Mt. Ephraim Avenue
MT. EPHRAIM AVENUE goes back as far as 1878, when it was a toll road called the Mount Ephraim Turnpike. Originally beginning at the intersection of Line Street and Haddon Avenue, at some point between 1929 and 1946 Starr Avenue was renamed, resulting in a second section of Mount Ephraim Avenue running parallel to Newton Avenue and extending out to Admiral Wilson Boulevard, along the west side of the old Sears-Roebuck building.
1946 Map of Camden
Showing the 'new' section of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1946 map of Camden showing the “new” section of Mt. Ephraim Avenue, which had been Starr Avenue prior to the renaming.
Intersection of Mt. Ephraim Avenue, Haddon Avenue, & Line Street
Looking south on Mt. Ephraim Avenue from Haddon Avenue, January 2, 2006.
Intersection of Mt. Ephraim Avenue & Pine Street
Mt. Ephraim Avenue at Pine Street, February 25, 2009.
800 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
802 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, 2003. Sergeant Thomas J. Glennon of the James A. Glennon family lived here from 1943 to 1952.
866 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Robert F. Floyd, 1906. Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 1906.
Robert Floyd, a colored stevedore, of Mt. Ephraim avenue, Camden, is building a thirty-five-foot boat in his back yard with the object of using it to seek a treasure island in the West Indies. Although his home is nearly two miles from the river, Floyd declares he will have no difficulty in launching the rather unwieldy craft. A sailor on board a vessel which
866 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 16, 1906 (continued)
Floyd was unloading told him the tale of hidden gold and as a result the Camden man decided to seek out the spot on his own hook.
898 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Frank M. Kennedy, painter, 1915. Camden Post-Telegram, January 25, 1915; Camden Daily Courier, May 22, 1915.
PAINTING FRANK M. KENNEDY
Ask about my work
Shop 453 S. Fifth St. Residence 898 Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
898 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, Camden Daily Courier, May 22, 1915
Frank M. Kennedy, Painter
Ask about my work. Shop, 453 S. 5th St. Residence, 898 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
908 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Gibson C. West & Family, 1970. Camden Courier-Post, November 12, 1970.
WEST
On Nov. 11, 1970, Gibson C. Age 69 years, husband of Marie (nee Daly), of 908 Mt. Ephraim Ave., Camden, N.J. Also surviving are 2 daughters Mrs. Marie Mascibroda, Mrs. Barbara Mascibroda and 2 grandchildren. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the funeral services Sat. 10 a.m. at the funeral home of Oliver Bair-Schroeder, 1016 Haddonfield Rd., Cherry Hill. Viewing Friday evening. Interment Harleigh Cemetery.
800 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
800 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Resident listed |
802 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943–1952 | James A. Glennon & Family |
| James A. & Margaret Glennon | |
| Thomas J. Glennon | |
| Ann Glennon | |
| Catherine Glennon | |
| Rosemary Glennon |
804 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Resident listed |
806 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Resident listed |
808 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Resident listed |
810 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Resident listed |
812 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Resident listed |
850 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
854 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Winfield D. Leviseur & Family |
| Winfield & Sarah Leviseur |
856 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915 | John H. Gray |
| 1930 | Arthur Batten & Family |
| Arthur & Mabel Batten |
866 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | Robert F. Floyd |
868 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1950s–1960s | Veterans Boxing Association |
| 1990s–2000s | Clarence Hill Post No. 1297, VFW |
| 2011 | Destroyed by fire, April 1, 2011 |
870 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
872 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
874 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
898 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915 | Frank M. Kennedy |
| painter | |
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
900 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
902 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Joseph Vautier |
904 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1909 | Mrs. Mary Corson |
908 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1970 | Gibson C. West & Family |
| Gibson C. & Marie Daly West |
913 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | George Dunkle |
914 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1909–1911 | Edward Simpson & Family |
| Edward & Sarah Simpson | |
| Walter Simpson | |
| William Simpson | |
| Howard Simpson |
916 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1943 | Lester E. Honey |
918 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1899–1900 | John J. Chambers & Family |
| John J. & Martha Chambers | |
| William Pringle Chambers | |
| 1924 | Wilbert F. Dobbins |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
2 Youths Are Caught In Padlocked Cafe
Camden Courier-Post —
Two Whitman Park youths who were arrested by a special officer as they were emerging from the cellar of a padlocked saloon were held without bail Saturday to await grand jury disposal of charges of breaking and entering.
The prisoners gave their names as Thomas Hines, 21, of 1264 Decatur street, and Leon Gentek, 18, of 1219 Van Hook street. They were arrested by former Policeman Oscar Probst, now a special watchman guarding stores on Mt. Ephraim avenue.
Probst said he saw them coming from the basement of Purdy’s Cafe, southeast corner of Van Hook street and Mt. Ephraim avenue. They had forced their way in, Probst stated.
The two pleaded not guilty.
Polish American Community Hall Opens Tonight
Camden Courier-Post —
A banquet tonight will mark the official opening of the new $130,000 community hall of the Polish American Citizens club, Warsaw and Lowell streets.
Congressman Wolverton, Mayor Brunner and the Rt. Rev. Arthur B. Strenski, pastor of St. Joseph’s R. C. Church, will be principal speakers. Stanley J. Jaskolski, president of the club, will present a check for $500 to Monsignor Strenski toward the fund being raised for erection of St. Joseph’s new high school.
The club voted to contribute $1000 toward the new school and the second payment will be made at a ball on May 13 according to Jaskolski. During the past year the club raised $101,000 toward the erection of the community hall and its members pledged $29,000 toward equipping it.
Plans for the erection of the building were launched by Jaskolski four years ago. He and more than 40 other members, who served on the campaign committee, which raised the needed money, have been honored with life memberships. A group of photographs of the group will be unveiled in the banquet room tonight.
Other speakers at tonight’s banquet include City Commissioners Rhone, Aaron, Gotshalk and Abbott, Postmaster Edward Praiss and S. Morawski, editor of the Nowy Swiant, the Polish Morning World, N. Y.
Joseph A. Dynakowski, treasurer of the club, will be toastmaster at the dinner which begins at 8.30 p.m. Watson Burdalski is chairman of the entertainment committee and Stephen Blelicki heads the banquet committee. Members of the Polish American Women’s Citizens club, of which Mrs. Jules B. Derowski is president, will be guests.
The club was formed in 1914 by seven citizens interested in aiding Polish emigrants to become American citizens. Josef Zbieratski, first president, will be among the honored guests tonight.
Classes in naturalization were established by Daniel Hoyt, of the Camden YMCA, and Edward L. Canning county president of the Patriotic Order Sons of America. Classes in this work have been continued by the club since then with all tuition free. The club met at 1559-Mt. Ephraim avenue for years before the new building was completed in December.
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.
Spearing Heads Ring 6 Again
Camden Courier-Post —
Joe Spearing will be installed for the second time as Ring 6, Veterans Boxers Association, president, Saturday night.
Thomas Maguire, Pennsauken mayor, will be the installing officer as the new officials are seated in the association’s clubhouse, 868 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Andy McMahon will be master of ceremonies.
Other officers, all “swept into office” for the second year, include Lew Skymer, vice president; Frankie Rapp, treasurer; Lou Pelle, recording secretary; Joe Vitarelli, financial secretary and Pee Wee Ross, sgt. at arms. Jack Kelly succeeds Frank Valante as Ross’ “assistant.”
1000 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1025 Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
Automotive Equipment
WHOLESALE ONLY
Shop Equipment—Tools
Replacement Parts
HEIMBACH'S
Auto Supply House, Inc.
1025 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Phone Camden 2082-83
1000 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1001 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1023 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1025 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | No listing |
| 1932–1933 | Heimbach's Auto Supply House |
1029 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1879s–1880s | James H. Young |
1033 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1037 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1100 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1100 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, 1941.
NO ERRORS ON THIS TEAM!
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SUN 6 6 0
Good teamwork and coaching at the Sun Welding School account for high placement average at Big League pay when course is finished. JOIN NOW.
WELDING SUN SCHOOLS
Shipyard—WELDING—Aircraft
1100 MT. EPHRAIM AVENUE
CAMDEN 1108
1104 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Triangle Spring Works, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.
TRIANGLE SPRING WORKS
SPRINGS for PASSENGER CARS
TRUCKS - BUSES - TRAILERS
DRIVE IN SERVICE
1104 Mt Ephraim Av Cam. WOodlawn 3-6160
1112 Mt. Ephraim Avenue (Empire Glass Works) and 1116 Mt. Ephraim Avenue (Camden Body & Fender Company), 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ads.
EMPIRE GLASS WORKS
SPECIALIZING IN AUTO GLASS INSTALLED WHILE-U-WAIT
ONE OF THE LARGEST STOCKS OF REGULATORS - CHANNELS & AUTO GLASS PARTS IN SOUTH JERSEY
AUTHORIZED DEALER FOR E-Z-Eye & Solex Tinted Windshield Glass
FURNITURE & DESK TOPS
WINDOW GLASS
EMerson 5-5261
1112 Mt. Ephraim Ave (Between Kaighn Av & Chestnut St) Camden N. J.
1116 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages ad
CAMDEN BODY & FENDER CO
VIC & PAUL
FENDER AND BODY REPAIRS
PAINTING AND SIMONIZING
1116 Mt Ephraim Av Cam. WOodlawn 4-2764
1118 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Home of the Lorenzo Dow Appley family, 1878–1923. Camillus V. Appley grew up here.
1122–1126 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, April 2004. 1122 was home to the Little Ritz Cafe (1928–1959) and later Mr. D’s Society Lounge (1977–1980).
1124 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. L & K Motors, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.
L and K Motors
REPAIRS ALL MAKES AND MODELS
SPECIALISTS IN Automatic Transmissions
1124 MT. EPHRAIM AV CAMDEN N.J.
WOodlawn 4-7174
1125 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Home of the John J. Meiler family, 1908–1932; later Al’s Service Center (1955), Ted & Tony’s Citgo (1970), and Miguel Auto Body (2004).
AL'S SERVICE CENTER
CITIES SERVICE
AL VILLY Prop
RADIATORS & MOTORS
STEAM CLEANED
AUTO REPAIRS - ACCESSORIES
OPEN DAILY 7 AM - MIDNIGHT
LUBRICATION
WASHING - WAXING
Pick up & Delivery Service
EMerson 5-9425
1125 MT EPHRAIM AV. CAMDEN
1125 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, April 2004
1129 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, 1932. Harry J. Teitelman (1919–1920); Nathan Brager (1920–1932).
SHERIFF'S SALE
BY VIRTUE OF A WRIT OF FIERI facias, to me directed, issued out of the Court of Chancery of New Jersey, will be sold at Public Vendue, on
FRIDAY, THE FIRST DAY OF JULY, 1932,
at 1 o'clock, Eastern Standard Time, (2 o'clock, Daylight Saving Time) in the afternoon of said day, at the Sheriff's Office in the Court House, in the City and County of Camden and State of New Jersey.
All the following tract or parcel of land and premises hereinafter particularly described, situate, lying and being in the City of Camden, in the County of Camden and State of New Jersey, bounded and described as follows:
Beginning at a point in the westerly line of Mount Ephraim avenue, at the distance of eighteen feet southward from the Southwest Corner of Mount Ephraim avenue and Sycamore street, and extending thence southwardly along the westerly line of said Mount Ephraim avenue, the distance of twenty feet to a point in front of width, and extending thence westwardly, between parallel lines of that width or frontage, running parallel to Sycamore street, eighty-five feet in length or depth. Being premises known as No. 1129 Mount Ephraim avenue.
Being the same premises which Harry J. Teitelman, et ux., by deed bearing date the sixteenth day of Febuary, 1920, and recorded in the Office of the Register of Deeds of Camden County in Book 464 of Deeds, Page 82 &c., granted and conveyed unto the said Nathan I. Brager, in fee simple.
The approximate amount of the decree sought to be satisfied by this sale is $2107.92.
Seized as the property of Nathan I. Brager, et ux, et als., taken in execution at the suit of the Friendship Building and Loan Association, of Camden, N. J., and to be sold by
E. FRANK PINE, Sheriff.
Benjamin Natal, Sol'r.
Dated June 9, 1932. Ptrs. fee $21.84
1135 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Parts Service Company, 1928–1933. Alban T. Eavenson II, proprietor.
CAR OWNER
See Your Garage Man About Johns-Manville Brake Lining
Parts Service Company
1135 Mt. Ephraim Ave., CAMDEN N. J.
1100 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1100 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1941 | Sun Welding Schools |
1104 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Triangle Spring Works |
1112 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Empire Glass Works |
1116 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947–1960s | Camden Body & Fender Company |
1118 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1878–1923 | Lorenzo Dow Appley & Family |
| Lorenzo & Eliza Maria Appley | |
| Euler T. Appley | |
| Theodocia Appley | |
| Althea Appley | |
| Harold Lorenzo Appley | |
| Urilla Appley | |
| Cuvier A. Appley | |
| Camillus V. Appley |
1122 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1928–1959 | Little Ritz Cafe |
| 1977–1980 | Mr. D's Society Lounge |
| 1981 | Clarence Shields |
1124 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | L & K Motors |
1125 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1908–1932 | John J. Meiler & Family |
| John J. & Josephine Meiler; Josephine O. Meiler | |
| tires | |
| 1955 | Al's Service Center |
| 1970 | Ted & Tony's Citgo Service Center |
| 2004 | Miguel Auto Body |
1126 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1127 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1906 | John T. Fitzgerald |
| 1924 | Perry Szyszkoski |
| 1926–1927 | Louis Zaleski |
| 1938–1939 | Bert Bottura |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1129 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919–1920 | Harry J. Teitelman |
| 1920–1932 | Nathan Brager |
1131 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1132 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1929–1942 | Ira A. Hall & Family |
| Ira A. & Elizabeth Hall | |
| Camden Police Department | |
| 1940–1970 | Charles W. Cooke & Family |
| Charles W. & Esther Cooke | |
| Camden Fire Department |
1135 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1928–1933 | Parts Service Company |
| Alban T. Eavenson II |
1139 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1926–1927 | Parts Service Company |
| Alban T. Eavenson II |
1156 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1200 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1205 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Woodlawn Combination Window Company, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.
WOODLAWN
Combination Window Co
Aluminum Combination
WINDOWS-DOORS & JALOUSIES
Aluminum Awnings
EMerson 5-7799
1205 MT EPHRAIM AVE CAMDEN, N. J.
1208 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Home of Norman David Louderback Jr. & Family, 1940s.
1209 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Town Shop, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.
TOWN SHOP
DRESS CLUBS ALWAYS RUNNING
DRESSES - SUITS - FORMALS
Cocktail Dresses - Casuals - Separates
1209 Mt Ephrm Av Cam....EMersn 5-8134
1214 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, December 2009. Henry C. Knowles family, 1903.
1200 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1203 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Bea's Beauty Salon |
1205 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Woodlawn Combination Window Company |
| 1969 | Multiple Sclerosis Service Organization of NJ |
1208 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940s | Norman David Louderback Jr. & Family |
| Norman D. & Frances Louderback |
1209 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1955 | Town Shop |
1212 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1916 | Jacob Fine |
| 1930 | Edward Zubrzycki & Family |
| Edward & Cecelia Derowski Zubrzycki |
1214 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1903 | Henry C. Knowles & Family |
| 1903 | Annie Knowles |
| 1903 | Emma Knowles |
| Henry C. & Sarah Long Knowles | |
| 1936 | George Brown |
1215 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1925 | Miss Helen Meksa |
1219 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1931–1933 | Liberty Cafe |
| 1931 | John Bubien |
| 1933 | Leon Bubien |
| 1939 | Chester Szalanski |
| 1940–1943 | Harry C. Wichert |
| 1947–1949 | George Conte Cafe |
| 1959–1981 | Winnie's Grove |
| 1989–1997 | Spencer's Caribbean Inn |
1220 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Carol's Beauty Shop |
| Joseph & Carol Corrao |
Whitman Park Shop 21st Sniper Target
Camden Courier-Post —
Window Shattered But No Missile is Found; 2 Sleuths on Case
While county and city detectives, police of a half-dozen communities and scores of volunteer sleuths sought vainly for some clue to his identity, South Jersey’s “phantom sniper” today fired his twenty-first shot.
Arriving at his place of business, 1201 Mt. Ephraim avenue, this morning, Benjamin Donde found that the plate glass in the door of the shop had been drilled by a small hole, apparently made by a bullet.
As in most of the cases attributed to the “sniper,” no missile was found despite a careful search inside the store.
The twentieth incident of the sort, occurring yesterday when the windshield of an automobile in which Abe Fuhrman, Camden jeweler, and his two sons were riding, had served virtually to eliminate theories that the “sniper’s” weapon might be a sling-shot or a revolver equipped with a silencer.
The missile which drilled a hole in the Fuhrman auto’s windshield was a small, nickel-plated screw. This, of course, could not have been fired from an ordinary rifle or pistol. Police agree, moreover, that no sling shot could be made sufficiently powerful to have driven the screw through the heavy plate glass of the windshield. As it struck, the missile whistled past the ears of the occupants, only a few inches over the heads, and imbedded itself in the upholstery at the rear of the car.
County Detectives Howard Smith and William Cleary, it was announced today, had been assigned to special duty in the manhunt for the sniper.
They were assigned by Prosecutor Ethan P. Wescott. Both agree that the weapon used by the sniper is a compressed air gun.
De Sanctis Dies in Parked Car, Pal Wounded
Camden Evening Courier —
Police Character Arrested in Night Slaying of Grand Jury Witness
Victim Spurned Tip to Keep Alive in Jail
Camden police early today arrested a Delaware township ex-convict for investigation in the slaying last night of Romeo DeSanctis, star witness against suspects in the recent Casablanca roadhouse holdup.
DeSanctis, released in bail last week as a material witness to the holdup, was killed as he sat with a companion in a parked car, a few hours after he testified before the grand jury in connection with the holdup.
The companion, Leon Grenkwicz, a well-known police character, is in critical condition in West Jersey hospital from bullet wounds of the face. He walked three blocks to the hospital from the scene of the shooting on Mt. Ephraim avenue near Kaighn.
