Garfield
Pancoast

GARFIELD PANCOAST was born in December of 1880 to Mr. and Mrs. Henry Pancoast. When the Census was taken in 1900 he was living with his widowed father and younger brother Cleveland Pancoast at 323 Wood Street in Vineland NJ.

Garfield Pancoast practiced law in the Camden area, and by January of 1920 was serving as a Judge in Camden, a post he held into the 1930s. The 1920 Census shows him and his wife, the former Fannie Rood, living at 207 Graisbury Avenue with a daughter, Dorothy, 7, and son Garfield Siebert Pancoast, 5. The family moved to a newly constructed home at 23 Morse Street in East Camden in the 1920s. They were still living there as late as February 1933. 

In 1919 Garfield Pancoast served as Exalted Ruler of Camden Lodge 293 of the Benevolent Protective Order of Elks.

Garfield Pancoast remained on Camden's bench as late as July 1934. The Pancoast family had left Camden by 1947. Garfield Pancoast was living at 5120 Greene Street in the Germantown section of Philadelphia when he died in his sleep on November 20, 1947. He was buried at Siloam Cemetery in Vineland NJ. 

Robert Turner
Turner's Oyster House
Federal Street
William E. Schultz
Garfield Pancoast

Camden Courier-Post - February 14, 1930

DEATH CHEATS WIFE OF MATE'S SURPRISE
Bus Kills Husband Returning Unexpectedly, From Distant Work

Fate and the heavy wheels of a bus turned to tragedy a surprise planned by Arthur Hickman, 45, of 2021 Howell Street, for the wife he had not seen for five weeks.

Returning unexpectedly last night from Auburn N. Y., where he had been working as an asbestos pipe coverer, Hickman was but a few blocks from his home when he was struck by a bus and killed instantly. The tragedy occurred on Twenty-seventh Street, between Howell and Thompson Streets.

Hickman had written a, letter to his wife, Lottie, telling her that his work soon would be finished and that he expected to arrive here Saturday. The work, however, was completed earlier than he had expected and Hickman arrived in Camden last night.

He left a bus at Twenty-seventh and Howell Streets and stopped for a moment at the home of a friend nearby. Shortly after 6 p. m. he stepped from the curb and ran across Twenty-seventh Street in the path of a Schultz Pennsauken-Philadelphia bus. The front right wheel passed over his head. Identification was made possible only through papers in his pockets and his suitcase.            

William Renfrey, 24, of 2936 Cramer Street, driver of the bus, was held in $1000 bail on a charge of manslaughter by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.

Hickman was well known in Camden as a pigeon fancier. Beside his wife, he is  survived by a son, Joseph, 24, attached to the aviation corps at Honolulu.

Camden Courier-Post - March 25, 1930

FINES TOTAL $1005 IN WEEKEND RAIDS
Three Proprietors Assessed $100 Each! 
Two Disorderly Houses and Restaurant Hit

A weekend of raiding in which 59 men and women were arrested in two disorderly houses, and a restaurant dispensing beer enriched the coffers of the Camden city treasury yesterday by $1005.

Proprietors of the three establishments were fined $100 each by Judge Garfield Pancoast on charges of violating the city disorderly act. An inmate of one of the disorderly houses was sentenced to three months in jail, having ignored a warning to leave town.

The raid on the Blue Hour Luncheonette, 1282 Liberty street, early Sunday in which 43 were arrested is said to have been the largest of its type in the city in more than a year.

Frank Kerr, 40, proprietor, pleaded guilty to charges of violating ordinance 422, while Parker McGonigal, of 1240 Morton street, facing similar charges, said he only worked in the establishment and received a suspended sentence.

Security of $10 was returned to Florence Williams, 22, of 312 North Third Street; Teresa Kelly, 21 of 3013 Constitution Road, and Charles Men­galie, 24, of 314 Stevens Street, who proved that they had not been in the restaurant but were picked up on the street outside.

Thirty-eight others required to post $10 for appearance as material witnesses forfeited their security.

The disorderly houses raided were located at 818 and 1219 Locust Street.

Two colored women and six white men were arrested in the first establishment and three men and five wo­men in the second.

Pearl Williams, an inmate of the establishment at 818 Locust street, was sentenced to three months in jail, while Mary Young, proprietress, and Leona West, proprietress of the second establishment, were each fined $100.

All of the men arrested were either fined $25 or forfeited securities of $25 each.

The establishment at 1219 Locust Street, raided late Sunday night by Sergeant Frank Truax and detectives is said to be the most luxurious of its kind found in this city. 

Camden Courier-Post - March 29, 1930

BOYS HELD IN GEM THEFT
Lads, 11 and 10, Charged by East Camden Woman With Taking Purse and $725 Diamond

Charged with the theft of a $725 diamond ring, two small boys were ordered held for Juvenile Court by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday. One of the boys, William McGinnis, 11, of 2639 Carman Street, had been released from the county detention home last Thursday on probation by Judge Shay. He had been one of six boys held in connection with a series of nine robberies in East Camden.

The other boy is John Auletto, 10, of 2824 Howell Street.

Mrs. Catherine Tydeman testified the pair had come to her apartment at Twenty-eighth Street and Westfield Avenue Thursday afternoon and told her she was wanted on the phone. Returning, she saw the two boys leaving her apartment, and a short time later she discovered that her pocketbook containing a $725 diamond ring was missing. District Detective William Hurlock arrested the pair at the Garfield School. He said he found the ring in their possession.

Parents of the McGinnis boy pleaded for him before Judge Shay last Thursday and said he was "backward" because of a fractured skull he had suffered in an accident. 

