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Streets Howard Street |
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Streets Howard Street |
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HOWARD STREET in North Camden run for only two blocks, from State Street north to Erie Street, parallel to North Front and North 2nd Streets. Howard Street was already laid out and built up by 1887. There are a few pictures below taken in the 1940s... if you recognize anyone I haven't yet identified, PLEASE e-mail me! |
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Do you have a Howard Street memory or picture. Let me know by e-mail so it can be included here. |
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On
Howard Street 1942 Front: Corky the
Dog, Gene
Edwards Click on Image to Enlarge
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Staff
Sergeant Benjamin Kaplan
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800
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802 Howard Street 1947 |
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803 Howard Street 1947 |
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804 Howard Street 1947 |
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805 Howard Street 1947 |
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806 Howard Street 1900 1947 |
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807 Howard Street 1947 |
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809 Howard Street 1947 |
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810 Howard Street 1914 |
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810 Howard Street 1932-1933 Camden
Courier-Post |
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FIVE
LOSE LIVES IN CAR CRASHES OVER WEEKEND A
Camden mother and daughter were killed in a grade crossing crash at
Lansdale, Pa., and three others lost their lives in South Jersey in
weekend motor accidents.
In three cases injured persons refusing to remain in hospitals were
forced to return later. One of them died. Miss
Eleanor M. Hillman, 20, of
810
Howard
Street, and her mother, Mrs. Mary Hillman, 46, were killed at Lansdale,
when an automobile was struck by an
electric train on the Philadelphia and Western Railroad. Mrs.
Jean Bethell, 21, of
103 Chapel
Avenue, Merchantville, was killed in a crash of automobiles at Crescent
Boulevard and Drexel Avenue; Pennsauken, late Saturday. Killed
in Suitors Car Miss
Hillman and her mother were in the automobile of Miss Hillman’s fiancé,
Fred
G. Brummer Jr.;
of
629
Clinton street, Camden.
The
three
drove to spend the day with Mrs. Milton Wenhold, of 218 West Eighth
Street, Lansdale. Upon arrival Mrs. Wenhold and her two children,
Milton, Jr., 4, and Mildred, 6, were
invited to take a ride. They
reached the Seventh Street crossing, at 3:15 p. m. Brummer did not see
the train until it, was, too late. He tried to swerve the machine but
the train, caught the automobile and dragged it for 50 feet, crushing
it. The
occupants were thrown along the side of the roadbed. Miss Hillman was
dead when she was picked up by horrified spectators. Her mother died a
few
hours later in the Montgomery Hospital from a fractured skull.
Mrs. Wenhold and Brummer are in the same hospital and may die. The children suffered minor injuries. |
810 Howard Street 1932-1933 Camden
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A
double funeral will be held tomorrow for a Camden mother and her
daughter, killed Sunday when a train struck an automobile in which they
were riding at Lansdale. Pa. They
were Mrs. Mary A. Hillman, 46, of 810 Howard Street, and her daughter,
Miss Eleanor M. Hillman. The funeral will be held at 2 p. m. at 736
Market Street. Burial will be in Harleigh Cemetery. Mrs.
Hillman was the widow of Lester C. Hillman. Fred G. Brummer, Jr., 24, of 629 Clinton Street, fiancé of Miss Hillman and driver of the car, was in a critical condition in Montgomery Hospital, Norristown. Mrs. Milton Wenhold, of Lansdale, who was also in the wreck, was also in a serious condition. Both have possible fractured skulls. |
810 Howard Street Camden
Courier-Post MISS ELEANOR
HILLMAN Mother and daughter, of 810 Howard Street, who were killed Sunday when an automobile in which they were passengers, was struck by a train at Lansdale, Pa. |
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811
Howard Street
1917 Camden Post-Telegram David
S. Rhone
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812 Howard Street 1940s-1958 |
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812 Howard Street Thomas Hyde Camden
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HUNTER IS FINED $40; SHOT AT BLACKBIRDS Frank Stirpe, 813 Howard Street, Camden, was fined $40 and costs for hunting in the closed season on Sunday at a heating before Justice of the Peace John Valleley yesterday. Stirpe was arrested while shooting at blackbirds in Center Township by Deputy Fish and Game Warden Wallace Lapp, Sunday afternoon. |
813 Howard Street 1931 Camden
Courier-Post 1947 |
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814
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815 Howard Street 1947 |
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815 Howard Street 1962-1965 I lived at 815 Howard St from about 1962 until 1965 before moving my wife to Haddonfield. I paid $1,500 for the home and sold it for $3,000 to Wilber Lewis. Lee
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816 Howard Street 1910 1947 Carl Fornito |
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817 Howard Street 1947 |
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817 Howard Street 1959 A VERY LUCKY LITTER Fireman George P. Baxter of Ladder Company 1, displays the fruits of his labor, a newborn litter of pups, rescued from a working fire on Howard Street in North Camden on September 23, 1959. Fireman Baxter's home was at 817 Howard Street at the time of this fire. Photo by Bob Bartosz Click on Image to Enlarge |
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819 Howard Street 1947 |
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821 Howard Street 1947 |
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823 Howard Street 1947 |
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| Intersection
of Howard Street &
York Street Click on Image to Enlarge |
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| Looking South towards York Street from the 900 Block of Howard Street March 13, 2012 | |
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North on the 900 Block of Howard Street Click on Image to Enlarge |
