pointed out Fioravanti, the only one with a previous police record, as the man who hit him on the head.
Police held all three without bail for the hearing before Judge Pancoast.
At the Cobb home yesterday, Mrs. Byron P. Cobb said she knew nothing about the holdup. She said Cobb “appeared to have a headache when he got up,” but failed to mention anything was wrong and left the house before her return from church.
All of the suspects deny the robbery. They said they took a friend to his home in Woodlynne and were en route to their homes in Camden when arrested.
Piliere told Detectives Zeitz and Branch that he “borrowed the car from his uncle,” whom he only knew as “Pete.”
1200 Block of South 3rd Street
1200 Block of 3rd Street - 1962.
1217 South 3rd Street. 1909-1923 Daniel Smith & Family Daniel & Jane E. Smith Florence Smith Marian Smith Edna Smith Helen Smith Daniel Smith Jr. 1909-1923 Edward Smith.
1231 South 3rd Street. 1910s-1936 William Wearshing & Family William & Nellie Wearshing Grover A. Wearshing. Left: Grover A. Wearshing.
1237 South 3rd Street. Motor Machinist Mate Third Class Joseph A. Franks.
A Camden man pleaded guilty before County Judge Goldman Monday to murdering a male companion during an argument last May 6.
The plea was entered by James Walker, 29, listed at 554 S. 6th st. Walker, who is charged with the fatal shooting of Herbert L. Abbott, 33, of 1243 S. 3rd st., will be sentenced May 17. At the time of Walker’s surrender to Camden detectives last May, police said Abbott, an unemployed bartender, was shot to death following an argument during a dice game in the home of Mrs. Etta Patton, 31, then listed at 211 Line st.
In another case, Vito Belfiore, 37, listed at 272 Walnut st., pleaded guilty to a charge of obstruction of justice.
According to Assistant Prosecutor James G. Aiken, Belfiore aided Charles Negri and James Lenahan shortly after their escape from Leesburg Prison Nov. 11, 1961.
Lenahan, 33, formerly of the 1700 block Broadway and Negri, 35, formerly of Gloucester, pleaded guilty March 2 to armed robbery of the Westville bank last Dec. 4. On that day Belfiore pleaded guilty to a Federal charge of receiving stolen property stemming from the $26,000 bank holdup.
According to Philadelphia Police Capt. Clarence Ferguson, Lenahan and Negri are awaiting trial in connection with the murder of Romeo Mercantini, formerly of Camden. He was shot to death in Philadelphia the day after the holdup in an argument with Negri over division of the loot, police said.
Belfiore, lodged in Camden County jail, will be sentenced May 17.
James Nean, 24, listed at 649 Viola st., pleaded guilty to a charge of atrocious assault and battery. He is charged with assaulting Plt. [sic] Ralph Ferrari, 25, after the officer had stopped him at Erie and Segal sts., for a motor vehicle violation last July 10.
1200 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1878–1961.
1210 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1911 | Henry Fetters |
1212 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Quaker Store grocery |
| 1955–1966 | Harry's Market (Mrs. Mamie Pinsky) |
1217 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1901–1906 | Charles V. Marshall & Family |
| 1908–1909 | Walter Garwood, painter |
| 1909–1923 | Daniel Smith & Family |
| 1909–1923 | Daniel & Jane E. Smith |
| 1909–1923 | Florence Smith |
| 1909–1923 | Marian Smith |
| 1909–1923 | Edna Smith |
| 1909–1923 | Helen Smith |
| 1909–1923 | Daniel Smith Jr. |
1219 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1890–1917 | Walter E. Garwood Sr. & Family |
| 1890–1917 | Walter Garwood & Family |
| 1890–1917 | Mrs. Rebecca Garwood (mother) |
1221 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930–1943 | Vincenzo Pollastrini & Family |
| 1930–1943 | Mrs. Nena Pollastrini |
| 1930–1943 | Amerigo Pollastrini |
1225 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929 | William Henry |
| 1957 | James W. Atkins; Carl H. Perry |
1227 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Joseph Wiseman |
| 1929 | Dominick Natale |
1229 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1900–1907 | Daniel Weldon & Family |
| 1924 | George Anderson |
| 1929 | Alfred Winninger |
1231 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1910s–1936 | William Wearshing & Family |
| 1910s–1936 | William & Nellie Wearshing |
| 1910s–1936 | Grover A. Wearshing |
1232 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878 | James H. Carey |
1234 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878–1899 | Daniel J. Weldon & Family |
| 1924 | Anthony Mealey |
| 1945 | Dominick Manfredi & Family |
| 1945 | Dominick & Hannah Mannfredi |
1235 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | George W. Hettel |
| 1930 | Mrs. Catherine Jackel & Family |
1236 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | S. Feathers |
| 1929 | Joseph Davis |
1237 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | George Crossley |
| 1929–1930 | Sarah Bacon & Family |
| 1930 | Harry & Nora Bacon Franks & Family |
| — | Motor Machinist Mate Third Class Joseph A. Franks |
1238 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Joseph Galm |
| 1929 | Robert E. Roy |
1239 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Harrison Morrow |
| 1929 | Richard Dobbs & Family |
1240 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920–1931 | Harry Selah; Mrs. Ethel Kauterman |
1241 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924–1930 | Arthur Timmons & Family |
| 1924–1930 | Arthur & Reba Timmons |
1242 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Samuel Bailey |
| 1929 | John J. Banker |
1243 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924–1930 | Joseph Smerhovsky & Family |
| 1924–1930 | Joseph & Margaret Smerhovsky |
| 1924–1930 | Anna Smerhovsky |
| 1924–1930 | William Smerhovsky |
| 1924–1930 | Elizabeth Smerhovsky |
| 1961 | Herbert Abbot |
1244 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | John Kelly |
| 1929 | Harrison A. Conwell |
1245 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Thomas Pine |
| 1926 | William Milne, bar |
| 1929 | Ms. Mary Kelley |
| 1930 | Richard Dobbs & Family |
1246 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Joseph Painter |
| 1929 | Thomas Kelley |
1247 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Abraham Eskin, grocery |
| 1929–1930 | Joseph Eskin, grocery |
1248 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | John Lang, bar |
Marriage Licenses
Camden Courier-Post —
Camden
William Coleman, 31, of 1018 Lawrence st., and Evelyn A. Bond, 29, of 1031 N. 18th st.
William Mosley, 60, of 539 Liberty st., and Ruth Jones, 50, of 645 Mechanic st.
Carello C. T. Fornito, 49, of 1245 S. 3rd st., and Mary G. Carelli, 41, of 1245 S. 3rd st.
Joseph H. Grater, 27, of 407 Cedar st., and Mary A. Hans, 19, of 207 Bailey st.
Paul L. Kavanagh, 37, of 1500 West ave., Ocean City, and Dolores Dorkowski, 27, of 1827 Tioga st.
Hill Meets Death Without a Shudder
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Camden Wife Murderer Goes to the Gallows With Calm Resignation—Scenes and Incidents Attending the Execution
Sheriff John Wesley Sell, Upon whom the unpleasant duty devolved to execute the law’s mandate.
Rev. H. S. Gascoyne, Who was one of Murderer Hill’s spiritual advisers, and who accompanied him to the gallows.
With a brave smile, born of resignation and Christian faith, Robert F. Hill paid the legal penalty in the Camden county jail yesterday for the murder of his wife on June 9, 1900. Sheriff John Wesley Sell sprung the trap of the scaffold at 10.10 A. M. Hill was declared dead at 10.22½ and the body was cut down at 10.40.
Hill was awakened by his request at 5.30 o’clock in the morning, and he ate sparingly of a beefsteak, which was brought to him from a neighboring restaurant. Afterward he slowly smoked a cigar. His aged father, his brother, William, and his sisters, Violet and Pearl, were talking earnestly with him at 8 o’clock, when his spiritual advisers, Rev. H. S. Gascoyne and Rev. Charles D. Sinkinson arrived. At 8.30 o’clock his relatives took final leave of him, and Hill exchanged his blue serge suit for a suit of black cloth.
Hill Prayed Aloud
Religious devotions, in which Hill almost joyfully participated, consumed nearly an hour. Twice Hill prayed aloud, forgiving his enemies and asking forgiveness for himself. The two clergymen also prayed and joined Hill in singing a hymn. Hill seemed to be impatient for the end, and declared that he wanted to die and would not accept his freedom if he could get it.
While Hill was at his devotions Sheriff Sell was busy with preparations for the execution.
The witnesses, numbering nearly two score, were in the execution room at 10.09 o’clock, when Sheriff Sell signaled to Jailer David Logue to bring the condemned man. The death procession was led by Revs. Gascoyne and Sinkinson. Then came Hill with a happy smile, which broadened as he gazed upward at the rope and its noose.
County Detective John S. Smith and Death Watch Fred Voigt marched behind Hill.
Still in Smiles
At the steps to the scaffold the clergymen separated and stepped to either side. Hill was conducted up the steps by Smith and Voigt, but he walked to the centre of the trap alone and with a pleasant smile, which continued while Sheriff Sell was drawing over his face the black cap that shut out his last view of the world. Sheriff Sell adjusted the noose about Hill’s neck and drew it tight. Then he sprung the lever of the trap, and Hill’s body fell to the length of the rope and swung to and fro, but no other movement was visible.
When Hill’s body was cut down it was found that the rope was entangled with the black cap, which was probably due to the fact that Hill wore a high collar. His features were not distorted, but instead wore the smile with which he ascended the scaffold.
Undertaker E. J. Strickland removed the body after he had secured a death certificate from County Physician Jones and buried it in the New Camden Cemetery.
About one hundred persons were gathered about the jail during the preparations for the execution, but they hastened away when the click of the falling trap was heard.
Story of His Crime
Hill shot his wife, Edith, three times on Saturday night, June 9, 1900, and then shot himself in the breast over the heart. His wife was instantly killed, but Hill was hurried to Cooper Hospital, where he was detained about a month and then transferred to the county jail. The shooting was done at the home of Hill’s mother-in-law, Mrs. Mary Wheldon, 1229 South Third street, and was the result, it is believed, of a quarrel over Mrs. Hill’s alleged misconduct. Hill and his wife had separated five times because of his charges or suspicions, but at his trial for the murder he failed to prove that his wife had been unfaithful to him.
Hill was placed on trial on October 2, 1900; found guilty of murder in the first degree on October 3, and sentenced by Justice Garrison, on November 16, to be hanged on January 16, 1901.
On December 7 the Court of Errors and Appeals refused to give Hill a new trial. On January 10 Governor Voorhees refused to grant Hill a reprieve, but four days later he reconsidered the matter and reprieved Hill until yesterday, February 5. On January 26 the Board of Pardons, in special session, refused to commute Hill’s sentence to life imprisonment.
Woman Held In S. Camden Fatal Knifing
Camden Courier-Post —
Row at Party:
Municipal Judge Marino today held a 36-year-old woman without bail for a further hearing Friday in the fatal stabbing of a South Camden man early today.
Miss Evalena Watkins, of the 1200 block S. 3rd st., was charged with the death of James W. Atkins, 27, of 1225 S. 3rd st. He was pronounced dead at West Jersey Hospital.
Det. Lt. William D. Neale said Atkins was stabbed in the heart while at a party in a first-floor apartment of his house. He lived on the second floor.
Marino also set $25,000 bail for Willie Simmons, 31, also of the 3rd st. address, as a material witness.
Two Report Emergency
Police received a call at 4 a. m. from off-duty Ptl. James Johnson, who said he had been requested by Miss Watkins and Simmons to call an emergency patrol.
Ptl. Edward Fulton and Leo Tompkins answered the call and found Atkins sitting on the first-floor hall steps in a crouched position. They took Atkins to the West Jersey Hospital but he was dead on arrival.
Dets. Russell Young and John Huston were called. They notified Dube, Neale, the city homicide squad of Acting Lt. Vincent Conley, Nathan Jones, William O’Brien and County Det. James P. McLaughlin.
Guests are Questioned
Several guests at the party, including Miss Watkins, Simmons, Mrs. Atkins, the victim’s wife, and Mr. and Mrs. Carl H. Perry, were taken to detective headquarters for questioning.
Dube and Neale said they learned Atkins had been stabbed following an argument in the stairway of the first floor. He and his wife had been guests at a party in the apartment of Mr. and Mrs. Perry, Neale said.
Neale said Mrs. Atkins was just returning from her apartment when the stabbing occurred. Neale said Mrs. Atkins told him she witnessed the assault.
Neale said witnesses told him the group had been at a party in the Perry apartment and they had been drinking.
Daniel Weldon Taken to Asylum
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Daniel Weldon, of 122[?] South Third street, who shot his wife Mary and tried to kill himself some months ago, while brooding over the murder of his daughter, has been taken to the county insane asylum. After shooting his wife he hovered between life and death for two months. County Physician Jones and Dr. Litchfield adjudged him insane.
Third & Line Streets — Camden at a Glance
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Policeman G. R. Thompson broke up a general fight among Italians at Third and Line streets early yesterday morning, arresting two of the party. Genario Lapitano was given three months for having a loaded revolver, while Flora Robina was fined $5.
1210 South 3rd Street — Funeral of Henry Fetters
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Many persons of prominence yesterday attended the funeral of Henry Fetters, an old resident of South Camden, which was held from his home at 1210 South Third street. Services were conducted by the local Lodge of Elks and Ionic Lodge of Masons.
1217 South 3rd Street — Foot Crushed at Pavonia Car Shops
Philadelphia Inquirer —
E. V. Marshall, 36 years old, of 1217 South Third street, had a foot crushed at the Pavonia car shops yesterday.
1219 South 3rd Street — Walter Garwood Jr. Dies
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Walter Garwood, Jr., well-known in South Camden, died at his residence, at Third street and Kaighn avenue, Thursday night from an abscess of the brain.
1219 South 3rd Street — Camden News Notes
Philadelphia Inquirer —
One of the pioneers of South Camden Mrs. Rebecca Garwood, 93 years and 11 months old, died yesterday at the home of her son, Walter Garwood, 1219 South Third street. She settled with her husband in that section when it was woodland.
Mayor Ellis yesterday appointed David Kates, Anson Kelly and William Greenwood regular policemen to succeed William Harvey, Ben Middleton and George Horner, veterans who have been placed on the pension list. Squire “Roby” Thompson, hitherto a widely known justice of the peace, was appointed a substitute.
Announcement was made yesterday of the marriage of Miss Bertha VanHorn, of 578 Chestnut street, to Raymond Bowman, of Newport News, Va., the ceremony taking place February 21.
1221 South 3rd Street — Amerigo Pollastrini, Army Air Force training school
Camden Courier-Post —
Amerigo Pollastrini, son of Mrs. Nena Pollastrini, 1221 South Third street, is in the Army Air Force training school at Madison, Wis. Pollastrini, who will be 45 in April, was employed in a shipyard prior to his induction three months ago.
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Amerigo Pollastrini
Camden
1234 South 3rd Street — Pfc. Dominick Manfredi awarded Bronze Arrowhead
Camden Courier-Post —
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Pfc. Dominick Manfredi, husband of Mrs. Hannah Manfredi, of 1234 South Third street, of the Division of the Seventh Army in Germany, have been awarded the Bronze Arrowhead to wear on their European Theatre of Operations ribbons for participation in the D-Day amphibious-assault invasion of Southern France on the Riviera.
1400 Block of South 3rd Street
1414 South 3rd Street. Nora Franks Charles Franks.
1414 South 3rd Street. Russell Franks.
CHEW.—On March 30, 1911. JESSE C CHEW, aged 72 years. Relatives and friends, also T M K Lee Post, No 5; Fidelity Lodge, No 3, United Workmen, and Fifth Ward Republican Club, are invited to attend the funeral, from his late residence, 1412 South Third street, Camden, N J, on Sunday, April 2, 1911. Service at house, at 2 P M. Interment at Harleigh.
Charged With Larceny
Grant Alston, 50 years old, of 417 Atlantic avenue, was yesterday held in $500 bail by Recorder Stackhouse in Camden, charged with the larceny of sixty pounds of brass. Alston was employed by Louis Katz, a junk dealer, at 1416 South Third street. Philadelphia Inquirer, December 4, 1917.
1400 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records and newspaper accounts, 1906–1917.
1412 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1911 | Jesse Chew |
1414 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| c. 1930s | Nora Franks; Charles Franks; Russell Franks |
1416 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1917 | Louis Katz, junk dealer |
1420 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1906 | Herbert W. Baxter Sr. |
1422 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1908–1915 | George Hill & Family |
| 1908–1915 | George & Mary Ellen Taylor Hill |
| 1908–1915 | George Hill Jr. |
| 1908–1915 | Emily Hill |
| 1908–1915 | Susanna Hill |
| 1908–1915 | Ellen Hill |
1472 South 3rd Street
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1913 | Mrs. Susie Martin |
1422 South 3rd Street — Excitement at Third and Pine streets
Camden Post-Telegram —
Considerable excitement prevailed in the vicinity of Third and Pine streets yesterday afternoon when a crowd of men, women and boys were noticed chasing a man down Third street. Policeman George Hill made an investigation and learned that a resident of the Fifth ward had enjoyed a glass of beer in a nearby saloon and left the place without paying the nickle. The bartender gave chase, and was joined by the crowd, but the fellow disappeared. Officer Hill gave the bartender the name of the thirsty man, but the bartender said he preferred dropping the matter and no arrests were made.
2000 Block of South 3rd Street
2000 Block of South 3rd Street — Occupants
City directory records.