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Camden Evening Courier
December 8, 1930

Garfield S. Pancoast
David S. Rhone
William Kiker
Daniel McGettigan
John McCauley
Spruce Street
Pine Street
South 8th Street
South 9th Street
Cherry Street
Walnut Street

Jack Sands
William Walker
Harry Hertsch

Camden Evening Courier
December 9, 1930

Carey Brown
Garfield Pancoast
Charles Smith
Mount Vernon Street
Kaighn Avenue
South 4th Street
South 5th Street

Camden Evening Courier - December 10, 1930

Camden Morning Post - December 12, 1930

Camden Courier-Post - January 10, 1931

MOTORIST GETS FORTY DAYS
Philadelphia Driver Jailed On Charge of Intoxication
After Crash at Broadway and Market

Convicted of drunken driving and driving without a license, Richard R. Pattinson, 21, of 5230 Harlan Street, Philadelphia, was sent to jail for 40 days by Judge Garfield Pancoast in police court yesterday in default of a $220 fine on the first charge and a $50 penalty on the second.

Making a left hand turn into Market Street from Broadway shortly after midnight, Pattinson's car struck the car of Robert Brest, 33, of 1476 Kaighn Avenue. The tire and outer portion of the right front wheel on Pattinson's car, which has disk wheels, were torn off. The car continued to "limp along," according to the police, to Fifth and Market Streets, where a collision with the automobile of Harold Gondolf, 3001 Fenwick Road, was narrowly averted.

Gondolf had Pattinson arrested and examined by Dr. Charles T. Ley, who pronounced the man drunk. No one was injured in the collision with the Brest machine.

Camden Courier-Post - January 10, 1931

FORMER COP IS JAILED
IN NON-SUPPORT CASE

John "Jackie" Hindle, 28, of 2277 South Seventh Street, one-time boxer and former policeman, was sent to jail in default of $500 bond by Judge Pancoast in police court yesterday to ensure the payment of a $15 weekly support order for his wife, Helen, and three children.

Mrs. Hindle lives at 924 Tulip Street. She testified she had received no money for several weeks. Hindle said since he lost his job as a policeman about a year ago he had been unable to obtain work.

Camden Courier-Post - February 4,1931

Camden Courier-Post - October 13,1931

FAKE 'FLOYD GIBBONS' 
SEEKS FREEDOM HERE

Counsel for Henry Luellowitz, 28, lof Los Angeles, who was arrested here last June after posing as Floyd Gibbons, will seek his freedom from the county jail today in application for a writ of habeas corpus before Judge Samuel M. Shay.

 Frank Lario, attorney representing Luellowitz, said yesterday he would seek the writ on the ground there is no proof that his client aided and abetted in the escape of Albert Rumford, alleged bandit, from the jail several weeks ago. Sheriff E. Frank Pine charged Luellowitz sang and made other noises near, Rumford's cell to prevent jailors from hearing hacksaw blades the fugitive used.

Luellowitz was ordered by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast to pay $100 fine or spend three months in the county jail for posing as Gibbons, the famous radio entertainer. Luellowitz has been in the jail since June 13. His term on the city charged ended September 12, but there are two detainers against him, one placed by Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin on Sheriff Pine's charge, and the other from Connecticut, where he is charged with failing to pay a hotel bill.

Camden Courier-Post - October 13,1931

COURT FREES GIRL 
WHO DRANK POISON

Pleading guilty to attempting to end her life by drinking poison, Sarah Turner, 17, of 338 Lansdowne Avenue, was given suspended sentence by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.

The girl was arrested after she was treated at Cooper Hospital. She told Detective Ben Simon she drank the poison because she was jealous of her sister. William Harrity, 24, of 409 Senate Street, Sarah's sweetheart, was held as a material witness but was released today when he said he knew nothing of the quarrel between the sisters.

Camden Courier-Post - October 13,1931

PARENTS GIVEN CUSTOOY
OF RUNAWAY BOY, 13

Salvatore Bonimassa, 13, of 410 Royden Street, who was arrested Sunday night when he appeared at police headquarters and appealed for a place to sleep, was released in the custody of his parents yesterday by Judge Garfield Pancoast in police court.

Salvatore left his home as usual Thursday to go to school, but instead disappeared. Parents gave a description of him to police and when he appeared at headquarters he was recognized and promptly arrested.

Judge Pancoast told his parents that if the boy does not behave he will commit him to jail.

Camden Courier-Post - October 14,1931

TIPSY MOTORIST JAILED IN DEFAULT OF $200 FINE

Charged with driving while drunk, Clarence Lefferts, 40, of Hatboro, Pa., was sentenced to 30 days in Jail yesterday by Judge Garfield Pancoast in police court in default of a fine and costs of $220.

Lefferts collided Monday at Ninth Street and Kaighn Avenue with the Second district patrol wagon, driven by Patrolman Oscar Probst. He was pronounced intoxicated by Dr. Garnett Summerill.

Camden Courier-Post - October 16,1931

TRAFFIC COURT SO DULL PANCOAST STAYS AWAY

A dull session of Camden traffic: court was the order last night when only six of twenty-eight offenders appeared, five of whom were fined and the other case dismissed. The balance forfeited security.

The business of the court was so light that even Judge Garfield Pancoast remained away. Court Clerk James E. Smith acting in his absence.

Those fined included three truck drivers, Harry Jones, Brace Road, Delaware Township; Edgar Roop, Oak View, Pa., and Charles R. Flack of  Atlantic City. They were charged with overloading their vehicles by motor Vehicle Agent Howard C. Wilson. A fine of $100 was imposed on each man. John E. Fernsler, 18, 145 Westmont Terrace, Collingswood, paid a $5 fine for speeding while Richard Batten, 19, of 522 Ridgeway Street, Gloucester, was fined $3 for passing a red light.

Camden Courier-Post - October 16, 1931

Camden Courier-Post - October 16,1931

'MACK' OUT ON BAIL UNTIL GIRL

When the girl whom he is charged with having attacked was unable to leave the hospital and appear against him yesterday, Frank Manfredi, 22, of 301 Chestnut Street, who fought under the ring name of "Frankie Mack," was released from jail under $1500 bail by Judge Pancoast in police court for a further hearing next Thursday.

Judge Pancoast explained he had consulted Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin, who gave him permission to release the defendant in bail. It is expected the girl, Marie Romaine, 17, of 2842 Constitution road, Fairview will be able to leave West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital before the hearing.