Warned to Stay In Jail
Joseph C. Putek, 35, who has a record of 12 arrests and several convictions on charges that include holdup and robbery, was taken into custody today at his home on Fulton street by Captain Koerner and Detective Carr, of the Camden police. He was booked on suspicion and for investigation. He insisted he was in Philadelphia when DeSanctis was shot.
Prosecutor Mariano said DeSanctis was killed because he testified before the grand jury. Released from jail when his bail was reduced from $50,000 to $7000 as a result of a writ obtained by his family, DeSanctis met a fate feared by the authorities, Mariano revealed. “I told him he had better stay in custody,” the prosecutor said. “I warned him he might be killed.”
“Let Us Have It”
Grenkwicz, conscious in the hospital, told police he and DeSanctis were seated in his car, facing north. He said a large, dark colored sedan drew alongside and just ahead of his car.
A man holding a gun, Grenkwicz said, leaned out of the window and “let us have it.” Police said the weapon was either a machinegun or a sawed-off shotgun with extra large buck shot as ammunition.
“I was a damned fool to be with DeSanctis,” Grenkwicz added.
The left side of DeSanctis’ head, police said, was nearly blown off. Grenkwicz was struck in the face and left hand.
Slugs Rip Through Auto
Slugs tore through the left door and window, the windshield and hood of the car and some struck a plate glass window of a bakery at 1212 Mt. Ephraim avenue, directly behind the car.
The killers’ car continued north on Mt. Ephraim avenue, turned east on Kaighn avenue and disappeared. A police alarm description of the auto was broadcast immediately.
The shooting occurred 80 yards from an alleged speakeasy DeSanctis is said to have operated on Mt. Ephraim avenue and only about 300 yards from Cappy’s Restaurant, 1105 Kaighn avenue, where Stephen Burns, now under arrest as a suspect in the roadhouse holdup, was employed as night manager. Burns was arrested Feb. 14 as he left the restaurant.
Patrolman Oliver Morgan reported he saw DeSanctis in the restaurant between 6 and 6.30 p. m. last night. Prosecutor Mariano immediately ordered police to obtain the names of all persons in the eating house yesterday. Mariano said Grenkwicz denied he was in the restaurant.
Charles Cook, a city fireman, of 1142 Mt. Ephraim avenue, near Kaighn avenue, ran to the scene from his home after hearing the shooting.
Cook and four employes, two women and two men, of Cappy’s restaurant, made statements last night in Mariano’s office, where county, city and state police assembled to coordinate their investigation.
“Cappy” Roman, proprietor of the restaurant, later was questioned. Roman, police said, told them both DeSanctis and Grenkwicz ate dinner in his place last night about 6 o’clock.
Freed in $7000 Bail
DeSanctis, who lived at 1351 Decatur street, was released about 10 days ago in $7000 bail as a material witness in the Casablanca holdup. The roadhouse was held up at 2.55 a. m. Feb. 27 when five masked bandits herded 50 or 60 patrons into the kitchen and robbed them of their money and emptied the club cash registers.
Leaving the roadhouse, the bandits singled out DeSanctis and ordered him to accompany them as a hostage. When they reached the outside, however, they were fired upon by Delaware township policeman Power. DeSanctis dropped to the ground as the bandits escaped in a waiting car, which had been spotted by the policeman.
DeSanctis was arrested later in the day and held incommunicado for seven days before he was arraigned as a material witness and held in $50,000 bail. DeSanctis’ family later obtained a writ of habeas corpus and subsequently he was released in $7000 bail.
Meanwhile, police arrested Burns, Leonard Lutz and James McBride, all ex-convicts, as suspects in the robbery.
McBride Brought to Camden
McBride was lodged in a cell in Camden jail today after being extradited from Philadelphia. Extradition proceedings were delayed by an application in his behalf for a writ of habeas corpus, but at a hearing on the writ before Judge Brown in Philadelphia this morning, the suspect’s attorney, Louis F. McCabe, withdrew the writ after stating identification had been established for extradition purposes. McBride then was turned over to Mariano and County Detectives Mulligan and Dube and brought to Camden.
Burns and Lutz are in the county jail awaiting action of the grand jury.
It was reported that testimony given the grand jury yesterday by DeSanctis was for the purpose of obtaining indictments against Burns and Lutz.
Grenkwicz, who gave his address as 118 Pershing road, Brooklawn, has a long police record including holdup and robbery. He was arrested in 1933 as a suspect in the $11,000 holdup of the Radio Condenser Co.
Police Study Bullet Holes in Death Car
THE PATTERN OF BULLETS which killed one man and critically wounded another at Mt. Ephraim avenue near Kaighn last night is shown on the left side of the death car, being examined by Patrolman Andruzza. Romeo (Rocco) DeSanctis, left, was slain shortly after appearing before the grand jury in connection with the Casablanca Roadhouse holdup. Leon Grenkwicz, also shown, was wounded critically as they sat in Grenkwicz’ car. The even row of bullet holes directly under the window indicates a machinegun was used in the murder. The shots through the upper part of the car were made by shotgun blasts, detectives said.
1300 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1300 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1306 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1970 | Polish Army Veterans Post 101 |
1311 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1952 | Dr. L.B. Zbikowski |
1315 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | James McTaggart Family |
| Mrs. Mary McTaggart | |
| Esther McTaggart | |
| Mary McTaggart | |
| Hugh McTaggart | |
| Joseph McTaggart |
1318 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Stella's Card Shop |
1319 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Mrs. Charlotte Weyland |
| 1924 | Edgar J. Weyland |
1321 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920s–1940s | A. Weyland & Son Hardware |
1322 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1400 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1400 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1400 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| Benjamin Wallace Bonk, Seaman First Class |
1402 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Alex Dabkowski & Family |
| 1940 | Alex and Stella Dabkowsky |
| Alex & Stella Dabkowsky | |
| Genevieve 'Jennie' Dabkowsky |
1404 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Celia Baker |
| 1949 | Jack Menel |
1409 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Joseph Haleski, florist |
| 1946 | Walt's Fruit Market |
1410 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1948 | Paul Kostynski & Family |
| Paul & Veronica Kostynska |
1411 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Frank Gromacki |
| 1934 | Young Republicans Seventh Ward Club |
| 1949 | Xavier's — Hosiery, Ladies', Infants' and Children's Wear |
1412 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1917 | Martin Zuber & Family |
| Martin & Sophia Zuber | |
| 1924 | George Kuenle |
| 1924–1929 | Stanley Parka & Family |
| Stanley & Mary Parka | |
| 1968 | George S. Szychulski |
| Camden Fire Department |
1413 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Joseph Klosterman |
| 1934–1943 | John Frenia |
| 1946 | Walt's Fruit Market |
1415 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Camden Awning Company |
1421 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1912–1913 | Charles W. Whaland & Family |
| Charles W. & Clara Bell Whaland | |
| Charles W. Whaland Jr. | |
| policeman |
1422 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1928 | Frank Beuclawski (raided, Prohibition) |
| 1947 | Veteran's Jewelry Store |
1424 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1927–1930 | Harry H. Whaland |
| 1946 | Will-Fran Cleaners & Dyers |
1425 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1919 | Adam Cwik Saloon |
| 1933–1936 | Albert Ross Saloon |
| 1936–1939 | John Stetz Saloon |
| 1940–1943 | Atlantic Cafe |
| 1947 | John J. Walker Atlantic Cafe |
1426 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1903–1910 | Samuel T. Wimley, bar |
| 1911–1915 | William Laskowski, bar |
| 1916–1922 | Wladyslaw Papiernik (aka Walter Papiernik), bar |
| 1923–1924 | Farmers' Hotel — Charles S. Urban |
| 1927–1931 | Atlantic Hotel — Bronislaw 'Bruno' Bubnoski |
| 1936–1977 | Bruno's Cafe & Restaurant |
| Bronislaw 'Bruno' Bubnoski | |
| Zenon A. Bubnoski | |
| 1985 | City Lights Restaurant & Bar |
| c. 2000 | Razed for Rite-Aid Drug Store |
1438 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Mt. Ephraim Storage |
| 1952–1953 | Len-Lor Florists — Ludwig Pikulski & Family |
1440 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940s–1950s | Thaddeus A. Borz, attorney |
1443 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Benjamin Rosner |
1444 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1932 | Mt. Ephraim Storage |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1955 | Mt. Ephraim Storage |
1450 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1452 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924–1940 | Harry M. Chambers & Family |
| Harry M. & Clara Chambers | |
| Clara Chambers | |
| Harriet Chambers |
1456 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1920s | Archibald Beckett & Family |
| Archibald & Ida M. Alloway Beckett | |
| Mrs. Amanda Alloway |
1458–1460 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1967 | Arthur L. Predpelski, Funeral Director |
1459 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Polish American Citizens Club |
1464 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1935–1938 | Dr. Joseph Meksa |
| Dr. Joseph & Margaret L. Meksa |
1466 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | David Del Rossi |
1469 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Wallace Duvall |
1470 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1478 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1487 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1917 | Isadore Green & Family |
| Bertha Green — Lewis Green — Evelyn Green |
1488 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940 | Henry Schmidt & Family |
| Henry & Rosemary Schmidt |
1492 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Louise's Floral & Gift Shoppe |
1494 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947–1956 | Francis Williams & Family |
| Francis & Ann Laskowski Williams | |
| Mrs. Frances Laskowski |
1496 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1915–1919 | Nick Romaine, Barber |
| 1976 | Angie's Cold Cuts |
1498 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1939 | Joseph Kraczyk, Bar |
| 1953 | Robert Coligan, auto supplies |
An interim report— 16,422 dinners to go
Camden Courier-Post —
Zenon Bubnoski
Bruno’s Cafe and Restaurant
1421 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Camden, N.J. 08100
My dear Bubnoski,
Some days ago I notified my editor that the next article I planned to write for this column would concern itself with Bruno’s Restaurant in Camden, of which you are the proprietor. The editor telephoned you to make arrangements for a photographer, at which time you reportedly told him you weren’t interested in a public assessment of your food unless the critic was willing to spend 4[?]5 years or so to make a fair sampling.
Your suggestion intrigued me and I informed my editor that I, for one, was willing to spend the next 16,42[?] dinners at your place. Unfortunately, standards of good taste prevent me reporting his exact words, but it [text missing: black block in the scan] that it might be difficult to explain to the business manager why all my expenses over such a long period of time were being incurred at one restaurant. He seemed very much convinced on this point, and I could find no way to dissuade him.
Still, there was the matter of public responsibility. The value of this column, if it has one, is to provide a few fragile guideposts to the unwary diner, who otherwise would stand to forfeit a good piece of his wallet for a meal he knows nothing about until he’s et it. Although I have occasionally been accused of stretching a point, I try for an honest appraisal, without fawning to advertisers or zealous restaurateurs. Perhaps that is too noble a principle for survival. It is certainly not the safer course, but at the heart of it, it is honest, which I am old-fashioned and foolish enough to believe is worth pursuing.
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Then I wondered what I might have said about your restaurant. All of us know that it is something of a landmark, dating back to a time when it was known as “the Farmer’s Hotel,” a way station for travelers headed for the Camden Ferry. Your parents, Bruno and Anna Bubnoski, bought the place from the Betz Brewery, and the first dollar bill they took in, dated January 19, 1925, still hangs above the bar.
Over the years, they built the restaurant up into a business with a reputation for being one of the best eating spots in Camden, and many people visiting West Jersey Hospital across the street would make it a point to stop at Bruno’s to have supper, or just to pass the time while a friend was dying across the street, or a baby was being born.
Many people who haven’t been to Bruno’s for years still remember it with great fondness, and motoring there last week, I couldn’t help but think how the neighborhood must have changed. Mt. Ephraim Avenue is brightly lit, but the sidewalks are vacant and the back streets are dark and uninviting.
Still, Bruno’s has a clean, if not cheery, look about it. Inside there is a long, polished bar and a large dining room with plain tables and stiff chairs and some paintings of antique cars and the stuffed heads of deer and caribou mounted on the walls.
My editor couldn’t spare me for 4[?]5 years, but I did go ahead and have three meals there. Most of all, I was impressed by the prices. Almost everything is in the $2 to $4 range, while the most expensive meals on the menu are broiled lobster tails and the sirloin steak, both marked at $5.95.
My first trip, I had a seafood combination ($4.50), which consisted of one small lobster tail, a tender, though small, piece of flounder and a perfectly delicious crab cake.
The next visit I tried the sirloin steak ($5.95), which was one-inch thick and of good size, fairly tender and well-cooked.
Finally came a pot roast ($2.75), which was two large but thin slices of tender meat covered with a nice stick-to-the-ribs beef gravy.
Several excursions into the appetizers produced a bland egg roll with shrimp (65 cents) and a very satisfying shrimp cocktail ($1.95) containing five large and firm shrimp, accompanied by tangy sauce.
A cup of beef noodle soup du jour (40 cents) was thick with beef chunks and filled to the surface with chewables, while a cup of snapper (also 40 cents) was a very rich broth accompanied by a small cream jar of sherry.
In the line of vegetables, the pickled beets and mixed vegetables were ordinary, while a cheese potato puff proved to be a pleasant diversion, though not very cheesy, and the best of the lot was the stuffed potato, a kind of spiced mashed potato baked in a tinfoil boat.
The desserts were nothing to rave about. A bowl of rice pudding was too thick to be creamy, and a slice of apple pie had a doughy crust and more goo than apples.
Hoping for the best, I persisted in ordering a cup of coffee at the end of each meal, but each cup proved worse than the last, and the very last was bilge.
Still, there’s a lot to make up for, and when you average it all out over 4[?]5 years, I have no doubt that Bruno’s will come out being one of the finest spots in Camden.
Sincerely,
A. G.
Klostermans Identified as Numbers Kings by 5 Witnesses
Camden Courier-Post —
Storekeeper Says His Place Was Used as ‘Drop’ for Gaming Slips
5 CONVICTS RECALLED FROM STATE PRISON
Five witnesses in Criminal Court yesterday placed their fingers on the Klosterman brothers, Joseph and Fred, as Camden numbers “barons,” as they went on trial on 12 counts charging them with operating a lottery.
Each of the witnesses admitted under direct examination by Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando they had been in the employ of the Klostermans at two of the three establishments they are alleged to have maintained.
John Frenia, 57, proprietor of a delicatessen store at 1413 Mt. Ephraim avenue, testified he worked for the Klostermans at the Young Republicans Seventh Ward Club, 1411 Mt. Ephraim avenue. He said the Klostermans used the club as a headquarters for their numbers bank. He further admitted his store was used as a numbers “drop” for the Klostermans and that packages of numbers were left at his store daily by “pick up” men and called for by either Fred or Joseph Klosterman. His wife, Pauline, corroborated his testimony.
Chester Topolski, 25, of 1230 Dayton street, testified he was employed as a janitor at the club and received money from the bank operators to be turned over to “pick up” to pay off winners.
Tells of Numbers Party
Another witness, Albert Magee, 45, colored, of Davistown near Westmont, told of a party which Fred Klosterman “threw for his ‘numbers’ writers at a Black Horse pike roadhouse. It was strictly a formal affair, Magee testified, and he was introduced to Fred Klosterman as “one of his numbers writers.”
John Szalanski, 30, of 1188 Chestnut street, another witness testified he was employed by the Klostermans as a “pickup” man in the number business for three years. He worked for them until a few days after they were acquitted January 17 last in Criminal Court here of 30 joint “numbers” indictments.
The court adjourned at 4.03 p. m. until 10 a. m. today after Mrs. Frenia finished her testimony.
Seated in the court room near the exit to the county jail were five numbers writers, who suddenly lost their memory at the first trial of the Klostermans in January and were resentenced to serve from two to three years in state prison. They were Crawford Smith, 53, of 702 Carman street; Thomas Kirk, of 935 Carpenter street; Walter Hart, 28, of 1245 Thurman street; Andrew Pointkowski, 1475 South Ninth street, and Arthur Woodridge, 40, of 7910 Park avenue, Pennsauken. They were returned from Trenton for the trial and probably will be called by the state this morning.
It was indicated last night by the prosecutor that these men are willing to talk.
Szalanski further testified he saw both Klosterman brothers in the Young Men’s Seventh Ward Republican Club and at a taproom called the Chez La Joy, 1050 Mechanic street. The state charges the taproom and another establishment at 1051 Mechanic street were used by the Klostermans as headquarters for their illegal “numbers” racket.
Passed Bags of Slips
Frenia asserted that both Fred and Joseph Klosterman came into his store with bags containing “numbers” slips.
“I would pass them over to Leon Dabrowski, who worked in the Republican Club or to a man called “Sparrow” or another known to me only as ‘Peaches’,” Frenia testified.
Frenia told Prosecutor Orlando under direct examination that he could look from his second floor window directly into the second floor room of the Republican Club which is spearated [sic] by a five-foot alley:
“I could see men working over adding machines computing the daily play of the ‘numbers’ game,” Frenia testified.
“One one [sic] occasion the adding machines were passed from the Republican Club across the alley into my second story room.”
The witness said he was formerly employed by the Klostermans in their saloon business.
He further declared he received “numbers” slips from the Klostermans before and after their first trial in Criminal Court which resulted in acquittal because of lack of evidence produced by the state.
Szalanski further declared that he saw both Klosterman brothers in the Young Men’s Seventh Ward Republican Club at 1411 Mt. Ephraim avenue and at a taproom called the Chez LaJoy at 1050 Mechanic street, which the state alleges were two of the three headquarters of the “numbers” bank operated by the Klostermans.
Tells of ‘Counting Room’
“I saw both Fred and Joe Klosterman at the Republican Club last Summer in rooms on the second floor in which there were five adding machines for computing the daily ‘numbers’ play,” testified Szalanski.
“On one occasion when one of the ‘numbers’ slips which I picked up, hit the daily number, Fred Klosterman paid me $500 to distribute to the writers who then gave it to the winners.”