Southwest Corner 3rd & Jefferson Streets
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1947 | McAndrews & Forbes Licorice Factory |
Murderer’s Wife Supplied Revolver, Smuggling It In Covered by Fruit
Camden Post-Telegram —
Confessing Supplying Pistol, in Spite of Husband’s Denial That She Was Guiltless, Mrs. Ashbridge Is Held Without Bail on Charge of Conspiracy in Aiding and Abetting Escape From Jail
With Wilson T. Ashbridge under guard in a cell in what was formerly known as Murderer’s Row, the police and county detectives today redoubled their energies towards the capture of George E. Thompson, the forger who escaped with Ashbridge from the County Jail on Monday night after murdering one keeper and wounding another. Stirring the police of all cities in the East to renewed activity, another circular was sent out today by the authorities giving notice of the reward of $500 offered for Thompson’s capture. Attention was strongly directed in the circular due to the fact that one of the fingers of Thompson’s left hand is missing.
The gun with which Ashbridge murdered jailor Isaac Hibbs and wounded Jailor Ellis was smuggled into the jail by Mrs. Ashbridge on Saturday morning. With it went a box of cartridges. The weapon and bullets were passed to Ashbridge in a basket of fruit, being at the bottom of the basket. The jailors were busy at the time she called and as she frequently had brought her husband fruit they did not take precaution to search the basket. Mrs. Ashbridge bought the gun and cartridges on the written request of her husband.
Her confession as to the very grave part she played in the escape and murder was made to the Prosecutor late yesterday afternoon after she had first insisted she had no knowledge of how the gun got into the jail and after her husband had repeatedly declared that the revolver was supplied by Thompson. The revolver, fully loaded, was still carried by Ashbridge when he was captured in the Keystone Hotel…
… by Recorder Stackhouse without bail for conspiracy in aiding and abetting the escape of her husband and George E. Thompson from the County Jail on Monday night.
The court room was packed to suffocation by a morbidly curious crowd, composed primarily of women. A strange silence spread through the court room when the little woman was led into the court room by Captain Schregler. The regular formality of placing prisoners in the dock was dispensed with the woman’s case.
Prosecutor De Unger pointed to the high witness chair and Mrs. Ashbridge sat in it. She evaded the gaze of the crowd, looking intently at the floor and through a window on the Washington Street side. She wore a blue skirt and a white waist. She was without her hat. Her hair was carefully arranged and she wore nose glasses.
Resting her chin on her right hand her arm and hand were seen to tremble slightly. So quiet was the room that a pin dropping could have been heard.
“Mrs. Marian Ashbridge,” called the Recorder.
“Yes, Sir” was the faint reply of the woman, who did not even look up at the call of her name.
“This complaint charges you with delivering to Wilson Ashbridge and George E. Thompson a pistol and aiding and abetting them in escaping from the County Jail, where they had been lawfully committed. Do you plead guilty or not guilty,” said the Recorder as he read the complaint.
The woman said nothing. Detective Schregler was then called as the complainant. He told of the confession made by the woman and produced the revolver which the woman purchased and which Ashbridge used in his daring escape. The gun, Captain Schregler said, was purchased in a pawnshop at Eleventh and Arch Streets, Philadelphia, on Friday of last week and was delivered to Ashbridge on Saturday morning along with a box of cartridges. “Marian, I will hold you without bail,” said the Recorder.
As the woman was being led from the court room by Captain Schregler and Sergeant Reed the crowd made a rush for the door leading from the court room, whereupon orders were given by the police to the crowd and many were prevented from rushing out. Everybody seemed anxious to secure a closer look at the unfortunate woman.
Visitors were denied Mrs. Ashbridge. Not even her children were permitted to be brought before her, although the broken-hearted mother asked for them.
“Oh, God, I don’t know why I did this; why I left the little ones to go with Wilson,” tearfully expostulated Mrs. Ashbridge to the kind-hearted matron, who spent the best part of last night with the distraught woman.
“If I could only see little Marian,” sobbed the woman in the arms of Mrs. Kirkpatrick, who informed her that perhaps she could see them today.
Last evening the only support Mrs. Ashbridge had was a cup of tea. The morning she sipped a portion of a cup of coffee. She told Matron Kirkpatrick that she was not hungry.
“Everybody hounded me, I had no friends, and that’s why I went with my husband, because he was the only friend I had left,” said Mrs. Ashbridge. “He was a good boy, but was easily led.” The wife said even before her marriage that Ashbridge would run around with other girls, but he always returned to her and she forgave him. She said he seemed to have a spell over her and she couldn’t leave him.
“I love my husband, still and will stand by him to the end,” sobbed the little woman to Mrs. Kirkpatrick. She told how her relatives disowned her and how after her father’s death she went to live with strangers. When her husband fostered the plan to escape she willingly consented to aid him. She drew $100 out of the bank and purchased clothes and the gun and bullets. She never faltered in her plan.
“My heart aches for that woman,” said Matron Kirkpatrick this morning to a Post-Telegram reporter. “She’s a good girl, but was easily led into her present predicament. It only goes to show what a woman will do for the man she loves, no matter how base a wretch he may be. Mrs. Ashbridge is more to be pitied than scorned.
Recorder Stackhouse this morning produced a copy of the marriage of the couple, performed by him on July 28, 1914. The marriage was performed at the instance of Assistant Prosecutor Butler after Ashbridge wronged the girl. Constable William E. Headley and William C. Ashbridge, the latter father of the murderer, were witnesses.
As told in yesterday’s Post-Telegram, Ashbridge and his wife and their captors arrived at the City Hall from Chester shortly after 2:00 o’clock. After a brief stay they were taken to the Court House and turned over to Prosecutor Kraft, Ashbridge being taken into the Prosecutor’s private office and Mrs. Ashbridge being placed under guard in the ante room.
Taking full blame for the murder of Hibbs and the wounding of Ellis, Ashbridge declared that none of the shots were fired by Thompson.
“I shot both men,” he declared, “but Thompson gave me the gun. He had it since Saturday.” He repeated this assertion several times in the course of his examination, adding each time that his wife had no part in supplying the firearm. His voluntary insistence in…
… exercise corridor of their cells in response to his request that he wanted to show him a note that had been left for him, he asked the aged keeper to step inside the corridor. Evidently suspecting something was wrong Hibbs refused to enter the corridor. When Ashbridge repeated his request that Hibbs step inside, Thompson, who was immediately behind Ashbridge, said something to the murderer. Ashbridge could not exactly recall what the expression was. At any rate it was then that he fired and Hibbs fell to the floor with his death wound. To take Hibbs’ keys and open the door leading from the exercise room to the corridor was the work of but an instant. It was then that Ellis confronted Ashbridge at the other end of the corridor. He refused to throw up his hands when the murderer so ordered. Instead, the plucky jailor grappled with the slayer, who again brought the gun into play, twice wounding the remaining jailor.
Ashbridge did not say why he wanted Hibbs to step inside the corridor. One surmise is that the pair had planned to get the old man into the corridor, overpower him, take his keys and after gagging him place him in a cell, depending on the gun to awe any prisoners who might make an outcry. But whatever their plan was in this respect it miscarried. Hibbs would not enter the corridor and was shot down where he stood.
Thompson carried both his own and Ashbridge’s coats when they fled. As Ashbridge had decided to do the talking with Hibbs when the jailor came to lock them in their cells it was agreed that it would not be wise for the murderer to be wearing a coat. This might look suspicious to Hibbs and in all likelihood he would refuse to open the door. Hence it was decided that Thompson should take both coats. He also carried Ashbridge’s cap and his own Panama.
The coats and hats were adjusted as they ran down the spiral stairway leading to the street. They walked slowly into Sixth Street; increasing their pace up Sixth Street after crossing Market and after turning into Cooper walked very rapidly. They turned north on Third Street to Main and thence to the Vine Street ferry, where they caught the boat leaving at 7:15 for Philadelphia. Landing on the other side the fugitives exchanged hats. They walked rapidly to Broad Street Station, where Mrs. Ashbridge was in waiting, this arrangement having been made when she smuggled the gun in to her husband on Saturday morning.
Accompanied by Thompson the Ashbridges walked out Market Street to Thirty-second Street. Here Thompson left them and after walking the street for a brief while longer the slayer and his wife boarded a trolley car for Chester, where a few hours later the murderer’s short-lived liberty was so dramatically terminated.
Although jailor Ellis still insists that three shots were fired before he was attacked and in spite of the positive declaration of Alfred Williams, the trusty, that three shots were fired at Hibbs, Ashbridge claims that Hibbs was shot only once and that two bullets were used on Ellis. He said that the three empty shells which the detectives found in his pocket contained the only bullets fired in the jail. The post mortem examination made yesterday by County Physician Stem bears out his contention as to the number of shots fired. Only one bullet was found and that had penetrated the jailor’s heart.
“That’s the truth about the shooting,” declared Ashbridge. “I fired the shots— three of them in all— and the gun was given me by Thompson. My wife had nothing to do with it. Don’t blame her.”
Enroute back to the prison from which he had made his tragic getaway on Monday night, Ashbridge passed through the ante room where his wife was under guard. He stopped, kissed her, gently caressed her cheek, told her not to worry and passed on to the jail, from whence his next exit will be to the electric chair.
Haggard and very weak Mrs. Ashbridge was at once taken before the Prosecutor. With due regard for her condition Mrs. Ashbridge was handled very gently. At first she insisted that she had no part in getting the gun, but under skillful handling she finally broke down and confessed that she had supplied the revolver.
She stated that on Friday night she received a letter from her husband telling her that he planned to escape from the jail on Monday night and that he needed a revolver to make certain that his scheme would not fail. He requested that she procure the pistol and cartridges and personally deliver them on Saturday. Being anxious to aid her husband in every way possible she readily decided to do as he requested.
Accordingly she purchased the needed articles in a Philadelphia pawnshop on Friday afternoon, paying $3.00 for the pistol and 67 cents for the cartridges. She kept them over night and on Saturday safely delivered the weapon and bullets to her husband in the bottom of a basket of fruit. At the same time Ashbridge asked her to go with him and when she agreed to share his fate he told her to meet him in Broad Street Station, Philadelphia, shortly after seven o’clock on Monday night. He further told her that he had carefully studied the situation and did not see how it was possible for his plan to miscarry. On Monday morning she sent her children to the home of Mrs. Anna Dick and later in the day sent the letter to Mrs. Dick telling of her “rash deed” and enclosing $10 for the children.
As Mrs. Ashbridge told her story she spoke in a very low tone. Most of the time her eyes were cast down and as she concluded her brief narrative she sobbed convulsively and was in a state of utter collapse. Reviving somewhat when given cold water Mrs. Ashbridge was turned over to the police and taken back to City Hall to await her hearing this morning.
The prison key stolen by Ashbridge from Hibbs’ murdered body was recovered this morning by Detective Doran in the yard of Dr. Frank, 2025 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia. The recovery of the key was due to information given by Ashbridge, after he had been locked up in jail yesterday afternoon. Ashbridge, when questioned as to the whereabouts of the key, said that Thompson had it and that he had seen him toss it over a wall of a residence near Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets on Monday night while he and his wife and Thompson were walking to Thirty-second Street.
Detective Doran and Constable Voight went to Philadelphia late yesterday afternoon and searched in vain for the key in the vicinity of Twenty-third and Chestnut Streets until darkness came on. Detective Doran renewed the search early this morning. There is a high wall fronting the yard at the home of Dr. Frank, and a search of the grounds resulted in the finding of the key, which was returned to Sheriff Haines.
Ashbridge is confined in a large cell in what is known as Section E. As cellmates he has two persons who are being held as witnesses to the crime. Sheriff Haines has assigned three constables, Gardner, Ford, and Addison. They will work on eight-hour shifts and will see that Ashbridge does not attempt any further escape or try to end his life.
Sergeant Detective Kane of the Chicago Police Department today took to Chicago Alfred Williams, who was an eyewitness to the murder of Hibbs. Williams, an Italian, served six months here on a charge of false pretence in obtaining money from a number of Italian grocers under the pretence that he represented the Roma Grocery Company. After his arrest and sentence here the police of Chicago lodged a detainer against Williams who is wanted in the West for a like crime.
The body of Jailor Hibbs will be exposed to view tonight at his home, 913 South 8th Street. Services will be conducted by Reverend Harry Bradway, pastor of Eighth Street Methodist Episcopal Church. Members of the Seventh Ward Republican Club, Mutual Aid and the Liberty Beneficial Society will attend in a body.
Tomorrow morning the body will be taken to Langhorne, where services will be held in the Friends Meeting House, after which interment will be made in the burial ground by the Schroeder-Kephart Company. Friends may call this evening to pay their respects.
Ashbridge will not be tried until December. On the day he was listed for trial of murdering Mrs. Dunbar his lawyer, Assemblyman Wolverton, was ill. In the interim the entire panel of jurors for the April term of court was discharged following a case of alleged tampering. This makes it necessary that he be held until September for trial unless the Court should otherwise decree, which is hardly likely.
Ashbridge is 22 years old and not 27, as previously stated. His real age was disclosed by the certificate of his marriage. He was 20 when he wedded two years ago.
The Howard Marshall who mailed a letter to a woman in Baltimore is not Freeholder Howard Marshall of the Eighth Ward, as was reported to the Prosecutor yesterday. Mr. Kraft’s investigation disclosed that Freeholder Marshall does not know either Ashbridge or Thompson and that as a matter of fact the Marshall in question is an East Sider and no relative to the freeholder, who was naturally much upset at being mistakenly dragged into the case.
E.S. Fry, proprietor of the Keystone Hotel, Chester, where the couple were caught, told the story of the capture both to the city police and Prosecutor Kraft.
“Late on Monday night I received a call from another hotel, requesting that I take care of a man and his wife for the evening,” said Mr. Fry. “I waited until a little before midnight when the couple arrived. He seemed nervous and registered in a shaky hand, and I was suspicious that there was something wrong.”
“I did not pay much attention to the way he registered until the next morning when I examined the register and saw that he had neglected to register his wife. He signed ‘Mr. Smythe, Washington, D.C.’ I communicated my suspicions to my wife and told her to go observe the couple, too. Then I went out on the porch and picked up a morning newspaper. On the front page were the pictures of the two men who escaped.”
“I instantly recognized Ashbridge, but was not just sure of my identity of the man, so I decided to get a better look at him. At the breakfast table I observed him more closely and feeling sure of my ground I called Captain Schregler, afterward securing the service of two negro policemen, whom I placed on guard outside the hotel, giving them orders not to allow the couple to leave. The officers, William Padgett and William Robinson, took their positions outside the hotel, ready for the signal to enter when I gave it.”
“Ashbridge arose.”
“What’s the matter,” he exclaimed. “You know what’s the matter,” replied Mr. Fry, who brought in Captain Schregler and Detective Hunt. Schregler and Hunt instantly recognized the fugitive.
Before Ashbridge had a chance to move his arms were pinioned by his sides and Policeman Hunt had extracted the murder gun from his right hip pocket. It was fully loaded. In the same pocket were seventeen additional cartridges and in a suitcase in his room, Number 9, was a fresh box of cartridges.
“The little wife was crying bitterly,” said Mr. Fry. “She leaned her head upon his shoulder and the husband tried to console her.”
Captain Schregler sent a telegram to Chiefs Gravenor and Hyde with the startling news that Ashbridge had been caught.
On the way back to Camden Mrs. Ashbridge began to cry. She was sitting beside Captain Schregler, and he tried to console her. Her sobs increased, and Ashbridge called to her to “take it easy.”
This seemed to quiet her a bit, and Schregler spoke to her kindly, saying that she would not be blamed very much for her part in the escape. “That’s not worrying me” she answered. “I am worried about ‘Wil’.”
“Well, you women beat me” was Schregler’s comment. “What did you want to help him escape for, anyhow? He had beaten you, deserted you for another woman and when she turned him down, he killed her. Yet you make up with him, leave your kids and risk everything to help him escape. Seems to me the worse men treat you women, the more you will do for them.”
“Lots of truth in what you say,” remarked Mrs. Ashbridge, with a sigh.
Mr. Fry was the center of attention. Everybody seemed anxious to hear his story.
“I’m not going back until I collect that $500 either,” he was heard to say. The capturer was formerly coroner of Delaware County.
Scenes of excitement were prevalent when the automobile of Chief Gravenor with Detective-chauffer David Hunt at the wheel, Captain Schregler and the prisoners in the rear and Chief Dodd, of the Pennsylvania Railroad police force in the front seat came from the Federal Street Ferry. E.S. Fry, the hotel proprietor who caught the Ashbridges, was also in the car.
Ashbridge and his wife were instantly recognized. The news spread like wildfire and was passed along the route of the machine to police headquarters.
Thinking that the prisoners would be brought to the Prosecutors office, a battery of newspapermen and photographers were camped on the Court House plaza. When someone cried in bellowed tones “There they go,” the scribes and photographers started in hot pursuit behind the automobile.
The officers upon reaching the City Hall had to fight their way through the dense crowd which had gathered outside Police Headquarters. Many stood tiptoed to get a good glance at the prisoners who were abashed at their predicament.
Pulling her black straw hat over her face, Mrs. Ashbridge leaned on her husband’s arm. To hide his face the murderer pulled the Panama hat, which he had secured from Thompson, over his countenance.
Preliminary questioning was done by Captain A.L. James, after which the officers and prisoners were escorted upstairs to the office of Chief Gravenor.
Still clenching the stump of a cheap cigarette in the corner of his mouth, Ashbridge had a pitiful look on his face. He was much thinner than he was when he was arrested for the murder of the Dunbar girl. On his upper lip was a small mustache, which he raised during the last week.