In her complaint to the police, Miss Romaine said she went with Manfredi to "Mack's Cafe," conducted by him at the Chestnut Street address, and that he attacked her there last Saturday.

Camden Courier-Post - October 21,1931

SIX ARE ARRESTED FOLLOWING ‘PARTY’
Young Girls Accuse Married Man
of Attacking Them in Bungalow

Three pretty girls, a married man and two youths were arrested last night on charges growing out from an extended whoopee party in a Blackwood Terrace bungalow.

Two of the girls, all of whom are related, are said to be runaways from Philadelphia. One of these and a Camden schoolgirl charge they were attacked by the married man.

The girls gave their names as: Julia Barkowski, 17, of 923 Florence Street, Camden; Mary Holod, 16, and her stepsister, Vera, also 16, both of 1325 Tyson Street, Philadelphia. Both Julia and Mary allege they were criminally assaulted early last week by Samuel Read, 31, who gave his address as 2847 Congress Road, Camden.

Linked as material witnesses in the case are John Barwick, 19, of 543 Fairview Street, and William Murdock, 19, of 548 Gordon Terrace, Camden.

According to the story gathered by Police Sergeant John Skolski and Patrolman John Larson, the three girls were strolling along Broadway on the night of October 12, when they were "picked up" by Barwick and Murdock, in an automobile. The girls related they were taken to a bungalow in Blackwood Terrace where they said they met Read. The two youths then left, they said.

The Barkowski girl and Mary Holod allege they were attacked by Read while Vera Holod told police she averted assault by fighting.

Return of the girls to the Barkowski home yesterday was followed by arrest of all six revelers. Mrs. Bertha Barkowski, mother of the Camden girl, summoned police. Read was lured to the house and placed under arrest and apprehension of the two youths was then made.

Julia was charged with being incorrigible by her mother. Police held Mary and Vera as runaways and as witnesses against Read. The Philadelphia girls are said to have been missing from home several weeks.

All are to be given hearings today before Police Judge Garfield Pancoast.

Camden Courier-Post - October 21,1931

'Gibbons' Free After 46 Days 'Extra Time'
Judge Shay Calls Holding of Impersonator An Outrage

Declared to have been illegally detained in Camden County jail, Henry Luellowitz, 28, of Los Angeles, who posed as Floyd Gibbons, was ordered released yesterday by Judge Samuel M. Shay.

A writ of habeas corpus, served at the office of Sheriff E. Frank Pine, charged Luellowitz had been kept prisoner 46 days after his 90-day sentence had expired. The man was sentenced June 13, by Police Court Judge Pancoast, on a charge of im­personating the famed radio announcer after his arrival here by plane.     

He was detained following expiration of his sentence, on a detainer from New Haven, Connecticut, where he was accused of having defaulted payment of a hotel bill.

According to Rocco Palese, assistant prosecutor, and Chief of County Detectives Lawrence T. Doran, Luellowitz was held in connection with an investigation of the escape from jail of Albert Rumford, 23, of Philadelphia. The latter cut his way from a cell adjoining Luellowitz last August 17.

Wanted Poster for Albert Rumford - August 1931

Calls Case Outrage

In dismissing the prisoner, Judge Shay declared the case was "an outrage," ruling that the man was kept "through somebody's oversight." Luellowitz criticized the prosecutor's office upon his release, saying his detention was occasioned by his refusal to "become a goat in the investigation of Rumford's escape." He praised prison attaches and Warden Edmund B. Powell, for treatment accorded him in the jail.

Frank M. Lario, attorney, who started proceedings to affect Luellowitz' release, told Judge Shay yesterday that the man had been detained without a hearing after his sentence had expired. He charged that following service of the writ last week, Luellowitz was rushed by county detectives to the office of Peter J. Wallace, justice of the peace, and then recommitted to his cell.

Judge Shay sent for Justice of the Peace Wallace who admitted he ordered the man's commitment after a hearing at which only the detectives appeared as witnesses.

The jurist declared he was convinced Luellowitz had been kept in jail through oversight of someone.

"The New Haven authorities have had ample time to come for the man. I don't care now whether they want him or not. This man cannot be punished for some one's negligence. I order his release immediately."

Says He Was 'Goat'

Following his dismissal, Luellowitz said he had been questioned about the escape of Rumford, alleged bandit, for whose capture the county has offered a $200 reward. Luellowitz and another inmate were said to have made noise while the jailbreak was being made.

"It's an outrage, the way I was treated by the prosecutor's office. Warden Powell and the jailers were mighty nice but the prosecutor and sheriff wanted to have a goat when that guy escaped and I was the first one they reached for.

"But I wasn't going to let them make a goat of me. It wasn't my fault if they didn't have enough jailors there and they couldn't blame me if that guy got away."

Assistant Prosecutor Palese said Luellowitz was detained because he was suspected of having aided Rumford to escape. He admitted the man was not legally committed.

Camden Courier-Post - October 21,1931

‘ALKY’ CAR OWNER DENIES CRASH HERE
Machine Was Hi-Jacked and Driven by Thieves He Claims; Pays Fine

Three men who attempted to hijack 100 gallons of alcohol which was later seized by the police, yesterday were blamed for a hit-run accident which result ed in the seizure.     

Charles Alu, of Trenton, who was arrested on October 2 after the alcohol was found in his car, denied in police court yesterday he was operating the vehicle when it crashed into a truck, owned by Frank Salerno, of 446 South Fourth street. Two policemen found the liquor when the driver abandoned the car on Locust Street near Kaighn Avenue.

Alu testified that he had been driving along Fourth Street near Division when another machine pulled in front of him and stopped. Three men got out of the car and ordered him to leave his machine, he said. It was after they drove off in the car that the hit-run accident occurred, Alu stated.

William Helberson, a passing motorist, corroborated Alu's story and said he helped to chase the three men who had taken the Trenton man's car. Charles Cook, a fireman, also said that Alu asked him to help in the chase.

Police Judge Pancoast found Alu guilty and fined him $25, but suspended the sentence date, when Alu agreed to pay for the repairs to Salerno's ear.

