Harold Johnson hurt 'resisting cop', 1946
Asbury Park Press 10 Jul 1946
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Chief Brazzel, 1977
Asbury Park Press 2 Oct 1977, in a photo that hardly looks staged for the press at all.
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...
The hunt for Charles Long, accused murderer
from the New Jersey Mirror 26 Jul 1905 Charles Long, the negro for whom the police of Trenton are looking upon the charge of having murdered Matthew Cunningham, of that city, on July 16, is a native of this county, having been born and spent several long years of his life at Cookstown. Long was recently seen near a thick piece of woods by officers who fired at him, but the murderer managed to make his escape in the underbrush The next day, the New York Times even carried the story: SAY NEGRO MURDERER HAS FLED FROM SWAMP; Jersey Police Give Up Search in That Direction. FARMERS ARM THEMSELVES Long Is a Desperate Man, and They Think He May Seek Revenge for Pursuit Link to story then again, on 2 Aug 1905: Interest has been revived in the hunt for the negro murderer Charles Long, of Trenton, by the increasing of the reward to $500. An additional $250 reward has been offered by Mercer Co. Board of Freeholders, which brings the sum up to the amount named. and a link to a scanned ....
OFFICER SHOOTS NEGRO IN JERSEY HOLDUP
From the Asbury Park Press 20 Oct 1923 Camden, Oct 20- Charles Johnson, negro, an alleged highwayman, was at the point of death in a hospital here as the result of a shooting affray with Raymond Watson, a policeman, who sought to arrest him early today at his home in Woodbury after a motorist had reported being held up, beaten and robbed. The policeman had a bullet wound in his chest but maintained guard over his prisoner in the hospital. Johnson was traced to his home by the motorist, O.E. Bellini of Philadelphia. Bellini said four bandits on teh Paulsboro road near Woodbury had leaped out of a motor car, brandishing pistols and ordered him to halt his car. "Johnson struck me over the head with a blackjack", Bellini said. "The other three held pistols to my body and searched me. They could not find my money and I handed them $3 I had in one pocket"