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ABOVE: Father and Son, Louis Edwards (left) and Gene Edwards on the 900 Block of Howard Street, photo from the early 1940s. The John R. Evans Company leather factory is visible at the rear of the picture, on Erie Street. The two-story industrial building on left was used as a warehouse by the Mathis Shipbuilding Company in the 1940s. |
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Howard Street Kids - 1942 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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900
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900 Howard Street 1940 1947
John Carroll |
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902 Howard Street 1900s-1910s 1930 1940
Vacant |
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904 Howard Street 1882-1885 |
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MRS. ANNIE M. JOHNSTON The funeral of Mrs. Annie M. Johnston, who died at her home, 904 Howard street, Tuesday will be tomorrow from 521 State s.treet, with requiem high mass, 9 a. m., at the Church of the Holy Name, Fifth and Vine streets. Mrs. Johnston, wife of Daniel A. Johnston, was a member of the B.V.M. Sodality of the church. Burial will be in Calvary Cemetery |
904 Howard Street 1930-1938 Camden
Courier-Post 2011 Gone |
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904 Howard Street 1940
Mrs. Jessie Crosset |
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906 Howard Street 1940 - 1947 Left: 2011 Gone |
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906 Howard Street 1940 - 1947 Left: 2011 Gone |
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908 Howard Street 1917 Philadelphia
Inquirer O. Glen Stackhouse |
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908 Howard Street 1940
Walter Dunbar 2011 Gone |
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910 Howard Street 1940
Edwin J. Rush 2011 Gone |
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911 Howard Street 1930
Elmer Leilfried Sr. 2011 Gone |
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912
Howard Street 1913 Philadelphia
Inquirer |
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912 Howard Street 1930s -1940s Left: 2011 Gone |
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912 Howard Street 1930s -1940s Left:
"Peggy"and Jack 2011 Gone |
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912 Howard Street 1947 John Kelly 2011 Gone |
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913 Howard Street 1900s-1910s
Stanley
Wirtz 2011 Gone Left: Stanley Wirtz |
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913 Howard Street 1958 Marin Pagan Camden Courier-Post
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914 Howard Street 1940 Martin T. Lynch 2011 Gone |
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914 Howard Street 1940
Martin T. Lynch 2011 Gone |
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915 Howard Street 1930 John Janeicki |
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915 Howard Street 1940-1960s Left:
The Three Petrauschke Girls 2011 Gone |
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915 Howard Street 1940-1960s Left: Sarah Petrauschke, 2011 Gone Gene was recuperating from falling into a conveyor at a paper mill. Lucky it was shut down in time...
Jim Bessing
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917 Howard Street 1930-1947 Frederick "Fritz" Knohr 2011 Gone |
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918
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919 Howard Street 1930 James J. Lannon Photo from 1940 Click on Image to Enlarge 2011 Gone |
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s At
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s At
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s At
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s At
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s At
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s At
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s At
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s Louise
Franco Rossi 2011 Gone |
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919 Howard Street 1940-1960s Pat Franco 2011 Gone |
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920 Howard Street 1940-1947 Dominick Boccaleri 2011 Gone |
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921 Howard Street 1930-1940
Ernest Patrizi 2011 Gone |
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922 Howard Street 1920s-1940s 2011 Gone |
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922 Howard Street 1947 At
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923 Howard Street 1930
William Walsh Left: 2011 Gone
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924
Howard Street 2011 Gone |
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924
Howard Street 2011 Gone |
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925 Howard Street 1927 |
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925 Howard Street 1925
William Ragen |
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925 Howard Street Photograph Taken March 13, 2012 Scheduled for Demolition in March of 2012
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925 Howard Street Photograph Taken March 13, 2012 Scheduled for Demolition in March of 2012
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925 & 927 Howard Street Photograph Taken March 13, 2012 Scheduled for Demolition in March of 2012
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925 & 927 Howard Street Photograph Taken April 1, 2004 |
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925 & 927 Howard Street Photograph Taken April 1, 2004 |
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926 Howard Street 1929 Camden
Courier-Post Main A.C. |
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926 Howard Street 1930s-1950s 2011 Gone
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926 Howard Street Summer of 1943 |
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926 Howard Street Gene Edwards (left) 2011 Gone |
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927 Howard Street 1930-1940
Louis D. Lodholz Photograph Taken March 13, 2012 Scheduled for Demolition in March of 2012 |
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928 Howard Street 1940-1947 Charles Norman 2011 Gone |
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929 Howard Street 1930-1947 Thomas J. McEwen 2011 Gone |
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930 Howard Street 1940
Vacant 2011 Gone |
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930 Howard Street 1950 Henry Pease Sr. 2011 Gone |
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931 Howard Street 1933