His beautiful and baby-like eyes still retained their piercing stare. The murderer looked wild-eyed at persons in the room. He seemed to take delight in singling out persons in the room and “staring them out.” None seemed courageous enough to return Ashbridge’s strange stare. He looked distressed but the only betraying sign of nervousness was his incessant twitching of his fingers. Seated on the couch in the chief’s room, Ashbridge talked freely.
His wife dried away the tears as they trickled down her reddened face but after regaining her composure she seemed quite calm. She intently watched Captain Schregler and Detective Hunt as they searched through her husband’s clothes.
When the trip for the Court House was being arranged the two prisoners, still handcuffed together, walked in the outer room of the chief’s office. It was then that the wife broke down slightly. She choked back a sob and leaned her head on her husband’s shoulder. Ashbridge did likewise and patted her on the back, at the same time, saying something in a suppressed tone of voice. The only persons in the room at the time were Assistant Chief Hyde and a Post-Telegram reporter. Neither was able to catch the words uttered. Captain Schregler, Chief Gravenor, and Detective Hunt later entered the room and the start for the Court House was made.
The crowd below which was camped about the entrance to the building awaited with patient expectancy, when the news was spread that the prisoners were leaving the building.
Camera men took their positions, ready to snap the couple, but the Ashbridges fooled them. Before the door leading to the street was opened Ashbridge drew his wife to him and with their free hands pulled their hats over their faces, thus eluding the photographers, who resorted to every means to secure a photograph.
Once inside the automobile the prisoners seemed content until the Court House was reached when another large crowd was on hand to greet them. Both repeated the trick of hiding their faces.
After Ashbridge was taken to his cell his wife was ordered taken to the detention department in the City Hall. Captain Schregler and Detective Hunt half-carrying the sobbing and broken-hearted woman, who has aroused some sympathy for her courageousness in taking such a desperate chance for the man she loved, the father of her children and a cruel murderer.
“What other woman would do as much as she has for her husband,” was the query advanced by one of the spectators in the Court House corridor as Mrs. Ashbridge passed through on her way to the waiting automobile.
Another Case in Third Ward Riot
Camden Daily Courier —
Policeman Keaser and Ex-Policeman “Bob” Miller on Trial for Assault.
WAGNER JURY COULD NOT AGREE
In the Criminal Court this morning George V. Tucker, who was convicted of a charge of assault and battery, was sentenced by Judge Joline to pay a fine of $50 and costs and stand committed until the money is paid.
Henry J. Shuster pleaded guilty to a charge of embezzling $260.16 from King David Lodge, I. O. O. F., of which he was treasurer. Shuster served three months in the County Jail last spring on a similar charge. At that time he said he used the money to care for his wife, who was ill. It appears that he did use part of the money for this purpose, but that he squandered a large sum in poker playing.
Rev. Q. C. Davis, pastor of the Emmanuel Baptist church, testified that since Shuster has been out of jail he has led a correct life, and at the present time has a good position.
Prosecutor Lloyd made an appeal for clemency.
Judge Joline announced that he was not ready to decide the case and it went over.
POLICEMEN ON TRIAL.
The indictment against Policeman Albert Keaser and ex-Policeman Robert Miller, on charges of assault and battery on George Murray, was then moved. This is the second case to be tried as the outcome of the election riot, in the Third ward during the primary election last July. Considerable time was occopued [sic] in securing a jury.
After the jury was sworn Assistant Prosecutor Archer outlined the case, in which he said the two defendants at that time were policemen and the alleged assault took place at the polling place at Third and Beckett streets, and during the row, Robert Miller, struck George Murray several times with a blackjack. Keaser, it is alleged, assisted Miller in the assault.
The first witness called was George Murray, the complainant, who testified that while standing near the polling booth with some tickets “Bob” Miller, without any provocation, beat him with a blackjack. He said that Policeman Keaser and John Wagner came to Miller’s assistance. During the row, Policemen Hartman and Harry Miller came to his aid.
BEATEN WITH A BLACKJACK.
On cross-examination witness said he had no pistol or blackjack, but that Miller came up to him and deliberately struck witness with a blackjack. He denied that he said on the steps of the Third Ward Republican Club, in the presence of John Rodan, that if a certain —— would come along he would kill him.
William Laws, who testified in yesterday’s trial, gave corroborative testimony as to the blackjacking. He said that Murray did nothing to provoke the assault.
Spencer Moore, also gave corroborative testimony.
Policeman Harry Miller testified to seeing “Bob” Miller beating Murray with a blackjack while out in the middle of Beckett street. The witness said he surged in the crowd and struck at Keaser at the same time exclaiming:
“What are you trying to do, kill this man?”
The witness said he was thrown down, and was pulled up on his feet by Keaser, who grappled with him. He heard thre [sic] or four pistol shots.
The witness identified a blackjack, in the possession of Lawyer Rex, which he used on the night of the primaries.
Howard Roberts, a son of Assemblyman Roberts, also gave corroborative testimony.
DEFENSE OPENS.
At the afternoon session of the court the defense opened. Counsel said that the defendants were justified in using force to put Murray into subjection.
Policeman Toy testified that he saw the occurrence and thought that “Bob” Miller, was acting as a peacemaker. He saw Murray shoot off a revolver.
Daniel Ayres testified to seeing the riot and heard Murray say that he would get some one before the night was over. He saw Murray shoot off a revolver under a tree.
Ex-Policeman “Bob” Miller admitted that he struck Murray while attempting to arrest him. He also testified that he was knocked down and beaten and that some person had attempted to stab him. He exhibited his clothing which was soiled and cut.
Policeman Shaw testified that on July 28 he went to Third and Beckett streets and found George Murray in his home, where he was under arrest by Detective Hart. Witness recovered a revolver from the wife of Murray.
Mrs. Widener, who was a witness in the trial yesterday, gave the same line of evidence in this case.
CHEESEMAN SENTENCED.
At the noon recess Judge Joline imposed sentence on Thomas J. Cheeseman, the former secretary of Thomas Jefferson Council, No. 138, Jr. O. U. A. M., who was convicted of a charge of false pretenses on Thursday last. Before sentence was imposed Rev. J. R. Mason, pastor of the Kaighn Avenue M. E. church, and Rev. Robert Wesley Peach, pastor of the Second Presbyterian church, made appeals to the court for clemency in his case. Judge Joline sentenced Cheeseman to three months in the County Jail and a fine of $150 and costs.
After being out for seven hours without being able to agree on a verdict the jury in the case of Charles Wagner, tried yesterday on a charge of stabbing Policeman Harry Miller, at the time of the same election riot, were discharged at 10 o’clock last night.
“Persons Unknown” Held Responsible
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Coroner’s Jury Does Not Connect Eli Shaw With the Camden Murders.
DEARTH OF NEW FACTS
At the Inquest the Prosecution Fails to Bring Out Any Evidence, That Is Particularly New.
There was positively nothing in the testimony adduced at the inquest on the death of Mrs. Zane, in Camden, yesterday, to add any weight to the theory of the prosecution, backed up by circumstantial evidence, that Eli Shaw murdered his mother and grandmother.
The verdict was rendered in accordance with the evidence. In other words, the responsibility for the killing of the two women, as stated in the verdict in the case of Mrs. Zane, was not placed upon Eli Shaw, but upon “a person or persons unknown” to the jury.
If Prosecutor Jenkins has any strong evidence aside from the facts already brought out at his disposal he did not see fit to show his hand. There was a general belief that such was the case. If it is not, then, in the opinion of many a Camden wiseacre, Eli Shaw has more than a good chance of having his forehead remain clear of the brand of Cain.
That it is the intention of the prosecution to lay considerable stress upon the contradictory nature of young Shaw’s statements subsequent to the double tragedy seemed apparent from the nature of the testimony at the inquest. That Prosecutor Jenkins, who conducted the inquest and examined the witnesses, made this phase of the investigation so prominent leads to the belief that he intends to emphasize it later on.
SHAW’S STATUS UNALTERED.
In the meantime Eli Shaw remains in jail on the original commitment, based upon the charge of the Chief of Police. Lawyer Scovel, however, proposes to apply for a writ of habeas corpus, to secure, if possible, his client’s release. Scovel was quietly elated at the verdict of the Coroner’s jury, although he did not have much to say.
“We are not complaining,” he remarked, with a smile of satisfaction, when questioned concerning the verdict. “The result of the inquest certainly does not weaken Eli Shaw’s defense.”
Shaw himself offered to make a statement for use in the Coroner’s investigation, but his counsel did not desire it. He was not at all nervous, according to Mr. Scovel, over the inquest, but bore himself with a calm air, which caused Mr. Scovel to exclaim more emphatically than before: “I tell you, Shaw is an innocent man.”
And now the attorney will try to secure a ruling that there is not sufficient evidence to hold Shaw. He is confident that his client will be released from prison, or at least admitted to bail.
COURT ROOM CROWDED.
An immense crowd surged about the doors of the Camden Court House at the time set for the opening of the inquest. Men and women fought to get in when the doors were finally opened, and the scene resembled an incipient riot. One woman was carried in fainting. Others screamed as they were swept off their feet and almost thrown into the room by the struggling men, and then laughed as they found seats and breathlessly rearranged their clothing. In a few moments the room was filled and hundreds were turned away.
Coroner Lippincott read the names of the witnesses, an [sic] they retired into the ante-room—all but one. This one was Eli Shaw, whose name headed the list, but who was not brought to the inquest.
The jurymen took their places. They were Tax Receiver William A. Husted, foreman; Morgue Keeper Martin J. O’Brien, Freeholder William Anderson, Charles S. Folwell, John Irwin and Thomas Benkert.
NO STATEMENT FROM SHAW.
Before calling any witnesses, twenty-seven of whom had been subpenaed, Prosecutor Jenkins turned to Shaw’s counsel, Lawyer Henry S. Scovel, and said: “I see here the representative of the defendant. If he wishes to make a statement he can have that permission.” Mr. Scovel replied that the defendant had no desire to make any statement. The first witness called was Edward Zane, a son of the murdered Mrs. Zane. He was sworn by the Coroner. After telling how he had heard of the murder while in Philadelphia, where he resides, he was asked concerning his conversation with Eli Shaw at Foster Zane’s house a few hours after the murder. He said: “I asked him (Shaw) how it occurred. He said that he had heard a noise in the house while up stairs. His mother had also heard it, and he followed her down stairs. He stepped into the room where his grandmother slept and told her to lie still. His mother then lit a match, which was quickly followed by a pistol shot, and she fell. He then gave the alarm. That is all he had to say to me.”
The witness had last seen his mother and sister alive four weeks ago.
County Physician W. S. Jones was the next witness. He described the wounds on the bodies of the murdered women.
“In Mrs. Zane’s case the bullet entered the left side of the head, far back, and about three inches above the ear. The bullet went through the skull. There was internal hemorrhage and compression of the brain. The bullet did not enter the brain. In the case of Mrs. Shaw I held a post-mortem examination at the Cooper Hospital the morning of the tragedy. The bullet had entered on the right side, one inch above the ear. It was found back of the left eye, just back of the left orbit.”
“Was the course of the bullet level?” asked Prosecutor Jenkins.
“Slightly downward,” said the Doctor, indicating the course of the bullet.
“That wound caused death, did it?”
“Yes. It went through the brain.”
“Any questions, gentlemen of the jury?” asked the Coroner.
A SIGNIFICANT QUESTION.
Foreman Husted inquired: “Doctor, did you find any other mark of violence on Mrs. Zane’s body?”
“No, sir.”
Morgue Keeper O’Brien, one of the jurors, wanted to know how long Mrs. Zane had been dead when the witness saw her. Doctor Jones replied that he could not tell accurately.
Another juror asked: “Well, Doctor, in your opinion, how long had she been dead when you saw her?”
“About five minutes, I should say,” was the reply
Policeman Steen, who responded to Eli Shaw’s cries of murder, was next called. He described his entrance to the Line street house. Eli was standing in the sitting room with his night shirt on. The witness told of finding the bodies and searching the house. The place did not seem to have been broken into by burglars.
“Did you examine Mrs. Zane’s bed for blood?” he was asked.
“No, sir. The lieutenant did.”
“Did you see any blood in Mrs. Zane’s room?”
“Yes, on the window sill; it looked like a hand print.”
“Didn’t you see any on Mrs. Zane’s bed?”
“No, sir. I didn’t look.”
“Do you know what time it was when you got to the house?”
“No. I didn’t look. It wasn’t yet daylight.”
“When you went up to the third story did you use matches?” asked the prosecutor.
“I can’t say. We all had matches. The gas in the third story must have been lit, because we could see. Perhaps Mr. Lane lit it.”
“Did you see any blood in the third story?”
“No. All the time I was there I didn’t have a chance to look. I was looking after the people who were shot.”
NO SMOKE APPARENT.
Morgue Keeper O’Brien put the important question:
“You say you got to the house immediately after Shaw cried for help. Did you notice any smoke in the house such as would come from the discharge of firearms?”
“No, sir. There was nothing like that.”
One of the jurors wanted to know if Steen heard moans when he went up the stairs. The witness said he did, but couldn’t tell where they came from. He went into Mrs. Zane’s room first, and it was light enough to see in there. The light came from the street electric lamp.
Juror Benkert wanted to know about Mrs. Zane’s position in the chair where the policeman found her. The witness said she looked as if she had been shot while in the chair. The wound was next to the window.
“Then,” said Juror Benkert, “some one must have put his arm behind her or around in front of her to reach back and shoot her on that side?”
“It would seem so,” said the witness. “It looked to me as if Mrs. Zane had put her hand to the wound, and then rested her bloody hand on the window sill.”
An important witness came next. This was Harry Delamater, of No. 30[?] Line street, a personal friend of Eli Shaw, who was held in $1000 bail by ‘Squire Stackhouse some time ago because he refused to make any statement to Prosecutor Jenkins at the time of the preliminary examination of witnesses. His statement follows:
“Eli told me about the shooting, as nearly as I can remember, as follows, in the presence of several other people: He said that he was up, and hearing a noise, he hurriedly put on his pants. His mother was also up at the time, and they went down stairs together. Eli was first and his mother was right behind him. His mother pushed open the door of the back room, which was slightly ajar; they went in, and Mrs. Shaw pointed to some clothing on the floor, just as she struck a light. The match had no sooner been ignited before a shot was fired. He ran down stairs and gave the alarm.
GRANDMOTHER’S REPLY.
“He made practically the same statements to Lieutenants Foster and Pettit while I was there. He also said that he looked into the front room, saw his grandmother in bed, and asked his mother not to disturb her, as she was asleep. He ran up stairs, got a pistol, and rushed down and tried to fire it to attract attention, but it would not go off. He also said that when he heard the shot fired he ran into his grandmother’s room and said, ‘My God, some one is in the house and is shooting.’ He got a sort of sleepy groan, as some one awakening, for a reply.”
As Mrs. Zane was dead or dying by the time Eli said he called her and received a reply, this statement was received with particular interest.
James E. Tatem, of 619 South Fifth street; Frank B. Haines, of 561 Washington street, and Albert Fogg, of 615 South Fifth street, who were also in Foster Zane’s house on the evening after the tragedy when Eli Shaw told his story of the tragedy, were next called in rapid succession. Their testimony was for the most part a repetition of Delamater’s statement.
Albert Fogg testified that Shaw said he rushed into his grandmother’s room immediately after his mother was shot and cried:
“Get up, grandma; for God’s sake, get up; ther’s [sic] some one in the house.”
“Did he say his grandmother made any response?” asked the Prosecutor.
“No, sir.”
Albert Hollingshead was called, but had nothing to testify to.
Policeman John Painter, who found the revolver in the chimney, gave his testimony concerning his find. The revolver was brought in and, after wrestling with it for a few minutes, to the consternation of everyone else in the court room, Hall Officer Beard succeeded in unloading it. Painter identified the weapon. He also said:
“We made an examination of the chimneys. We found that there was a stove hole in Mrs. Zane’s room, but it was not opened. We found one in Eli’s room on the third floor, which was or had been recently opened. We also found a spot of blood on the door leading into Eli’s room, which looked as though it had been a large drop.”
Police Lieutenant Pettit was called to corroborate Painter’s story. He examined the pistol thoroughly when it was found. It looked as though it had been discharged recently. There was fresh oil about the hammer, some burnt powder could be seen at the muzzle, and it had an odor of burnt powder about it.
NO TRACE OF BURGLARS.
Lieutenant Pettit said he examined Mrs. Zane’s bed. There was no blood on the pillows or bolsters. The only blood he saw was one little spot on the under sheet, near the foot. In the third story he saw one spot of blood on the doorsill of Eli Shaw’s room. The Lieutenant said he found a hammer in Mrs. Shaw’s room in the third story. There were stains on it that might have been blood stains. An examination was made for traces of a burglar’s work. The witness described the position of the windows and said that in his opinion no burglar had ever gone through those windows.
Policeman Shaw identified the hammer, and Officer Beard told how he tried to get the weapon identified in Philadelphia pawnshops. It exploded while being examined in one of those establishments.
William Stein, a gunsmith, told that the bullets found in the bodies of the women were 32-calibre, the same as those used in the revolver found in the house. Guy Viskinski corroborated the story of the accidental discharge of the weapon in a pawnshop.
LANE TESTIFIES.
One of the most important witnesses was Charles Lane, who lives at 646 South Third street, and who was next called. He is the neighbor who first heard Eli Shaw’s cries for help and responded. He was in bed when he heard cries of “Help! Help! Murder!” The cries were repeated three or four times. He got up and dressed hurriedly. He ran around and found Eli Shaw in his night shirt on the front step. Shaw cried:
“Oh, Mr. Lane, mom and grandmom are shot!”