At the time of Alu's arrest on the liquor possession charges, a record book was found in his car. It revealed that he had done $40,000 worth of business through August, but through the operations of rival dealers had lost $4000. He is under $1000 bail on this charge.

Camden Courier-Post - October 21,1931

COURT SENDS GIRL, 15,
TO HOME OF HER SISTER

One of the five children of Joseph White, a former Camden hotel proprietor, who have been county charges, found a home yesterday.

White, who lives at 517 Penn Street, was rebuked in police court by Judge Pancoast last week, for buying expensive clothing and wearing diamonds while his ten children were in need. Welfare workers said he failed to contribute to the support of the five children in homes here and in Trenton.

The recent hearing was a result of White bringing his 15-year-old daughter, Dorothy, into court as an incorrigible. The charge was disproved today in the opinion of Judge Samuel Shay, sitting in juvenile court. He granted the request of Dorothy's married sister, Mrs. Catherine Graham, of Magnolia, to have the girl live with her.

Camden Courier-Post - October 26,1931

Four Suspects Caught as Series of Weekend Robberies Keep Police Busy
STOLEN GARAGE LOOT FOUND IN AUTO
AS 4 MEN ARE NABBED
Trio Held at Gloucester for Robbing Store  at Westville Grove
OIL STOVE IS STOLEN

Loot valued at several hundred dollar was recovered and four men arrested over the weekend as many robberies were reported to police throughout South Jersey.

Three of the men arrested were captured in Gloucester when merchandise stolen from a Westville Grove store and garage was found in their automobile. The fourth man was arrested in Camden.

Those under arrest in Gloucester, are Joseph Rietseh, 47, of 1245 Palmer street; Joseph Dorman, 18, of 103 Chango street, and Charles Headley, 18, of 936 North Fourth street, all of Philadelphia.

The loot found in their car consisted of automobile tires, cigarettes, safety razors, tubes and other articles. It had been stolen from the store and garage of George A. Fields, Delsea Drive, Westville Grove.

The three men were arrested by Patrolmen Walter Lane and William Fowler. who stopped their car because it had but one headlight.

Taken back to Westville the three men were held without bail for the grand jury by Recorder Charles H. Benner.

Held For Theft

When he walked down Federal Street with an oil stove Armstead Saunders, 56, of 314 Taylor Avenue, was stopped by the police Saturday night.

An investigation revealed he had picked it up as he passed the second-hand store of W. L. Ernest, 408 Federal Street, according to Patrolmen Walter Patton and Raymond Stark.

Saunders will have a hearing today before Police Judge Pancoast, on a charge of larceny.

James Josephson, 3320 Lancaster Avenue, Philadelphia, a salesman for the Household Institute of New York reported the loss of two cases of aluminum ware and an investigation was conducted by Detective Sylvester McGrath. Upon information he entered the apartment alleged to have been tenanted by John Harrigan, of 1289 Dayton Street and found the merchandise. Harrigan is said by the police to have left the apartment. The goods are valued at $150.

William H. McMakin, of 119 West Pine Street, Audubon, reported to Detective Robert Ward that he was held up at Pine Street near Fifth on Sunday morning by three young men. They relieved him of his watch, valued $35, and his drivers license. McMakin was unable to describe the culprits.

William Harris, 53, of 1731 Fillmore Street, told Detective Clifford Carr he was relieved of his wallet containing $6.90 by an unknown man at Haddon Avenue and Copewood Street, Sunday morning. He described the man as being about 27 years old and wearing a light cap.

Thieves entered the candy shop of Jones Wilson, Park Boulevard and Kaighn Avenue, Saturday night and took three cartons of cigarettes, some candy and soda valued at $23.

Hair Clipper Stolen

Waclaw Hermanolski, 1322 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, reported to police that someone entered his barbershop through a rear window and stole an electric hair clipper, massage vibrator and $15.

A grocery store operated by Joseph S. Eskowitz, of 1022 Broadway, was entered early yesterday and the thieves took three dozen cans of malt syrup valued at $12. Detective Benjamin Simon discovered the burglar gained his entrance by cutting a pane of glass out of the back window.

Louis E. Barnes, 21, colored, employed by the police department to catch a colored man who has been reported preying on unemployed and collecting money from them in promise of a job, has informed police that such a man got away from him on October 24. He is known to the police and will be picked up, they said.

Barnes said the man being sought told him to give him $2.50 for a white coat and he would get him a job in the kitchen of the Cooper Hospital. When Barnes returned with the money the man had disappeared..

Camden Courier-Post - October 26,1931

Two Camden children and a 70-year-old Somerdale man were killed in more than two score of accidents in South Jersey over the weekend.

The dead are:

Dominic Nobilisse, 2, of 271 Mt. Vernon Street.

Beverly Israel, 4, of 415 Lansdowne Avenue.

James Hare, 70, of Crestwood Avenue, Somerdale.

Dominic died with a fractured skull two hours after he was admitted in the Cooper Hospital. Robert Harris, 35, of 826 South Hancock Street, Philadelphia, driver of the car that struck the child in front of his home, was arrested on a charge of manslaughter and held under $5000 bail for a hearing before Judge Garfield Pancoast today.

Girl Hurt by Truck

Beverly was taken to the West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital on Saturday just before the other boy died. She was suffering from a badly tom right leg, fractured left leg and cuts on the face. She also was struck in her home. The truck was driven by Ray R. Adams, 31, of 1145 Cooper Street. He was released under $5000 bail for a hearing before Judge Pancoast today.

Hare had just alighted from a bus at Crestwood on the White Horse Pike. Saturday night, and walked from behind into a machine driven by Harry Johnson, 38, of 20 Delaware avenue, Clementon. He was pronounced dead upon admission at the Cooper Hospital. His skull was fractured. He is survived by a wife and six children. 

Held for Manslaughter  

Johnson was held on a manslaughter charge by Justice of the Peace Frank B. Clapp, of Magnolia, in $1000 bail.