Marvin Taylor 2011 Gone |
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932 Howard Street 1940
Harry Poore 2011 Gone |
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934 Howard Street 1933 Mrs. Anna Morgan 2011 Gone
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934 Howard Street 1930s 2011 Gone
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934 Howard Street 1940
Arthur Britton 2011 Gone |
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936 Howard Street 1933 Charles Bensley 2011 Gone |
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936 Howard Street 1930s-1940s Easter 1943 Click on Image to Enlarge |
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936 Howard Street 1947 Mrs. Martha Archer 2011 Gone |
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938 Howard Street 1870s-1880s 2011 Gone |
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938 Howard Street 1940
Joseph C. Doxsey |
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940
Howard Street |
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942 Howard Street 1940
Vacant |
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942 Howard Street 1955 1955
New Jersey Bell Telephone 2011 Gone |
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I have a late 1950’s & early 60’s Howard Street memory of Jim & Florence Long. Sons: Rudy, Butch, Jimmy Jr., Richie, and Daughter Beatrice. My Father Ray Becoskie worked with Jim Long and John Short at Magnetic Metals and occasionally helped with their moving business. My parents would often get together with them at one of our houses drinking beer and laughing late into the night. Jim Long had the same personality as Beverly Hills “Jed Clampett”. His wife Florence was an unforgettable woman with a threatening yet humorous tongue of a drill instructor that ran the block near the John R. Evans leather factory. If anyone didn’t belong on her block she would give them a tongue-lashing they would never forget, and she enforced it with her tough teenaged sons. Up until that time I assumed that everyone in Camden had indoor plumbing. Howard Street was my first experience with an outhouse in a backyard lot. Regards,
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942 Howard Street 1950s-1960s 2011 Gone |
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944 Howard Street 1940
George D. Allebach 2011 Gone |
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946 Howard Street 1878-1881 |
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946 Howard Street 1940
Dominick Boccelli The Boccelli family had moved to 34 Wood Street by 1947. |
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946 Howard Street Dominick Boccelli |
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946 Howard Street Dominick Boccelli |
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946
Howard Street
Dominick Boccelli This looks like the corner of North 6th & State Street |
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946 Howard Street 1947 Alfred F. Schafer 2011 Gone |
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948 Howard Street 1930s-1956 2011 Gone |
| Intersection
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Erie Street Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Howard Street Easter 1943 Left: Bottom Left: Bottom Right: Click on Images to Enlarge |
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Summer
on Howard Street 1940s Sara Petrauschke, Gene Edwards, Jim Bessing Mr. & Mrs. Lynch, Tessie, Dottie, Click on Image to Enlarge |
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On
Howard Street 1940s Chuck Williams & Johnnie Fife Click on Image to Enlarge |
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After
Howard Street
Jim Bessing & his family Click on Image to Enlarge |
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Howard
& York Streets as see from Erie Street |
| Looking North on Howard Street - April 18, 2004 | |
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Looking
North from State Street |
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800
Block of Howard Street |
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Looking
North from State Street |
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800
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Looking
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800
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| Camden Courier-Post - June 29, 1933 |
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HELD IN THREAT AS WOMAN FAINTS Landlord, Seeking Rent, Denies He Intended to Shoot Tenant Residents along the 900 block on Howard Street were thrown into a turmoil at 9:15 a.m. yesterday by a reported shooting, after a woman, screaming for help, ran from her home and fainted on the street. The police arrested Charles Bensley, 73, of 936 Howard Street, charged with threatening to kill Mrs. Anna Morgan, 55, of 934 Howard Street, and carrying concealed deadly weapons. A few minutes later Police Judge Pancoast held Bensley without bail for the grand jury. He admitted having the pistol at the hearing, but. had denied possession of the weapon when first arrested. "Were you going to shoot her?" the court asked. "No,“ Bensley replied, "I don't know what made me do this, I think I'm half-crazy. I own the house and wanted to collect the rent or make her move." When Motorcycle Patrolmen Russell Young and George Getley arrived in front of Bensley's home, 100 neighbors were crowding the street outside. Bensley, they said, eluded them and ran out the front door after pretending to make for the back. He was grabbed by August Hasher, 41, of 217 Erie street, a bystander. Meanwhile, a motorist had taken the unconscious Mrs. Morgan to Cooper Hospital when she fainted in front of. her home. She was questioned at the hospital by Detectives Clifford Del Rossi and George Zeitz. The detectives quoted Mrs. Morgan all saying that Bensley, who owns the house in which she lives, came into her home this morning to talk about rent which was two months overdue. "He asked me," she said, "if I had received a court notice to move, and I said I had, but was waiting for an eviction notice. "Then he said, 'Well, I'm going to take the law in my own hands', and with that he pulled out a pistol and began brandishing it. I ran out the front door calling for help and then I fainted. That‘s all I remember." Bensley admitted asking Mrs. Morgan to move out. The police found a 38-caliber revolver and a box of bullets hidden behind a rafter in the cellar of his home, they said. |
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Special thanks to Jim Bessing and Jack Sizemore for their help in creating this page. |