Just at this moment the witness’ son came running up, and they went in the hallway.
“My son asked for a light,” said the witness. “Shaw brought us two matches. He said: ‘Don’t go upstairs yet; they may be up there yet.’ Then Officer Stein came in. I said to Shaw: ‘Haven’t you got anything to defend yourself with?’ and Shaw handed me a revolver. I cocked it and he said: ‘There’s nothing in it.’ Then we struck some matches and went upstairs.”
“Was Eli Shaw’s night shirt outside his pantaloons when you first saw him on the steps?” asked the Prosecutor.
“Yes; it hung down almost to his feet.”
Continuing his story of the search, Mr. Lane said they went first to the second story front, and there found Mrs. Zane sitting in a chair near the window.
She was in her night clothes, her head was sunk on her chest, her eyes were closed, and blood trickled down her face. She was gasping for breath, “just like this,” said the witness, drawing in his cheeks like a person almost suffocated. He was describing Mrs. Zane’s dying agonies.
Mr. Lane said he called to Mrs. Zane. “Em! Em!” but she made no response. “I had known her for forty years,” said the witness to the jury in explanation of his familiar manner of addressing the woman. Then he said they went into the next room and found Mrs. Shaw on the floor moaning and weltering in her own gore. He spoke to her, but she could not answer. He described the position in which Mrs. Shaw lay. Then, he said, the searchers went up to the third floor. The Prosecutor asked if they found any lights. The witness said no; they had to light the gas in the third story front room. They found the gas lit in the dining room on the first floor when they first entered the house.
NIGHT SHIRT EXHIBITED.
Coroner Lippincott took the stand next and showed the jury Shaw’s night shirt, on which there were many spots of blood. Some were very small, others approached the size of a pea. When he had finished making this gruesome exhibit, he returned to the stand and detailed what he had heard of the conversation between Eli Shaw and Prosecutor Jenkins.
“He said that he did not see any one when his mother was shot, did not see her fall, and did not see the flash of the pistol. He also said that he had tucked his night shirt into his trousers before he went downstairs.”
Officer Sinclair was called but stated that he knew nothing of the case on the morning it occurred.
Mrs. Knight, who lives next door to where the tragedy occurred, said that she had made an examination of the bureau drawers, and as far as she had any knowledge, nothing was taken or removed. This closed the taking of testimony, and at ten minutes of 1 o’clock, the jury retired to deliberate.
After a few moments they returned and the foreman read the verdict, finding “That Mrs. Emma Zane came to her death from a pistol shot wound at the hands of a person or persons unknown to this jury.”
Some one attempted to applaud, but no one seconded the attempt and it was given up. Shaw was shortly after notified of the verdict and received the news with satisfaction.
Fourteen Caught in Saloon Round-Up
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Latest Haul Made by the Law and Order League in Camden
There was another round-up of Camden county liquor dealers yesterday. Complaints were made against fourteen persons by George B. M. Adams, an agent of the Law and Order League.
Those for whom warrants were issued are: Walter S. Hubbs and wife, charged with running a speak-easy in Pensauken township; John Keefe, of Fogarty avenue and Carman street; Thomas Farnham, Ninth and Lawrence streets; John Daly, 321 North Seventh street; William Gallagher, 106 Kaighn avenue; Charles E. Bakley, 2318 Federal street; John H. Carroll, Third and Cherry streets; John H. Jones, 517 North Front street; George W. Hoskins, 505 Main street; William Convery, Eleventh and Carpenter streets; John Opfer, Front and Pearl streets; Joan [sic] Dugan, Front and Pearl streets; Michael J. Walsh, 503 Federal street.
All entered bail before Justice Schultz for hearings to-day except Opfer, Gallagher and Walsh. The latter was locked up and the other two sent word they would appear this morning. The complaints will at once be submitted to the grand jury.
Col. Felton Committed Suicide in His Office
Camden Daily Courier —
Closed the Place Up Tightly and Turned on Gas Jet.
His Family at Stone Harbor
The Real Estate Operator’s Confidential Clerk Made a Startling Discovery When He Opened the Office This Morning—He Had Been Acting Strangely for Weeks.
Colonel George G. Felton, the well known real estate dealer, former City Treasurer and Deputy Quartermaster of the National Guards, committed suicide sometime last night or early this morning by asphyxiating himself in the Felton building, northeast corner of Second and eFderal [sic] streets.
The suicide caused a great sensation when it became generally known and a large crowd of people surrounded the building all morning until the removal of the body by Funeral Director Fithian Simmons to his office on Market street. Mr. Felton resided at 413 Washington street, but his family has been summering at Stone Harbor.
The death of Col. Felton was not discovered until half-past 7 o’clock this morning, when Confidential Clerk Smith on opening the doors of the office detected the smell of gas. Col. Felton had been absent from the office for several days and Clerk Smith’s suspicions were aroused, knowing that County Colector [sic] Mahlon F. Ivins was a bosom friend and business confidante of Col. Felton, he hastened across the street to his office and informing him of his misgivings, asked him to assist him in making an investigation. Before accompanying Mr. Smith to the Felton building, Collector Ivins ‘phoned to the City Hall and the police in turn notified Coroners Robinson and Litchfield. The Central station also directed Policeman George Kappel to take charge of the premises and when he arrived there was joined by Policeman Harry Hiller. Chief Foster and Captain Boyle were also soon on the scene.
Accompanied by Mr. Ivins, Clerk Smith returned to the Felton building. Passing through the main office they treaded their way down a dim, narrow corridor to the private examining room of the U. S. Pension physicians. Opening the door the stench of gas was so overpowering that it nearly knocked them down. They, however, bravely ventured into the room and threw open the windows, the gas escaping into the street and enabling them to pursue their gruesome search. They found it on a sofa in a corner of the room, a small but high ceilinged apartment. On the sofa lay the dead body of Col. Felton, disrobed of his outer garments and wearing a calm, peaceful expression in sad discord with his worldly troubles. Overhead the gas stove connection was on full tilt, graphically explaining the mode of death. On a chair nearby were found his trousers and vest, while his hat, coat and watch were found in his own main office.
Coroners Litchfield and Robinson gave a certificate of death of heart failure, superinduced by inhaling gas. From the pink discoloration about the wrists where the blood was leaving the veins, Dr. Litchfield said that the body had been dead at least six hours, though he may have been dead ten or twelve.
Col. Felton was seen to enter his building at exactly 12.10 o’clock this morning. A citizen, whose name is withheld at his own request, had been talking with Night Watchman Clarence Hires on Federal street. He bade Hires good night and when he reached Second street saw the Colonel come around the corner. He came as though to enter his office by the front door, but turned and going back up Second street entered the side-door. Mr. Hires says the light was burning in the Colonel’s front office from 7 o’clock last night to 5 o’clock this morning, when he went off duty and Mr. Smith found it still burning when he arrived.
Colonel Felton has been acting strangely for several weeks and had not been at his office for two or three days.
When asked by anxious friends what the trouble was, he would put his hands to the side of his head and complain that it was in bad shape. He was seen in the hotel at Haddon avenue station on Saturday afternoon. He carried a grip and appeared very cheerful. Asked if he had been to the shore he replied no, he had been down the country, Bridgeton.
Grocer Charles F. Eastlack, by whom Col. Felton was at one time employed, went to Stone Harbor this morning to notify the family of his death. Col. Felton leaves a widow and adopted daughter, Miss Leona Felton.
Col. George G. Felton was born at Westville, Mass., and was fifty-six years of age. He had been a resident of this city for about quarter of a century. Previous to that he was engaged in the grocery business at Burlington. On coming to Camden, he entered the employ of Grocer Charles F. Eastlack, at Third and Washington streets, but later entered the employ of his brother, Charles H. Felton, who had an extensive real estate business. On the death of the latter the Colonel went into the same business for himself, his brother’s widow continuing the old business under the name of Charles H. Felton & Co. It is not known, however, whether business troubles impelled him to end his life.
Col. Felton was prominent in political, military and society circles. In 1892 he was appointed by Mayor Wescott a member of the Board of Public Works.
In 1896 he was appointed City Treasurer to fill the unexpired term of the late F. F. Michellon. In 1897 he was elected City Treasurer for two years, his election being contested by his Democratic rival, Freedom C. Lippincott, but was confirmed by the County Board of Elections.
He was Deputy Quartermaster on the Governor’s staff and a member of the Masonic order and A. O. U. W.
Colonel Felton was active in building and loan association circles. He was treasurer of the Mechanics’ and Workingmen’s Building and Loan Association and was former secretary of the People’s. He was also a director of the Security Trust Company. He had also been a director in the Central Trust.
Mrs. Felton will arrive from Stone Harbor this evening, when arrangements for the funeral will be made. The flag at Post 5 Hall is flying at half-mast in Col. Felton’s memory, for he was a Grand Army veteran, having gone to the front when a mere boy.
Notable Growth of Labor Unions
Membership of the Telegraphers Union Increasing in the West.
By “The Courier’s” Own Wire.
Chicago, July 7.—President Samuel Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, was in Chicago yesterday on his way to San Francisco, and while here addressed a meeting of the Commercial Telegraphers’ Union. President Gompers expressed himself as pleased with the action of the telegraphers in organizing, and with the condition of labor organizations throughout the country. He stated that there were more unions and larger memberships of the same than at any time in the history of labor. President MacDonald, of the Telegraphers’ Union, said that the membership was increasing, and that there were similar unions now established at Milwaukee and Kansas City. About five hundred telegraphers were present at the meeting.
Florist Fish Dies Suddenly
Expired Yesterday Morning at Pleasantville Where He Was Visiting Friends.
Walter C. Fish, a well known florist of Broadway and Spruce streets, this city, died suddenly early yesterday morning at Pleasantville, N. J., where he had been visiting friends since the Fourth. For some months past he has not been well and complained frequently of pains in his head.
Yesterday morning he arose as usual, and at about half-past 6 o’clock was taken with severe pains in the head. He continued to grow worse and two physicians were summoned. They ministered to the sick man, but without any apparent success, and at twenty minutes after 7 o’clock he died.
A member of the family could not state this morning just what Mr. Fish’s malady was. It was thought probably that he suffered from brain trouble.
The body was brought to this city yesterday afternoon at 5 o’clock, and the funeral will be held on Wednesday afternoon next at 2 o’clock. Mr. Fish was a member of Fidelity Lodge, No. 3, A. O. U. W., Improved Order of Heptasophs; Camden Conclave, No. 215; Witherspoon Circle, No. 1, Brotherhood of the Union.
“Just a Gentle Touch.”
That Was All, But Joseph’s Watch and Money Went With It.
Annie McAntee, alias Hayes, twenty-four years old, of Philadelphia, and Joseph Costello, thirty years old, also of Philadelphia, were arraigned before Recorder Stackhouse this morning on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. The twain were picked up by Policeman Matlack on Sunday morning about 3 o’clock at Third and Walnut streets, very much the worse for liquor.
The aimless wanderings of the couple and their suspicious actions first caught the attention of the policeman and he followed them. Costello became tired of walking and went to sleep on a convenient door step. At this stage of the game the Hayes woman was seen by the officer to abstract something from the clothes of the sleeping man, and then to slip away and hide behind a tree on the opposite side of the street. In a few moments the man awoke and not seeing the woman started off down Walnut street. As soon as he was out of sight the woman skipped down Third
Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
General Sewell, wife and daughter, are now in Rome.
Harrison H. Voorhees, of this city, has been appointed solicitor for Holly Beach, Cape May county.
The Grocers’ Association sent James R. Carson delegate to the convention of the National Grocers’ Association, which met in New York on Wednesday.
After half century of long and faithful service as superintendent of the Camden and Philadelphia Ferry Company, Captain Andrew B. Frazee will retire May 1 to a well-deserved and richly earned rest.
William C. Dayton and family will spend the summer at Cape May.
Martin J. O’Brien was married on Wednesday by Father O’Brien, of Kellyville, Pa., to Miss Maggie Longworth, of Third and Royden streets. Nuptian [sic] mass was celebrated at the Church of the Immaculate Conception. Andrew Lyons was best man and Miss Cecelia O’Brien, a sister of the groom, bridesmaid. The ushers were Messrs. Martin Coyne, Secretary John M. Kelly, Francis Xavier O’Brien and ex-Assemblyman O’Brien.
Charles Livingstone, of Ferry avenue and Fillmore streets, entertained a number of friends at his home Tuesday evening.
Lieutenant John Foster has been acting as Chief of Police during the time that Chief Dodd was attending the Grand Lodge of the Legion of the Red Cross.
Postmaster Paul is able to attend to business after a protracted illness.
Howland Croft, senior member of the firm of Howland Croft Sons & Co., started on Thursday for California.
Oliver M. Smith and Mary A. Gregory were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, Third and Mickle streets, by Rev. J. B. Graw, Wednesday night.
Jealousy Seen as Motive for Bombing Dairy
Camden Evening Courier —
Police Seeking Mysterious Stranger in Terrific Downtown Blast
Milk Plant Damaged; Nearby Homes Rocked
Crudely Made Explosive Placed in Trench Beneath Steps
With the owners and the police attributing jealousy of business success as the only plausible motive for the bombing last night of the plant of the Sanitary Milk Dairies Company, at 311 Division Street, search was started today for a tall, heavyset man, with mixed blue suit, as the bomber.
City detectives mingled among the throngs of men, women and children who today viewed the damage caused by the bomb — a crude, home-made time device — which, in exploding, rocked the neighborhood, shattered window panes, doors, fences and the exteriors of nearby properties. Machinery in the Coccia plant was damaged by the concussion and by parts of bomb shrapnel, which pierced or bent it.
Mrs. Angelina Coccia, mother of the Coccia brothers, her daughter, Theresa Coccia, 14, and Mrs. Mary De Luzzio, 59, of 317 Division Street, were in the kitchen of the Coccia home when the bomb exploded. The dairy is at the rear of the home of Primo Coccia, one of the owners. His brothers — partners in the business — are Paul Coccia, 242 Pine Street; Adam Coccia, 346 Cherry Street, and Matthew Coccia, 941 South Third Street.
Saw Mysterious Stranger
Mrs. Coccia cannot speak English, but through her son, Matthew Coccia, it was learned today that, before the explosion, she had seen a man passing the kitchen window.
“The man walked down the alley at the side of the house,” Mrs. Coccia told her son in Italian. “He was a heavy-set man and tall; I thought he was a customer who had come for milk. People often come at night to buy milk, and I did not think it strange about the man.
“But then I waited for him to knock at the back door, as customers usually do,” she continued.
“When he did not knock, I wondered what he might be up to, and I was just ready to leave the kitchen to see where he went when I heard the explosion. I did not know what happened after that, I was so nervous, I didn’t even see the man leave the way he came. But he was the one who set the bomb. Of that I am sure.”
Dog Vainly Warns
The Coccias have a big Italian Bulldog chained to a gasoline tank at the rear of their home. The dog barked continually last night to warn the Coccias; they were so used to his barks, they said today, that they thought he had been growling at a customer, as he sometimes does late at night.
Mrs. Coccia said she was unable to give a detailed description of the man she saw last night because an electric bulb in the alleyway was not lit. It was the first time the alley was in darkness at night, Matthew Coccia said, and this the bomber apparently took into consideration in seeking to go about his diabolical tasks without possible detection.
Coccia said boys living in the neighborhood saw the man enter an automobile, with lights out, immediately after the explosion shook the neighborhood. The car, they said, had been parked near the Coccia home with its front and rear lights out.
Detective Fiore Troncone, who is investigating the bombing, informed Coccia today that he had received a description of the automobile from Coccia’s neighbors. They said they had seen the driver put on the lights at Fourth and Division Street as he turned the corner to go north in his escape.
Rev. John S. Hackett, pastor of the Wiley M.E. Church, Third and Berkley Streets, who was among those viewing the damage done by the bomb, said he saw the man acting nervously at Third and Pine Street last night, immediately after the explosion. His description of the man tallied with that given by Mrs. Coccia.
“I was waiting for the first edition of the Morning Post to arrive at the store at that corner,” Mr. Hackett said today, “when my attention was attracted to this man. He seemed to be very nervous about something. He was fairly tall and heavy-set and wore a mixed blue suit, with light coloring.
“When the papers arrived and I bought a copy, he seemed to be very anxious to see what was on the front page. I did not know about the bomb until I read the paper, but it occurred to me later that perhaps this man was acting suspiciously and was eager to see what damage had been caused. I’m sorry now I didn’t question him. But I can give police a good description of him.”
The Coccias said the only reason they could see for the bombing was jealousy of their business success by a person with a deranged mind.
“We had no enemies,” Matthew Coccia said, “and we never fought with anybody. I cannot understand it. It must have been jealousy at the way we were getting along.”
Coccia said no threatening letters had been received. He insisted that there was no reason why the “Blackhand” should desire to ruin Primo Coccia’s home or their business.
Neighbors Called Police and Firemen
Detectives found a firemen’s shovel near where the stone steps to the dairy had been. They believed it had been used to dig a trench under the steps in which to insert the bomb.
Primo Coccia, who had been to the theatre, came home five minutes after the explosion. He found a throng in front and dazedly pushed through until his mother hysterically screamed the news to him.
The bomb burst in the dairy door and sprayed big pieces of the iron pipe along the side of the house and into the room, where it caused most of the damage to the machinery.
Fifteen windows of the Coccia house were shattered and police believe the foundations at the rear may have been weakened.
