Van Hook Street

VAN HOOK STREET runs from the Delaware River to Fourth Street east across Broadway and Mount Ephraim Avenue to its end at Hallowell Lane, where it ended at where the former Municipal Hospital for Contagious Diseases for the City of Camden stood.

Much of the upper 600 block was razed to make way for Interstate Route 676. The last houses were cleared in the 1970s.

Mitchell Brooks, 37, of 637½ Van Hook Street, was admitted to West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital late night suffering from knife wounds in the left side and right arm. Charlotte Carter, 26, of the same address was arrested as his assailant and Clarence Canzater, also of that address, was held as a material witness. All are colored.

Willie Ross, 30, colored, of 681 Van Hook Street, was sent to Trenton prison to from one to three years on a charge of carrying a concealed deadly weapon. He fired four shots at Sidney Lewis, 661 Van Hook Street, during an altercation over a debt, and when his aim proved too poor, resorted to a more simple expedient. He felled Lewis by striking him over the head with the revolver.

Cooper

Lewis Raupp, 53, 833 North 6th Street, dog bite of right index finger
Anna Veroline, 34, 318 Walnut Street, sprained ankle
Albert Passarella, 15, 433 Spruce Street, sprained ankle
Thomas J. Owens, 35, 420 Taylor Ave., bruised wrist and knee
Joseph Manfredi, 14, 335 Chestnut Street, infected palm.
Margaret Cramer, 9, 323 Erie Street, infected finger
Laurence Wiggle, 5, 505 South 6th Street, cut hand
Joseph Carbone, 18, 336 Walnut Street, cut chin
Thomas DiRenzo, 13, 522 Clinton St., splinter in left foot.
Cecelia Homan, 32, 511 Ray Avenue, foreign body in eye
Mary DiVincenzo, 10, 311 Beckett St., foreign body in eye

West Jersey

Theresa Marolda, 59, 1713 South 4th Street, cut finger
Benjamin Druasowictz, 34, 1282 Van Hook St., cut finger
Charles Mangold, 52, 3 North 4th Street, cut finger
Stanley Kaminski, 25, 1119 Liberty Street, cut hand
Marie Birsch, 15, 697 Van Hook St., foreign particle in eye
Willard Dickson, 3, 1739 Railroad Ave., puncture wound of thigh

John Baronkin, 669½ Van Hook Street, Camden, was given a suspended sentence upon pleading guilty to possession of liquor, after his attorney pleaded he was keeping a wife, child and an ill mother.

John Hamlett, of 800 Van Hook Street, reported to police Monday night a “friendly” robber attempted an armed holdup in the intended victim’s car parked at 6th and Sycamore Streets.

Patrolman Edward Yeager said Hamlett reported the robbery try after holding a conversation with the holdup man before he fled. Hamlett said he entered his automobile about 10.30 p. m. and saw a man sitting inside. He had a revolver in his hand, and a handkerchief covered part of his face, Hamlett said.

As Hamlett attempted to get out of the car again, the man pulled him back inside. Hamlett said he struggled to get the gun from the would-be robber when suddenly the man pulled the handkerchief from his face and laughed. “I’m just kidding. This isn’t a holdup.”

After talking with the man, described as a Negro, about 33 years old, 5 feet, 8 inches and 185 pounds, Hamlett went to a telephone and called police.

Charges She Found Fiancé Had Wife Who Wanted Her to Buy Divorce

She promised to marry him—then discovered he was married. That, with certain other elements of humiliation, is worth $10,000 to Mrs. Mary Krystanowicz. Her suit opened in circuit court yesterday and will be resumed today.

The woman is 35, a widow, mother of five children and lives at 1108 Van Hook Street. The man she accused of obtaining her love under false pretense is Anton Trzaskowski, 45, of Red Hill, Pennsylvania. He boarded with her in Philadelphia and Camden after her husband died, she testified, proposed to her February 1, 1932, received her consent, postponed the ceremony several times, got $1650 from her to buy a car and a $60 suit and hat as the “wedding day” neared.

