Orville Estelle convicted of selling hooch, 1921
New Jersey Courier 27 May 1921
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Richard Garon and Charles Emmons convicted of transporting liquor, 1921
New Jersey Courier 27 May 1921
Schuck found guilty, 1921
New Jersey Mirror 23 Feb 1921 Harry Paul, of Mount Holly, son of David S. Paul, the murdered bank runner, of Camden, had been in attendance at the trial of Raymond Shuck, one of the murderers of the elder Paul, in Camden, when he was interviewed by a newspaper reporter on Monday. Here is what he said after stating that his mother hs been in failing physical condition ever since the tragedy, and that he feared she would die as the result of "No matter what happens to these(as written) her grief and the shock of the crime: men(as written) Schuck and James -it will not bring my father back to me. "I feel terribly sorry for the families of James and Shuck. No one has any idea of my sympathy for them. "But as for the men themselves, their conscience must be racked by the knowledge that their days seem to be numbered, and their end will be the electric chair. I cannot say I want to see them die as murderers. I cannot move myself to voice such an expression. "I cling to
Sentencing of Frank James, 1921
New Jersey Mirror 16 Feb 1921 Frank J. James who some time ago was convicted of Paul's murder, was brought before the court in Camden and informed that he would be sentenced on February 25, at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. He was to have been sentenced Monday, but owing to the Shuck trial being delayed the date was advanced.
Trial of Raymond Schuck, 1921
New Jersey Mirror 6 Feb 1921 Faces Jury With a Smile: Mystery Woman Appears; Kept From Reporters-State's Surprises. Twice postponed, the trial of Raymond W. Shuck, of Camden, for the murder of David S. Paul, the bank messenger whose body was found in a shallow grave in the pines of this county last fall, was commenced in the Camden county court on Monday. Supreme Court Justice Katzenbach and County Judge Kates wer on the bench. There was the same large crowd present at the sessions on the opening day as attended the trial of Frank J. James, who earlier was convicted of murder in the first degree for his part in the dastardly murder and is now awaiting sentence.Shuck, dapper and apparently confident of escaping the electric chair, sat beside his counsel, J. Russell Carrow, while the jury was being selected and appeared to take a keen interest in the selection of the talesmen. Frequently he leaned over to confer with his lawyer as though to offer suggestions as to the acceptabil
Suicide of Edwin Bachman, 1921
New Jersery Mirror 2 Feb 1921 The body of Edwin A. Bachman, of Burlington, an inmate of the County Insane Asylum at New Lisbon, who escaped from that institution early in November, was found in Rancocas creek a little above Pemberton on Sunday evening. Bachman, who was 35 years of age and single, was a braid manufacturer in the river-front city. After attempting to commit suicide by cutting his throat with a razor last fall when suffering from a nervous breakdown, he was taken to the county asylum where it was hoped he would recover his mental balance. He succeeded in escaping the vigilance of those having charge over him, however, and nothing more was heard of the unfortunate man until his body was discovered in the creek. The supposition is that Bachman made his way to the creek and drowned himself immediately after his escape and that his body drifted down to the point where it was found on Sunday evening.
Sentencing of Frank James, 1921
New Jersey Courier 12 Jan 1921 Supreme Court Justice Katzenbach has set February 14 as the day for sentence of Frank James, convicted of the murder of David S. Paul, bank messenger, and refused an application of counsel for Raymond W. Schuck for a special panel of talesmen for his trial, set for February 7. The justice granted the application of Lawyers John and William Harris for a writ of error in the James case. The writ will be argued before the Court of Errors on March 1 and will act as a stay in carrying out the sentence of electrocution of James, whose counsel will not press the application for a new trial made on the day of his conviction.