The worst damage to neighboring buildings was to the rear of the Seven Brothers Bakery, owned by the Canzanese Brothers, 318–322 Pine Street, which backs against the dairy. Twenty windows of the bakery were crushed in, the door was riddled with small pieces of the pipe and the rear was peppered with the “shrapnel.”
Mario Manarefi, 912 South Fourth Street, a bookkeeper in the bakery, was at his home nearby. He ran to the street and looked several minutes for the bombers before he joined the crowd.
Joseph Scotthouse, 317 Division Street, ran to the yard at the rear of his home to find the fence had been peppered with tiny pieces of the pipe, some of which had torn into his kitchen through windows and doors.
Six windows of the home of Sabatino Di Paolo, 321 Division Street, were broken. Fragments of the pipe were found on the floor of rooms on the second floor of his house, he told police.
A police cordon was thrown around the neighborhood by Chief of Police Stehr, who took personal charge of the investigation.
Police from every district in the city were rushed to the scene and patrols were dispatched to be prepared for any eventuality.
The neighborhood was searched carefully and every resident was questioned, but no one was able to give any clue which might lead police to the bombers.
Squads of detectives and police patrolled the neighborhood for hours after the explosion, seeking objects which might have been dropped by the bombers.
7 Firemen Take Oaths in Camden
Camden Courier-Post —
New Captain Named
ROBERT OLESIEWICZ
Seven of the 14 vacancies in the city’s fire department were filled yesterday and a new fire captain named by Public Safety Director Keith Kauffman.
Robert Olesiewicz, 47, was promoted from fireman to captain. He will be assigned to Ladder Company 1 at fire headquarters, 3rd and Arch Streets. Olesiewicz, who lives at 1194 Morton Street, has been with the fire department 15 years.
The seven new firemen sworn in yesterday were George C. Kurtyan, 21, of 2812 Hayes Avenue; Robert B. Shaw, 26, of 455 Morse Street; Richard C. Francesconi, 23, of 506 Rand Street; Nelson L. Savidge Jr., 25, of 2002 Howell Street; Thomas M. Prosinsik, 21, of 1381 Kenwood Avenue; Michael C. LaFrance, 22, of 488A Rand Street, and Kenneth Penn, 21, of 1773 Norris Street.
Fire Chief Edward Michalak said the new men will have a six-week training course before being assigned to various companies throughout the city.
He said the new additions will bring the fire department up to 180 men. The full complement is 187.
Checked and Double-Checked
Camden Courier-Post —
By JIMINY
THE week’s prize story, as it is being told around the courthouse, concerns the new “bingo” numbers racket in which a half dozen or more suspects were arrested. Prosecutor Orlando was questioning the prisoners when there came this repartee:
PROSECUTOR: “What’s the matter with you? Don’t you read the papers? Didn’t you read where we had banned bingo?”
PRISONER: “Yeah, I read that—but I thought you meant churches!”
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Alleviating the daily burden of digesting news comes an occasional missive like this:
“Dear Sir:
“I am writing you to request a part time job writing column consisting of notes obtained from bartenders and waiters who work in cafes or inns and who advertise in the Courier-Post. I am married, 28 years old, have one child and good reference. If interested, call —— or write.
“B. R. McLaughlin.”
If there were such a job, it wouldn’t be open.
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THE plan of David Baird to throw Harry Ecky out of his job for Bill Lehman is a shining example of how the Camden county Republican party is disintegrating because one man refuses to substitute gas-electric buses for horsecars. . . . The appointment of Harry Ecky was one of the few creditible [sic] appointments the Gentleman Farmer has had a hand in for some years. . . . Ecky is not only a straight, efficient registrar; he is a credit to his party, a popular man in North Camden and, until this political assassination, has been a loyal Baird follower in the face of endless adverse criticism. . . . The fact that Baird hopes to dump one of his most loyal workers merely to make room for his headquarters errand boy, doesn’t sit well with the uptown Republicans. . . . It is a good break for the New Deal Republicans, for such a flagrant case of double-cross brings sharply to the understanding of Old Guard Republicans why the New Deal Republicans seceded and struck out for themselves. . . . You can safely bet that regardless of whether Baird is successful in ousting Ecky, the First ward will henceforth be New Deal. . . .
One of the surprising features of yesterday’s recall election at Wildwood was the fact that William “Dutch” Kinsler was very active as a district leader. . . . For the Democrats. . . . “Dutch” was a guard at the Camden county jail for many years. . . . And was a vehement Bairdite. . . .
Social Notes: Prosecutor Sam Orlando is Florida-bound. . . . Al Woodruff is back from the West Indies. . . . Mrs. Emma Hyland and Mrs. Marie (Kelley) Verdiglione visited Gov. Moore at Trenton on Wednesday. . . .
In recent weeks we have been enjoying a joust with the editor (?) of a weakly paper and very probably he has been enjoying it too from behind the eight ball. . . Now, a political chameleon who issues a throw-away folder in the suburbs, is trying to muscle in to draw some comment from us. . . We can’t joust there, being under a handicap, as we cleave to facts and truth. . . Whereas no such restriction hinders or worries the suburban pensman. . . That can be attested by the fact that the Camden County Grand Jury once preseented [sic] him with a diploma. . . In recognition of his expertness. . . At criminal libel. . . He pleaded non vult (guilty) to the indictment, throwing himself upon the mercy of the court. . . The grand jury’s too busy these days with bingo and bagatelle.
Out in one of the suburbs the ABC agents are investigating a councilman who is a bartender in one of the taprooms in his community, which they say is illegal, since the governing body of which he is a member is also the issuing authority for liquor licensees. . . The taproom recently was told to close on time. . . It must be Spring . . . Mrs. Roy Lehman, of Lucaston, writes in this year’s first letter about having seen a robin. . . And some boys were playing marbles under the bridge around Third street the other day.
Some more social notes: Corporal Sol Polkowitz, of the Malaga state police barracks, is on a 36-day leave in order to tour England, France, Germany, Switzerland, Czecho-Slovakia and Roumania. . . Is Chief John Branin about to leave Delaware township? . . . Mrs. Kathryn Sheeran’s friends threw her a surprise birthday party the other night. . . Walter Fallon, who told us, wouldn’t say what birthday.
Charley Humes and Chinny Weber will battle it out for last place in the ping-pong league tonight. . . Mrs. Beatrice Di Guiseppe, of 425 Pine street, has a dracena plant which has just burst into rare bloom. . . She got it seven years ago from Pasquale Iannuzzi . . . One of the staff found an old photograph near Broadway and Federal, and it may have some sentimental value for the loser. . . On the back are some notations, among them this: “Don’t you think Robert James some boy—don’t you think you could love your little grandson”. . . It is torn in half, though, and maybe that’s a story in itself. . . Aside to Mrs. M. R. of Gloucester: Have you heard favorable word from the Westville authorities?
Lightning Starts Fires, Hits Trees, Stuns Three Boys
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Costly Blazes in Camden—Youths Under Awning Badly Shocked
Sudden Torrent of Rain, High Wind and Bolts Cause Widespread Damage
Sudden and furious was the electrical storm which yesterday afternoon took Philadelphia, Camden and nearby towns by surprise. Fires were started by lightning in many sections, rain fell in torrents and the wind rose suddenly and played wide-spread havoc.
Camden was the centre of the disturbance and suffered the heaviest damage. Three boys were severely shocked there and the total damage from fires mounted to the $50,000 mark. Bolts in Ardmore felled trees across many roads, split a flag pole in front of the Ardmore public school and tumbled a chimney off the building.
Between 2.45 and 3.15 in the afternoon the thermometer dropped twenty degrees, from 85 to 65, a southwesterly wind rising at the same time to a velocity of thirty miles an hour. Typical of summer thunderstorms was the unheralded start of the downpour and its brief duration. The precipitation from 3.12 to 3.35 in the afternoon, the time during which the rain fell, was only .45 of an inch, but the greater part of this poured down in ten minutes’ time.
Many Fires in Camden
Every piece of apparatus in the Camden Fire Department was pressed into service at one and the same time, only quick response to the alarms averting disastrous blazes in two instances.
Out along the Main Line little damage was done. The house of A. J. Francis, at the junction of Grandview and Argyle roads, Ardmore, was struck by lightning and the roads themselves were blockaded by uprooted trees which forced motorists to go slow to avoid collisions with the obstructions.
The three Camden boys who were shocked, A. Goldberg, 15 years old; Richard Noon, 14 years old, and Howard Robbins, 9 years old, living at 310, 336 and 330 North Tenth street respectively, were all taken to the Cooper Hospital. Only one of the trio, Goldberg, is still in a serious condition. All were paralyzed when admitted to the hospital.
Boys Hurled to Pavement
When the storm made itself manifest with vivid flashes of lightning and reverberating thunder, the boys sought shelter beneath an awning at Tenth and Penn streets. Goldberg was leaning against an iron pole with his companions nearby. There was a blinding flash and the next instant the three boys were hurled to the pavement.
Others beneath the awning went to their assistance, although several were slightly affected by the bolt also. The boys were apparently dead when placed in the auto ambulance, but after several hours of work at the hospital, the youthful victims were revived. They said it looked like a great greenish white ball which descended from the darkened skies and which apparently struck the pole against which Goldberg was leaning.
Within five minutes four alarms of fire had been turned into the Camden Electrical Bureau. One was from the Parkside school at Wildwood and Princess avenues, another from the elevated bridge of the Pennsylvania Railroad at Third and Bridge avenue, the third from the department store of Toone & Hollinshed, at Broadway and Kaighn avenue, and the fourth from the Camden Curtain Rod Factory, Broadway and Jackson streets. In each instance it was a bolt of lightning that struck electric wires that caused the blaze.
At the Toone & Hollinshed store, one of the largest in Camden, and which is located in a three-story building, the fire had its origin in the basement. There were large quantities of mens’ and boys’ furnishing and duplicate supplies of dry goods stored there ready for display. This material was excellent food for the flames, and for a time they threatened to mount up through the stairway of the main floors, but the quick work of the firemen averted such a contingency.
Woman Saves Firm’s Books
At the height of the blaze, which raged fiercely in the basement, Miss Anna Brennan, chief bookkeeper, mounted a fire escape to the second floor. Standing by a window from which the smoke issued in thick volumes, she superintended the rescuing of the firm’s books. Not until all had been taken out did she leave her post. Fireman John McTaggart, of Chemical Company No. 1, rescued the books.
There was such thick, pungent smoke issuing from the windows that several firemen were temporarily overcome, but they were revived and went back to work. Harry Green, of Engine Company No. 1, was badly cut about the hands by falling glass.
It was stated by Thomas Hollinshed, a member of the firm, that the damage to the store and stock would total at least $25,000. This was due not only to the blaze, but also to the smoke which permeated all parts of the three-story building.
It was in the southwest corner of the building of the Camden Curtain Rod Company that the fire had its origin. It spread with great rapidity and for a time it was feared the entire three-story structure would fall prey to the flames. The fire fighters confined the blaze to the first floor however. The tons of water coupled with the fire caused damage estimated at $25,000, fully covered by insurance.
At the Parkside School it was found that the fire had caused but little damage and the railroad bridge at Third and Bridge avenue was only scorched. There was something of a furore at the latter place because over the structure were passing many seashore trains laden with passengers for Camden and this city.
The storm was one of the most intense Camden has experienced this summer, although it was less than half an hour in duration. Throughout the city trees and fences were leveled and on the surrounding roads, especially the White Horse pike, hundreds of autoists were forced to seek shelter. Some of the thoroughfares in the lower sections were converted into veritable torrents, so great was the rainfall.
4 Trapped in Blaze Saved by Firemen
Camden Courier-Post —
By JOSEPH McCARTHY, Courier-Post Staff
City firemen fought smoke, flames, snow and a biting cold during the night and early morning hours as a rash of fires severely damaged four buildings and destroyed a tavern.
According to Public Safety Director Keith Kauffman, at one point only two engine companies were not actively fighting the blazes as seven engine companies, three ladder companies, the rescue squad and three battalion chiefs were at the fire scenes.
At the site of the worst fire, 5th and Mickle Streets, police and firemen braved dense smoke and fierce flames to rescue four elderly persons trapped in first, second and third floor apartments.
Started In Tavern Lounge
The blaze, which broke out in the lounge of Ray’s Tavern, was discovered by Patrolmen Augustus Balzano and Anthony Saponare at 3:58 a.m. after they were alerted of smoke by highway employees battling the second snowstorm of the week.
The two policemen, after radioing the alarm, kicked in the door of the tavern and raced through the smoke and flames to rescue Mrs. Agnes Lockhart, 58, from her upstairs apartment.
The patrolmen took Mrs. Lockhart to Cooper Hospital where she was admitted with a cut head and smoke inhalation.
Minutes later firemen, headed by Battalion Chief Biaggio Ardire, arrived. Ardire said the tavern was engulfed in smoke and flames. He said the flames leaped from the tavern roof to a luncheonette and apartment building next door.
Ardire said firemen raised a ladder to the third floor of the second building where Mrs. Mabel Seward, 64, was hanging from a window ledge. However, firemen were hampered in the rescue attempt by the narrow space of the alley and could only hold the screaming woman until other firefighters could make their way to the third floor window from inside the building.
The rescuers, wearing face masks, wrapped Mrs. Seward in blankets and carried her through the flames to safety.
Two Carried Out
At the same time, more fire fighters entered the burning building and carried out Mrs. Viola Lagerprantz, 65, who lived in a rear apartment on the first floor and John J. Smith, 86, from a second-floor apartment.
All the victims were taken to Cooper Hospital for smoke inhalation treatment and released an hour later.
Kauffman ordered the victims, still wrapped in blankets, taken to fire headquarters at 3rd and Arch Streets and notified city welfare authorities. The Welfare Department obtained temporary housing for the three victims at Volunteers of America headquarters, 828 Market Street. Each victim lost all possessions in the blaze.
Additional Alarms
Ardire, at 4:27 a.m. called for additional fire crews and an hour later requested more aid. Battalion Chief Daniel Jiannetto’s unit answered the first distress call while Acting Battalion Chief Arthur Batten’s men arrived on the second plea.
Batten’s unit had been fighting two North Camden blazes since 10:53 last night.
Ardire said that when firemen attempted to get into the buildings, the fire was raging forward, backward, and straight up the stairwells out of control.
The owner of the luncheonette, Dominic Padulla, arrived at the scene about 5:30 a.m. Padulla and his brother, Frank, who also had been out, live on the first floor.
Canteen Truck on Scene
Volunteers of America Canteen truck with Colonel William Gwynne also was at the scene and served firemen coffee and donuts.
Fire Chief Edward Michalak said he has ordered a complete investigation of the fire.
Kauffman said 5th Street south of Mickle and Mickle Street east of 5th has been closed to traffic indefinitely.
In the two other fires in North Camden, a grocery store was damaged at 442 N. 9th Street, and two vacant buildings at 623–625 North Front Street were damaged.
Grocery Store Blaze
Batten said a defective chimney apparently caused the grocery store blaze which raged through joists and partitions. The store is operated by Benjamin Lamberte while the building is owned by Mrs. Sarah Schecter of Baird Boulevard according to the battalion chief.
Batten’s crew were forced to make two trips to the vacant buildings as wind whipped flames. He said the fire probably was caused by vagrants seeking shelter from the snowstorm.
Before the firefighters could take off their fire apparel, they were dispatched to the 5th and Mickle Street blaze.
100 Friends Honor Director Abbott At Birthday Fete
Camden Courier-Post —
Public Works Director Abbott had a birthday Thursday and more than 100 of his friends and associates helped him celebrate it at a surprise dinner.
In response to praise for his accomplishments, Abbott attributed much of his success to support of those “on the other side of the tracks,” as he phrased it. Abbott lauded his fifth ward neighbors for having supported him since his first election in 1939.
Anthony M. Lario, city prosecutor, was toastmaster at the affair held in Vasco’s, Third and Pine streets. Among those who spoke as friends of Abbott were former Freeholder Thomas C. Schneider; former Prosecutor Gene R. Mariano; Alfred A. Zimmerman, president of Camden Council 10, New Jersey Civil Service Association; Detectives Harry Tracy and Joseph Mardino, Police Sergeant Anthony Skolski, Richard Troncone, Michael Tomasetti, Daniel Galasso and Frank H. Ryan, Courier-Post editor.
Among other guests were Mrs. Lena Rago, who serves on the Democratic county committee with Abbott representing the fifth ward; Mrs. Abbott, Joseph Webster, Camden restaurateur; Ventorino Fransecconi, deputy health director; former Deputy Sheriff Dominick Lombardo and Water Superintendent Edward Sheehan. Professor Gerald Fitzgibbon, widely-known hypnotist, entertained.
Director Abbott Celebrates Birthday at Vasco’s
Camden Courier-Post —
CAMDEN PUBLIC WORKS DIRECTOR ABBOTT had his day Thursday. It was his birthday and more than 100 friends helped him celebrate it at a party at Vascos’, Third and Pine streets. Left to right, front row, are Mrs. Lena Rago, Democratic Committeewoman of the fifth ward; Abbott, and Mrs. Abbott; standing, former Prosecutor Gene R. Mariano, Anthony M. Lario, city prosecutor, and Dominick Lombardo, former deputy sheriff.
‘Bob’ Turner Dies; Camden Old Timer
Camden Courier-Post —
Restaurateur Passes
Picturesque Restaurant Proprietor a Figure in City’s History
ROBERT TURNER
By BEN COURTER
“Bob” Turner is dead!
A lingering illness last night claimed Camden’s most popular restaurateur, at his home, 210-212 Federal street. He was 58 and had been ill since March 1.