The Klostermans, represented by Carl Kisselman, are on trial on 12 joint indictments charging the operation of a “numbers” lottery. The true bills allege the brothers “unlawfully did keep a place with the intent that persons might resort thereto for the purpose of gambling at so-called game of numbers.”
The indictments further charged the political club was used for unlawful lottery purposes between September 22, 1934, and January 31, 1935; that the taproom, Chez LaJoy and a dwelling at 1051 Mechanic street was so used between March 1, 1933, and July 31, 1934.
Szalanski, the first witness to definitely hook up the Klostermans with the “numbers” racket in Camden, said that he was employed by the brothers after a conference in a saloon at Mechanic and Liberty streets.
“I told the Klostermans I had no car and they advanced me $100 to buy an automobile,” said the witness.
When the witness said he continued to work for the Klostermans as a “pickup man” during and after the first trial, which resulted in the court directing a verdict of acquittal because of lack of evidence, Judge Neutze questioned him:
“Do you mean to say that you turned money over to the Klostermans at the Republican Club after their last trial?”
“Yes,” the witness replied.
Denies Intimidation
Szalanski admitted he was arrested two weeks ago in Philadelphia on “numbers” charges and is at liberty under bail.
Cross-examination of the witness by Kisselman failed to move Szalanski.
“Didn’t the prosecutor’s office try to intimidate you into testifying here?” asked Kisselman. “Didn’t they tell you what happened to other ‘numbers’ witnesses when the prosecutor’s office deemed their testimony was not satisfactory?”
The witness denied he had been intimidated or threatened into testifying.
“I know what is going on—I read the newspapers,” he asserted.
Szalanski corroborated statements of Topolski, as to the identity of persons seen about the club.
Szalanski was recalled to the stand when court reconvened after the noon recess. He testified he worked
Again on Trial
JOSEPH KLOSTERMAN
FRED KLOSTERMAN
Brothers, who were identified yesterday by former employes of Camden numbers operators.
as an “extra” at the Seventh Ward Republican Club for $1 a day.
“Who gave you to understand that you were to take $1 from the money you received in the numbers business?” Orlando asked.
After giving several evasive answers, Szalanski finally admitted that Fred Klosterman had told him he was entitled to $1 a day for his labor.
Puts Finger on “Joe”
Magee was the third witness called at the afternoon session.
Q. What is your business? A. I am a “numbers writer.”
Q. How long were you in the business. A. Three years.
Q. What district did you cover? A. I covered Blenheim, Hilltop and surrounding territory.
Q. How much did you take in a day from your collections last year? A. Oh, about $20 a day.
Q. To whom did you turn over this money? A. I turned it over to a man named George Smith.
Q. What percentage of the proceeds were you paid? A. I got 25 percent.
Q. In December, 1934, you had some differences with the pickup man over your total sheet and a shortage? What did you do about this? A. I went to a saloon on Mt. Ephraim avenue in Camden and asked for the Klosterman brothers.
Q. Did you see either of the Klosterman brothers and if so, which one?
At this point, Prosecutor Orlando asked the witness to point to either one of the two brothers and asked them both to stand up which they did.
“That’s the one there—in the blue suit,” said the witness pointing to Joe Klosterman.
Q. Did you ever meet Fred—the man besides him—his brother? A. Yes, I met him on the Black Horse pike in the Summer of 1934.
Party for Writers
Q. What was the occasion of that meeting? A. Well, it was at Charley Lutz’s place—that’s a roadhouse.
Q. What were you doing there? A. Well, it was a party to the “numbers” writers and we were all there for a good time.
Q. Well how did you happen to meet Fred Klosterman? A. Well, somebody took me up and introduced me to him and said I was one of the boys—one of his “numbers” writers.
Q. And then what happened? A. Well, Fred shook hands with me, turned around at the bar and ordered beer for the house.
At this juncture the witness was examined by the prosecutor as to his reasons for going to the Mt. Ephraim avenue saloon and he repeated his testimony that it was because of a shortage in his “numbers” slips account.
“Joe Klosterman treated me very nice and he said he would fix the thing up for me and I wouldn’t have any more trouble with my total sheets,” Magee said.
“After I saw him I didn’t have any more trouble,” the witness added.
Through a Polish interpreter, Frenia testified under direct examination that he had worked for Fred Klosterman in the latter’s saloon on Mt. Ephraim avenue in December, 1933. He also testified that previously Joe Klosterman employed him in another saloon at Green and Mechanic streets.
“What would you do with the numbers slips when you received them in your store and from whom did you receive them?” Orlando asked.
“Sometimes I received slips from Leon Dabrowski and from Fred Klosterman and his brother Joe only once or twice.”
Orlando then directed five or six men to stand up in the courtroom. He asked Frenia to point out any of those standing among the men who delivered slips at his store. Among those identified by the witness were Walter Hart, Kirk, Piontkowski and Szalanski, who had previously testified.
Saw Counting in Club
Q. How near was the rear of your store to the Seventh Ward Republican club? A. It was only about five feet across an alley.
Q. Could you see into the club from the second floor of your store? A. Yes. I could see into the second story window of the club.
Q. Did you ever look across there, and if so, what did you see? A. I saw Leon Dabrowski, “Sparrow” and “Peaches” counting out slips on adding machines.
Q. Were those machines ever moved across to your house? A. Yes.
Q. How were they moved across this alley to you? A. They were just lifted across and I took them in with my hand. It was only about five feet distance.
Q. Had you previously discussed moving these machines with either of the Klosterman brothers? If so, what was the reason? A. Sometime in November of 1934 I talked it over with Fred Klosterman and the only thing he told me was that the machines were needed.
Q. When these men brought “numbers” slips to your store how did you receive them? A. Sometimes I received them in paper bags and sometimes I received them on paper. Fred Klosterman told me it was O.K. to turn over the slips to Leon Dabrowski. I also received slips from Fred Kolsterman [sic] and Joe Klosterman once to my place.
Q. Did you receive slips at your store before and after the last trial of the Klosterman brothers on January 17? Answer yes or no. A. Yes.
Frenia, in answer to a direct question of the prosecutor as to when was the last time he had an adding machine in his store or home, said it was three days before he was arrested on “numbers” charges.
He also testified he received $10 a week for about four months for “receiving numbers” in his delicatessen store. He said he was told by Fred Klosterman he would get that amount each week and that the money was paid to him each week by Dabrowski.
Gives Confused Testimony
The last $10 he received, Frenia testified, was paid to him in January of this year. For this money, Frenia asserted, he was to “take the slips and help around the club.”
He said that on the second floor of the Republican club, were tables and chairs and the money they brought in, but there were no adding machines there. In earlier testimony, Frenia testified he had adding machines in his home which had been passed over a second-story window from the clubhouse.
Under cross-examination by Kisselman, Frenia gave confusing and contradictory testimony as to whether or not Joe Klosterman had received or taken any of the “numbers” slips from his store. Finally, he declared Joe Klosterman did take “numbers” slips from the store on one occasion.
Frenia denied that any county detectives sought to intimidate him in telling his story as Kisselman charged, by reminding him that other witnesses who told stories not satisfactory to the prosecutor’s office, were sentenced to prison terms of two to three years.
Knew of Punishments
Frenia said he knew that phase himself as he had read it in the newspapers. Prosecutor Orlando objected to Kisselman’s questioning along these lines, asserting it was unfair to infer that “something would happen to witnesses because of anything displeasing that they may say and the prosecutor might not agree with.”
“We are not responsible,” Orlando said, “for the condition of witnesses’ minds brought about by something over which we have no control.”
Kisselman was permitted by the court to ask the question, explaining that “whatever it is Mr. Kisselman is seeking to bring out, the jury would get later.”
“Do you know why these other witnesses got 2 to 3 years?” Kisselman asked.
“Yes, I know that because it was in the paper and because they were working in the ‘numbers’ business,” said the witness. “They got more than three months because they did not tell the truth.”
Mrs. Frenia, called as a state witness, testified both Fred and Joseph Klosterman came to their store for “numbers” slips.
She testified she gave the slips to Fred Klosterman five or ten times and that she gave the slips to Joseph Klosterman about five times before Christmas, 1934.
Asked to name who brought the slips to their store, the witness said Walter Hart, Arthur Woodridge, “Sparrow” and another man whose name she did not know.
Gave Klosterman Slips
She disclosed that Dabrowski would come into the store to collect the slips. “They started to bring the slips into the store around Christmas time and they stopped in January a couple of days before my husband was arrested,” the woman testified.
The witness said the slips were sometimes in a bag and on other occasions wrapped in a rubber band. She testified to delivering some of the slips to Fred Klosterman not wrapped up in a bag.
“Between five and seven people would bring the ‘numbers’ slips to the store,” Mrs. Frenia said.
Under questioning the woman said she was in the store when the adding machines were transferred from the club next door to her house. She asserted the men who brought the machines from the club to their house were Dabrowski and “Sparrow.”
Mrs. Frenia further testified that she could see from her second floor of the house, men adding numbers on the second floor of the clubhouse next door. She also said she saw both Fred and Joseph Klosterman on the second floor of the club but did not remember whether she saw them there when they were adding numbers.
“I saw Leon Dabrowski and “Sparrow” in the clubhouse adding numbers,” she testified.
Testifies of Slips
Relating how she first came to pick up the “numbers” packages left in her store, she explained that Fred Klosterman told her that “if anyone brought a package there to take it.” That was about a month or two before Christmas, 1934, the woman declared.
Asked if she had a similar conversation with Joseph Klosterman, she said she did not.
She testified the last time Fred Klosterman was in the store to pick-up “numbers” slips was in December before Christmas. Joseph Klosterman was in the store also before Christmas which was the last time she saw him, Mrs. Frenia testified.
Under cross examination, Mrs. Frenia said she never played the “numbers” or banked or sold “numbers” slips. She testified her husband was not in the store when Joseph Klosterman came in and she knew the packages contained “numbers” slips because she saw them.
Asked how she would know they were “numbers” slips if she did not play them, the woman said “they asked for them.”
Mrs. Frenia was asked if she did not know it was against the law to take the “numbers” slips. She said “Yes, I did, but I took them because my husband worked for them at the club.”
“How often did you see what was going on in the second floor of the clubhouse from your home?”
“About twice a week—only when I looked over there.”
Exposes Brothers
Testimony of John Szalanski:
Q. Did you ever turn over numbers to Fred and Joe Klosterman at the Young Men’s Seventh Ward Republican Club? A. Yes.
Q. What were you in the business? A. I was a pickup man for about three years.
Q. When did you first start in the numbers business with Klosterman? A. I can’t tell exactly. I would say about three years ago.
The witness then identified each defendant from the witness stand.
Q. Before you started with them, with whom did you do business? A. With Griffith, of Haddon Heights or Haddonfield.
Q. Why did you go to Klosterman? A. I went with them because I made no money out of Griffith.
Q. Whom did you first see at the Klostermans? A. I saw Fred. I had no car, and they gave me $100 to get one. I talked it over with Fred. They gave me a $100 check at the saloon on Liberty street where I saw both Fred and Joe and I bought with it a Chrysler coupe.
Dealt With ‘Fred’
Q. With whom did you do your business? A. With Fred. I handed him the slips. I would turn the slips over to Fred at Mechanic and Green streets. That was before they moved to the Young Men’s Seventh Ward Republican Club.
Q. Did you turn the slips over to Fred or to Joe at the club? A. To either of them.
Q. To either or both? A. Yes. If I was late I would turn them over sometimes to Leon Dabrowski or to someone else in the office. That would be about once a month, or sometimes once or twice a week. I would turn them over at the club better than a year.
Q. Would you ever turn them over at Fred’s home? A. Yes.
Q. How long have you known Leon? A. About six years. He is supposed to be a brother-in-law of Fred.
Q. What was your daily average in the money you delivered from pickups? A. About $100 a day. I would get 5 percent. I would turn the money over to Leon, and I have turned it over to Fred already a few times at the Young Men’s Seventh Ward Republican Club.
Trial Failed to Halt Them
Q. You turned money like that right after the trial this year? Before the witness could answer, Judge Neutze interrupted to ask: “Do you mean to say that you turned money over to them right after the trial?” The witness answered, “Yes.”
Prosecutor Orlando then asked the witness whether he could identify Frenia or Mrs. Frenia. He identified both as the ones who conducted a delicatessen store next to the club. He testified that he would turn the slips in to John Frenia every day for a few months up to last Christmas.
Q. Why did you turn them in at Frenia’s place instead of at the Seventh Ward club? A. Fred or Leon told me to turn them in there instead of at the club.
Q. Where did you turn in the money? A. I turned it in to the club, upstairs on the second floor.
Asked by the prosecutor to describe the second floor, the witness said it contained rooms much like the second floor of a home, and in one of the rooms was a table at which Leon sat. There were four or five adding machines, and numbers slips in the room.
Q. Did you ever see Joe and Fred Klosterman on the second floor? A. Yes, about once a week.
Q. When do you recall seeing Joe there, in particular? A. There was once last Summer in the afternoon, between 2 and 5.
Q. Who else was there? A. There was Leon Dabrowski, Andrew Piontkowski, who were adding up slips; myself and Fred or Joe, whoever came in.
Tells of Getting Money
Q. On the hits, who would deliver the money? A. I delivered the money.
Q. From whom would you receive the money? A. Sometimes from Fred, if there was a big hit and the people won a lot of money. If it was not such a big hit, I would receive the money from Leon.
Q. Did any of the players make large hits? A. Yes. Fifty cents and a dollar. That means if they hit a dollar it would mean $500, and Freddy or Leon would give me that money.
At this point, the voice of the witness was almost inaudible, and the prosecutor requested him to speak out loudly and clearly. Orlando next asked the witness whether he had any difficulty before he quit the Klostermans. He answered that he had, because he had borrowed $50, and Fred had told him that if he made any other loans, he was to know about it. Fred also told him, he said, to be a “good boy” while he was away.
In the back room of the Chez La Joy, he said, he received the full amount of a big hit. At the time there was there with him, Fred Klosterman, Leon and a man called “Flori.”
“At this time,” the witness said, “Fred ordered Leon to give me the full amount.”
Gave Brothers Slips
Q. To whom did you give the money? A. I gave it to a fellow I knew as ‘Bill’ on the East Side.
Q. Did you give him all of the money? A. No.
Q. Did you take any of it out for yourself, for commission? A. No.
Q. How much did you give him? A. I gave him between $400 and $500. He was the writer.
Q. Did you ever deliver slips to Fred or Joe Klosterman at the Chez La Joy? A. Yes, whoever was around.
Q. When, in particular? A. Well, on one occasion last summer I handed them to Joe, and at other times, I also handed them to Fred in the summer. I would say about a half dozen times in the past year.
The witness testified he delivered slips to Leon at the Chez La Joy but that he never delivered slips to Mrs. Frenia, but he did to her husband for about two months. He said he gave the slips to Frenia in a paper bag. He also testified that he knows a man by the name of “Peaches,” and that he saw him at the Republican club, turning in numbers.
He also turned in slips to Andrew Pointkowski, he said.
Orlando Overruled
“I also saw Walter Hart turning in numbers at the club and the store, as did Tom Kirk,” the witness testified.
That ended the direct examination. On cross-examination by Kisselman, the witness said that he first told the prosecutor what he knew about a month ago.
Q. Did the prosecutor come after you? A. Yes. They called me on the phone and told me to come to the prosecutor’s office.
Q. Are you charged with anything here in connection with this case? A. No.
Q. Did they tell you there were witnesses in jail; that these other fellows were in jail? A. I knew it.
Q. Did Mr. Doran, chief of detectives, tell you that because the previous testimony of these witnesses was unsuitable, their sentences were increased? Prosecutor Orlando objected; to which Kisselman replied:
“It seems that we have a right to show intimidation.”
“I can’t see the relevancy of such testimony,” replied Orlando.
Judge Neutze allowed the question and the witness answered:
“I knew it because I read it in the newspapers.”
Asked why he appeared as a witness, whether because he was a public-spirited citizen and wanted to tell the truth, he said that was the reason. He admitted later under cross-examination, that he was arrested in Philadelphia because he was in the numbers business.
Parries Cross-Jabs
Q. You come here and profess to be a public-spirited citizen, yet you were arrested after what you told the prosecutor in connection with the case? A. Yes.
Q. When did you last see Fred in connection with the numbers business? A. On a Saturday after the trial. (The date of the trial was January 17, 1935.)
Q. Did you know that Fred was in the hospital? And did you do the numbers business with him when he was in the hospital? As a matter of fact, didn’t Fred go away the day after the trial? A. He went away on a Saturday, and I did business in the meanwhile with Leon. I would see Joe around.
Q. Did you see him every day before the trial? A. Yes, I would say about every day.
Q. Do you remember seeing him after the trial? A. I don’t remember seeing him after the trial.
Luncheon recess was declared. The court warned the jury not to discuss the case with anyone on the outside.
Tells of Transfer
Topolski, who testified he was employed as a janitor at the clubhouse by Fred Klosterman but paid by a man named Leon Dabrowski, said he often saw Dabrowski, Charlie Smith, Walter Hart, Andrew Piontkowski, Crawford Smith, “Gassy” and “Peaches” about the place.
Topolski said he also was employed as “pickup man” in the “numbers” business and that he took the slips and money to the delicatessen store of John Frenia next door to the Republican club. Dabrowski, according to the witness would then gather the slips and receive the money personally from Topolski.
Jury Quickly Chosen
It required only 45 minutes to select the jury to try the Klostermans. The state used seven challenges and the defense ten.
The courtroom which was slow to fill up at the opening of the trial, was crowded by the time the jury had been selected and the prosecutor made his opening.
Topolski, who said he was a leather worker before engaging in the “numbers” business, was the first witness called by the state.
“I was a pick-up man in the numbers game,” Topolski replied in answer to a question by Prosecutor Orlando. “I used to meet a fellow on the corner known as Charles Stewart. He gave me number slips and books which I took to the delicatessen store of John Frenia.
“Do you know Fred and Joseph Klosterman, the defendants on trial here?” the prosecutor asked.
“Yes I met them several times. I saw Fred Klosterman come into the club several times but I never saw Joe there.