An investigation of the owner's registration in the car driven by Harris, by a Courier-Post reporter, disclosed that the registration is in the name of Charles Martin, 1230 Kaighn Avenue. This address is a factory with a sign reading "F. A. Veiser & Son, Wooden Print Blocks."

A further investigation will be made by Sergeant George R. Thompson of the accident bureau to learn how Harris came in possession of the machine..

Camden Courier-Post - October 26,1931

A "permit," which he declared was his authorization to solicit funds in Camden for "charity," failed to save William W. Jones, 42, of 131 Kaighn Avenue, from being given 50 days in jail by Police Judge Pancoast.

Charged, with receiving money under false pretense, Jones was arrested Friday by Motorcycle Policeman Earl Wright after several complaints were received at headquarters.

Wright testified Saturday that he followed Jones at Sixth Street and Kaighn Avenue. Two other men solicitors escaped, Wright said. Jones had a tambourine, partly filled with money and wore a uniform cap similar to those of the Salvation Army, the policeman said. While they were waiting for the patrol, Jones bought cigarettes out of the money from the tambourine, Wright stated. The policeman said Jones told him he earned from six to seven dollars a day.

Jones pleaded guilty to accepting money under false pretense. He produced the permit which was signed by Nicholas Cavalucci, whose "charity" activities in Philadelphia have been thoroughly investigated by the police. The pamphlet authorizing Jones to solicit funds was made out on a letterhead of the Missionary Relief Workers Association. with headquarters at 2019 Germantown Avenue. It read:

"This credential authorizes William W. Jones to solicit funds for the support of religious activities to give out Frock, Testaments and Bibles and do Home Missionary work. All donations are used for the uplift of humanity."

The "permit" named Cavalucci as "founder and superintendent," and instructed all police and constables to examine the collector's credentials to determine together or not he was a fraud. Attached to it was a photograph of Jones.

Jones told Judge Pancoast he received 50 percent of all collections. When Judge Pancoast imposed the jail sentence he said he could not pay $50 fine. Throwing down his uniform cap and tambourine, Jones promised to quit and never return to Camden," but the sentence was enforced..

Camden Courier-Post - October 26,1931

As the result of a collision between machines driven by Hugh W. Wall, 34, of 1199 North Thirty-sixth Street and Edward DuBuske, 38, of 132 Terhune Avenue, Greenville, early yesterday morning at a State Street intersection two persons were injured and Wall was arrested.

Injured are Stella Bucklew, 17, of 3113 Miller Street, Philadelphia and Michael O'Connor, 40, of 1136 North Thirty-fifth Street, here. Both suffered cuts on the face. Sergeant Edward Horne charged Wall with having fictitious license tags and he was held under $25 bail for a hearing before Police Court Judge Pancoast Thursday. Wall said that he bought a new car on October 22 and failed to have the registration tags changed at Trenton.

Camden Courier-Post - October 26,1931

THREE YOUTHS JAILED ON CAR THEFT CHARGE

Three Camden boys were committed to the Detention Home by Judge Pancoast in police court yesterday after they were accused of damaging a. stolen automobile in a crash near Ogontz, Pa.

The boys are Frederick Allis, 15, of 412 Elm Street; William Elberson, 14 at 914 Fern Street, and Russell Tatem, 14 of 915 Moore Street.

They were charged by Henry Singer, 126 Cottage Avenue, Lenola, with having stolen his car from Sixth and Market Streets, yesterday and taking it for a joyride across the river.

Camden Courier-Post - October 29,1931

'SUICIDE TRY' ACCIDENT, PANCOAST LETS MAN GO

Explaining that what his wife, Anna, believed was an attempt by him to commit suicide actually was an accident while treating a sore tooth, John Raider, 38, of 618 Carman Street, yesterday was discharged by Judge Pancoast In police court.

Raider declared his hand slipped while dropping some strong liquid on a tooth to relieve its throbbing and the contents of the bottle fell into his mouth, causing him such intense pain he was unable to speak and ex­plain to his wife what had happened.

The wife summoned police and had her husband taken to Cooper Hospital.

Camden Courier-Post - October 29,1931

Three youths were sent to the detention home yesterday by Police Judge Pancoast to await action of juvenile court. Two of the boys were charged with attempted breaking and entering, and the third was held as incorrigible.

Henry Garbecki, 14, of 1201 Lansdowne Avenue, and Edward Bedanski, 13, of 1265 Whitman Avenue, entered pleas of guilty to trying to break into the Camden Storage Battery Company, 1459 Kaighn Avenue, last night. They were arrested by Patrolman George Schuyler, who testified he saw the boys trying to open the front door with passkeys. The complaint was signed by Elmer T. Woods, 901 Eldridge Avenue, West Collingswood, owner .

Samuel Rizzo, 13, of 329 Benson Street, was in police court for the second time in two weeks. His father, John, told Judge Pancoast the youth refused to attend school and was incorrigible. After being taken into court two weeks ago, the boy attended school two days, the father testified.

Camden Courier-Post - October 30,1931

Ralph Manna, 24. of 1924 South Eleventh Street, Philadelphia, was sentenced to the county jail for 30 days yesterday by Police Judge Pancoast when Manna, was unable to pay a fine of $220 for drunken driving.

Manna was arrested early today by Patrolman William Thorn, who testified he pursued Manna from Broadway and Federal Street to the Camden bridge plaza after Manna had refused to stop when he sounded his whistle. Manna's car was being driven in a zigzag manner on Broadway, Thorn testified.

Dr. Garnett Summerill pronounced Manna intoxicated. Manna entered a plea of not guilty to the charge.

Camden Courier-Post - March 18, 1932

WOMAN'S 'LOVE NEST' IS RAIDED THIRD TIME
ON MATE'S COMPLAINT

For a third time an alleged love nest maintained by Mrs. Dorothy Fisher, 35, of 122 York Street, was raided last night by Frank H. Miller, private detective.

This time, Mrs. Fisher was arrested with John Goldberg, 35. At a hearing before Justice of the Peace Frank Sheridan they were held for a further  hearing before Police Judge Pancoast.