He died in sleep, having been in a coma for one week. At his bedside, were his widow, Mrs. Mary Turner, his daughter, Mrs. Helen Becker; his son-in-law, Patrolman Herman Becker, and a brother, Frank. Two sisters and a grandson, Robert Dean also survive.
Funeral services will be at 11 a. m. Monday at the Joseph H. Murray & Sons home, 408 Cooper street. Burial will be private. Friends will be received there Sunday night.
Robert Turner was just plain “Bob” to a great host of friends and acquaintances who had known him through the years. First his father and then he had operated the oyster “saloon” and restaurant on Federal street. It was “Bob” to many of these friends who had risen to exalted positions in life as it was to those of more humbler station who kept up their patronage with him through the more than half century the restaurant has been something of a landmark where, prior to the advent of Camden bridge, thousands passed daily to and from the ferry.
Bob’s father, Fred Turner, born in England, came to America in 1860. It was in 1886 the father started the small restaurant on Federal street just above Second. At first it was just a small front room of a very little store. Later there was a reception room and place for eating meals. With the Pennsylvania Railroad terminal, roundhouse and other departments of the West Jersey nearby it was natural the railroad men with a liking for good home cooking and especially oysters, should patronize the Turner place. In the early nineties, too, there were the young students of the new high school in the old Post-Telegram building who likewise flocked to the Turner place. Thus it became the most popular restaurant of its kind in North Camden with business constantly growing.
Took Job As Cabby
When “Bob” was a youth he obtained a temporary job as a cabby, driving a horse from the Federal street ferry to wherever the fare might happen to want to go, and sometimes it was a long trip out “in the country,” down Broadway, then Camden’s “Main street” or perhaps to Stockton Park, or even Gloucester where the ponies were then running. But the elder Turner, having close acquaintanceship with the railroaders, obtained for “Bob” a job in the freight office which he held until he concluded he had learned enough to start a career as a commission man. “Bob,” associated with his father, had learned much about oysters and shipments along with other data essential in making the venture into the commission business more or less a success.
Before the Spanish War came in 1898 the elder Turner died and “Bob” concluded to continue the business. It was still a very small venture and remained so until about twenty years ago when the patronage had grown to such an extent the little place on Federal street was entirely too small, especially at mid-day when workers went to lunch and at night after folks had left the theatre and concluded they wanted a snack before going to bed. That little restaurant is well remembered by the Camdenites of a score of years ago. Even then it was noted as a place where many of the town’s active spirits frequently met to discuss all sorts of things over a stew, a fry or whatnot.
In 1913 two of the old dwellings on Federal street were renovated and turned into the “oyster parlor” which has become known to persons throughout South Jersey. “Bob” was fortunate in having as his wife a women [sic] who realized the possibilities of the business, for after all it was Mrs. Turner who, in the early days, personally supervised all the preparations and the turning out of the finished product that brought patronage and success as a business enterprise.
‘Bob’ Widely Known
Aside from his oyster business, “Bob” Turner was one of the best known men about town and had been for a generation at least. He was actively interested in baseball and particularly in the teams which sought to stir sufficient pride hereabouts to support some sort of a league club. He also was one of the backers and supporters of basketball and later was a sponsor for the wrestling matches when few would bother about that line of sport.
When James J. Davis, now U. S. senator from Pennsylvania, came here 20 years or more ago to found Camden Lodge of Moose, “Bob” was associated with Ralph W. E. Donges, now Supreme Court Justice; William H. Ketler, city librarian; William Callingham and other leading lights of the community in getting the organization under way. It was a great night for “Bob” when Camden Lodge was started in the building at Third and Market streets. He had in later years been associated with Justice Donges as a member of the board of directors of Camden Lodge Building & Loan Association. In addition to the Moose, “Bob” also was a charter member of Camden Lodge of Elks, where he was active years ago. He likewise took a deep interest in the Eagles and was identified with other organizations.
When fortune had begun to smile “Bob” and Mrs. Turner took occasional long trips to rest up, once abroad and several times to Florida or California. Usually they spent the closed oyster season at Atlantic City.
Both Bob and his place have been unquestioned institutions about Federal street for many years and certainly without “Bob” walking along with “Hazard,” his English bull dog, and greeting acquaintances with a hearty, “Hello, Frank,” or whoever it might be — well, it will not be just like Federal street at all. Bob with his breezy, cheery, hail-fellow-well-met spirit, sure will be missed by the old-timers at least.
Over in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
The will of Isaac V. Brown, of Berlin, was admitted to probate yesterday by Surrogate West.
A big crowd of Camden Elks will go to Trenton to-day to participate in the annual clam bake of Trenton Lodge, B. P. O. Elks.
Recorder Nowrey held Samuel Suders in $500 bail yesterday, charged with larceny as bailee of $5 from John J. Jordan.
Frank Melton, 28 years old, of 1048 Ferry avenue, was overcome by heat yesterday while at work in Farr & Bailey’s oil cloth works. He was taken to the Cooper Hospital.
While fishing at the head of Third street yesterday Fred George Gregory, 6 years old, of 212 Byron street, fell in the Delaware River and was drowned.
The body of an unknown man, about 38 years old, and weighing 170 pounds, was found yesterday in the Delaware River at the foot of Bulson street. The body was taken to the Morgue where it awaits identification.
Elimination of 20 City Blocks Urged by Housing Committee
Camden Courier-Post —
Advisory Board Suggests Razing 895 Dwellings In 2 Areas, Classified as Sub-Standard; Mayor Favors Plan For Parking Spaces
Elimination of 20 blocks of what were characterized as sub-standard properties in Camden was recommended to the city yesterday by the Camden Housing Advisory Committee.
Although it was urged that the city clear out two large areas as an economy measure, no plan was suggested whereby the city could obtain money to finance the clearance project.
The two areas that would be affected if such a proposal were carried out are as follows:
Area A: Tenth street to Twelfth street, between Market and Linden streets, embracing Linden, Penn, Lawrence and Cooper streets between Tenth and Twelfth.
Area B: Line to Stevens streets, between Second and Third streets, embracing Stevens, Benson, Washington, Berkley, Senate, Clinton, Royden, Beckett and Line streets, between Second and Third.
Made by Burnison
The recommendation was made in the office of Mayor Frederick von Nieda, by James W. Burnison, head of the housing advisory committee. Burnison termed the two areas of ten blocks each definitely sub-standard and said that the city should consider them for condemnation proceedings to effect an appreciable saving to Camden of municipal service costs.
The recommendation was made on the basis of a survey completed by the State Housing Authority. Conditions in the 20 blocks were pictured as causing an annual total loss to the city of $156,791.04. In the two areas are 895 dwellings.
It was estimated in the state survey that the city’s annual operating costs in the first area, Area A, are $95,335.30. The annual income to the city in the same area was put at $27,061.63. The annual loss to the city was fixed by the survey as $68,273.67.
Operating costs in Area B were estimated at $106,178.88 per year with an income of $17,661.51. The loss was placed at $88,517.37.
The costs were said to embrace fire protection, police protection, education, relief and health expenditures. The income is from taxes and municipal liens.
Burnison said that by tearing out the affected areas, free parking districts could be established there, bringing considerable trade and money to the city. Operating costs would be eliminated, he pointed out, and tax rates would go down generally with the removal of a costly burden.
Joseph N. Hettel, also a member of the committee, pointed out that both areas would be ripe for use as industrial sites or for a new housing project. Hettel said that if a city housing authority were established, such an agency could obtain its own bonds and be established as an independent venture, divorced from the municipal government but perhaps subsidized by the federal government.
Mayor von Nieda, expressing himself in harmony with plans for eliminating sub-standard areas, declared that he was opposed to the city’s spending any money until the city could receive assurance that the income would be as much as the loss.
The committee also considered the project on which the government is spending $3,000,000 at Westfield Acres in the construction of a low-cost housing venture. George V. Walsh, Camden district manager of the PWA housing division, said the superstructure bid of Anthony P. Miller, of Atlantic City, had been accepted.
Jobs for 500 Men
The Miller contract figure was $2,489,000. The contract has not been awarded as yet. Walsh said that foundation work would be finished Sept. 10 and that superstructure work would start Sept. 15. Completion in one year is provided by contract.
Walsh said 500 men would be employed on the superstructure work and that 800 men would be given jobs at the peak of the work. The housing plan is for three-story apartments of three, four and five rooms each. There will be 598 apartments in all, with central heating and fireproof construction. The Westfield Acres project will cover 25 acres.
Mayor von Nieda criticized the estimates of the state survey group when he said that the figures given for relief and school costs were high. These are the city’s main operating expenses, he said, and they would go on though persons living in the two areas went elsewhere.
Abe Rosenfeld, a real estate man, and James V. Moran also attended the meeting.
Order Razing Of 6 Buildings As Fire Hazard
Camden Courier-Post —
Six Camden properties, described as unfit for human habitation and fire hazards, were ordered razed Wednesday by Edwin Segal, city legal assistant in charge of the condemnation bureau.
The houses are located at 523 Newton ave., 1036 Segal st., 1127 Carpenter st., 250 Burns st. and 620-22 Kaighns ave.
All six properties were declared in dilapidated condition and hazards to children and pedestrians by George LaMarra, inspector in the building bureau.
The Newton ave. building, a two-story brick and frame semi-detached house, is a haven for playing children, according to several nearby residents, who appeared at the hearing. The residents were Mrs. Olga Anton, of 722 Clinton st.; Edward Bender, of 733 Clinton st., and Mrs. Emilie Griffin, of 527 Newton ave.
Segal said he had received a petition signed by 42 residents in the area, urging the property be razed.
Mrs. Mamie Pinsky, of 1212 S. 3rd st., owner of the property, informed Segal she would have the structure demolished.
Owners of the other properties who failed to appear at the scheduled hearing were Louis B. Humphreys Jr., real estate, 3rd and Market sts., for 1036 Segal st.; Edward Gordon et ux, care of Rheba Obus, of 101 N. 7th st., for 1127 Carpenter st.; B. H. Stow et ux, of Marlton, for 250 Burns st., and John W. and Miss Otelia Cromwell, of Washington, represented by Louis M. Huston, of Burr-Smith Co., 13 Haddon ave., for 620-22 Kaighns ave.
Man Held on Charge of Stealing Plumbing
Camden Courier-Post —
Charged with stripping a vacant house at Third and Mickle street of plumbing fixtures and lead pipe, Joseph Tisso [sic], 22 years old, 214 Benson street, was arrested last night. Captain of Detectives John Golden said today Tisso had made a confession.
Tisso was arrested at Second and Market street by Patrolman Edward Wright. Numerous complaints have been made to the police by owners of vacant houses of petty thefts. Wright was assigned to make an investigation. Tisso will be given a hearing in police court tomorrow.
The Grim Shadow of Death Stalks Firemen’s Family
Camden Courier-Post —
By Martin DiCarlo
FRANK IANNELLI came to this country in 1904 from the sleepy little mountain village of San Bartolomeo, Italy. He settled first in Boston with friends and went straight to work as a helper at construction sites. He was 13 years old. A few years later he moved to Camden, where he worked at a number of jobs before joining the Army to fight in World War I.
He came back to Camden after the war and in 1921 he had himself a very good year, the kind of year that marks a turning point in a man’s life.
First he landed a job as a hoseman with the Camden Fire Department, a job that would keep him working during the Depression. Then he met Rosina Carlone, who, as fate would have it, was also a native of San Bartolomeo. Rose, as she was called, had only recently come to America and was living in Newark. When word reached Frank through the grapevine that a young girl from his village was living only a few hours away, he made arrangements to meet her so that he might learn the latest news about his family and friends back in the old country. Hoping to make a good impression, he made it a point to call on Rose in his fireman’s uniform.
The visit went very well. So well, in fact, that six months later Frank Iannelli and Rosina Carlone were married. They moved into a rowhouse at 3rd and Berkley streets in Camden, and in short order two sons, Leonard and Carmen, were born. Years later, in 1937, a third son, Frankie, arrived.
Like most Italian-American families, the Iannellis were very close. Rose would often take the boys down to the firehouse to see their father. Then, on an April night in 1942, tragedy struck. After fighting a dump fire in the city, Frank Iannelli collapsed in the firehouse at 27th and Federal streets and died of a heart attack. It happened as he was climbing the firehouse stairs. He was 51 years old.
TRAGEDY spares no family. Sooner or later all of us will have to pick up a telephone in the middle of the night. The death of Frank Iannelli hit Rose and the boys hard, but the family closed ranks around Leonard, who followed in his father’s footsteps by joining the fire department in 1948. Five years later Carmen followed suit.
It was not until a bitterly cold night in January 1964, a night on which the temperature dropped to one degree above zero, that the Iannelli family began to think that fate had singled them out for more than their share of heartache.
On that night, Leonard, 41 years old and by then a captain in the department, toppled over in the ice and snow at a two-alarm fire in a men’s clothing store at Broadway and Chestnut Street. He died before he reached the hospital, of heart failure brought on by smoke inhalation.
THE IRONY of Leonard’s death left the family shattered and bewildered. The pain was keener because neither Leonard nor his father had a history of heart trouble. They had been strong vibrant men, full of life. In neither case was there a warning, a hint of danger. Their deaths were the hardest kind to accept—totally unexpected, as arbitrary, it seemed, as the death of someone struck by lightning.
If there was a consolation for the Iannellis, it was only the thought that certainly now no greater tragedy could befall them. The worst had happened; only better days could lie ahead.
Carmen was now the head of the family and the only Iannelli left in the Camden Fire Department since Frankie, unlike his father and brothers, had not been caught up by the mystique of the fireman’s life and had broken with tradition by going to work for RCA.
Carmen was a quiet, sensitive man who preferred to spend his idle hours around the firehouse working crossword puzzles and solving riddles rather than taking part in the practical jokes and locker room humor for which firemen are notorious. He was broad-shouldered and balding, with a homely but honest face, and as he approached 50 the resemblance to his father became almost uncanny.
To his wife, Jean, and the rest of the family, he did not appear to brood about what had happened to his father and brother, nor did he seem to worry about falling victim to a similar fate. But there were times at the firehouse at 27th and Federal, where he had been stationed since shortly after his marriage in 1960, when it was clearly very much on his mind.
One day, climbing the firehouse stairs with Vince Orme, who is now the city fire marshal, Carmen pointed to the second floor landing and said: “That’s where it happened. That’s where my father died. That’s where I’ll probably die too.”
He was wrong. He was not destined to die on the landing where his father died. He was destined to die about 50 feet away, out on the sidewalk, unravelling five-inch hose after a fire in the storage yard of a wastepaper warehouse on Pine Street.
He was destined to die last Thursday, not only at the same firehouse in which his father died, but at just about the same time of day—two o’clock in the morning—and at just about the same age—50.
THREE MEN, a father and two sons, all firemen, all killed on the job by heart attacks. The irony is almost too awful for the mind to fully grasp and comprehend. In the 100-year history of the Camden Fire Department, it has never happened before. It will probably never happen again.
With Carmen’s death, the grief of the surviving members of the Iannelli family can no longer be measured. It can only be sensed.
It can be heard in the nervous, high-pitched voice of Frankie Iannelli, who is now 38 and who stated very matter-of-factly the other day, sitting in a car outside the RCA buildings in Camden, that he does not expect to live much past 50 either.
And it can be seen in the eyes of the widows. Terribly sad eyes, like those of children who, having been punished unfairly, cringe in expectation of still more punishment. In the eyes of Jean Iannelli and Leonard’s widow, Olga, but most of all in the old careworn eyes of Rose Iannelli, who has lost the most, and who alone has seen the haunting tragedies of the Iannelli family unfold from their very beginnings, from the seeds sown long ago in the mountains of San Bartolomeo.
Columbus Day in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Columbus Day was observed in Camden, principally among the Italians. Last night the Italian Knights of Columbus had a parade and a ball at the headquarters of the First Italian Republican League, 913 South Fourth street. Luigi Bentivoglia was marshal of the parade. Members of the Columbus Beneficial Association held a banquet at Columbus Hall, Third and Spruce streets, at which Frank Travis presided. The principal address was made by Mayor Charles H. Ellis. Camden Lodge, Knights of Columbus, gave an entertainment at the Catholic Lyceum. Addresses were made by Rev. Joseph Egan, of Haddon Heights, and Lawyer William T. Boyle, of Haddonfield.
A Camden Den Raided
Philadelphia Inquirer —
PLENTY OF LIQUOR AND A FARO LAY-OUT SECURED BY THE POLICE.
A Murderous Negro Creates a Commotion—Incendiaries at Work—Other News Across the Delaware.
The Camden police made another raid early yesterday morning. About 1 o’clock a detail consisting of Officers Pederick, Lee, Anderson, Horner, Baker and Chief Dodd raided a “speak-easy” and gambling den in a boathouse at the end of North Second street. When the policemen arrived a quiet little game of faro was in progress in the second story.
The proprietor, William Parker, Maurice Hinchman, Charles Mead and Mabel Gray were captured and taken to the City Hall. Sixteen boxes of beer, three gallons of whisky and a home-made faro lay-out were also captured. All of the men arrested were released yesterday but Parker, who was held on the charge of keeping a disorderly house and selling liquor without a license.
A funny incident occurred after the raid had been made. While the patrol was making its first trip to the City Hall previous to the removal of the liquor and gambling implements, Officer Pederick was detailed to watch the place. The policeman had only been in charge a few moments when a gang of men came in and called for a drink. “I can’t sell you anything,” said Pederick. “Why?” asked one of the thirsty men. “I got no license,” answered the officer. “That’s all right; Billy had no license, but we got the ‘booz’ just the same,” said one of the would-be purchasers. Pederick pulled back the flap of his coat and showed them his star. The thirsty men made a hasty retreat.