The witness identified the two Klostermans seated at the defense counsel table. Questioned by Prosecutor Orlando as to whether he did any “numbers” business with either defendant, Topolski said, “I never did any business with either of them.”
“No, I Didn’t”
“Did you ever deliver any ‘numbers’ books or ‘numbers’ slips to a tap room called the Chez LaJoy at 1050 Mechanic street?” he was asked.
“No. I didn’t.”
That address as well as the Republican club are alleged by the state to have used together with a house at 1051 Mechanic street, as headquarters for the operations of the “numbers” business of the Klosterman brothers.
Names Three Men
“Did you ever deliver any “numbers” books to 1051 Mechanic street?”
“No, I did not,” answered the witness.
In connection with seeing the Klostermans, the witness said it was in the Republican Club that he met them, where both were members.
Questioned concerning his activities in the “numbers” business, Topolski said he started working as a “pickup” man sometime in June or July, 1934, and continued up to about three weeks before Christmas.
“How much business would you do?” he was asked.
“I would pick up anywhere from $40 to $50 daily. I would pick up from three different men.”
“Who were they?”
“Joe Miller, Charles Smith and John Jankowski.”
Questioned further, Topolski said he made arrangements to leave the slips at Frenia’s store for Leon Dabrowski, who he identified as “the guy who got me the job.” He testified he met Dabrowski in Chez LaJoy in June of last year.
‘Sort of Grab Bag’
“I would just hand Frenia the bag which had the slips in. I don’t think he knew what was in the bag,” Topolski testified.
“Sort of a prize bag, eh,” broke in Judge Neutze and the courtroom tittered in laughter.
Hired by Klosterman
“Who did you give the money to which you collected?” Prosecutor Orlando asked.
“To Leon Dabrowski.”
“Did you ever see Fred or Joe Klosterman at Frenia’s store?”
“No.”
The witness then said he did see them at the Republican Club where he had been engaged last July as a janitor to clean up the place.
“Fred Klosterman hired me but Leon Dabrowski paid me,” Topolski said. “The first couple of weeks I was paid $3 a week but then they raised me to $6 a week.”
Under grilling he said he did not think it was strange that Fred Klosterman gave him the job and Dabrowski paid him.
“Did you ever see any adding machines on the second floor of the club?” Prosecutor Orlando asked.
“No,” was the answer.
The witness then testified he cleaned up newspapers, slips of papers and long pieces of tape paper which were blank. He further testified he would see Dabrowski at the club in the evenings and also about when he was cleaning up.
Got 5 Percent Fee
Topolski said he was to receive 5 percent of the $40 or $50 of “numbers” playing which he collected daily. He said he deducted it from the money he turned in. Asked by Prosecutor Orlando to tell who appeared around the club when he was there, the witness said:
“Well there was “Gassy,” Charlie Smith, “Peaches,” Walter Hart, Andrew Piontkowski, Crawford Smith . . . and I also saw Fred Klosterman walk in and out but he never stayed long.”
Frenia was called to the front of the courtroom by the prosecutor and Topolski identified him as the man with whom he left the bag of “numbers” slips daily. The prosecutor then called Frenia’s wife and Topolski identified her but said he never left any “numbers” slips with her.
“Did any of the slips which you picked up ever hit?” the prosecutor asked.
“Yes, there were several hits,” said the witness. “On one hit I received $15 which I gave to the “numbers” writers to distribute to the winners. They went mostly to Charles Stewart.”
Girl Tells of Leap to Escape Captor
Camden Courier-Post —
Youth Accused by Child of Luring Into House is Held for Trial
After little 10-year-old Mamie Zimmie, 1181 Morton Street, finished telling a story of how she had been lured into a house, and had escaped by leaping to the ground from a porch roof, Police Judge Bernard Bertman this morning held Samuel Osler, 18 years old, 1450 Mount Ephraim Avenue in $2500 bail for the Grand Jury.
In default young Osler was committed to the county jail.
Facing a courtroom, crowded with spectators, and showing no sign of fear or excitement, Mamie, while on the witness stand, turned toward the youth, six years her senior, and declared, “That’s the boy who tried to hurt me.”
Detective Frank Truax testified that he arrested Osler yesterday afternoon in his home at the Mt. Ephraim Avenue address, after the Zimmie girl had accused him.
On the stand and the object of the stare of those who packed the courtroom, Mamie dramatically recited the events of yesterday afternoon which led to her leap from the porch roof and her removal to the West Jersey Hospital, cut, bruised and lame.
The girl’s leap had been witnessed by Frank Clark, of 1006 South Ninth Street who picked her up and took her to the hospital. She was treated for cuts and bruises and allowed to go home. Her father, William Zimmie, testified that his daughter had complained of pains in her back, all night. On the stand in his own defense, Osler said that Mamie had followed him into the house and up the stairs. “When I went into the bathroom to get some money, she jumped out of the window, I did not know her,” he declared.
Driver Caught in Chase
Camden Courier-Post —
An alleged hit-run driver was captured after a chase by a city fireman in the middle of the Camden bridge.
Wallace Duvall, 31, of 1469 Mt. Ephraim avenue, was crossing Seventh and Penn streets when he was struck by an automobile. According to Duvall and George Garner, a fireman attached to the Twenty-seventh and Federal streets fire house, the driver failed to stop.
Garner followed in his car. He chased the driver half way across the bridge and arrested him. He gave his name as William Aubrey, 41, of 1141 West Indiana avenue, Philadelphia. He was held in $1000 bail for a hearing tonight.
Duvall was taken to Cooper Hospital by Harrison M. Davenport, 1209 Jackson street, where he is suffering from cuts and bruises.
Man Is Killed Here When Keg of Beer Explodes in Club
Camden Courier-Post —
Gay Holiday Party Ends in Tragedy; Bar Damaged
A Christmas party at a city Republican club ended in tragedy Thursday night when a member was injured fatally as a beer keg exploded.
John W. Kmicic, 56, of 912 North Thirty-first street, a machinist of the Pennsylvania Railroad for more than 25 years, died shortly after 1 a. m. in Cooper hospital from injuries received when the barrel exploded. Part of the interior of the first floor barroom at the Ninth Ward Republican club, 536 Broadway, was damaged.
According to Hobart Corson, chief clerk of the city fire department and president of the club, the accident occurred while more than 100 were making merry at a Christmas party on the first and second floors of the clubhouse.
Peculiar Noise
Standing beside Kmicic at the time was his son, Theodore Kmicic, of 105 Park avenue, Gloucester, and H. Allen Wolfe, acting chief of the city electrical bureau.
Wolfe said Kmicic, known by all his acquaintances as a jovial type of person, came to the end of the bar at the rear of the first floor to inspect the keg, which was making a peculiar noise.
Wolfe said Kmicic leaned over the barrel as the blast ripped the barrel open from the bottom, caused a hole to be made in the flooring and tore a piece off the end of the bar. Kmicic, Wolfe said, fell to the floor beside the keg, his face severely battered. A police ambulance removed him to the Cooper hospital, where he died two hours later.
Skull Fractured
Corson, who was on the second floor at the time of the explosion, said the party was ended immediately.
Although many were showered with beer and flying glasses, no one else was injured.
Coroner Healey was summoned and said County Physician R. Dean Cavalli would perform an autopsy on the body today. When admitted to the hospital the victim was listed as suffering a possible fracture of the skull, fractures of both arms, loss of the left eye and numerous cuts and bruises.
Kmicic lived in an apartment at the Thirty-first street address with Mr. and Mrs. Walter Wychowanec. They formerly lived at Thirteenth street and Keswick avenue in Haddon Heights.
Leaves Widow
A resident of Camden for 35 years, Kmicic was also a member of the Pennsylvania Railroad YMCA.
Also surviving are his widow, Catherine; a daughter, Mrs. Irene Curtis Gerard, New York City; a grandson; his mother, Anna, in Poland; three sisters, Mrs. Helen Polnar, Camden, and Valeria and Mary, both in Poland, and a brother, Michael, in Poland.
Requiem high Mass will be celebrated Wednesday at 9 a. m. in St. Joseph’s R. C. Church, Tenth and Mechanic streets. Relatives and friends will meet at 8 a. m. in the funeral home at 1458 Mt. Ephraim avenue, where friends may call Tuesday night. Burial will be in St. Joseph’s cemetery, Chews Landing.
Two Miss Death Sentence by Fraction of Inch; ‘Sheiks’ Confess Shooting Store Manager
Camden Morning Post —
A mere fraction of an inch is all that saved the two “sheik” bandits, who robbed and shot a South Camden chain store manager, from death in the electric chair.
And they are still in the shadow of the “chair” as John Cullen, 22, of 1088 Common road battles for his life on a tiny cot in the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
If he dies the prosecutor’s office will undoubtedly ask that the death sentence be imposed for the crime. A state law in New Jersey decrees that all those participating in a robbery or holdup in which an innocent man is killed are equally guilty.
A .32-calibre bullet entered his chest and punctured a lung causing internal hemorrhages, which physicians say may yet cost his life. The bullet passed within a small fraction of an inch of his heart, and missed several arteries that would have caused instant death had they been hit.
The bandits, who at first denied participating in the holdup, are John “Fingers” Makowski, 19, of 1476 Mt. Ephraim avenue and Stanley Jananaz, also known as Benjamin Janasz and Benny Jones, 18, of 1509 Newport street.
Order Safe Opened
They entered the American store at 1201 Lansdowne avenue just as Cullen the manager, and his two clerks were about to close up last Friday. Forcing the clerks into the rear of the store, the bandits ordered Cullen to open the safe.
One of the bandits emptied the cash register of about $5 in change, while the second man kept threatening Cullen with a gun. When he failed to work fast enough the bandit struck him and then attempted to strike him a second time.
Cullen made an attempt to defend himself and the bandit shot him and fled.
The two men were captured more than eight hours after the crime was committed when police took advantage of a “tip” given them by one of the store clerks.
Claims Shot Was Accidental
Although Cullen could not say which of the two had shot him, Janasz, better known as Jones, admitted that he accidentally discharged his revolver and that the bullet struck Cullen as the latter sought to defend himself.
Motorist Is Fined $25 for Passing Red Light
Camden Courier-Post —
Benjamin Rosner, 35, of 1443 Mt. Ephraim avenue, paid $25 in police court yesterday for passing a red light. He explained to Judge Garfield Pancoast that he didn’t stop when chased by detectives because he thought they were holdup men.
Detectives Richard Donnelly and Louis Schlamm testified they were waiting today in their automobile for the light to change at Haddon and Newton avenues, and when Rosner passed it, they chased him.
They caught up with him at Haddon avenue and Carman street and when Schlamm opened the door of his car the detectives said Rosner attempted to kick Schlamm.
2 Youths Face Court And Deny Store Murder
Camden Courier-Post —
Makowski and Janasz Indicted in Killing of John W. Cullen
PROSECUTOR WILL ASK FOR DEATH PENALTY
Collingswood Burglar is Named By Grand Jury in Its Report
Two Camden youths, nervous and incoherent in speech under the threat of the electric chair, today stood before Supreme Court Justice Frank T. Lloyd in criminal court and pleaded not guilty to charges of murdering a store manager to get $5 in receipts.
They are John “Fingers” Makowski and Stanley B. Janasz, also known as Benny Jones.
Both were white-lipped as they listened to the grave charges contained in indictments returned by the retiring September Grand Jury yesterday and read in court today by Assistant Prosecutor Rocco Palese. At the conclusion of the reading, Palese asked them how they would plead.
Neither made answer, and Justice Lloyd then put the question to them. Their answer, made in a low, indistinct voice, was:
“Not guilty.”
State Aid Asked
Janasz is represented by Joseph A. Varbalow, but Makowski has no lawyer. His mother, a widow who has four other children, then made application to Justice Lloyd for the court to appoint counsel for her son at the state’s expense, as she has not the money with which to procure legal defense for him.
Prosecutor Baldwin will place the youths on trial probably in January, when the death penalty will be asked.
They are accused of murdering John William Cullen, 22, of 1088 South Common road, Fairview, manager of an American Store at 1201 Lansdowne avenue, and father of a 13-month-old girl. The shooting occurred at the store on the night of November 28 and Cullen died two days later in the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
On the day following the shooting the two captives are alleged to have confessed to the robbery and shooting. When arraigned in police court on atrocious assault and battery charges, they pleaded guilty. Jones admitted it was his gun that fired the fatal shot, but he said it was discharged accidentally.
They are probably two of the youngest defendants in a Camden county murder case in which the electric chair has ever been asked by the state. Jones is 18 and resides at 1509 Newport street, while Makowski is 19 and lives at 1476 Mount Ephraim avenue.
1500 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1500 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1501 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947–1959 | Malin's Cafe |
| 1947–1960 | Louis Malinowski & Family |
| 1961–1964 | John & Minnie Spavlik; Robert J. Spavlik |
| 1960–1977 | Spooly's Cafe |
| 1977–2009 | Schemenski's Tavern |
1502–1504 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1936 | Liberty Theater — Abraham Ellis, manager |
| 1960s–1990s | Okulicz Furniture & Appliances |
1507 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Dr. Benjamin W. Kauffman |
| 1955 | Quality Arcade |
1508–1510–1512 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1970s–2000s | Polish Army Veterans Post 121 |
1510 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1921–1959 | J. Okulicz Furniture |
1512 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ | Source ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | Felix A. Zajac, pianos | Jefferson A.A. Banquet Program Ad |
1514 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ | Source ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | M. Smulowit, fruit and produce | Jefferson A.A. Banquet Program Ad |
1517 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1974 | Leroy Benjamin Tucker & Family |
| Leroy & Alice Knowles Tucker | |
| Leroy Tucker Jr. — Bettie Tucker — Ruth Tucker | |
| Henry C. Knowles |
1518 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1930 | Mrs. Sophie Kauffman Gross |
| Dr. Benjamin Kauffman | |
| 1955 | Frank J. Dworan & Company, realtor |
1519 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Joseph Dzietczyk & Family |
| Joseph & Helen Dzietczyk |
1520 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1919–1955 | Eby's Pharmacy |
1521 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | General Service Company |
1524 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920s–1930s | Jacob Dyl Family (confectionary) |
| Jacob & Anna Dyl; Benjamin Dyl, Genevieve Dyl, Mary Dyl, Andrew Dyl | |
| Benjamin W. Dyl, Technical Sergeant (WWII) |
1528 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1913–1989 | Resurrection of Christ Church |
| 1913–1989 | Polish National Catholic Church |
| 1990–present | Community Baptist Church |
1532 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Mt. Ephraim Bakery |
| Joseph & Rose Baltake |
1533–1535 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955–1970s | Moffa's Furniture Store |
1534 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1938 | Adam's Meats |
| 1991 | Occupied |
1536 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940s–1959 | Fortune's Floral Shoppe |
| Augustine Fortune Sr. & Family | |
| Augustine & Olive Fortune | |
| Augustine Fortune Jr. | |
| Mary Fortune |
1537 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Polonia Printing House |
1538 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1960s–1970s | Dainty Sweet Shop — Florence Sweeten, owner |
| 1982–2011 | Shoe Kings |
1539 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920 | Leon 'Donkey' Lucas |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1540 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Park Music Center |
1542 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Atlantic Tailors |
1543 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 2009 | TT Jewelers |
1544 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | C & N Construction Company |
| 2000s | Unity Community Center |
1545 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1939–1964 | Watson Burdalski, produce store |
| 2009–2011 | JT African Hair Braiding |
1548 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920–1922 | Nick Romaine |
| 1920s–late 1940s | Ignacy Milewski & Family |
| 1920s–late 1940s | Jane Milewski |
| 1920s–late 1940s | Irene Milewski |
| 1920s–late 1940s | Edmund Milewski |
| Ignacy & Zofia Milewski; Jane, Irene, Edmund, Joseph Milewski | |
| 1950s–1969 | Del Rossi's Italian Market |
1549 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1924 | Boleslaw Ryzinski Liquors |
| 1930–1959 | Boleslaw Ryzinski Hardware |
| Second Lieutenant John Henry Moses | |
| 1915–1969 | Elizabeth Ryzinski Moses |
| Camden High Teacher |
1550 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1941 | General Service Co. |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1955 | Ambassador Flower Shop |
1551 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 2011 | Almonte Market |
1555 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940–1961 | Stanley Jaskolski |
1557 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Bessie Cowperthwaite, saleswoman at Crawford Clothes |
| 1956–1970s | Baltake's Bakery — Joseph Baltake & Family |
| — | Joseph & Rose Baltake |
| — | Joseh Baltake Jr. |
1559 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1928–1950 | Polish American Citizens Club |
1559–1561 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1950s–1990s | Banasz 5 & 10 Cent Store |
| 1990s–2000s | Banasz Discount |
1565 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1913 | Rudolph Climes |
| 1933 | Charles B. Lee, speakeasy |
1568 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1926 | Helen Hall |
1573 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1940s–2000s | Banasz Hardware |
1574 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ | Source ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | S. Praiss & Son, hardware | Jefferson A.A. Banquet Program Ad |
| 1955 | Community Hardware | |
| 2000s | Accent clothing store |
1576 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1969–1976 | Stem's Pharmacy |
1580 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 2000s | Temple II Pizza |
1582 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Simon Denbo |
1584 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | S. Prorok |
1588 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1923–1926 | Nat Cohen & Family |
| Nat & Reba Cohen; Shirley Cohen; Morton Cohen | |
| 1946 | Tinnie's Bakery |
| 2010 | Forbidden Look, women's wear |
1590 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Cramer's Sporting Goods — Everett Cramer, Proprietor |
1594 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Joseph Andraka & Family |
| 1947 | Grocery |
| Joseph & Mary Andraka |
1596 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1932 | Camden Police Department |
| 1932 | Fourth District Police Station |
1598 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ | Source ↕ |
|---|---|---|
| 1919 | H. K. Runyon Co., plumbing and heating | Jefferson A.A. Banquet Program Ad |
| 1940–1970 | Mike's Tavern — Mikolaj Miskiewicz | |
| 1979–1985 | Rainbow Lounge | |
| 2003 | Choice Cuts Barber Shop |
Felix A. Zajac, 1512 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Jefferson A.A. banquet program advertisement, 1919.
