Robbery in Palmyra, 1905
New Egypt Press 24 Nov 1905
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Murder of Raphael Solomon, 1939
New Jersey Mirror 9 Mar 1939 John Dudley, colored, 18, of 140 Edgecomb avenue, New York, was arrested at the home of his sister, Mrs. Elizabeth Meyers, in Palmyra, early on Saturday, charged with murder of Raphael Solomon, an investigator for the New York Department of Welfare, who was shot on February 15 and died in a Harlem Hospital on February 21. Dudley, who was arrested by Palmyra police and state troopers at about one o'clock on Saturday morning, was returned to New York, after a hearing before Mayor John F. Ward, of Palmyra. Two other colored youths, Robert Robinson and James Parker, under arrest in New York, implicated Dudley in the crime. Solomon was shot in the neck after he was held up and his wallet, containing $65, was stolen. He is under indictment there for a series of robberies of rent collectors, police said, and Solomon was mistaken for a collector. Dudley admitted taking part in Solomon's holdup at his hearing in Palmyra, but denied committing the actual mu...
Charles Workman commits suicide, 1906
New Jersey Mirror 21 Nov 1906 Drinking a two-ounce vial of carbolic acid on Saturday night, Mrs. Charles Workman, of Palmyra, committed suicide. She was despondent over continued ill health.
Murder-Suicide at Palmyra, 1939
New Jersey Mirror 1 Jul 1939 Officials who made an investigation of the suicide of William S. C. Roray, Palmyra lawyer, said the cause was that he believed he had a cancer of the stomach. Before killing himself, he shot his wife to death. Discovery of the double tragedy was made by the Rorays maid, Mrs. Dorothy McLean, who went to the house at 430 Leconey avenue, Palmyra, at about 11 A. M. on Thursday mornign and found the doors locked, the lights still burning and the milk bottle on the porch. She gained entrance through a second story window by means of a ladder, and found the dead bodies of Mr. and Mrs. Roray. Coroner George A. Whomsley and County Detective G. Clinton Zeller both described the tragedy as "a plain case of murder and suicide." Roray was senior member of the law firm of Roray and Turnbull, in the Broadway-Stevens Building, Camden. Mrs. Roray was a member of the Breyer family who head(sic) a large ice cream concern. Roray spent almost two weeks in West Jer...