Ocean County , NJ History

 

NEW JERSEY COURIER 30 JUN 1960 34 OUT OF TOWN TEENAGERS NABBED AS TWP. POLICE BREAK IN ON BEER, NECKING PART HELD IN GRAVEL PIT More Than 125 Cans of Beer Found at Site TOMS RIVER--Dover Twp. police, assisted by an Island Heights officer, swooped down on 34 out-of-town teenagers Tuesday night, broke up a necking party and confiscated more than 125 cans of beer. Capt. Richard Clement of Dover Twp. police, who led the raid, said the minors were nabbed in a gravel pit on Vaughn Avenue on the north side of Rt 37 back in the woods. The boys and girls were brought to the police headquarters where all were released in the custody of parents. Parents were notified after the raid had been concluded and the 34 youngsters questioned. Names were not released because of the ages of the boys and girls. Those questioned along with their parents face a hearing in Township Hall July 6. Major Vincent A. Grasso and Police Committeeman John J. Dalton were at headquarters when the throng was brough

New Jersey Courier from 26 May 1930: "MANITOU PARK--Mrs. Rebecca More has been charged with murdering her estranged husband, John, 59, after an argument Saturday night. State Police at the Toms River barracks said that the couple returned from visiting taverns, and Mrs. Moore used an ax to kill her husband. She is being held without bail in Ocean County Jail for a hearing in Muncipal Court tomorrow night. Until she was charged with murder, she had been free in $3,000 bail on a charge of possessing a deadly weapon and assault with intent to kill. The assault charge was brought before Magistrate William E. O'Connor in Municipal Court on Friday by Sterling Smith, Second Street." Note the two different spellings of the last name, "More" and "Moore"--that's how it appears in the article. Not surprisingly, neither the Sterlings or More/Moore families appear on the 1930 census.