FELIX A. ZAJAC
Pianos and Player Pianos
PRICES IMPORTANT BUT QUALITY MORE SO
Largest Stock of Music Rolls in the City [part of the second word is torn away]
TALKING MACHINES AND RECORDS [part torn away]
1512 MT. EPHRAIM AVENUE
M. Smulowit, 1514 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Jefferson A.A. banquet program advertisement, 1919.
M. SMULOWIT
Fine Fruit and Produce
1514 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
Keystone 5318 D
S. Praiss & Son, 1574 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Jefferson A.A. banquet program advertisement, 1919.
Keystone Phone
S. PRAISS & SON
Builders' Hardware, Plumbing Supplies, Electrical Supplies, Machinists' Tools, Cutlery, Guns, Shells
House Furnishings, Paints, Oils, Glass, Sportings Goods, Automobiles and Bicycle Supplies
1574 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
Camden, N. J.
H. K. Runyon Co., 1598 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Jefferson A.A. banquet program advertisement, 1919.
H. K. RUNYON CO.
Plumbing and Heating Contractors
1598 MT. EPHRAIM AVE.
1600 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1600 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1600 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1946 | Stemborawski listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1601 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| Spring 1914 | Built |
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1603 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| Spring 1914 | Built |
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1605 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| Spring 1914 | Built |
| 1948 | Frank Piatek |
1607 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| Spring 1914 | Built |
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1608 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920 | William Kauffman |
| 1920 | Mr. & Mrs. William Kauffman |
| 1920 | Sophie Kauffman |
| 1920 | Dr. Benjamin Kauffman |
| 1920 | Pauline Kauffman |
| 1920 | Minnie Kauffman |
| 1947–1955 | Star Cleaning |
1609 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| Spring 1914 | Built |
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1617 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1955 | American Glass & Paint |
1621 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1943 | Steppy's Cafe |
| 1947–1977 | Edward Szczepankiewicz & Family |
| 2003 | Glamor Gear |
1625–1627–1629 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Residents listed |
| 1947 | Residents listed |
1633 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1931 | Green Rag Cafe |
| 1940 | Villa Roma Cafe |
| 1943 | Betty's Cafe |
| 1947 | David Willis Associates |
1635–1637–1639 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1947 | Residents listed |
1641 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1912–1967 | Martin A. Belton & Family |
| 1912–1967 | Martin A. & Madeline Belton |
| 1912–1967 | William Belton |
| 1912–1967 | Madeline M. Belton |
1643 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1964–1970 | Stanley Zembruski Funeral Home |
1649 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1927–1955 | Nat Cohen |
| 1927–1955 | Nat & Reba Cohen |
| 1927–1955 | Shirley Cohen |
| 1927–1955 | Morton Cohen |
1651 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1952 | Albert Stefanski |
| 1952 | Albert & Balbina Stefanski |
| 1952 | Faye Stefanski |
| 1952 | Sophie Stefanski |
| 1952 | Mary Stefanski |
| 1952 | Kay Stefanski |
| 1952 | Dr. Anthony Stefanski |
| 1952 | Michael Stefanski (cousin) |
1658 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Stanley E. Sluzalis |
1666 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 2011–2012 | Camden Auto Electric |
1674 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1918–1919 | George H. Jones |
| 1924–1931 | Purdy's Cafe |
| 1933–1934 | Johnnie's Cafe |
| 1938–1947 | Knauer's Cafe — Henry Knauer |
| 1956–1970s | Hubert's Cafe |
| late 1970s–late 1990s | Giacomo's |
| 2001 | Closed permanently |
CAMDEN NEWS IN BRIEF
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Camden Democrats who follow the standard of Sheriff Mowrey are jubilant over the reappointment of Charles MacKillone as a member of the Camden County Board of Taxation. It is declared to be a victory for the Mowrey followers and as such indicates that he is the recognized head of Camden Democracy.
Promising to stay away from his wife and mother-in-law George N. Cook, accused of striking his young wife and terrorizing the household, was released on suspended sentence by Recorder Stackhouse.
Charles Smith, of 203 Steven street, has been appointed a city fireman to fill the vacancy occasioned by the recent death of Edward Finley.
Out of work, Daniel Burns, aged 32 years, of 1755 South Fourth street, drank carbolic acid. At Cooper Hospital it was stated the man has good chances for recovery.
Building Inspector Day has issued building permits to the Guarantee Realty Company for the erection of five dwellings on 1601 to 1609 Mt. Ephraim avenue, and for twelve from 1137 to 1159 Sherman street.
Working about electric lights at the Farr & Bailey oil cloth works, John Shimski, aged 31 years, of 1230 Sherman street, was shocked and fell. At Cooper Hospital it was found he had been injured about the back.
1700 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1770 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. St. Joseph High School (1952–1979), later Dayton Manor (1986–present).
1700 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1700 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1715–1725 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920s–1940s | Domestic Laundry |
| 1950s | Frank Smith Rodan |
| 1960s | Garden State Sheet Metal |
| 1960s–1990s | Avenue Lanes (bowling alley) |
| 1990s–2000s | Skateland |
1768 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1930 | Joseph G. Ward & Family |
| Robert C. Ward | |
| Urquhart Ward | |
| 1931 | Frederick Glossman |
| 1939–1943 | Charles Lawson |
1770 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1946–1951 | St. Joseph Catholic School Annex |
| 1952–1979 | St. Joseph High School |
| 1979–1986 | Vacant |
| 1986–present | Dayton Manor (home for the elderly) |
1800 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
1800 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. William P. Cotter, 1920s–1932.
1800 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Frank S. Hinkle, 1933. Camden Courier-Post, June 10, 1933.
Established 1885
'Mark Every Grave'
Ye Olde Stone Shop
Cemetery Memorials
Marble and Granite
Get Our Prices
1800-02-04 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
Frank Hinkle Bell 4595-R
1800 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. George A. Reid, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.
REID GEORGE A
Successor to FRANK S. HINKLE
"MARK EVERY GRAVE"
MONUMENTS and GRAVE MARKERS
1800 Mt Ephraim Av Camden. EMerson 5-316[?]
1862 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. George Howard & Family (1921); Michael Reilly Monuments Inc. (1955). Camden Post-Telegram, September 10, 1921.
Mr. and Mrs. George Howard and family have returned to their home on Mt. Ephraim avenue after spending the summer at Chelsea.
1862 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, 1955 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages ad
MICHAEL REILLY MONUMENTS INC
MONUMENTS & GRAVE MARKERS
"SINCE LINCOLN WAS PRESIDENT"
CEMETERY LETTERING
MONUMENT CLEANING AND REPAIRING
WOodlawn 4-0450
"OPEN SUNDAYS"
At Entrance to Evergreen and New Camden Cemeteries
1862 Mount Ephraim Ave Camden, N. J.
1863 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Evergreen Cemetery. Camden Courier-Post, July 26, 1941.
EVERGREEN
Cemetery Company
Established 1850
1863 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
PHONE CAMDEN 1472
1800 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
1800 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1920s–1932 | William P. Cotter |
| 1933 | Frank S. Hinkle |
| 1955 | George A. Reid |
1848 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
1862 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1921 | George Howard & Family |
| 1955 | Michael Reilly Monuments Inc. |
1863 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1863–present | Evergreen Cemetery |
Pension Increased
Camden Courier-Post —
Washington, D. C., June 10.—William P. Cotter, Spanish-American War veteran of 1800 Mt. Ephraim avenue, Camden, N. J., has been granted an increase in his pension for service in that conflict, the office of Congressman Charles A. Wolverton, of Camden, has been advised. Cotter’s application for the increased grant was submitted by Congressman Wolverton.
9 Added To Police, Fire Units
Camden Courier-Post —
E. W. ELDRED
T. McCARTHY
W. G. O’DENNIS
F. HOWARD JR.
Six new policemen and three firemen were added to the city forces yesterday in appointments made by Keith Kauffman, director of public safety.
The new patrolmen are Robert F. Whalen, 25, of 2957 Hartford Road; Edward F. Eldred, 22, of 1014 Kenwood Avenue; Robert D. Bergman, 22, of 3148 Waldorf Avenue; Timothy J. McCarthy, 24, of 113 State Street; Henry W. Sanders, 23, of 535 Pfeiffer Avenue; and Frank Howard Jr., 23, of 1848 Mt. Ephraim Avenue.
R. F. WHALEN
The firemen are Daniel M. Gallucci, 26, of 1855 S. 4th Street; Thomas F. Broccoli, 22, of 1467 Pershing Street; and William G. O’Dennis, 22, of 436 Pfeiffer Street.
H. W. SANDERS JR.
T. F. BROCCOLI
R. D. BERGMAN
D. M. GALLUCCI
2100 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
2115 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Lou’s Tavern & Liquor Store, 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.
LOU'S TAVERN & LIQUOR STORE
BEER - LIQUOR - WINE
COIL BOXES FOR RENT
We Deliver
2115 Mt Ephrm Av Cam WOodlawn 4-0069
2117 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Frederick G. Bisinger, 1966. Camden Courier-Post, August 13, 1966.
FREDERICK G. BISINGER
Services for Frederick G. Bisinger, 74, of 2117 Mount Ephraim Avenue, will be Monday at 11 a.m. in the Etherington Funeral Home, 700 Powell Street, Gloucester City, where friends may call tomorrow night. Masonic services also will be held tomorrow night, and burial will be in Evergreen Cemetery.
Mr. Bisinger died Thursday in Veterans Hospital, Philadelphia. He was a retired detective and a member of the Cloud Lodge 101, F&AM, the Cloud Craftsmen Association and the Tall Cedars of Lebanon.
He leaves no immediate survivors
2117 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, Camden Courier-Post, August 13, 1966 (continued)
BISINGER—On Aug. 11, 1966, Frederick G. of 2117 Mt. Ephraim Ave., Camden, N.J., age 74 years. Relatives and friends of the family, also members of Cloud Lodge #101 F&AM, are invited to attend the funeral services on Monday at 11 a.m. from the Etherington Funeral Home, 700 Powell St., Gloucester City, N.J. Interment at Evergreen Cemetery. Friends may call Sunday evening.
2121 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. General Trailers Inc., 1955 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad; later Woodlynne Trailer Park (1960s–2009).
General Trailers Inc.
"WHERE HONESTY AND FAIR DEALING COUNT"
MOBILE - ELCAR CARDINAL CHAMPION
Buy-Sell-Trade
Sales...
2121 Mt Ephraim Ave
Camden (6) NJ
Adjoining WOODLYNNE TRAILER PARK
WOodlawn 4-9233
Directions: Crescent Blvd. US #130 South to Collingswood Circle, At Quickie Car Wash Take Woodlynne Ave. to General Trailers Inc New Sales Display.
2100 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
2115 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | Lou's Tavern & Liquor Store |
| 2009 | A&A Liquors & Tavern |
2117 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1966 | Frederick G. Bisinger |
2121 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955 | General Trailers Inc. |
| 1960s–2009 | Woodlynne Trailer Park |
2500 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
2575 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Modern Gas Service, 1991–2009. 1991 advertisement.
Modern Gas Service
Gas Service Anywhere!
2575 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Camden, New Jersey 08104
(609) 456-8220 (609) 962-7067
FAX (609) 963-1457
2500 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
2575 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1991–2009 | Modern Gas Service |
2600 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
2600 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. JEM Liquors, 1977 Fire Watch Magazine ad.
JEM LIQUORS
Package Goods — Lounge
Hot Sandwiches
2600 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Mention this Ad worth 25¢ on Sandwich
2621 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Fairlynne Diner (1959), later the Elgin Diner (1977 Fire Watch Magazine ad).
Compliments of
Fairlynne Diner
OPEN 24 HOURS A DAY
2621 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, Elgin Diner, 1977
ELGIN DINER, INC.
Good Food
Carefully Prepared
Pleasingly Served
2621 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Camden, N.J. Ph. 609 / 962-7155
2630 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Camden Lanes (1964), later Brunswick Camden Lanes (1976); M & B Cocktail Lounge (1970).
NEW JERSEY TERCENTENARY 1664-1964
Proudly serving the Delaware Valley with the finest in Bowling facilities and equipment.
CAMDEN LANES
2630 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
Camden, N. J.
2643 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. My Friends Liquor Store, Bar, Restaurant & Lounge (1959–1977). 1959 Veterans Boxing Association Ring No. 6 Banquet ad.
WOodlawn 6-0021 FREE DELIVERY
MY FRIENDS (Ray & Frances)
Formerly of 5th and Mickle Streets
New Jersey's Most Beautiful Drive-in Self Service
Liquor Supermarket and Bar
500 CASES - ICE COLD BEER
2643 MT. EPHRAIM AVENUE CAMDEN, NEW JERSEY
2600 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
2600 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1977 | JEM Liquors |
2621 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1959–1977 | Fairlynne Diner (later Elgin Diner) |
2630 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1964 | Camden Lanes |
| 1970 | M & B Cocktail Lounge |
| 1976 | Brunswick Camden Lanes |
2643 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1959–1977 | My Friends Liquor Store, Bar, Restaurant & Lounge |
| 2000s | Auto Zone |
2700 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
2787 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Gino’s Hamburgers, 1962.
Everybody Goes to Gino's
Gino's HAMBURGERS
2700 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
2700 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| Listed |
2701 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| Listed |
2720 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1980s–2000s | McDonald's |
2787 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1962 | Gino's Hamburgers |
2800 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
2800 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Gaudio Brothers — Green Thumb Garden Mart (1950s–March 8, 1981, when it was destroyed by fire).
2820 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Giordano Waste Material Company (1955–1970s), August 4, 1971.
Increase Your Profits
OLD CARDBOARD BOXES
HIGHEST PRICES PAID
SELL TO
GIORDANO WASTE MATERIAL CO.
2820 Mt. Ephraim Ave.
Camden, N.J.
962-7604
2880 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Liquorama (1970s–1980s). Camden County Record, March 20, 1980.
SHOP Liquorama
The PLEASER PLACE
2881 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Camden, N. J.
In Pathmark Shopping Center
2800 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
2800 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1950s–1981 | Gaudio Brothers — Green Thumb Garden Mart |
| March 8, 1981 | Destroyed by fire |
2820 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1955–1970s | Giordano Waste Material Company |
2880 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1970s–1980s | Liquorama |
| 2000s | Sneaker Villa |
2900 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
2917 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Mrs. Mary Lind (1931–1959); Dr. Orris W. Saunders. Camden Courier-Post, June 27, 1959.
MRS. MARY LIND DIES, LONG RESIDENT HERE
Mrs. Mary A. Lind, after whom the city named a street, died last Thursday afternoon at her home, 2917 Mt. Ephraim avenue. She was 69 and suffered a heart attack a week ago.
Mrs. Lind was born in LaSalle, Ind., and came to Camden 45 years ago. There were only a few houses in that part of the Whitman Park section of the city when Mrs. Lind took up her residence there. The owner of much ground in that section, Mrs. Lind built many homes and later gave a piece of ground to the city, the street being named Marylind street in her honor.
Mrs. Lind is survived by two daughters, Mrs. O. W. Saunders, wife of a Camden physician; Mrs. Herbert Burgess; two sons, Clarence C. Lind, in the heating business here, and Charles McGarvey; four grandchildren, one great-grandchild, a sister, Mrs. Margaret Carr, Camden, and two other sisters and two brothers, living in various parts of the country. The funeral will be held at the Schroeder chapel, Broadway and Royden street, at 8.30 a. m. Monday, followed at 9.30 o'clock by high mass at the Sacred Heart Church.
2917 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Walter Wozniak (1955–1959). Camden Courier-Post, June 22, 1959; 1959 New Jersey Bell Telephone Yellow Pages ad.
Looking For A Bargain?
Full price, $3200. 6 rm. brick home, h. w. flrs. Open Stairway. Low taxes. Vac h. w. ht. Laundry tubs. 3 pc. bth. Copper tubing. Excel. condit. And others.
WALTER WOZNIAK
2917 Mt. Ephraim Ave. Camden
EM 5-3564 anytime, or EM 5-0792
2917 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, 1959 New Jersey Bell Yellow Pages ad
WOZNIAK WALTER
Insurance In All Its Branches
Real Estate - Mortgages
2917 Mt Ephraim Av Fairview
EMerson 5-0792
2993 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. 14th Ward Republican Club (aka Fairview Republican Club), 1933. Philadelphia Evening Public Record, May 1, 1933.
DROPPED 2 FLOORS TO SAFETY IN FIRE
Babies Tossed to Man; Parents Leap as 4 Others Flee Camden Blaze
Two babies were thrown from a second-story window, their parents leaped to safety, another man was hurt in a fall and three neighbors were driven out in their night-clothes when fire wrecked the quarters of the Fairview Republican Club, 2993 Black Horse pike, Camden, at 5:30 A. M. today.
2900 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
2917 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1931–1959 | Mrs. Mary Lind |
| Dr. Orris W. Saunders | |
| Herbert Burgess; Clarence C. Lind; Charles McGarvey; Margarey Carr | |
| 1955–1959 | Walter Wozniak |
2919 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
2963 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
2993 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | 14th Ward Republican Club (aka Fairview Republican Club) |
| 1933 | Thomas J. Davis & Family — David Caffery |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
2995 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
|---|---|
| 1933 | Fairview Post 71 American Legion |
| 1933 | Alfred Gorham Sr. & Family |
3000 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue
3037 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Damaged by fire September 9, 2011. Photo taken September 11, 2011.
3107 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Frank Matteo, 1959. Camden Courier-Post, November 27, 1959.
Camden Man Faces Tipsy Driving Count
A 39-year-old Camden motorist was charged with drunken driving Thursday after his car was in an accident in Mt. Ephraim ave. near Fairview st.
The drunken driving charge was placed against Charles Devaney, of the 200 block Cooper st., by Frank Matteo, 23, of 3108 Mt. Ephraim ave., operator of the second vehicle.