The complaint was made by Frank Fisher husband of the woman. Fisher said he left his wife a year ago when he learned of her friendship for other men.

He recently sued for divorce, but withdrew the action. He announced he intends to enter suit again for divorce. They have one child.

Camden Courier-Post - March 19, 1932

Two men were arrested yesterday by a Camden policeman, who charged they interfered with his investigation of an automobile accident at Ninth Street and Kaighn Avenue,.

Richard Mayer, 28, of 373 East Gowan Avenue, Mt. Airy, Pa., and Joseph Meraglo, 23, of 1016 South Fourth Street, Philadelphia, were fined $25 each by Police Judge Pancoast. Both were charged with disorderly conduct. Mayer also was charged with reckless driving.

Joseph Devlin, 42, of 1919 Mifflin street, Philadelphia, was held in $1000 bail by Pancoast to await the outcome of injuries suffered by a woman passenger in his car. The woman, who gave her name as Miss Jane Glenn, 36, of 2506 South Twenty-second Street, Philadelphia, is in West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital. Doctors say her condition is not serious.

The accident occurred at 2:20 AM. Motorcycle Policeman Earl Wright and other policemen were at the scene in investigating, when an automobile flashed by. Wright in court said he blew his whistle and declared the car was unable to stop within 100 feet. Wright said he was questioning Mayer when Maraglo "butted in," and stated, "I'll get this fixed up tonight". Wright testified he searched Mayer for a gun and Mayer replied, "I haven't got it on me tonight."

In court both Mayer and Meraglo said they were not speeding, and didn't interfere with the officer.

Devlin was released for court by Detective Joseph Caputi. Devlin's automobile was in collision with the car of Edward Kaligian, 30, of 1251 North Twenty-eighth street.

Camden Courier-Post - March 28, 1932

BAIL FORFEITED, BOOTLEGGER FINED
Pancoast Censures Man Who Thought He Could Dodge Trial in Court

Peter Sherer, 57, of 225 Mechanic Street, who aroused the ire of Police Judge Pancoast Friday by failing to appear in court, was fined upon his appearance Saturday after a bench warrant had been issued for his arrest.

Judge Pancoast issued the bench warrant after denouncing defendants who preferred to forfeit bail to appearing for trial.

Sherer, who had been arrested by Lieutenant Ralph Bakley when a raid of his home disclosed a still and 90 gallons of alleged whiskey and kummel, offered to explain why he was not in court Friday.

"Someone told me that I did not have to appear because I had posted $100 bail, and the case would be all over when I forfeited bail," he said.

"It appears you have been misinformed," Judge Pancoast said. "No defendant can close up a case in this court by merely forfeiting bond. We want bootleggers to know it is not just their money we want. It is their presence in court that we want, so they can be tried."

Sherer pleaded guilty and Judge Pancoast fined him $100, saying the fine would be paid with the $100 bond he forfeited Friday.

Camden Courier-Post - March 28, 1932

POLICE RAID HOUSE
Taylor Avenue Man Sent to Jail for 50 Days When Unable to Pay $50 Fine

Thomas Fleeyne, 54, of 515 Taylor Avenue, who was arrested when police raided his home, was sent to jail for 50 days in default of a $50 line Saturday by Police Judge Pancoast. Fleeyne entered a plea of guilty to permitting disorderly persons to congregate at his home. He said he had been without work since coming to Camden.

Fleeyne's wife, Margaret, 42, was unable to appear in court on account of illness, and her $25 bond was returned; Josephine Lorento, 30, of 350 Tree Street, Philadelphia, also held as a material witness, was freed when she said she had visited the house to see Mrs. Fleeyne,

Michael Bratses, 49, of 210 Market street, and Thomas Kretekos, 48, of 529 South Broad street, Philadelphia, were fined $25 each as inmates. John Kershaw, 32, of 515 Taylor Avenue, forfeited $25 bail when he failed to appear. The raid was made by Lieutenant George Ward, commander of the First district police, and Patrolman John Trout, on complaint made by Dominick Madden, 46, of 455 Haddon Avenue..

Camden Evening Courier - March 28, 1932

2 YOUNG COAL THIEVES GET 30-DA Y SENTENCE

Two youths who pleaded guilty to stealing coal were sentenced to 30 days, and two others were sent to t he detention home by Police Judge Pancoast Saturday. Frank Carroll, 16, of 750 Pine street, and James Hinson, 16, of 1810 Mulford Street, got the jail sentences and Percy Jones, 14, of 808 Kaighn avenue, and William Carroll, 15, brother of Frank, were sent to the home.

They were arrested by Patrolman William Taylor who said they had been stealing coal from a yard at Seventh and Pine Streets. The boys admitted taking two sacks of coal.. 

Camden Courier-Post - February 2, 1933

Suspended Jail Sentence is Given Operator Where 17 Were Taken in Raid

Pleading non vult to charge of operating a 'numbers" headquarters raided by the police last July, Dominic Olivette, 28, of 444 Royden street, was fined $100 and given a suspended sentence of six months in criminal court yesterday.

Olivette was arrested by a detail of police led by former Director of Public Safety Charles V. Dickinson and Lieutenant George Frost when they captured 17 men in the Royden street house.

In police court the day following the raid Olivette was fined $100 by Judge Garfield Pancoast on charges of violating Section 422 of the city ordinances prohibiting disorderly persons from congregating in a building.

Olivette paid the fine and was later indicted by the grand jury following an investigation by Prosecutor Clifford A. Baldwin. Judge Shay, in imposing the fine, refused Olivette's plea that he be allowed to pay the sum on installments.

One other man charged with "numbers' writing was fined $100 with the privilege of paying at a $2 weekly rate. He is Herbert Lantry, 35, of 519 Ray street, arrested by Lieutenant Herbert Anderson November 26. He was held for the grand jury by Judge Pancoast when arraigned in police court.

