Ocean County , NJ History

 New Egypt Press 25 Dec 1924

N J Courier, August 14,1925: "Death this week summoned Augustus A Ward at his home on Central Avenue at an early hour on Tuesday morning. The deceased resided in Lakewood for more than thirty years coming here from Montclair for his health. Had he lived until Monday next he would have been sixty five years of age. It was he who started the business now known as Ward & Ward. For a number of years he was the active head but illness gradually unfitted him for this responsibility and he gave way to his partner John Ward who had been associated with him for some time. Two years ago he retired and the firm was reorganized under the same name. The deceased was born at Montclair where he has a number of relatives. During his residence in Lakewood a large circle of friends was made which remained with him to the end. He was a devout christian man and held membership in the Baptist church of Lakewood. He also was a member of several of the local lodges and was held in the h...

A Burlington county tragedy of 14 years ago, when a 16-year-old boy plotted the death of a man living with his mother, was brought to light in Burley, Idaho, on Friday when Charles W. Quigley, formerly of Moorestown, told authorities how his murder plan had miscarried and his mother was killed. The murder plot had been placed in records as an accident, when Mrs. Worthy Quigley was burned to death while lighting a fire with kerosene on the Arthur Collins farm, on April 29, 1925. Quigley told Idaho police that his mother had parted from his father who lived at 55 Elmer street, Bridgeton, a few months before the tragedy in 1925. She had taken up residence with William H. McIntosh, who passed away two years ago at the Lakeland sanitarium, unaware that he had been marked for death. On the Moorestown farm the woman posed as McIntosh's wife, and the boy, smarting under the shame and hating his "foster father," had plotted his death. Quigley said that he had emptied the tank of...