Devaney was examined by Dr. Lee J. Hammet.
Matteo was treated at West Jersey Hospital for body cuts. A companion, Miss Carol Robertson, 21, of 50 S. Holly ave., Maple Shade, was not injured.
Devaney was released in $250 security for a hearing Dec. 2.
3145 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Frederick B. Fagan & Family, 1965. Ernest F. Fagan. Camden Courier-Post, February 5, 1965.
FREDERICK B. FAGAN
Requiem high Mass for Frederick B. Fagan, 72, of 3145 Mount Ephraim ave., will be celebrated Monday at 9 a.m. in St. Joan of Arc Church, Collings and Alabama rds. Friends will meet at 8 a.m. in the Myrtetus Funeral Home, 1530 Collings rd., where there will be a viewing Sunday night. Burial will be in New St. Mary's Cemetery, Bellmawr.
Mr. Fagan died Wednesday in West Jersey Hospital. He was a retired machine tender for MacAndrews and Forbes Co., Camden.
Surviving are his wife, Catherine; two sons, Ernest J. and Frederick J. of Camden; a daughter, Mrs. Irene Pelgrino of Plainville, N.Y.; and five grandchildren.
3225 Mt. Ephraim Avenue. Joseph Stetina & Family (1971); JSL Mobile Park (1991); Newton Creek Mobile Home Park (2015). Camden Courier-Post, May 13, 1971.
STETINA
Joseph, of 3225 Mt. Ephraim Ave., Lot D-19, Camden, N.J. On May 12, 1971. Age 72 years. Former waiter for the Mid Day Club, Phila. Husband of Hildagarde (nee Mannhardt). Member of the Waiters Union Local #568, Phila. Also survived by 2 sons, Joseph K. of Feasterville, Pa., Roy with the U.S. Navy in Norfolk, Va., 1 daughter, Mrs. Doris Vizzi of Magnolia, 7 grandchildren and 2 great-grandchildren. Viewing and services at the convenience of the family. Under the direction of the C. H. Iredell Funeral Home, 402 White Horse Pike, Haddon Heights, N.J. Kindly send donations to the First United Methodist Church, Barrington, N.J.
3225 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, JSL Mobile Park, 1991
J S L Mobil Park
3225 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
Camden, NJ 08104
962-7544
3000 Block of Mt. Ephraim Avenue — Occupants
City directory records and historical residents.
3007 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
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| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1936 | John Bryan |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
3009 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1935–1947 | William E. Johnson Sr. & Family |
| William E. & Marie Deegan Johnson | |
| William E. Johnson Jr.; Thomas Johnson; Joan Johnson; Paul Johnson | |
| Leon J. Johnson | |
| Donald G. Johnson |
3037 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
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| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| September 9, 2011 | Damaged by fire |
3039 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
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| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
3049 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1932 | Harvey Bryan |
3081 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
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| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
3104 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
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| 1946–1947 | Black & White Cleaners |
3107 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
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| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
| 1959 | Frank Matteo |
3145 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
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| 1965 | Frederick B. Fagan & Family |
| Frederick & Catherine Fagan; Frederick J. Fagan; Ernest J. Fagan; Irene Fagan | |
| Ernest F. Fagan |
3189 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1924 | Resident listed |
| 1947 | Resident listed |
3225 Mt. Ephraim Avenue
| Year ↕ | Name ↕ |
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| 1923 | Harry Kyler & Family (Harry & Martha Kyler; Margaret Kyler; Harry Kyler Jr.) |
| — | Camden Police Department |
| 1924 | Edwin R. Stratton |
| 1971 | Joseph Stetina & Family (Joseph & Hildegarde Mannhardt Stetina; Joseph K. Stetina; Roy Stetina; Doris Stetina Vizzi) |
| 1991 | JSL Mobile Park |
| 2015 | Newton Creek Mobile Home Park |
Bail Is Denied Roxie Allen in Robbery of 15 in Craps Game
Camden Evening Courier —
Three Pals of Camden Boxer Also Jailed at Shore for Grand Jury
QUARTET IDENTIFIED BY POOLROOM OWNER
Limp Betrays Fighter at Landisville—Says He Did Not Aid Holdup
Identified as four of the five bandits who held up and robbed 15 men at a craps game in a Landisville poolroom yesterday, Roxie Allen, well-known South Jersey boxer, and three other South Camden youths are under arrest today.
The suspects, charged with obtaining money and watches worth $175, are Rocco Auletto, Allen’s real name, 21, of 318 Spruce street; Carmen Passarella, 26, of 1227 Broadway; Salvatore Passalacqua, 20, of 339 Clinton street, and Rocco De Corda, 23, of 221 Spruce street.
Two of the suspects, Passarella and Passalacqua, have made a full confession, according to Captain William J. Carter, Troop “A” commander, of the Hammonton State Police barracks.
Allen and De Corda have denied implication in the holdup. The welterweight pugilist admitted that he drove the holdup car but remained behind the wheel during the robbing, unaware of the intentions of his companions.
A fifth man, said to be colored, is being sought in Camden by the State Police and Camden detectives.
All four captives, arrested in this city and positively identified by the proprietor of the robbed place as well as by some of the victims, were held without bail pending action by the Atlantic county grand jury on charges of weapons. They were arraigned before Justice of the Peace Peter Capizola, of Buena. Prior to that, they were “booked” at the Atlantic county jail in Mays Landing, and then photographed and fingerprinted at the Malaga state police barracks. They are now in the jail at Mays Landing.
Allen’s Limp Seen, Claim
All four were recognized by the proprietor, Nicholas Yennitti, owner of “Poppy’s Place,” it is alleged. Yennitti said he knew the three white men who entered unmasked, and recognized Allen in the automobile after seeing him limp when he got out. Allen did not enter the place, nor could Yennitti see whether Allen had a gun.
It was at 2.10 p. m. yesterday that four men, three carrying revolvers and the other a sawed-off shotgun, ran into the poolroom and commanded the patrons to put up their hands. The 15 men inside were lined against a wall and their pockets were looted. The money on the table was picked up by one of the bandits. The total cash stolen amounted to only $75, while the watches and rings taken from the victims were worth about $100.
Captain Carter and other investigators heard reports that if the holdup had been staged 10 minutes later, a richer reward would have fallen into the hands of the bandits. The rumors were to the effect that the “banker” for the place arrived there from Atlantic City 10 minutes after the holdup, with two or three thousand dollars.
Nicholas Dandrea and Yennitti recognized the three white men, and then saw Allen, they said, in the car outside. Allen and Passarella had been in the place Saturday afternoon, the former losing about $15 at pool, according to Yennitti.
The license numbers of the car were observed by several of the victims, and the affair was reported to the state police. Troopers George Probert and Howard Maliff of the Malaga barracks, and Wilfred Dube, state police plainclothesman, were assigned to the investigation. They immediately sped to Camden, where they obtained the aid of Detective Theodore Guthrie.
Allen and Passarella were arrested last evening by the troopers and Guthrie. Passalacqua was arrested at his home last night by Sergeant Rox Saponare, of the Camden detective bureau. De Corda was arrested 4 a. m. today on suspicion and was later identified.
Holdup Car Found
The holdup car was found at Third and Pine streets today and was impounded by the Camden police for Atlantic county authorities. It bore the license plates C25899, but this license was issued, according to the state motor vehicle bureau at Trenton, to Harry Whaland, 1424 Mt. Ephraim avenue, Camden. An investigation proved that the tags had been stolen from Whaland’s car yesterday. Moreover, Whaland had a car different in make than the one impounded.
In his confession, Passarella declared that the seized car was his and that it was used in the holdup. The plates, he is said to have confessed, were stolen from Whaland.
However, a checkup at the Trenton bureau revealed that the license number C22859, issued for the car claimed by Passarella, had been issued to a Frank Passarella, of 327 Washington street, Camden.
Passarella, the man under arrest, is a nephew of Frank Passarella, also known as Passeralli, 31, of 212 Catherine street, Philadelphia, one of the two Atco National Bank bandits who were convicted here last month and received heavy jail sentences.
Louis Bottina, 20, of 1440 South Fourth street, was also arrested last night on suspicion, but was released when he proved an alibi and when the victims could not identify him.
The limp which betrayed Allen was the result of a bullet wound inflicted on him August 2 by Charles Areni, 699 Central avenue, who later was convicted and sent to state’s prison.
Roxie Allen Held As One of Gang in Dice Game Holdup
Camden Morning Post —
Pugilist and Pal Identified As 2 of 4 Bandits in Landisville Robbery
Bandit Suspect
PLAYERS LINED UP, RELIEVED OF $200
Robbers Flee in Stolen Car With Crippled Man at Wheel
Roxie Allen, Camden’s famed welterweight boxer, and one of his pals were arrested last night and identified, according to police, as two of four men who held up a craps game early yesterday at Landisville. Loot is said to have totaled between $150 and $200.
Allen, whose real name is Auletto, and Carmen Passarella, 26, of 1227 Broadway, were arrested by City Detective Theodore Guthrie and Wilfred Dube and George Probert, state police investigators.
Nicholas Dandrea and Nicholas Yennitti, both of Landisville, identified Allen and Passarella at police headquarters. Police said Yennitti is the proprietor of the pool room in which the holdup was staged. It is known as “Poppy’s Place.”
A dozen men were backed to the wall when the four bandits entered.
One carried a sawed-off shotgun while the other three brandished revolvers.
One of the bandits was crippled in both legs, according to the victims. They picked up the money laying on the table and then rifled the pockets of the players.
As they fled the license number of their automobile was taken and turned over to Malaga state police. A check-up revealed the car had been stolen from the garage of Harry Whaland, real estate dealer, 1424 Mt. Ephraim avenue. The license tags had been stolen from a disabled automobile of A. Baer, 611 Kaighn avenue. The state police declare the crippled man was driving the car.
Allen was recognized in the poolroom as the Camden boxer by the sportsmen gathered for the game, according to state police. Allen walks with a limp as a result of being shot August 2 at Third and Pine streets by Charles Areni, 699 Central avenue. Areni was found guilty in Criminal Court October 15.
Allen and Passarella were taken to state police headquarters at Hammonton for further questioning. They will be turned over eventually to Cumberland county authorities.
Dube said charges of robbery and carrying deadly weapons will be lodged against the accused.
Allen gave his age as 21 and his address as 318 Spruce street. At one time he was rated as one of the best welterweights in the country. He and Passarella have been close friends for years.
Two additional suspects were arrested by Camden police on information received from Hammonton state police. Louis Bottina, 20, of 1440 South Fourth street, was arrested by Patrolman Joseph Lack at Broadway and Kaighn avenue.
Salvatore Passalacqua, 20, of 339 Clinton street, was arrested at his home by Detective Sergeant Rox Saponare.
Both men were arrested on suspicion and are being detained until today when an attempt will be made to identify them as the second pair of the four bandits.
When Newspapermen asked Guthrie what Allen said when he was arrested, Guthrie declared Allen had made no statement. A similar question at Hammonton state police headquarters brought forth a reply from Trooper Dube that “I am not making any statements right now, I am still working on the investigation. Don’t bother me for a couple of hours.”
ROXIE ALLEN
Camden welterweight contender who is accused of being one of four “hoodlums” who staged a holdup early yesterday on a craps game in a Landisville pool room. Allen, according to police, was identified last night by the proprietor of the place and one of the players as the “cripple” who drove the bandit car.
6 Men Are Nabbed as Number Writers
Camden Morning Post —
Arrests Lead to Belief Shore Racketeers Are Working Here
Arrest of six alleged number writers here yesterday has spread the belief that Atlantic City racketeers have established “branch offices” on downtown street corners. Four of the accused all of whom were caught by members of the traffic squad, will be given hearings this morning. The other two were sentenced to 60 days each in the Camden county jail, when unable to pay fines of $50 imposed by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast yesterday.
All of the men were arrested while soliciting “business.”
‘Pick Up’ Man Nabbed
One of the six men arrested is believed to be the “pickup man” for the syndicate. He was in an automobile bearing Atlantic county tags and his pockets were filled with number slips and cash, according to the police.
Henry Davis, 36, of 208 Walnut street, and Alonzo Singleton, 20, of 256 Chestnut street, were arrested by Sergeant Jeff Kay and Motorcycle Policeman Thomas Kauffman at Second and Kaighn avenue. One man was standing on the northwest corner and the other on the southwest corner, soliciting business, the police testified. Davis and Singleton pleaded guilty and went to jail for 60 days.
LeRoy Keeler, 20, of 1617 Arctic avenue, Atlantic City, and David Watson, 29, of Second and Mt. Vernon streets, Camden, were arrested at Broadway and Mickle street by Motorcycle Policeman Charles Smith and William Moll. They were held for hearings this morning.
Wesley Edgehill, 35, of 1623½ Arctic avenue, Atlantic City, alleged by the police to be the “pickup man” for the Atlantic City barons, was arrested by Smith and Moll at West and Mickle streets. Edgehill was driving an automobile bearing Atlantic county tags. He had “hundreds of numbers slips and plenty of cash” in his pockets when arrested, according to the police. He also will be given a hearing this morning.
Wilbert William, 20, of 1010 Walnut street, was the sixth man arrested. He was caught selling numbers at Mt. Ephraim and Kaighn avenues, according to Kauffman and Kay. He will face Judge Pancoast today.
No Drive Ordered
Questioned regarding whether the traffic squad was making a drive against numbers game operators in Camden, Police Capt. Charles T. Humes, inspector of traffic, said no orders had been issued for a drive on operators. The motorcycle policemen were only acting in line of regular duty, he said.
Major Charles V. H. Dickinson, deputy director of public safety, stated yesterday that the arrests were not part of a concerted drive against the number “barons.” He said:
“There is no particular drive under way. The first I knew of the matter was when I read of the arrests in the Courier-Post. I questioned one of the men and he stated that he saw the writers selling slips and picked them up. There have been no orders issued except that I will not tolerate any form of gambling and want the city kept clean of it.”
Police Seek ‘Break’ in Sadowski Death
Camden Courier-Post —
Vengeance by Quinn and Doublecross Seen as Likely Motives
Police today were hopeful of a “lucky break” which might help them to solve the slaying of Mitchell Sadowski, 27-year-old ex-convict shot to death here Friday midnight.
While they were following up every clue, however meagre, the investigators admitted they were without any definite leads to the identity of the killer.
Local and county detectives were investigating the possibility that Sadowski was killed by or on orders of Mickey Quinn, recently escaped holdup man, or by someone else in reprisal for a recent $1800 holdup allegedly perpetrated by Sadowski.
Sadowski was killed by shotgun blasts through the right eye, head and side as he left the Camden Pottery plant, Mt. Vernon and Orchard streets, where he was employed as a kiln operator.
Doublecross Suspected
City Detective Thomas Murphy said he had been informed Sadowski had held up a Camden sportsman and robbed him of $1800 which the latter won in a dice game. Murphy also said he was investigating the possibility Sadowski was killed in reprisal for that job as well as the alternative that Sadowski may have doublecrossed the Quinn mob in giving information on the Casablanca roadhouse holdup.
Sadowski has a criminal record dating back to 1933, when, at the age of 14, he was arrested for auto theft and attempted robbery of a chain store.
He was out on probation and parole from a sentence for the $4119 holdup of the First National Bank of Marlton when on June 14, 1939, he was picked up by Detective Gus Pfleiderer in a stolen car. Pfleiderer walked up to Sadowski as he was sitting in the parked car on Kaighn avenue near Mt. Ephraim avenue. As Pfleiderer walked up to him, Sadowski attempted to escape. Pfleiderer drew his gun and warned Sadowski he would shoot.
“Go Ahead, Kill Me”
“Go ahead and shoot and kill me,” the parolee answered, according to Pfleiderer. “I’d rather be killed than go back to state prison.” Pfleiderer said Sadowski threw away a pair of dark glasses and tried to hide a flashlight as he was awaiting the patrol car.
Police records show Sadowski has been involved in at least four holdup and robbery arrests and a series of attempted burglaries.
Detectives said they fear other Camden police characters and one from Philadelphia may meet Sadowski’s fate if his killers are not located quickly. One of the men said to be “on the spot” is Leon Grenkwicz, 30, of Bellmawr, who was shot March 22, 1945, when Romeo De Sanctis, star witness in the Casablanca robbery, was slain by gang guns. Grenkwicz recovered from the shooting but police have not been able to locate him since.
City Schedules Sale of Garage Building
Camden Courier-Post —
The City of Camden will sell a one-story public garage building at 2626 Carman street containing 28 individual garages, which it acquired for unpaid taxes, in city commission chambers next Tuesday, Solicitor John J. Crean announced. The commission set $2500 as the minimum acceptable bid.
Seven other tax-delinquent properties also are scheduled for sale, as follows: vacant land 40 by 100 feet on east side of Twenty-seventh street 60 feet south of Garfield avenue, $250; two-story frame store and dwelling at 555 Division street, vacant, $150; vacant land 77 by 21 feet on east side of Mt. Ephraim avenue 40 west north of Sayres avenue, $100; lot at 523 South Fifth street, $75, and vacant dwellings at 215 North Ninth street, 903 Florence street and 211 Sycamore street for $50 each.
City Policeman Drowns in Lake at Blackwood
Camden Courier-Post —
Body of Joseph S. [sic] Ward Found Near Upset Canoe
OFFICIALS START PROBE IN DEATH MYSTERY
Tragedy Comes as Climax to Outing by Social Club
JOSEPH G. WARD
An intensive investigation into the mysterious drowning of Joseph G. Ward, a Camden motorcycle policeman, was opened today by Police Chief William Ritter, of Gloucester township, following the recovery of Ward’s body in Blackwood lake.
Ward drowned when a canoe he occupied overturned. He was 34, attached to the Second Police District, and lived at 1572 Louis street. The body was found by searchers led by Chief Ritter and Lieutenant Ralph Bakley, of the Camden police, after an all-night search.
Ward’s father, Joseph Ward, Sr., who has been seriously ill, collapsed when informed of his son’s death. He operates a cafe on Mt. Ephraim avenue near Decatur street. The drowning victim’s mother also is reported to be ill. The tragedy has aggravated her condition.
