Tag: George Horner

  • Camden’s Pride Parades Before City’s People

    With a line up that could not be surpassed by the famous “Broadway Squad” of New York, Camden’s policemen, or most of them, turned out in review yesterday. The military carriage of the men excited much and favorable comment, especially among those who were not aware that the men have been drilled every week for…

  • Mystery of a Swamp

    Mystery of a Swamp

    Harrisburg Patriot – July 17, 1899 Philadelphia, July 16—Walter S. Jones, colored, is locked up in Camden Jail under a chain of weird circumstances. On Friday night a horse and empty wagon were found standing in a clump of bushes near Seventeenth and Mickle streets, a sparsely settled part of Camden’s annexed district. Almost simultaneous…

  • A Camden Den Raided

    A Camden Den Raided

    Philadelphia Inquirer – July 28, 1890 Plenty of Liquor and As Faro Layout Secured by the Police A Murderous Negro Creates a Commotion Incendiaries and 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…