A Negro on the Warpath
William Thomas, alias King, is known among all of the tough colored element of the Fifth ward. Late on Saturday he started out to “do up” every person who ventured to come within the vicinity of Third and Spruce streets. His first move was to draw a revolver and tell Mary Blee, an old female companion, that he was going to kill her. Mary succeeded in escaping.
He then went into the saloon of John Jennings and called for a drink. The saloonkeeper refused him, whereupon he picked up glasses and bottles and flung them at his head and finally compelled him to rush into the street for safety. Policeman Streeper was summoned and was about to take the prisoner to the patrol box when he picked up a cobble stone and hit the officer a terrible blow in the back. He was sent to jail by the Mayor yesterday in default of $1,500 bail.
Tried to Burn the Building
While Policeman Harvey was patrolling his beat about twenty minutes of 4 o’clock yesterday morning, he noticed a man coming out of the butcher establishment of Samuel K. Hires, on Kaighn avenue above Third street. He paid little attention to the man, as it is usual for men to work there all night. A few minutes later the entire building was discovered enveloped in a mass of flames. The mysterious man, who had only a few minutes previous left, had been an incendiary and had smeared lard over the floors and then set it on fire. The Fire Department saved the building.
Brief ‘Cross River Notes
Eva Butts, alias “Siss,” Mary Dingle, Emma Adams and Anna Brady were arrested by Officer Butts early yesterday morning on the charge of keeping a disorderly house on Mount Ephraim avenue, between Chestnut and Sycamore streets. They are held for a further hearing.
Jacob Welsh, aged 17 years, living in South Camden, got into an altercation with his brother yesterday, when he nearly bit his finger off. He is locked up at the City Hall.
While intoxicated Frank Wilson, a Philadelphian, got into a fight at Haddonfield yesterday morning. During the fracas he was cut in the face and eye with a razor.
Thirty-six arrests were made in Camden during Saturday night and yesterday.
Contractor Aaron Ward yesterday completed the big sewer on Sixth street, when he built the last part under the Pennsylvania Railroad tracks.
Kate Manning, of Stockton township, was committed in default of ball [sic] for a further hearing by Justice Hope yesterday, for assault on Andrew Mullin. Mullin states that the woman had been drinking, and threw a stick of wood at him, and when he remonstrated with her she drew a knife from under her dress, and cut him in the head with it. The woman denied having a knife in her possession, and stated that she only pushed the man for having made an insulting remark to her.
A. Harry Moore Club to Hold Rally Tonight
Camden Courier-Post —
A mass meeting of Democrats will be held at 8 p. m. today by the A. Harry Moore Third Ward Democratic Club, at Third and Benson streets, with Postmaster Emma E. Hyland, Prosecutor Samuel G. [sic] Orlando and all county candidates listed as speakers. Charles Salvaggio is president and Joseph Bennie chairman of the club.
Over the River.
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Military.
Post No. 37, G. A. R., held an annual election on Thursday evening, and selected the following officers for the ensuing year: Post Commander—W. B. E. Miller. Senior Vice Commander—Samuel S. Venner. Junior Vice Commander—Robert Crawford. Chaplain—P. B. Hughes. Quartermaster—Christopher J. Mines, Jr. Surgeon—Dr. J. N. Hugg. Officer of the Day—J. L. Markey. Officer of the Guard—Richard J. Robertson. Past Commander for the Year—John Dall.
To Be Rebuilt.
Proposals have been advertised for by the Bridge Committee of the Camden County Board of Chosen Freeholders for the construction of a bridge across Cooper’s creek, on State street. The present bridge has been condemned, and a new one is necessary for the safety of travel.
The Military Prize.
Major Joseph C. Lee, with a guard of honor, received on Thursday afternoon the trophy awarded to the New Jersey Battalion at the Yorktown Centennial anniversary, and it will be in custody at the headquarters of Company C, Sixth Regiment, N. G., Camden, on the 7th instant.
Paving Material.
The work of paving Federal street with Belgian blocks has been delayed for several days, because the contractor, Thomas A. Wilson, has been unable to procure material. Only half a square remains to be finished, but the stone has now arrived, and work will be resumed at once.
Died.
William Bassett, a small lad, who was severely burned on Saturday last from his clothing taking fire, died from the effects of the injuries on Thursday night, at Third street and Kaign’s avenue.
Robberies
During the past week a number of robberies have taken place near Marlton. Among the places robbed were the Baptist Church, Kaighn’s wagon shop, Brown’s shop, Allen M. Evans’ tailor shop and Felix McCarthy’s store.
Larceny of Poultry.
William Morris was yesterday committed to the Camden county jail for the larceny of poultry by Justice Atkinson, of Blackwoodtown.
Pinkeye.
The disease known as “pinkeye” has broken out among the horses in Moorestown, and is quite prevalent.
New Ferry Boat.
On Monday next the West Jersey Ferry Company intend bringing to Camden their new ferry boat Baltic, which is said to be of superior build.
No Indictment Against Staley
Camden Post-Telegram —
Duffield and Coursey Named in the True Bill Found in Kellmann Murder.
FUGITIVE RIANO IS ALSO INDICTED
Two of the three prisoners—Coursey and Duffield—are named in the true bills for the murder of Karl Kellmann filed by the Grand Jury to-day. The third prisoner, Staley, who was not present when the crime was committed, is held as a material witness.
An indictment for murder was also returned against Guiseppi Riano, alias Diano, for the fatal stabbing of Agostino Tascano in a boarding house on South Third street, two weeks ago. Diano is a fugitive.
Other indictments found are as follows:
Assault and battery with intent to kill Mary Purnell.
Embezzlement—G. Frank Travis, [?];
Violation of the banking laws—G. Frank Travis.
Atrocious assault and battery—Theodore Sewandoski, Stanislaus Sewandoski, James A. Richardson, Walter Middleton.
Misdemeanor—John Fussel, William Rushworth.
Breaking and entering and larceny—Harry Alloway.
Larceny—Eugene McCaffrey, [?]; Thomas Quinn, John Barvin, David Barry, Kat[?] Viola, Thomas Polard, Horace Moore.
Assault and battery—George Pukes, John Shield, William Brown.
Cruelty to infant child—James Yocum, Angelina Yocum.
Camden County Transfers
Philadelphia Inquirer —
COLLINGSWOOD—N E cor Harrison and Virginia—Newton B T Roney to Arthur J Podmore, $1.
OAKLYN—N W side Lakeview, 250 ft N E White Horse turnpike, Bettlewood Land Co to Hattie C Pettit, $1.
CAMDEN—534 West—Sidney G West to Rosantonia Lemarra, $2500
CAMDEN—1555 Norris. Eleanora Stolinski et al to Czeslaw Mikolojczak et ux, $1750.
PENSAUKEN TOWNSHIP—N side Walnut, 1020 ft W Centre—Harry W Applegate to Josiah B Smyth, $1.
AUDUBON—Lot 24, Sec 4, plan new addition to Audubon—Harry D LeCato to Christian J Mohrfeld, $1.
CAMDEN—Lots 17 and 18, Sec A, plan South Rosedale—Victor King to Herbert K Wright et ux, $1.
CAMDEN—1339 Princess—William S Eastlack to Florence Podmore, $3000.
CLEMENTON—Lots 10 and 12, sec C, plan of Flury’s—Frances A Flury to John C Duem[?] et ux, $180.
CAMDEN—Lot 475, plan Kaighns Point Land Asso—William P Kelly to Mahissida B Dutton, $1.
COLLINGSWOOD—Lot 11, plan of Frank B Byram—Turner E McMullin to John M Starr, $1.
CAMDEN—N side Atlantic, 220 ft E Norris—Rudolph Detwyler to Max Schoemen et al, $[?]50.
CAMDEN—1129 Penn—Frank H Smith to Mary Facht, $875.
CAMDEN—W side 35th, 220 ft N H[?]rrison—Alfred Cramer, Jr, et als, excrs, to Charles W Lang et ux, $200.
CLEMENTON—Six acres, Emily Hawkes et al to Mary Carless, $400.
COLLINGSWOOD—Cor of Atlantic and Dayton—J Edward Fagen to Frank A Knight, $1100.
HADDON TOWNSHIP—S W cor Wyoming & Pine—Charles Bauer to Tillie Lieberstein, $4[?]00.
CAMDEN—843-847 and 849 S Third—G Frank Travis to Joseph Palese, $13 000.
CAMDEN—321 Cherry—Rocco Fa[?]elle to Domenico A Loscalzo, $1180.
Two N. Camden Men Attacked by Thugs
Camden Courier-Post —
Two street attacks were reported Friday night to Det. Russell Young.
John Hoey, 73, of 831 Linden st., an attendant at a parking lot at 4th and Arch sts., said that while he was counting the day’s receipts he was assaulted by two Negroes about 17 years old, and was hit on the head with a rock. He said the pair fled without loot when he shouted for help.
Joseph Packer, 45, of 621 Grant st., said he was punched in the face by a group of five teen-age Negroes at 3rd st. and Kaighns ave. while he was walking to work. He said his assailants fled without robbing him. He was treated at West Jersey Hospital for a possible nose fracture.
Camden Fire Alarms
Camden Courier-Post —
From Midnight Sunday to Midnight Monday
1.02 a. m., 423 Stevens st., part of interior and contents.
4.57 a. m., 421 Stevens st., part of floor.
2.05 p. m., 330 Benson st., part of interior and contents.
4.45 p. m., N. 3rd st., at Delaware River, rubbish.
Over in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Theodore Shaw, of 434 Henry street, who was stabbed and beaten at Third street and Taylor avenue was sent home from Cooper Hospital yesterday morning. The police are looking for James Binero and Octavio Dulduca, who are supposed to have been implicated in the assault on Shaw.
While bathing at Cape May yesterday, Ella Elbert, colored, of Wilmington, Del., fell from the boardwalk and broke her leg. She was brought to Cooper Hospital.
William McCarty, of 603 Cresson street, and Samuel Burns, of 406 North Eighteenth street, Philadelphia, were arrested yesterday charged with scorching on a tandem bicycle on the Mt. Ephraim pike.
Harry Thornberg was locked up yesterday charged with stealing a bundle of clothing from John Kenny, of 408 Clinton street.
Policeman Paul yesterday arrested Joseph W. Evans, a lad charged with shooting crap, at Eighth and Pearl streets.
For the second time within a month fire caused by a gasoline stove slightly damaged. Albert K. Snyder’s restaurant, at 311 Kaighn avenue, yesterday.
3 Firemen Grads Given Assignments
Camden Courier-Post —
Three firemen were graduated today from the Camden City Fire Training School, 9th and Market sts. Their training began June 11 and included one week at the Philadelphia Fire Training School.
Assigned in ceremonies at fire headquarters, 3rd and Arch sts., were Truman Maples, 26, of 1024 N. 35th st., to Engine Company 11, Ernest A. Fagan, 25, 105 S. 35th st., Engine Company 1, and Spencer Smith 3d, a third-generation fireman, 22, of 1523 Collings rd., to Ladder Company 1.
Levy to Build New Apartment House
Camden Courier-Post —
Will Erect $20,000 Structure at Eighth and Kaighn Avenue
A contract for the erection of a $20,000 apartment house to be built on Eighth street near Kaighn avenue, has been awarded to S. Levy, building contractor, 1214 Kaighn avenue.
The structure will be of brick, two stories, 17 by 85 feet, with slag roof, and pine and composition floors, metal lathing, hot water heating and the latest plumbing and electrical fixtures. Harry Franks is the owner.
The same builder is also erecting a two-story office and apartment building at 410 Kaighn avenue. This building will be of brick, with a copper front. Both the offices and the two apartments will be equipped with the latest conveniences.
Two weeks ago Levy completed an operation of eight houses at 632-646 Van Hook street. The dwellings, which have six rooms and a porch with all modern conveniences, are all occupied.
Levy is now completing an extensive alteration job on a store property at 528-30 North Third street, which will cost $5,000.
Levy is now seeking a building job in Woodbury, which will keep him busy for a long time to come, if he lands the contract, which is very likely. He is also doing extensive repair and alteration work in stores, offices and homes in and around Camden. During the past few months he has rebuilt several store fronts for local establishments.
The business outlook for the new year is excellent says Levy, who had a good year in 1927. Levy, who has been in business here since 1911, has done work throughout South Jersey.
Camden’s Scarred Patriots
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Fourth Marked by Absence of Serious Accidents
All Camden entered into the spirit of the Fourth of July yesterday. One noticeable feature of the day was the absence of serious accidents. Not a Fourth of July victim was treated at the Homeopathic Hospital, while at the Cooper Hospital but eight were admitted, as follows:
Albert Owens, aged 24 years, of 227 Mechanic street; powder burns of the back.
Charles Haines, aged 54 years, of 110 Birch street; burned hands.
Joseph Simons, aged 47 years, of 1113 Locust street; contusions of the eyelid.
Russell Hutchins, aged 11 years, of 557 Royden street, gunshot wound of right leg.
William Fabor, aged 14 years, of 226 Washington street; blank cartridge wound of right hand.
Florence McGann, aged 33 years, of 226 Erie street; powder burns of hands.
Samuel Ross, aged 14 years, of 5 North Third street; face burned.
Frank Kupp, aged 14 years, of 1043 Pine street; burned hands.
Yesterday afternoon flag raising and christening ceremonies were held at the new apartment house at Sixth and Mickle streets. At Pyne Point Park exercises appropriate to the day were observed. They consisted of singing, music, reading of the Declaration of Independence by F. Wayland Potter and addresses by Rev. F. A. De Maris, of the State Street M. E. Church; Mayor Joseph E. Nowrey, and ex-Assemblyman Joseph M. Engard.
Last night splendid pyrotechnical displays were given.
Frank Stockton Assaulted
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Justice Schmitz, in Camden, last night, committed Robert Wieshing and Harry Martin to the county jail in default of bail, charged with assault and battery on Frank Stockton, son of Fireman John Stockton. Stockton was attacked at Third street and Kaighn avenue, Saturday night, and terribly beaten.
64 Plead Not Guilty to Dry Charges Here
Camden Courier-Post —
Bench Warrants Issued for 10 Others When They Fail to Appear
Sixty-four men and women charged with violations of the national prohibition act entered pleas of not guilty today before U. S. District Judge John Boyd Avis at the courthouse here.
Bench warrants for 10 additional defendants who failed to appear were granted by Judge Avis on application of Assistant U. S. Attorney Isadore Worth.
Horace L. Brewer, of 3080 Federal street, owner of Brewer’s restaurant at 531-533 Market street, and Miss Lillian S. Turner, an employe, of 1108 Federal street, were among those who entered not guilty pleas to possession and sale of intoxicating liquor. They are at liberty under $1000 ball [sic] each pending trial.
Neil F. Deighan, 38, of 101 Narberth terrace, Collingswood, owner of the Old Mill Inn, Burlington pike near Pennsauken Creek, also pleaded not guilty to possession and sale.
John L. Durkin, alleged owner, and Thomas J. Boland, bartender, of 205 Arch street, entered pleas of not guilty to indictments charging sale and possession of liquor at the Bronx Cafe, 29 North Third street.
Joseph Regan, 38, of Mt. Ephraim; Robert Shaw, 37, of Philadelphia; and Charles Hendrickson, 30, of Haddon Heights, also pleaded not guilty to possession and sale at the Northmont Inn, Black Horse pike and Fourth avenue, Mt. Ephraim.
First Ward Republicans
Camden Post —
Election of Officers, Ball, and New Year’s Presentation.
The First Ward Republican Club elected the following officers last night: President, Harry T. Walker; vice presidents, John H. Tway, James Elbertson, Wm. C. Ford, J. W. Kinsey, John Leeds; treasurer, Albert E. Keyser; recording secretary, D. P. Williams; assistant sec., J. J. Lindrod; corresponding secretary, H. H. Bissby; Financial Secretary, Wm. Hand; Assistant, John Tway; Board of Trustees, Jacob Gnang, Charles Tway, David Simpson, George Tash, Wm. Mattix, J. Lindroy, Jacob Leon, John Offer, Robert Brice.
The club will hold their regular meeting of next week on Thursday evening instead of Monday (New Year’s Eve), on which their first annual masquerade ball takes place. On New Year’s Day the club will present to the best dressed New Year’s club passing their club rooms, Keyser’s Hall, Point and Yerk [sic] streets, a handsome silver pitcher, which is now on exhibition in the window of Roberts’ hat store, at Third and Federal streets. The contest will take place from 10 a. m. until 5 p. m.
Police Judge Holds Pair Wilkie Nabbed
Camden Courier-Post —
Girl, 14, in Detention Home, Brother-in-Law Faces Jury Action
A 14-year-old girl was sent to the Detention home and her 35-year-old brother-in-law held without bail for the grand jury on a statutory charge Saturday by Police Judge Lewis Liberman.
They were arrested by Inspector John V. Wilkie in a North Third street rooming house. Two other girls taken into custody by Wilkie at the same time were released in police court.
The girl held is Tessie Chodkowska, of 321 North Third street, scene of the arrests, and the man is Henry Eberle, of 2527 East Somerset street, Philadelphia.
Wilkie and acting Sergeant Herbert Bott arrested an East Camden tailor in connection with the same case and charged him with permitting disorderly persons to congregate on his premises. He was held as a material witness.
The girls released by the court are Emma Conover, 21, of Blackwood, and Irva Woolridge, 18, of 216 Friends avenue.
Works With S. P. C. C.
