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The Post (Camden, New Jersey) – Fri, 16 Mar 1888

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Case File: 2840 Kensington Ave arson (1888)

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Clothing the Naked

About seven o’clock this morning Officer Myers found a woman and child wandering about the streets with insufficient clothing. They were fitted out with enough clothing to cover their naked forms by Stephen Titus and William G. Haney and were afterward taken to the Homeopathic Hospital where she gave the name of Maggie Hopkins, of Manyunk, saying she had been driven from her boarding house last night. Chief of Police Dodd has the case in charge will make an investigation.