The drowning is a tragic aftermath of an outing yesterday of the Moonlight Social Club, which rented a clubhouse at Blackwood two months ago. With Ward on the outing were Clifford Del Rossi, a driver of the Second District police patrol; Theodore “Dorie” Guthrie, Second District detective, and other members of the Camden police department whose names have not been learned.
Chief Ritter reported today having only meager clues as to the circumstances of the drowning. Ward is believed to have been in the canoe alone. Coroner Melvin Cain is expected to conduct an autopsy today or tomorrow.
Chief Ritter said there is no suspicion of foul play, as Ward’s body was unmarked. It was recovered at [?]:30 a. m. by William [sic] McGrath, a city detective, who had been diving for it with George Hess, near the clubhouse of the Moonlight Social Club.
The overturned canoe was found last night in the lake by girls who also have a clubhouse at Blackwood. Police Chief Ritter, with Peter English and Walter Wilkie, all of Blackwood, began grappling immediately for the body.
Ward is believed by Chief Ritter to have drowned when the canoe upset. Whether he had a companion or companions in the boat is not known, but Ritter reported today that he found four hats in the rear of Ward’s automobile parked near the lake.
Auto Window Broken
In addition to finding the four hats, Ritter also discovered that the left rear window had been broken. How the glass was smashed, Ritter would not venture to say, pending completion of his investigation.
The upset canoe was found opposite the summer home of Sheriff E. Frank Pine which borders the lake on the Camden county side. North of Pine’s place is the social club’s headquarters. The girls’ club is on the Gloucester county side.
Ward was a brother of Urquhart Ward, superintendent of Camden sewage disposal plants and Thirteenth Ward Republican county committeeman, and Robert Ward, a Third District detective. He was appointed to the force in 1925. He was married but had been separated from his wife.
Ward, it was learned today, left Camden yesterday at 4:30 p. m. with Del Rossi and Guthrie. They were expected back at midnight.
Ward had stopped for Del Rossi at the latter’s home, 417 Winslow street, and the two then went to Guthrie’s home on Ferry avenue near Eighth street.
Reaching Blackwood, Ward parked his car near the lake and after exchanging greetings with members of the social club, informed Del Rossi that he was going out into the lake in a canoe.
Del Rossi said today that he did not go into the canoe with Ward, having informed him that he wanted to get some sleep. Del Rossi said he waited a half hour for Ward to return from canoeing, but Ward failed to appear and Del Rossi reported for work at midnight, when he learned his companion on the trip was missing.
Exonerated In Scandal
The drowning victim was one of the central figures in a police scandal in 1927. Suspended from the force February 23 of that year on charges of extortion, he was exonerated by the State Civil Service Commission after a hearing and returned to duty in the Second District the following July 2.
Ward had been accused with Policeman John Smith and a pensioned former officer, Maurice Mensch, of an attempt to “shake down” Michael Matthews, a storekeeper, 60, of 801 Florence street. He denied the charges against him, including an accusation that he had spoken disrespectfully about the then Mayor King with a remark that “King is no good.”
Matthews had told former Police Chief James E. Tatem that Ward and Smith had entered the store and introduced Mensch as “the biggest prohibition guy in the country and a great friend of President Coolidge.” They had agreed to “forget” charges of violating the dry law, which otherwise would be made, if Matthews would pass them $100, the storekeeper had charged.
Several witnesses for Ward attacked the story related by Matthews, and Ward himself insisted at the hearings that he had not said anything to Matthews about raid or money. His testimony was corroborated by Smith and others.
Since his reinstatement after being cleared of the charges, Ward proved to be a very efficient officer, according to Captain Arthur Colsey, stationed at headquarters. Other police officials also spoke well of the policeman.
Say Bandit Hunt Points to Marine
Philadelphia Inquirer —
Camden Police Grow More Positive, Connecting Thallman With Hold-Up
Hat Found at Scene May Prove a Clue—State Sleuths Very Busy on the Case
The Camden police are growing more positive in their belief that William Thallman, who escaped from League Island Navy Yard and whose house at Riverside was found to be stocked with plunder, could throw some light on the recent hold-up at Pavonia.
According to the police, Thallman lived in Camden for several years under an assumed name. His home is said to have been luxuriously furnished and he seemed to be well supplied with money about the time several robberies were committed in North Philadelphia. He was caught looting a bulk window of a store and was convicted and sentenced to the Eastern Penitentiary inside of forty-eight hours.
City Detectives Hart and Painter were at work all day yesterday on clues that might lead to the detection of Thallman’s whereabouts, but little or nothing had resulted up to a late hour last night.
Hat May Give Clue
Amos Fowler, a bridge tender at the State street bridge, East Side, early last evening found a derby hat in a ditch on the north side of State street near River avenue, that the authorities believe was dropped by the bandits in their hasty departure. The hat is an expensive derby and contains the letter “A.” Bridgetender Till says he has a slight recollection that one of the bandits who held a revolver at his head while he was being robbed wore a derby hat just about the style of the one found by Fowler.
Since the exploit of the bandits Camden residents have been going armed on the streets at night. Revolvers, blackjacks and other weapons are concealed in many a pocket. Everyone who walks about without apparent aim is looked upon with suspicion, and the police are at once notified. The telephone wires at night are kept hot with such messages.
The Hungarian taken to the Camden City Hall from Cloverdale by William F. Miller, Sunday, is believed to have been the victim of a holdup Saturday night. The man cannot speak English, but from what the police could learn from him he was attacked on Mt. Ephraim avenue by three men and relieved of $450, a lifetime’s savings.
Mayor Orders Cops to Drive All Gangsters From Camden
Camden Courier-Post —
Stewart Aroused as Bullet Narrowly Misses Small Girl
TWO SHOOTINGS BRING EDICT FOR BIG ROUNDUP
Police Without Clues in Mysterious Affrays Here Yesterday
Aroused because a bullet fired in a gang shooting at Ninth and Chestnut streets yesterday almost struck an 8-year-old girl, Mayor Stewart today launched a drive to rid the city of gangsters and gunmen.
Voicing the fear that innocent bystanders may fall victim to gangdom’s guns, the mayor declared he would have all lawless characters put behind bars or driven from the city.
To effect that purpose, he issued instructions to Lieut. George Frost to order every patrolman to stop all suspicious-looking characters. If, upon questioning, those suspects cannot prove legitimate quests, they will be jailed.
Issues Statement
His statement follows:
“There was another gang shooting in the city of Camden yesterday. While no one was killed or injured, an 8-year-old girl was very nearly struck by one of the bullets.
“These gunmen have respect neither for the law nor the personal safety of the public. They fight out their private feuds on our public thoroughfares, endangering the lives of law-abiding citizens. Unless some preventative is found, there may come a time when an innocent bystander falls victim to gang bullets.
“Those lawless characters must be educated to realize that they cannot carry on their activities in Camden. They must either be put behind bars or exiled from the city.
“Therefore, to that end I have issued orders through Lieut. Frost to every policeman on the force to the effect that all suspicious characters seen in the city be stopped and questioned. If satisfactory credentials are not produced, and the suspect cannot prove that he has a legitimate right on the streets, then he will be arrested. Those orders are in effect today.”
Meanwhile, police are without a single clue to either yesterday afternoon’s affair or a shooting reported early yesterday morning. Detective Captain John Golden expressed doubt that the shooting at Ninth and Chestnut street was provoked by any gang feud. Rather he believes it was the outcome of a quarrel between two men, as the assailant fired a revolver at close range and missed. Capt. Golden declared that gangsters usually use shotguns or machine-guns. However, other police officials attributed the affray to gang warfare.
One of six bullets fired at the intended victim of yesterday’s shooting narrowly missed striking eight-year-old Regina Boskowska, of 824 Chestnut street, as she sat on a front step near the intersection.
No Clues Obtained
No clues have been obtained to the identity of the assailants in either case nor the intended victim of yesterday’s gunfire.
The would-be slayers escaped yesterday from an Oaklyn motorist and the unknown man on the spot eluded Policeman William Stevenson after a 10-minute chase.
Both cars figuring in yesterday afternoon’s shooting bore Pennsylvania licenses.
The intended victim driving east on Chestnut street, stopped his blue sedan at the intersection when the traffic light turned red.
Raymond Scherneck, of 307 Laurel avenue, Oaklyn, stopped his care [sic] behind the sedan.
“While we were waiting, I saw a gray Ford coupe with Pennsylvania tags,” stated Scherneck. “It pulled up on my left, passed me and slowed down as it drew abreast of the Pennsylvania car ahead of me. The coupe had two men in it, and the man on the right side leaned out. He was bare-headed, and as he put his hand out the window, I saw him holding a blue pistol.
“He fired six times. The fellow in the other car threw himself down toward the floor. The coupe continued to go east, passing the red light. I went after the coupe, but I lost track of it near Chestnut street and Mt. Ephraim avenue.”
Assailant Escapes
Patrolman Stevenson said he was walking on Chestnut between Eighth and Ninth street when he saw a man put his hand out the window of a coupe and start firing. The officer ran to the intersection, but both the coupe and the sedan had gone on, the sedan turning south into Ninth street. Then he ran to Eighth and Sycamore streets, where his car was parked. He drove to Ninth and Chestnut, and saw Thomas Ward, 820 Chestnut street. Ward pointed to a sedan which had stopped on Ninth street, and said it was the sedan at which the assailants had fired. As Stevenson drove toward it, the sedan started up. He pursued it on Ninth to Mechanic, through Mechanic to Haddon avenue and out Haddon avenue to Euclid, where the sedan, a faster car than Stevenson’s, pulled away and escaped.
Ward was sitting on his front steps and saw the shooting. He said the Boskowska girl was sitting on the steps next door, and that a bullet struck the steps near her. The girl, who had run home crying, told police she heard something hit the steps near her.
Two bullets entered the wall of the saloon operated by John Bretschneider, 880 Chestnut street.
A short time after the shooting police arrived in bandit chasers. Armed with revolvers and shotguns, the police scoured the neighborhood but could not find the assailants. Major Charles V. Dickinson led the investigation.
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.
Camden City Flier Now Listed Killed
Camden Courier-Post —
Lt. John H. Moses Was Reported Missing; Woodlynne Sergeant also Dead
Widow Receives News
Moses was reported as missing in action on Sept. 18, 1944, and confirmation of his death has now been received by his widow, Elizabeth Ryzinski Moses. A son, James J., four months old, a brother, Marion, and sister, Mrs. Stella Fus, also of Camden, survive.
Moses was a bombardier with a leader squadron, and was lost over Rimini, Italy. He had received the Air Medal with four oak leaf clusters. He entered the Air Force Feb. 8, 1943, and was trained at fields in Texas and Florida. He went overseas June 22, 1944, and was stationed at an airfield in Corsica.
Lieutenant Moses was a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High school where he was prominent in football, baseball and track events. He was president of the student government in the school. He was graduated from the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania in 1942, and was employed by the Russ Company in Camden.
He was a member of the Holy Name Society of St. Joseph’s Polish R. C. church, where a memorial solemn requiem Mass will be sung at 8 a. m. Wednesday.
Died in Prison Camp
Sergeant Dyl died of wounds Feb. 5 in the prison camp, his wife, Mrs. Dorothy E. Dyl, was told. The War Department said the sergeant was ordered as a leader of a four-man patrol to make a reconnaissance of forward enemy positions, and when the men approached the enemy lines they were pinned down by concentrated mortar fire. “Two of the men were killed instantly and only one managed to make it back to the American lines.
The lone survivor, suffering from frozen feet after 36 hours away from his lines, reported Dyl was among those captured by the Germans.”
Dyl’s widow is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Paul A. Etter, of 302 Linden avenue, Woodlynne. The soldier leaves two children, Benjamin, 3, and Thomas Dyl. [sic] 2, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Dyl, owner of a tobacco store on Mt. Ephraim avenue.
Dyl entered the Army on April 1, 1944, and went overseas the following Sept. 15. He was a former employed [sic] of a Palmyra hosiery mill.
Renovated Theatre Enhanced in Beauty
Camden Courier-Post —
Liberty Management’s Project Gives Patrons Added Comfort in Playhouse
Hailed as one of South Jersey’s foremost playhouses, the Liberty Theatre, recently renovated at Mt. Ephraim avenue and Everett street, is attracting not only motion picture enthusiasts but also is proving a Mecca for lovers of architectural beauty.
Architects retained only the outer walls of the popular house in outlining their designs for an ultra-modern structure for A. M. Ellis and Louis Rovner, co-owners.
The newly designed building provides seats for 750 patrons. The remodeling was done by all local labor with S. Levy Company as contractors.
David Supowitz, one of the region’s leading architects, created the designs for the new structure. Walls and ceiling were improved to provide perfect acoustics. Indirect lighting illuminates the playhouse.
Walls are decorated with beautiful murals to enhance the pleasing environment. A special type of paint similar to that used in Hollywood enables the house to provide novel effects from lighting.
Columns between the murals are coated with a natural wood finish. The stage is provided with a luxurious curtain and drapes. A Western Electric System sound device and a white screen to replace the outmoded silver type furnish the latest in show styles. Streamlined seats in the house were designed to give the maximum of comfort.
The Liberty Theatre
Camden Courier-Post —
View of the newly renovated Liberty Theatre, Mt. Ephraim avenue and Everett street, reveals the modern trend of architecture which is used throughout the building. The theatre is under management of Ellis and Rovner.
Clayton Promoted to Chief Clerk in Police Department
Camden Courier-Post —
Commissioner Kobus Continues Move for Elimination of ‘Acting’ Officers
In line with her plans to eliminate acting offices in the police department, Commissioner Mary W. Kobus last night announced the promotion of Patrolman George Clayton to chief clerk of the department.
Clayton, whose promotion has been rumored since last December, has been acting chief clerk for two years and was named chief clerk, August 16. The promotion carries an increase in salary of $360, the position paying $2400 annually less the 15 percent economy reduction now in effect. As a patrolman Clayton received $2040 a year.
The city commission is expected in the near future to pass a resolution giving the title of captain, as outlined in a city ordinance, and he then receives an additional increase of $180 in salary bringing the total to $2580. Clayton will act as chief of police in the absence of Chief Arthur Colsey.
Clayton Record Lauded
Commenting on Clayton’s promotion, Commissioner Kobus said: “This is another step toward the elimination of acting officers in the police department and more are to follow in the future. It is my purpose to replace all acting jobs wherever and whenever it is possible. Clayton is a fine officer with a splendid record and his promotion will increase the efficiency and uphold the morale of the department.”
Clayton, who is 49 and lives at 912 Mt. Ephraim avenue, was appointed to the department on February 2, 1918, while Charles H. Ellis was mayor. He has served in nearly every capacity in the department, having been a motorcycle patrolman, mounted policeman, jailor, acting desk sergeant and acting detective.
Clayton has been cited for bravery on several occasions.
Capturing a fugitive bandit single handed at the Camden postoffice on December 20, 1932, was one of Clayton’s most sensational exploits. The bandit, Robert I. Mears, was wanted in Delaware for more than a score of robberies and was spotted in Camden.
Floors Irate Interferer
Police were notified and Clayton was assigned to the postoffice to grab Mears when he appeared for mail. Clayton waited for several days before he was rewarded with the appearance of Mears. Not knowing whether the bandit was armed or not, Clayton pulled his gun.
A bystander thought a holdup was in progress and Clayton was the culprit. Clayton was assaulted by the bystander, making the chances of the capture look slim, but he promptly “floored” the would-be rescuer with a punch and then took Mears to headquarters where he was held for Delaware authorities.
Chez La Joy
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New All Star Floor Show Featuring ALL COLORED ENTERTAINERS Direct from New York’s Famous Night Clubs
Music, Dancing and Plenty of What it Takes
Phone Camden 6193-7498
S.W. Cor. Mt. Ephraim & Mechanic St.
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Camden’s News Budget
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A Would-Be Suicide Who Spent His Wife’s Money for Rum.
Adolph Meyers, of 1109 Emma street, who attempted to kill himself late Saturday night, is locked up at the City Hall. He is rapidly improving and will be released to-day or to-morrow. To Chief of Police Dodd he said he had become down-hearted and had decided to kill his wife and then end his own existence. He changed his mind and shot himself.
Mrs. Meyers says that on Saturday evening she gave her husband $1 to purchase groceries with and instead he bought whisky. When he came home he was under the influence of liquor and was only in the house a few minutes when he attempted to shoot himself. Lieutenant Stehr says that when he called at the house Meyers asked him for his revolver, saying it was better than his and would do the work.
Fight at a Christening.
The baby of John Flerker, who resides at Mount Ephraim and Kaighn avenues, was christened yesterday, and as a result a half a dozen of the participants are now locked up in jail. After the water had been sprinkled on the child’s head, those who had assembled to witness the ceremony started in drinking beer.
Toward dark, by which time the entire party was under the influence of liquor, a free fight ensued. Officer Peters was summoned and arrested Fred Collett, Frank Dasky, Henry Raskoska, Jacob Schiecht and his son. They were locked up for a hearing to-day.
An Appropriate Song.
About 150 persons from Philadelphia visited Camden yesterday to witness the baptism of a man and woman, who accompanied them. About 1,000 boys who had heard of the coming of the pair to be baptised were at Vaneman’s wharf waiting for them. The pair were led out into the stream, and just as the minister dipped them into the water the boys commenced to sing “Down Went McGinty to the Bottom of the Sea.”
Notes.
The octogenarian services of the Methodist churches were concluded yesterday. The principal speaker of the day was Bishop Cyrus D. Foss.
The spectators who were captured in the prize fight raid on Friday night will have a hearing before Mayor Pratt to-day.
Rev. J. L. Sooy, of the Tabernacle Baptist Church, conducted the services yesterday for the first time since his illness.
William Haines and Herman Shaffer are locked up at the City Hall for stealing lumber from the yard of Volney G. Bennett.
Harry Daniels is locked up for stealing $175 worth of shoes from the Philadelphia Shoe House.
‘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.