Then he tried to borrow $2000 from her to buy a farm. This deal hadn’t gone through, however, when she visited her admirer’s Red Hill farm and asserts she discovered his wife there. But the “last straw,” she said, was when the man’s wife hit on the idea of obtaining a divorce with cash advanced by Mrs. Krystanowicz.

Camden Plaintiff Charges Penna. Farmer Said He Was Widower

A jury of 12 men after five hours and 15 minutes of deliberation yesterday awarded in Camden Circuit Court heart balm of $3000 to Mrs. Mary Krystanowich, 35, of 1108 Van Hook Street, against Anton Trzaskowski, 45, Red Hill, Pa. farmer.

The trial began on June 15 before Judge Henry H. Eldredge. Mrs. Krystanowich declared Trzaskowskl was already married and the father of several children, but had represented himself to her as a widower. She said he boarded with her in Philadelphia and Camden after her husband died and that he proposed to her on February 1 of last year. After her acceptance, she said he kept postponing the ceremony and obtained a total of $1710 from her.

A Camden coal hauler and his helper were held up and robbed of $50 early yesterday by two bandits on Ridge pike near Butler pike, Barren Hill, near Conshohocken, Pa.

Clarence Franchetti, of 1231 Van Hook Street, this city, and his helper, Alexander Cherry, whose address was not revealed, were forced by the bandits to drive their truck to the side of the road.

Alighting from a sedan, the bandits poked pistols in the faces of Franchetti and Cherry, then searched and robbed them. The holdup men returned to their automobile and speeded toward Philadelphia.

Franchetti was returning to the mines upstate for a truckload of coal when the holdup occurred, it was reported by police. He said the robbers were two young men.

A 16-year-old youth who was found unconscious in a vacant house from the effects of drinking liquor was sentenced to 30 days in jail yesterday by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.

He is Julius Carter, 1288 Van Hook Street, who was discovered Monday night in a house at 534 Ray Street by Motorcycle Patrolman Earl Wright.

“You are certainly starting out well,” Judge Pancoast told the boy. “Where did you get the liquor?”

“Some fellows gave it to me,” was the reply.

“Well, I am going to stop you from starting that habit,” was Judge Pancoast’s answer.

Two youths were arrested late last night on suspicion of stealing a radio when one of them was interrupted by detectives while attempting to sell it.

Detectives Benjamin Simon, Clifford Del Rossi and Robert Ashenfelter became suspicious of a car parked at Norris and Sheridan Streets. The occupant, Stephen Stanziak, 19, of 1279 Sheridan Street, said he was waiting for a companion who was in the store of Michael Gucik, northeast corner of Norris and Sheridan Streets. The detectives entered the store and found Joseph Fiume, 16, of 1349 Van Hook Street, attempting to sell a radio to Gucik. The youths said it had been given to them by a man they did not know.

Found guilty of stealing an automobile which has not yet been recovered, two Whitman Park men were given six months in the county jail by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.

Identified by the owner of the machine who said he saw them drive away in it, Herbert Cox, 25, of 1247 Van Hook Street, and Charles Casale, 26, of 1351 Van Hook Street, were sentenced in spite of their denial of the theft. John Harwan, of 1311 Sheridan Street, the owner of the car, testified that Cox and Casale took his machine from Mt. Ephraim Avenue and Van Hook Street where it was parked in front of his soft drink establishment. He tried to jump on the running board, he said, but could not reach it. He called the police and ordered the men arrested, he said.

Cox and Casale said they did not know anything about Harwan’s automobile. They were in a speakeasy drinking all night, they said, and left the place intoxicated. In answer to Judge Pancoast’s questions the men said they did not remember where the speakeasy was.

Will Erect $20,000 Structure at Eighth and Kaighn Avenue