Wilkie went to the house while cooperating with Miss Emilia Haase, an agent of the Pennsylvania Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. For the last two days they have been seeking the Chodkowska girl, who ran away from the society’s headquarters while commitment papers to send her to an institution were being made out.
Miss Haase traced her to Camden and when she came here Wilkie was assigned to assist her. He learned the girl was working in a restaurant on Market street between Second and Third streets, and was living on Fourth street near Linden.
When he went to the house, she had moved and he then learned she was living at 321 North Third street. When he went there the other two girls and Eberle were in a second floor room. Wilkie said that Eberle and Tessie were living together. The man is her brother-in-law, Wilkie said.
Gave Wrong Names
They gave fictitious names, Wilkie said, when they were told they were under arrest.
“There is more behind this case than appears on the surface,” Wilkie said. “I am going to find out why this rooming house was not licensed.”
In court, the Chodkowska girl admitted the statutory offense, but said it occurred in Philadelphia. Police said she admitted that it occurred in Camden. Eberle also admitted the charge but declared it had been in Philadelphia.
The other two girls were released after they informed the court they had gone to the room to pay a visit to the Chodkowska girl, and to get a pair of shoes they had loaned her. Wilkie said the Chodkowska girl will be turned over to Philadelphia authorities after disposition of the case here against Eberle.
Wilkie said the Chodkowska girl will be turned over to Philadelphia authorities after disposition of the case here against Eberle.
Charges Attack
The tailor arrested is Peter Parnakian, 29, of 116 North Twenty-seventh street. According to Wilkie, the Chodkowska girl told him she was taken to Parnakian’s place Tuesday morning and assaulted.
The girl also said she became intoxicated in a Brooklawn saloon, Wilkie said. As a result he and Bott conferred with David C. Reich, director of public safety, at Brooklawn, who promised to question the girl and attempt to learn the location of the place.
Charge, Murder to Italian Now on Sea
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Camden Police Believe Man Sailing for His Home Killed William Gallagher
Sailing on the high seas to what he presumably thinks is safety in his native province of Italy, Ilario Di Antonio, alleged to be the murderer of William Gallagher, who was stabbed to death in Camden a couple of weeks ago, is being awaited by the authorities, who will place him under arrest as soon as he lands. Chief of Police Gravenor, of Camden, yesterday communicated with Italian Consul Felece Ronce at Trenton, and word was at once forwarded to the Province Di Ascoli, Italy, Di Antonio’s home.
With virtually nothing upon which to work, the case was assigned Detectives Schregler and Troncone. Gallagher was stabbed to death early Sunday morning of December 8 at Locust and Pine streets. He was found bleeding to death and succumbed to his injuries shortly after being admitted to the Cooper Hospital. Through Troncone, who is the Italian detective in Camden, it was learned that Giuseppe Azzari, of 204 Beckett street, knew something about the crime. He was placed under arrest yesterday, and as a result Antonio Da Andea, of 9[?]5 Locust street, was also apprehended. They both broke down and told the facts in the tragedy.
According to their stories, the alleged slayer of Gallagher took exception to an insulting remark Gallagher had made concerning a woman. Words followed and then the stabbing. Di Antonio, according to his compatriots, stabbing Gallagher through the heart with a stiletto As soon as possible Di Antonio took ship for his home.
The alleged murderer lived in an Italian tenement house at Third and Line streets, next to the place where Agostine Toscane was stabbed to death by Giuseppe Diane on October 4. The latter is a fugitive.
‘Bus Bandits’ Found Guilty; Face 15 Years
Camden Courier-Post —
Thompson and Mallet Convicted of Robbing Drivers in Short Time
‘CONFESSION’ FORCED, DEFENDANT DECLARES
Juror Slugged, Case Goes on With Eleven in the Box
Found Guilty
REINO A. THOMPSON
805 Linden street, who with Henry N. Mallet, of 119 North Ninth street, co-defendant, was found guilty of highway robbery by a jury in Criminal Court yesterday. The jury consisted of 11 persons. One was released after he informed the court he was “put on the spot.”
Reino A. Thompson, 19, of 805 Linden street, and Henry N. Mallet, 21, of 119 North Ninth street, were both found guilty of highway robbery by a jury in Criminal Court yesterday after one hour and 20 minutes’ deliberation.
The maximum penalty for this crime is 15 years in state prison. Judge Samuel M. Shay will sentence the pair next week.
At the opening of the case yesterday, it was revealed that one of the jurors had his head bandaged. An inquiry from the court brought out the fact that the juror had received two alleged beatings and was “put on the spot.”
Judge Shay allowed the man to leave the jury box and proceeded with 11 persons, an unprecedented situation in the history of the county court.
Mallett Scores Police
Thompson in his testimony exonerated Mallet of the crime and told the jurors he did the robbery. Mallet, who had made a signed confession, which was introduced into court, testified he was given rough tactics by the police and compelled to sign the statement.
Mallet said that at the time of the robbery he was eating in a Camden restaurant. Later he met Thompson and they went for a ride through Merchantville. When several policemen approached, Thompson wrecked the car in attempting to escape and Mallet suffered a severe cut over his right eye.
When taken to the station house, Mallet testified, Bangs struck him repeatedly on his injured eye “until I would have confessed anything and signed without knowing what I was doing.”
Thompson, who admitted his part in the holdup, corroborated Mallet’s testimony.
Charles B. Kay, 53, of 435 Liberty street, was the juror who said he had been attacked by thugs. He declared he suffered four broken ribs and cuts and bruises. His head was swathed in gauze when he appeared in the courtroom.
In further explanation, Kay said he was put “on the spot.” He volunteered no further explanation than that, but asked to be excused, as he had to report back to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital today for treatment.
Excused From Duty
He was excused by the court after Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Palese and Frank M. Lario, attorney for the defendants, agreed to continue with eleven jurors.
Kay walked into the hospital at 4 a. m. and asked for treatment. He said that a man offered to give him a lift in an automobile while he was standing at Third and Mechanic streets. A woman was with the “good samaritan,” according to Kay, who averred that instead of going to the Market street ferries the man drove the car out Mt. Ephraim avenue.
Kay asserted that when he protested the man struck him and threw him out of the machine. No attempt was made to rob him. Police investigating the attack stated that Kay had been drinking and told varying stories, first saying he knew the couple and later denying he knew who they were.
Reino, who was exonerated of killing his father last April, and Mallett are said to have confessed to 13 robberies, but they were placed on trial on charges of holding up Leon Garringer, 4725 Poplar avenue, Pennsauken, and Fred Crowder, 6308 Shelbourne street, Philadelphia, on Aug. 5. Garringer and Crowder are bus drivers and were on the witness stand today.
Garringer said he stopped his Public Service bus at Park avenue and Haddonfield road, Pennsauken township, at 11 p. m. that night. Later, Crowder parked his bus and came into Garringer’s bus. Garringer was reading a paper and Crowder was counting his receipts when a coupe containing two men pulled up beside the buses.
One of the coupe’s occupants entered the bus, levelled a revolver at the two drivers and yelled, “Stick ‘em up!” He stole $19 from Crowder and then ran back to the coupe, where his companion had been waiting at the driver’s wheel.
Caught After Chase
Crowder corroborated Garringer’s testimony, and Chief of Police William H. Linderman was called by the state. Chief Linderman said his men captured Thompson Aug. 9 after a long chase and later arrested Mallett. The following day, Thompson sent for him, saying he wanted “to come clean.” Thompson confessed to the bus holdup, Chief Linderman said, and implicated Mallett. Palese succeeded in having the confession accepted in evidence and it was read to the jury.
Policemen Edward J. Hare and Herbert A. Davidson, Jr., of Merchantville, stopped an automobile at Maple and Westminster avenues. They were suspicious of the registration, and bade the driver, who was Mallett, to follow them to the police station. Thompson was in the car. Instead of stopping at the station, the driver turned into Park avenue, where a pistol was thrown out of the automobile. The police gave chase. Near Maple Shade, the car went into a ditch and overturned. Thompson was caught but Mallet escaped. He was later arrested in Camden when his mother allegedly revealed his hiding place to police.
Thompson was arrested when his father died last April of injuries to his head suffered when he fell after being struck by Reino. The youth said he struck in self-defense. Also his mother pleaded his cause. Young Thompson promised to “lead a good life” and help support his mother and her family. He was then released by the grand jury.
Pay Theft Tale Faked, Radio Worker Admits
Camden Courier-Post —
Admitting he faked a kidnaping and robbery story yesterday to fleece 12 of his fellow workers of their weekly earnings, a South Philadelphia youth last night was held without bail after he directed police to recover the money.
The youth is Anthony Carrozza, 20, of 1021 Wolf street, Philadelphia, an employe of the RCA Manufacturing Company.
After cashing the checks of 12 fellow workers totaling $369.64, police said, Carrozza gave the money to an unidentified friend to take to Philadelphia and after two hours returned to the plant and related a robbery story.
Carrozza was chosen by workers in the cabinet factory to cash a number of their pay checks every Friday at the West Jersey Trust Company, Third and Market streets. He was employed on a night shift, and would arrive at the factory shortly after noon on pay day, collect the checks and return the cash.
Tells of Kidnaping
About 2 p. m. yesterday Carrozza left the plant with the checks. At 4:30 p. m. he returned and told the 12 men he had been held up as he left the bank, abducted and tossed from a car in Moorestown after he had been robbed of their money. Carrozza told the workers he had reported the robbery to Moorestown police and they informed him he would have to make a report to Camden police, where the kidnaping occurred.
Accompanied by his fellow workers he was led to Detective Bureau where he told his story to Detectives Thomas Murphy and August Fortune.
Carrozza first said he was about to cross Third street to return to the plant after leaving the bank when he was accosted by two Negroes, revolvers in hand, who ordered him to enter a nearby parked car with a third man at the wheel and the motor running.
The car was driven to Moorestown, Carrozza told Murphy and Fortune, where he was robbed of the money and tossed from the car. Carrozza told police he then went to the Moorestown police headquarters and reported the theft.
Carrozza said he had some change in his watch-pocket and boarded a bus and returned to his place of employment.
After hearing Carrozza’s story, Murphy noted several discrepancies and ordered Carrozza held for further questioning.
Youth Confesses
Less than an hour later Murphy and Fortune announced Carrozza had admitted telling a false story to obtain the money. Carrozza, the detectives said, gave the money to a friend after he left the bank and instructed him to take it to Philadelphia, where he would meet him later after he finished work.
Murphy and Fortune then took Carrozza to Philadelphia and directed them to Warnock and Porter streets, where he pointed to a youth standing on the corner. Brought to the police car, the youth, whose name was withheld by police, readily gave the money to Carrozza. The entire amount was recovered.
Murphy said the 12 men whose checks were cashed by Carrozza will be summoned to the detective bureau today and their money returned. Murphy declared that in the event none of the 12 wished to prefer charges against Carrozza he would be released at that time.
The intended victims of the hoax are William Matteo, of 628 South Fourth street, and Vito Ladik, of 404 Clinton street, both of Camden, and Abraham Mozeff, of 3524 South Mildred street; Eugene DeRenzi, of 1144 Tree street; James Visconi, of 2017 Mercy street; Ralph Vulli, of 2128 Morris street; John Schipani, of 1728 Ellsworth street; Joseph Maroni, of 2225 South Chadwick street; Vincent Giannone, of 1634 South Eleventh street; Roger DiBenedetto, of 2100 West Stella street; Anthony Petroneck, of 26 Queen street, and Dominick Campagnola, of 1718 Morris street, all of Philadelphia.
Insistence on Kissing Gets Man, 73, in Trouble
Camden Courier-Post —
Camden’s most affectionate citizen has been found. He’s 73 years old and he spent last night behind bars.
The arrest of Dominick Botleron, 533 Mechanic street, came after he had battled policemen in the operating room of Cooper Hospital at midnight when they refused to be kissed or let him kiss all the nurses and doctors in sight.
“My name’s Valentino,” shouted the man, as Patrolman Walter Patton picked him up from a gutter at Third and Becket streets and loaded him into the First district patrol.
At the hospital where surgeons attempted to sew up a gash in his head, he boasted of being the “sheik of South Camden,” and then tried to osculate everyone in the room.
He frustrated the policemen’s attempt to take him home by giving six different addresses and was finally locked in a cell. Today sentence was suspended when he was arraigned before Judge Bertman in police court on a charge of disorderly conduct.
Poor Little Homo’s
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book — 1943
WHERE GOOD FRIENDS MEET
at
West Jersey Cafe
Third and Market Streets
There you will find 5 boys at the pump
MAX DOC JOE SHAMUS and JIM
Walter J. Beer
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book — 1943
COMPLIMENTS OF
Camden, N. J.
Phone, Camden 1664
Camden, N. J.
Phone, Camden 1133
M & L DISTRIBUTING CO.
Camden, N. J.
Phone, Camden 4448
3rd and Pine Streets
Camden, N. J.
Phone, Camden 1235
Distributors of Pepsi-Cola to the Retail Trade
United States Pipe Organ Co.
St. Joseph's Roman Catholic Church Golden Jubilee Year Book — 1943
121-125 N. 18TH ST. PHILADELPHIA
Manufacturers of Pipe Organs
Tuning and Yearly Pianos Tuned
Service Contracts and Repaired
Phone, Rit. 7672
Walnut 4880
ROSEN BROS.
Established 1895
Manufacturing Furriers
A. Rendelman, Mgr.
1030 ARCH STREET, PHILADELPHIA
Open Evenings until 9 P.M.
Fridays and Saturdays, 6 P.M.
Compliments of
MR. AND MRS. WM. JOHNSON
Compliments of
MR. AND MRS. JOHN DelDUKE
Compliments of
WELLS DRUG STORES, INC.
25TH AND FEDERAL STREETS
Camden
Bell Phone, 3217
EAST END JUNK CO.
Dealer in
Scrap Iron, Rags and Metal
Paper Stock
2105 FEDERAL STREET, CAMDEN, N. J.
Office, 2182 Federal Street
Camden 957 Orders Taken by Driver
Leo’s Famous Yum Yum
Snow Flake and Sherbet Ice Cream
All Flavors—We Cater to Parties, Picnics, etc.
LEO’S MFG. CO.
1113 S. THIRD STREET CAMDEN
Compliments of
KATHARINE BYRNE
Phone, Camden 6645
SPUHLER’S GRILLE
Music Friday and Saturday Evenings
2312 FEDERAL ST. CAMDEN
Quality Dry Cleaning and Pressing
Licensed SANITONE Cleaner
523 MARKET ST. 2640 FEDERAL ST.
Phone, 1213 Camden Phone, 2812
Few Painters on Strike in Camden
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Journeymen painters in Camden yesterday went out on strike, the boss painters as a rule refusing to accede to their demands for $2.80 for an eight-hour day. The strikers established headquarters at Third and Arch streets, where it was stated twenty-five men are out.
The master painters who have signed the union scale are A. R. Dease, D. S. Garwood, William H. Casperson, S. W. Guise, A. Lazro, Robinson & Corson and Joseph Vennell.
Obituary of Charles S. Humphreys
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Obituary—Charles S. Humphreys, Esq., residing on Third street, below Market, Camden, died at Long Branch on Sunday afternoon, after a short illness, at the age of over sixty years, of paralysis Deceased was a well-known resident of Camden, and a portrait painter of much celebrity. He was noted for the skill and accuracy he exhibited in painting noted horses while in motion. He had resided in Camden about forty years
2 Runaway Horses Imperil Children
Camden Courier-Post —
Gallopers Stage Impromptu Race in South Camden Traffic
Scores of children on their way to school were endangered yesterday when two horses hitched to a bakery wagon ran away in South Camden streets, ignoring red traffic lights and shouts of pedestrians and motorists.
A horse hitched to a wagon of the Seven Brothers Bakery, 322 Pine street, broke loose from its wagon at Third and Berkley streets when it was frightened by a truck, according to Joseph Cirelli, Second and Washington streets, the wagon driver. The animal raced east in Berkley street to West street, where it collided with an automobile. Despite numerous cuts and bruises, the horse continued its dash eastward.
At the headquarters of Freihofer Bakery Company, Fifth and Berkley streets, where several bakery wagons were being loaded, the runaway animal frightened the horses of the company, and one bolted.
Both horses crossed Broadway, demoralizing traffic and sending scores of children running in all directions to escape the menace of flying hoofs and a careening wagon.
At the railroad tracks, the bakery wagon and one horse was [sic] captured.
The other horse turned north in Sixth street, pursued by Motorcycle Policeman William Thorn.
Thorn overtook the horse and brought it to a stop at Sixth and Stevens streets, opposite Cooper Hospital. The animal was taken to the city stables at Federal street and Admiral Wilson boulevard, where it was later claimed by the driver.
Albion R. Lane Dies, Retired Egg Dealer
Camden Courier-Post —
Services for Albion R. Lane, 76, veteran butter and egg dealer of Camden and Collingswood, will be held Saturday at 1 p. m. at the funeral home of Joseph H. Murray and Son, 408 Cooper street. Burial will be in Evergreen cemetery. Mr. Lane died yesterday at the home of a son, Forrest F., 2776 Congress road.
Mr. Lane established his business at Third and Senate streets in 1888 and continued to conduct wholesale and retail service until 15 years ago when he retired and turned the business over to two sons, Forrest and Robert H. The latter continues to conduct the business at his father’s former home, 100 East Wayne terrace, Collingswood.
Mr. Lane was an independent candidate for Camden City Council in 1900. He was the nephew of the late James Lane, former president of council. Mrs. Lane, the former Nevada French, died several years ago.