Overflowing ‘Bowl’ Put 3 Here in Jail
Camden Courier-Post —
Three Camden men have New Year’s celebration to blame for their predicament today.
All of them tipped the “flowing bowl” a bit too much last night. Today one was sentenced to county jail for 60 days for ending his party by beating his wife; the second paid a $25 fine after he had informed holiday crowds in a loud voice that it would take a riot squad to arrest him and the third will spend 20 days in county jail regretting that he tipped over a number of chairs and tables in a local restaurant while intoxicated.
Mrs. Eleanor Reilley, 2231 North Nineteenth street, told Judge Bernard Bertman this morning that her husband, Charles Beilley [sic], 37 years old, from whom she has been separated for two years, broke into her house last night while intoxicated and beat her. Reilley said he could not remember what had happened after he took a few drinks.
John Kernan, 31 years old, Second and Market streets, wanted to get into the Stanley Theatre, Broadway and Market streets at 1 a.m. today. When he was refused admission he defied the world to keep him out. “It took the whole Gloucester police force to arrest me once and it’s going to take a riot squad to do it again,” he is reported to have shouted. George Frost, motorcycle officer, quickly silenced the man and took him to city jail.
Stanley Molick, 36 years old, 1155 Louis street, was accused by Patrolman Charles Smith of tipping over chairs and tables in a restaurant at Mt. Ephraim avenue and Everett street. When Smith said that Molick was intoxicated “early every Saturday night” Judge Bertman sent him to jail for 20 days.
Found Wounded on Sidewalk at Kaighn Point
Camden Evening Courier —
Seals Lips as Police Seek to Learn Identity of Assailant
EIGHT UNDER ARREST IN SUSPECT ROUNDUP
Surgeons at Hospital Find Four Jagged Bullet Holes in Body
Victim of the gang feud—he denounced on his death bed, Joseph “Mose” Flannery, 26, picturesque Eighth ward political worker, was dying today in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital.
Mortally wounded, his body riddled with bullets, Flannery was shot some time shortly before 4 a. m. today as he stood on the sidewalk outside a saloon at Front and Kaighn avenue.
Four or five men, grouped closely about the prone body of the political worker, hailed a truck which took Flannery to the hospital at 4.15.
Eight men had been arrested by police, seven charged with being a material witness, and the other being held at police headquarters “on suspicion.”
They were James L. Hawkins, 37, declared by police to be proprietor of the saloon at 101 Kaighn avenue; Walter Novak, 22, 442 Jackson street; Russell Sage, 25, of 407 Mechanic street; Joseph Novak, 34, of 508 Jackson street; Eugene Murphy, 51, of 101 Kaighn avenue; “Cuzzy” Scarduzio, 27, who gave police no home address, and Joseph Moll, 25, of 101 Kaighn avenue, all held as material witnesses; and Patrick Driscoll, 25, of 1225 South Third street, held “on suspicion.”
Cause of Shooting Unknown
Despite a far-reaching investigation, Flannery’s assailant or assailants, the details of the shooting, and its cause remained undetermined this noon. Every available county and city detective was engaged in the probe as Camden gangland’s victim hovered between life and death in the hospital.
Realizing doctors had given him but a few hours to live, Flannery continued to maintain his silence concerning how he was shot, and which he had adopted when he was carried into the hospital on a stretcher.
“My lips are sealed and if I don’t live to get the fellows who did this my gang will get them,” he told physicians when placed on the operating table at 4:30 a. m.
At 9 o’clock this morning, the doctors had given up hope for his recovery, but Flannery still was alive at 2.30 this afternoon.
South Camden virtually buzzed with rumors to the effect that Flannery’s fate was the result of a war in the bootleg ring; that it was the aftermath of a feud over slot machines; that it was a case of “women,” and that it could be linked up with the shooting in January of Joseph Cimini, by Joseph Devon, known as “Polack Joe.”
At Loss for Motive
Police were at a loss to name the motive. Acting Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando, in charge of the investigation, said the probe had not reached the point where anyone person could be accused of shooting Flannery, or where the gun fire could be traced to anything but a “gang feud.”
“Mose” Flannery had been shot. He probably would die. That much was known. The rumors naturally followed for Flannery was well-known, not only in the close-mouthed circle in which he moved, but throughout the city as well.
“Mose” Flannery is one of the most picturesque figures in Camden’s political “gangland.” For several years he has been a slot machine distributor in Camden and Philadelphia.
When “Polack Joe” Devon shot and killed Joseph Cimini, Philadelphia gambler in the Sixth Ward Republican Club early in the morning of January 14, last, Flannery was arrested as a material witness. It was disclosed by police that Flannery and Cimini had gone into the club together a few minutes before Devon’s gun pumped death into Cimini’s body after the Philadelphian had quarrelled with Devon.
Flannery was considered the most important of the material witnesses connected with the Cimini murder. Sage, arrested on suspicion this morning in connection with the felling of Flannery, was another “important” witness in the Sixth Ward Club shooting affair.
James Bonner, who was mysteriously shot several months ago, was questioned today by detectives but was not held. Walter Selby, a taxicab driver, also was taken before Chief of Detectives Golden and County Detective Chief Doran, but he too was released after being closeted with the officials for more than an hour.
Sage Ordered Held
After questioning Sage, Acting Assistant Prosecutor Orlando ordered that the man be held.
In the meantime, Flannery lay on a hospital cot, propped up on his side, his pain deadened by opiates. He mumbled incoherently to members of his family grouped about him. At times he lapsed into a state of unconsciousness.
The doomed political worker early today had asked for a priest. Rev. Father John J. Henry went to the hospital. “Joe,” he said, “you’re dying. You’d better give police a statement.”
Flannery was said by doctors to have replied he would tell nothing, that if he lived, “he’d settle,” and that if he died, “my gang will take care of that.”
After a session in which more than a dozen men were questioned, Captain Golden and Detective Chief Doran shortly before noon went to the scene of the shooting. They found evidence that a scuffle in the saloon at Front and Kaighn avenue had preceded the shooting.
Tables had been overturned. Glasses had been broken. Forty cents in change was found on a table beside a picture of a small baby. There was an empty glass on one table, another glass half-filled with beer on the bar.
Bullets Meant for Novak?
It was reported that police had been informed by one of those they questioned that the bullets which ripped their way through Flannery’s body had been meant for Walter Novak who they said had been standing at “Mose’s” side at the time of the shooting. The police officials refused to confirm that rumor. Novak had told them, Capt. Golden said, he was not with Flannery at the time. Later Novak admitted to being on the corner near the saloon, police said.
Police recalled that Novak was arrested several months ago in the alleged theft of a slot machine from the store of Louis Schectman, in Broadway near Line street. Novak was apprehended after a wild chase through South Camden streets.
Schectman at first told police Novak was one of two men who entered his store, and at the point of a gun, robbed him of a nickel slot machine. Testifying in a hearing in police court several days later, Schectman said he hadn’t kept a slot machine in his store, and that two men unknown to him stole a box of cigars and escaped in an automobile.
As far as could be learned by an Evening Courier representative, the case against Novak never was settled.
The bullets were fired from a “pump” gun and were of .32 calibre. According to Detective Thomas Cheeseman, they could have been fired only from a gun of the type common to gangsters who “shoot to kill.” Cheeseman said a “pump” gun was designed to hold nine shells or “wads,” as they are commonly known. The leaden bullet is surrounded by a coating of asbestos, which breaks from the lead upon the firing of the gun and allows the lead to enter its target.
Police were following every clue which developed, no matter how scanty. Detectives combed the Front street and Kaighn avenue neighborhood, it was learned, in an effort to discover the haunts of the gang known by police to center in that part of the city.
Chief of Police Lewis W. Stehr was asked if police would act against the owners of the habitats of the “Front and Kaighn avenue” gang or if a routine investigation into the shooting of Flannery would be conducted. Chief Stehr said the usual investigation was being made and would continue.
While members of the political worker’s family talked with Flannery, and while investigation of the shooting by county detectives and police was under way, doctors said the man who lives at 346 Jackson street, couldn’t “live out the day.”
Flannery had a bullet wound two inches in diameter in his back. Another bullet had pierced his abdomen, and he had been shot in both elbows, physicians said. Doctors said the bullets were two inches long and three-quarters of an inch in diameter.
It was shortly after 4 a. m. when Charles Foulk, of 219 Point street, driver of The Courier-Post delivery truck, was hailed by a group of men standing on a corner at Front street and Kaighn avenue.
“Have you got time to take a man to the hospital?” one of the group asked Foulk, according to the story he told Captain John Golden, chief of city detectives.
Flannery was lifted into the rear of the truck, two men jumped on the running board and the run for West Jersey Hospital began.
Walter Wartman, of 315 North Second street, another Courier-Post employe, who had assisted in the delivery of Morning Posts at the Reading Ferries, was with Foulk.
Foulk said one of the men jumped from the truck when it reached Mt. Ephraim and Atlantic avenues. The other went into the hospital, whispered a few words to Flannery, and then raced out the main entrance.
Mose’s Companion Escapes
Mrs. Edward McGrath, supervisor of nurses, called Policeman Frank Malec who for several days has been guarding a man known as “Two-Gun” Kelly, and Malec gave chase to the unknown companion of Flannery. Malec saw the man disappear on Mt. Ephraim avenue, but couldn’t find him in a search of the neighborhood.
In the meantime, City Detective William Boettcher, who had been working the morning shift, had notified Assistant Prosecutor Samuel P. Orlando; Lawrence T. Doran, chief of Camden county detectives; Capt. Golden, and had called City Detectives George Ward, Louis Shaw, Thomas Cheesman [sic] and Howard Pike to investigate the shooting.
Boettcher said Flannery refused to “talk.” “You are a policeman and I’m no friend of the police. I’ll never tell,” Flannery told the officer, Boettcher declared.
Later Flannery told physicians, “I have learned my lesson and hope this will be an example to other young men.”
Witness in Cimini Shooting
Flannery was held as a material witness in the fatal shooting of Joseph Cimini, 31, in the Sixth Ward Republican Club, early in the morning of January 14.—Joseph Devon, known as “Polack Joe” fired the shot that killed Cimini. Devon was arrested but the case never came to trial.
Devon now is at liberty on bail and is under indictment for manslaughter in connection with Cimini’s death. Flannery also was released under bail.
While police continued their investigation, Flannery, still determined to refuse information to detectives and doctors, was surrounded by his wife, his 4-year-old son, his mother and father, and his 19-year-old brother James. Calling “Jim” to his side, Flannery, according to physicians, said, “I want you to promise me you’ll never get mixed up in these gang wars.” “Jim” promised, Detective Boettcher said.
Novak Under Suspicion
In their search for the “mysterious” companion of Flannery on the ride to the hospital, police pointed a suspicioning finger at Walter Novak who they had held “on suspicion.”
According to information given them by Foulk, the truck driver, Flannery, during the ride from Front and Kaighn avenue to the hospital, whispered, “Where are you taking me, Walt?” He was told the hospital was the truck’s destination, Foulk told police.
Detectives said Novak might have been the “Walt” to whom Flannery spoke. Novak said he was 22, was a “salesman” and lived at 442 Jackson street.
Taken by Strategy
Scarduzio’s arrest resulted from a piece of strategy on the part of Chief of County Detectives Doran. Doran with several members of his staff and city detectives were in the bar-room of the saloon at 101 Kaighn avenue when the telephone rang before noon.
Doran picked up the receiver and the party on the other end asked if Joseph Moll, son of former Policeman Frank Moll, was there.
Figuring that the persons might be some one who could help the authorities unravel the mystery, Doran answered:
“Yes, this is Joe Moll.”
“Well, I want to see you right away,” continued the other party.
“Will you come right down to 674 Fairview street. I want to see you,” finished the unidentified speaker who then hung up.
Doran with Captain of Detectives Golden hurried down to the address given and there found Scarduzio in the home of Garfield Del Duca.
Scarduzio, it is said, was more surprised to see the authorities than they were to find him as Chief Doran had been searching for “Cuzzie” for several hours.
He said he had nothing to do with the shooting of Flannery. Limping when the detectives escorted him from the house, Scarduzio was first taken to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital to discover whether or not he was suffering from any bullet wounds in the legs.
Scarduzio Not Shot
Doctors later said Scarduzio had not been shot and the man who had been surprised at the Del Duca home was taken to police headquarters.
He “knew nothing about the shooting,” Scarduzio told Captain Golden and County Detective Chief Doran. There were stains, possibly bloodstains, on Scarduzio’s trousers, the police said. “Cuzzy,” as he is known in police circles, wore a clean white shirt, and that fact sent detectives from headquarters on another tangent in their investigation.
Scarduzio was asked where he had left a “bloody shirt” he was reported to have been wearing early today. According to police, he denied his shirt was bloody, and refused to give them any information.
City Detectives David Hunt, Samuel Johnson, and Walter Smith were dispatched on the “side” investigation.
Detective Thomas Cheesman [sic], of the city hall staff, also holds two warrants for the arrest of Scarduzio in connection with the holdup of a saloon in Gloucester several weeks ago and the theft of an automobile.
Moll was arrested while sleeping in a room over the saloon near Front and Kaighn avenue. He was arrested by Chief Doran, Captain Golden and Detective Ray Sapanore. Moll has been in police toils several times recently, the last time in connection with the mysterious shooting of Bonner near the spot where Flannery fell.
Woman Describes Auto
The movements of an automobile bearing Pennsylvania license and containing several men whom she said ran out of the saloon near Front and Kaighn avenue an hour after Flannery was shot, were described to police officials late this morning by Mrs. Mary Brown, who lives near the saloon.
She was questioned at detective headquarters after she had reported seeing the car drive onto the Spruce street pier, four men alight and board a motorboat which set off across the Delaware river in the direction of Philadelphia.
According to Mrs. Brown, the driver of the “mysterious” automobile turned the car about and raced north on Front street.
A city-wide man-hunt had been made for Joseph “Cuzzie” Scarduzio, detectives said after the “surprise arrest” on Fairview street. Police had heard rumors Scarduzio, known by them to be a “pal” of Flannery, had been standing by “Mose” when he was “given the works” by the yet unknown gunman or gunmen. They had heard, detectives announced, that Scarduzio, coatless and hatless, had been seen leaving the scene of the shooting, his clothes spattered with blood from the wounds of his friend.
Camden detectives said they doubted if Philadelphia gangsters were responsible, believing, they announced, that the shooting was local to the Camden gang center they knew existed.
City Detective Walter Smith shortly after noon brought a South Camden bartender into police headquarters for questioning.
The man said he was Frank Smith, and tended bar in a saloon in the 1800 block on Broadway, near Ferry avenue, and said he had overheard three men telephone for a taxicab to take them to Front street and Kaighn avenue. Smith placed the time after midnight, according to police, and detectives doubted if the three men were connected with the Flannery “case.” Smith was not held by police.
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Two Men Beaten And Car Stolen; One Is Robbed
Camden Courier-Post —
Angel M. Rodriguez, 35, of 300 Penn st., was admitted to West Jersey Hospital after suffering a severe beating of the face and head Friday night. He was picked up by police at Mt. Ephraim ave. and Chestnut st.
Rodriguez was able only to tell hospital attendants that his car had been stolen then he lapsed into unconsciousness.
Less than half an hour afterwards, Fernando Reyes, 52, of 708 Carman st., stumbled into the office of Broadway Motors, 1444 Broadway. His face was also badly battered.
Taken to Cooper Hospital, Reyes said he and Rodriguez were attacked at Tenth and Chestnut sts. The assailant threw Rodriguez out of his car then drove with Reyes to Broadway and Lansdowne ave., where he beat Reyes, police said.
Reyes told police he was robbed of $150. However, despite the efforts of an interpreter, Cpl. Luis Torres, who happened to be looking at an automobile when Reyes came into the Broadway Motors office, police said they were unable to get a clear picture of what had happened.
The condition of Rodriguez was listed as “poor” today. At Cooper Hospital physicians said Keyes’ [sic] condition is “good.”
Investigators today said they were not able to turn up any evidence leading to identity of the assailant.
Motorist Is Robbed By Two Youths
Camden Courier-Post —
Police are seeking two youths who allegedly robbed a motorist Saturday night while his car was halted for a red traffic light on Mt. Ephraim ave. at Line st.
John Hamlett, of the 800 block Van Hook, told Ptl. Anthony DeVello a young man opened his car door and got in while he was waiting for the light to change. Hamlett said the thug had an automatic in his hand and ordered him to drive to Princess ave. and Line st. There another bandit met them and demanded his money.
Fire Watch: In This Issue
Fire Watch Magazine — Spring 1977
FIRE WATCH
VOL. 1 NO. 1
SPRING 1977
IN THIS ISSUE
MESSAGE FROM LOCAL #788 2
WHAT'S NEW 4
VIEW FROM THE TOP 5
SAFETY EVERYONE'S CONCERN 6
A CITY CHANGING IT'S [sic] IMAGE 8
DO YOU REMEMBER 10
HOT FLASHES 11
FIREHOUSE CHATTER 12
IN RECOGNITION 13
RUNS AND WORKERS-1976 13
DOWN MEMORY LANE 14
OUR SUPPORT SERVICES 16
QUIZ BIZ 18
FROM THE RULE BOOK 19
OUR PATRONS 19
PUBLISHED QUARTERLY BY AND FOR CAMDEN FIREFIGHTERS
The Cover Photo of our inaugural issue displays the scene that greeted first arriving units on the morning of 6 June, 1976 at Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Fairview Street, the Harris Terminal Complex. The fire involved a four story brick and corrugated steel warehouse (100 x 1000) containing miscellaneous industrial materials. Structure was fully involved upon arrival of Department Forces. As is evident in photo, the firebuilding was completely obscured from view by extremely heavy smoke conditions that were visible as far as thirty miles away. Elevated water tank in background, which is adjacent to firebuilding, is 100 feet tall. A massive effort by over 400 hundred [sic] manning some fifty pieces of equipment, was required to control the blaze. The Camden Fire Department was assisted by the mutual-aid response of Fire Units from Camden County. A 10th Alarm for Box #4412 was transmitted for this fire. Photo by M. Hall.
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