The Murder of Edward Hatch, 1921
From the New Jersey Mirror May 11 1921 Surprising a river pirate in the act of robbing his boathouse at Delair on Saturday afternoon, Edward E. Hatch, a prominent resident of Riverton, received a gunshot wound from which he died in a few minutes. Hatch, who was a prosperous brick manufacturer, engaged in battle with the thief, worsted him at first, pursued him into the river, where waist deep they resumed their desperate struggle, and then was shot by the young river rat as he was overpowering the outlaw for a second time. The police of both sides of the Delaware were promptly notified and a drag-net set for the capture of the murderer and his two comrades, who had sat out in the river in a canoe and waited for the boat house thief when he entered the Hatch property to steal whatever he could lay his hands on. For some time the detectives were rather puzzled by the presence of two green canoes in the trail which they were following, acting on the clue furnished by the mortally wound
News from Tuckerton, 1921
NEW JERSEY COURIER 16 DEC 1921 The first arrest made by the newly organized state police force was in Tuckerton last week when Thomas Sandbo, a Texan, threatened to shoot up his father-in-law, Thomas Cale, and other members of his wife's family, and carried their baby from its home and left it with a neighbor across the street. State police brought Sandbo to the county jail. Cale's daughter, a girl in her teens, was visiting her sister in Colorado when she met and married Sandbo. They separated and she came home. The man came to Tuckerton last week and the events enumerated above followed in quick succession. Joseph Gilbert, of Tuckerton, a ma well along in his sixties, was tried Wednesday on the charge of rape upon Lavinia Penn, aged 13 year, daughter of Jacob Penn, of Tuckerton. Four little girls, Lavinia and her 11 year old sister Lydia,with Isabel and Sarah Miller of West Creek, also of like tender age, told their story in court and were unshaken by the cross examinatio
Toms River Yacht Club, 1921
NEW JERSEY COURIER 16 DEC 1921 Commodore Horace A. Doan's drive for new members in the Toms River yacht club resulted last Friday night in the election of ten more men, as follows: Arthur R. Smock, Harold Christensen, Lakewood, John C. Sleator, Merchantville; Charles Peterson, Whitesville;Edwyn E. Levy; J Walton Grover, Charles R. Knox, John A. Hagaman, Fred Huttinger, Saunders Levy. Sixty men sat down to a beefsteak supper at the Toms River yacht club Wednesday evening, and all brought their appetites with them. It proved a real jolly affair. Harry Harris was the chef, who broiled the steaks, and the whole affair was managed by the entertainment committee, of which Frank Buchanan is chairman, and the other members being Dr. Samuel A. Loveman and John A. Hensler. The second and third prizes in the open competition for the whole state in sweet potatoes last week came to Dover Township. George Newman of Pershing (Clifton Avenue) took second prize'; Hamilton Tilton of Silverton
Still found at the Parker home, 1921
New Jersey Courier 16 Dec 1921 While looking for deer meat at the home of Lewis Parker, near Manahawkin, Game Warden J. H. Evernham and Constable Joseph K. Johnson, of Toms River, found not venison, but a still in full operation. The still was seized and brought to the county jail. Parker was afterward arrested and brought here. Warden Evernham had received a tip saying that Parker had killed two deer and had them in his house. Parker lives at the Oxycocus plantation, at one time a famous cranberry bog, back in the woods from Manahawkin. The two officers went there and found Parker, demanding that he bring out the meat. He insisted that he had no venison and they proceeded to search the house. When he tried tos teer them away from a certain door all the time, they went into that room and found a still running. It sat on a three burner oil stove, and was steaming. They seized it, and it was still warm when it reached the Sheriff's office and a quart of white mule was in the worm,
Murder of Matilda Russo, 1921
From the New Jersey Mirror 15 Jun 1921: The Mystery of the disappearance of the little Matilda Russo, the seven-year-old daughter of Mike Russo,a tailor, living at 113 East Second street, Moorestown, was cleared up on Friday when officers searching for the body of the child in the cellar of Lewis Lively, a colored man living next door, found the horribly mutilated remains of the child, buried three feet under the earth floor. All the clothes had been roughly torn from the body. Almost simultaneously with the finding of the murdered child Lively disappeared as completely as though swallowed up by the ground and he has succeeded in eluding the authorities thus far, although a countrywide search is being made for the arch fiend. The Little Italian girl was reported missing on Saturday night, June 4. The last seen of the child was between 7 and 8 o'clock that evening. It was supposed at first that she might have run away because she had been reprimanded by her mother for some trivia