Camden Courier-Post - February 2, 1933

METER TAPPERS JAILED

Three men who entered pleas of guilty to stealing gas or electricity from the Public Service were sent to the county jail for 30 days each in default of $25 tines yesterday by Police Judge Pancoast.

Harry Hansen, 2733 Tyler avenue, admitted putting a detachment on his gas meter to prevent it registering. L. M. Thompson, chief clerk for Public Service, testified the device was discovered January 5.

Richard Fearon, 833 Newton avenue, put a "run-around" on his electric meter because he had been out of work he told Judge Pancoast after Thompson had testified the alleged theft was discovered January 13.

John Waldner, 814 North Thirty-fourth street, said his wife was ill and he tapped the main feed line to obtain gas. He said they had four children. Thompson said Public Service employees discovered the alteration on January 10. Waldner's meter was shut off in November for nonpayment of gas bills.

Camden Courier-Post - February 2, 1933

DRIVER GIVEN 15 DAYS AS HE ADMITTED DRINKING

When he admitted he had been drinking prior to an automobile accident in which his car figured, Joseph Carlton, 27, of Magnolia, was fined $50 by Judge Pancoast in police court yesterday. Unable to pay the fine, Carlton was sentenced to serve 15 days in the county jail.

Complaint was made by Walter J. Patton, 601 North Fourth Street, driver if the other cart, who testified the collision occurred last night at Kaighn Avenue and Locust Street.

In addition to being jailed, Carlton appeared to have "gotten the worst" of the accident, for his head was bandaged as he came to court.

Camden Courier-Post - February 2, 1933

Three men arrested on charges of panhandling were sentenced yesterday to six months each in jail by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast. They are Edmund Cox, 74, no home; Morgan Vennell, 48, and Louis Elwell, 48. both of 130 Arch street.

The men were arrested at Second and Market streets by Patrolman Earl Wright. Wright said they have been panhandling on Market street for some time..

BANDIT'S BULLET HALTS PURSUERS
Two Youths Escape After Robbing North Camden Grocery Store

A bullet whizzing past them caused several men to cease pursuit of two bandits on Elm street near Ninth Saturday night after the pair had obtained $18.75 in the holdup of a grocery store proprietor at 841 Elm Street.

The victim was Herman Kacmowitz, whose store was broken into and robbed twice recently. Kacmowitz said the two youths, about 17 years old, entered and asked for candy. When he started to get it, one pointed a pistol at him and demanded that he "stick 'em up."

While the one "covered" him the with the weapon, the other robbed the cash register. As they fled, Kacmowitz ran after them screaming. His alarm attracted the attention of several men passing, who started in pursuit of the bandits east on Elm  street. One fired a pistol, however, and the men abandoned the chase.

The youths were about five feet five, Kacmowitz said, and wore gray caps. One had a dark gray overcoat and the other's was a light gray.

Detectives Joseph Carpani and Sylvester McGrath are investigating.

A purse-snatching and theft of a leather bag from an automobile also were reported to police. The theft of brass and copper fittings also is under investigation with a 17-year-old youth under arrest.

Anna Whiteman, 16, 1606 Pershing Street, reported that two boys, about 15, snatched her purse containing $1 while she walked with a companion, Ada Hans, 16, of 1342 Lansdowne Avenue, on Lansdowne near Norris Street. She pursued the boys but was compelled to give up the chase when she slipped and fell.

A black leather bag was stolen from the car of Frank Grotaski, of Cape May, parked Saturday night at Fifth and Arch Streets. The door of the car was forced open. The empty bag, minus clothes and letters it had contained, was found later by two boys in an alley on South Sixth street, near Stevens.

At liberty, under $500 bail, George Dotterer, 17, of 928 North Twenty-fourth street, is charged with larceny, although the brass and copper fittings he is suspected of stealing have not been identified as to ownership.

Dotterer was arrested by Patrolman Herbert Botts when the youth asked for aid in recovery of the fittings from a junk man to whom he had "sold" the goods. He said the man, George Elliott, of Twenty-fourth and Pierce avenue, kept the fittings and refused to pay him.

Botts presumed after examining the fittings "they could not have been picked up as junk" and arrested the youth in the belief they had been stolen from the Pavonia railroad shops. Detective Sergeant Joseph Tully declared the fittings had not been stolen from the shops. The boy is to face Police Judge Garfield Pancoast this morning.

Camden Courier-Post - February 7, 1933

WIFE TIED IN CHAIR, PERILED WITH KNIFE
Charges Husband Trapped on Pretense of Returning Child

Accused by his wife of binding her to a chair and threatening her life with a knife and with gas, Charles Flippen, 26, of 609 Grant Street, was held without bail for the grand jury by Police Judge Garfield Pancoast yesterday.

Flippen's wife, Lillian, 24, lives at 1626 Wingohocking street, Philadelphia. She said the threats took place Saturday afternoon in the third floor front room of a rooming house in Penn street near Sixth. Patrolmen William Thorn, Walter Patton and Raymond Stark said they found adhesive tape and towel strippings in the room, and took two knives from Flippen.

Kidnapping Charged

Mrs. Flippen said her husband went to California last September, leaving her and their four-and-a-half year old daughter at his mother's home in Grant street. She heard nothing from him, she said, and in December she moved with the baby to Philadelphia. Last month, she charged, he returned and kidnapped the child in the street near her home.

On Saturday, she said, she received a telegram from Flippen, telling her he would give her the baby if she would meet him. She met him in Philadelphia and he took her to the Penn street house, where, he said, his brother was to bring the baby.

They went to a room ostensibly to wait for the brother to bring the baby, she said, and he told her he was going to ki11 her and himself.

He bound her arms and legs to a chair with adhesive tape and strips from a towel, she said. Then he waved a knife about her head and turned on the illuminating gas, Mrs. Flippen charged.  

She pleaded with him and finally induced him to take her to a restaurant, where she whispered to a waitress to can the police, the wife I testified in Police Court. The waitress did so, and the police arrived shortly afterward.

Flippen pleaded not guilty to a charge of threatening to kill. He did not testify. 

