Thompson Street

Thompson Street runs from North 27th Street to the old Pennsylvania Railroad tracks just beyond North 30th Street in East Camden, between Howell and Pleasant Street. The street was already laid out by the time the 1887 Camden City Directory was compiled.

Fredolin (often recorded as Frederick) Spuhler operated a grocery on Thompson Street as early as 1887, and the Mortimer family had a presence on Thompson Street as early as 1887 through the late 1940s.

One Car in Two Mishaps; All Occur Within an Hour

Ten persons were injured within an hour last night in seven accidents throughout Camden.

The first accident occurred at Twenty-eighth and Thompson streets where a car driven by Mrs. Sarah A. Mole, 39, of 2903 Pleasant street, struck a five-year-old boy who ran from the sidewalk into the path of the automobile.

The boy, John Smith, 5, of 2801 Pleasant street, suffered cuts on the right arm and leg. Mrs. Mole placed him in her car, then requested Charles Johnson, 32, of 2840 Thompson street, to drive the car to Cooper Hospital. Johnson agreed and with Julius Braxton, 18, a friend, of 2933 Thompson street, Mrs. Mole and the Smith boy started for the hospital.

At Twenty-seventh street and Saunders Avenue, the second accident occurred when Mrs. Mole's car, driven by Johnson, crashed with another car driven by H. Lem White, 43, of 730 Colford avenue, Collingswood. Johnson, Mrs. Mole and Braxton all were cut and bruised in the crash and were taken, with the Smith boy to the hospital by another motorist.

Meanwhile at Baird avenue and Marlton pike, an automobile driven by Miss Virginia M. Brickner, 18, of 27 Cuthbert Road, Westmont, was overturned in a collision with another car driven by George W. Garner, 31, of 235 Morse street, a city fireman. Miss Brickner was treated at Cooper Hospital for shock and bruises.

Two accidents occurred at Sixteenth street and Crescent Boulevard. In the first, Charles C. Markley, 30, of 1040 Sycamore avenue, Haddon Heights, attempted to stop his car when another machine cut in front of him. Markley's car overturned at the curbstone, and was wrecked, but Markley escaped injury.

A Palmyra mother and her four year-old daughter were injured when the shaft of a bread wagon broke two windows in their car and showered them with glass, at the same intersection.

The car was driven by Mrs. Dorothy Creager, 32, of 737 Garfield Avenue, Palmyra. She was cut, as was her daughter, Helen, 4. The driver of the wagon, Jackson Kircher, of 159 West Avenue, Westville, was not injured.

William H. Anderson, 7, of 810 Chambers avenue, Gloucester, was treated last night at Cooper Hospital for a leg fracture suffered when struck by an automobile at Brown street, near Paul, Gloucester. Mrs. Anna Hammond, of 136 Snyder Avenue, Westville, took the boy to the hospital and reported to Gloucester police.

Firemen of the Twenty-seventh and Hayes Streets station [Engine Company 11] were called out last night to answer an alarm at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Amon, 2825 Thompson Street, where a small can of gasoline in the cellar exploded. The explosion was caused by sparks from a cigarette in the hands of her son, George, who was cleaning a motorcycle in the cellar. George took a small extinguisher from the motorcycle and put out the flames before firemen arrived. No damage was reported.

MARRIAGE LICENSES — CAMDEN

Floyd Warren, 21, of 762 Pine street, and Lillian Ingram, 21, of 2929 Thompson street.

Sixty days in the county jail was the sentence meted out to Wilmer Brown, 52, of 3002 Thompson Street, when he was charged in police court yesterday with stealing a watch.

Arrested on complaint of Martin Nelson, 561 Spruce Street, Brown denied the charges and said he knew nothing of the timepiece. Nelson testified that he went to a house on Cherry Street near Sixth with Brown and fell asleep. His watch was taken while he slept, he said. He admitted he had been drinking.

William Pollard, of 751 Cherry Street, said he was in the back yard of the house on Cherry Street when Nelson and Brown appeared. An hour after they entered the place, he said, Brown asked him for a pair of pliers to cut it.

In sentencing Brown, Police Judge Pancoast said he believed the man wanted the pliers to cut Nelson's watch chain.