Camden Courier-Post - February 8, 1933

HUSBANDS JAILED, THIRD IS DISMISSED
Pancoast Refuses to Sentence One Man Because 'Wife Wants It'

Two husbands were sent to jail and another was given a suspended sentence by Police Judge Pancoast yesterday on charges made by their wives.

John Piot, 52, of 926 North Twenty-eighth Street, was sentenced to jail for three months when his wife, Celia, of 640 Berkley street, testified that he broke in the door of her home. She said he came to the house intoxicated. Piot had nothing to say.

Dominick Caccese, of 827 South Third Street, was committed to jail when he was unable to furnish a bond of $500 which was ordered to insure the payment of a $12.50 a week support order for his wife.

Larry Witkowski. 33, 1418 Mt. Ephraim Avenue, was released when his wife, Anna, of the same address, testified he wanted him sent to jail. He was charged with drunkenness and assault.

"I am releasing this man just because you want him sent to jail," Judge Pancoast said. "You merely want to get rid of him and have the city keep him in jail.".

Camden Courier-Post - February 8, 1933

FREE-FOR-ALL FIGHT PENALTY SUSPENDED
Riot Call Turned in as Bridge Cop and Autoists Engage in Row

Two men, whose arrest was preceded by a police riot call after a collision with a bridge policeman's automobile, drew suspended sentences from Police Judge Pancoast yesterday.

William J. Bell, 25, of Williamstown, and Walter D. Olsen, 38, of Fourth Avenue, Runnemede, were charged jointly with disorderly conduct, to which they pleaded guilty, while Olsen pleaded not guilty to an additional charge of reckless driving.

Bridge Policeman John Curry testified he was driving west on Cooper Street Monday afternoon when he stopped at Seventh for a traffic light. An automobile driven by Olsen, accompanied by Bell, drew up alongside Curry's car. As the light turned, according to the bridge policeman, his car was forced to the curb by Olsen and the fenders were scraped. The same thing happened at Broadway and Cooper Street, Curry testified. He blew his horn and Bell cursed at him, he declared. The two men and the policemen got out of their machines. There was a flurry of fists and the two men fled into a barber shop on Broadway north of Cooper, it was testified. The proprietor, Sam Bosco, a customer and several pedestrians sought to aid Curry, and, according to police, the two men fled to the second floor of the building, where they were cornered by police. The latter were summoned by a riot call which had been turned in.

Olsen said he did not know Curry's car was behind him, and he merely wanted to turn into a parking space. .

Camden Courier-Post - February 8, 1933

CAMDEN ELKS TO HONOR PAST EXALTED RULERS

Past exalted rulers will be honored  tonight by Camden Lodge of Elks with a dinner, ceremonial and entertainment. 

The program will be nationwide. A dinner will be served at 6:00 PM, followed by a business session. Harry G. Robinson, present exalted ruler, will open the ceremonial and turn the lodge over to the past officers.

The past exalted rulers expected are Samuel Kilpatrick, who served in 1900 and 1921; Dr. A. Haines Lippincott, Alexander J. Milliette, J. Harry Switzer, James H. Long, Marian Moriarity, Allen Jarvis, Albert Austermuhl, William L. Sauerhoff, former Mayor Frank S. Van Hart, D. Trueman Stackhouse, Harry Ellis, William G. Ferat, Judge Garfield Pancoast, Rudolph Preisendanz, Jr., Theodore T. Kausel, Edward J. Kelley, Mayor Roy R. Stewart, William H. lszard, William S. Lehman and J. Harry Todd.

Camden Courier-Post - May 11, 1933

A South Camden man, convicted in police court of drunken driving, but acquitted on his appeal to Judge Samuel Shay, will seek reinstatement of his driver's license which was revoked officially today by Motor Vehicle Commissioner Harold G. Hoffman.

The man, Sylvester Tazcinski, 1477 South Tenth Street, was arrested April 28 by Motorcycle Policemen Edward Shapiro and Thomas Kauffman after Tazcinski's car is alleged to have sideswiped Kauffman's motorcycle. They followed the car to Tazcinski's house where they found it parked. The policemen told Judge Shay on Tuesday they were unable to testify Tazcinski was driving and the judge released the defendant after saying he was convinced Tazcinski was drunk.

William Mazzare, 922 South Fifth Street, arrested April 16 after his automobile crashed into parked cars at Mt. Ephraim and Kaighn Avenues also was deprived of his license. Mazzare was fined $220 by Police Judge Pancoast on April 17.

Edward T. Cheeseman, Ashland road, Magnolia, arrested April 17 after a chase of more than two miles, also lost his license. Cheeseman was halted by Camden police a few feet from the closed gates of the Reading Ferry.

Camden Courier-Post - May 12, 1933

PANCOAST IS LAID UP WITH LEG INFECTION
Police Judge Will Appoint Substitute to Handle Cases During Illness

 Police Judge Garfield Pancoast today was seriously ill at West Jersey Homeopathic Hospital, suffering from a leg infection.

Semi-delirious., Judge Pancoast was taken from his office yesterday and ordered to bed by his physician, Dr. A. Lincoln Shirk.

A nurse was In attendance last night at Judge Pancoast's home, 234 Morse Street. He ran a high temperature last night and after Dr. Shirk had visited the home this morning the physician ordered Judge Pancoast removed to the hospital.

Mrs. Pancoast said her husband was a "very sick man" and it had been deemed advisable to give him the care a hospital would afford.

Some weeks ago the judge scratched his leg while getting out of his automobile. Infection set in and he was not in court for several days. Finally he returned to the bench against the advice of his doctor.

Since then the infection has not improved. When he began running a fever yesterday, Assistant Clerk Edward Smith helped him home.

Judge Pancoast said today he will designate someone Monday to sit in his absence. He indicated it would be someone other than Clerk James Smith, who usually substitutes in police court.

Dr. Shirk said Judge Pancoast probably aggravated his condition by speaking at a political rally in the Tenth Ward several days ago.

"The leg at times is very painful," the judge said today, "but I am going to take care of it now and stay in bed until I am completely well."