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WEDNESDAY, SEPT.
Peace Re _ Stains Washed Away, All Blinds Are Drawn. And Shops Shut Down
Kinsmen Prepare to Bury the Dead
Left by Maniac in 20 By RUSS GREEN, United
CAMDEN, N. J., Sept. 7—The shades were drawn on stores and homes and all was peaceful today at 32d St. and River Road, | That where Howard Unruh, the 27-year-old religious fanatic, dn a 20-minute reign of terror. Yesterday morning, there were bodies of men, women and chil-.
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dren lying about-in the streets, the shops of neighborhood merchants whom Unruh hated.
been’ washed away. Th throngs of curious had left. Families of the victims were preparing to bury their dead. And the other people in the neighborhood just went on their way. There was ljttle curiosity among the work oing out this morning, and children going to their first day of school. Some cast a glance at the spot where four persons were shot in their automobiles but none stopped. Tap Room Open Some of the children didn’t have their usual pre-school haircuts. Their favorite barber, Clark Hoover, was one of those killed by Unruh. And on2 of their. playmates, Orris Smith, was gone, too. He was shot while sitting on a hobbyhorse as Mr. Hoover was trimming his “hair.
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The only place open this morn- | gy) treatment of a federal in-| Frank soection sirice 1947. At that time
ing was the tap room of Engle. Unruh had tried to get in there yesterday morning but found it locked and fired several shots through the door. Mr. Engle fired back at Unruh and believes it was his shot that wounded the crazed veteran. Mr. Engle’s customers discussed
<~the shooting in awed-and dazed
tones last night. He didn’t want to talk about it any more. “I had a bad night,” he said. But there was much bitternéss at the corner drugstore where Maurice Cohen, his wife and .his mother were slain. Mr. Cohen's bother-in-law, Irving Fine, of Philadelphia, said he wanted just one thing—“to put a bullet in Unruh’s brain.” Son Coming Home “Why didn’t they kill him?” Mr, Fine demanded. “With all those cops there and their guns, why didn’t they shoot to kill when he came out of the house?” “Mr.” Fine “said “the funeral--of} his sister, her husband and the latter's mother was being delayed) until the couple’s son, Leonard, 18, can return from Japan.| Leonard is serving with the U. 8. Air Force and Mr. Fine said he| had been advised the youth is ‘flying back. In another part of Camden, the killer's -mother, Mrs.
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By DAN KIDNEY { Times Staff Writer WASHINGTON, Sept. 7—Offiicials of the U. 8. Bureau of Prisons today applauded the efforts being made by Sheriff Jim Cun-' ningham to try and clean up the Marion County jail. They agree with him that it is “one of the worst” and have) placed it on the “restricted” {rather than “approved” list for! holding persons arrested for federal law violations. B | The jail hasn't been given the
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|{it was unqualified for approval and got the “restricted” rating.| Since then the bureau has nad d U bh several field reports and each one | urne nru showed that the place had gone from bad to worse. - | Matter of Necessity The latest letter from a field inspector cited the efforts of] Sheriff Cunningham to do some- an4 kill 13 persons: thing about it. This move re- i pe ceived prompt indorsement from
ment here. (children, five men and five women It was explained that the only] One expert, recently returned reason federal prisoners are put/from Germany where he was a in the Marion County Jail at all, witness in the trial of a GI, said under present conditions, is that/that the Camden veteran may Indianapolis is such a large city have had an illusion that he could
hold them there for trial. jure caused him to crack up. Under the “restricted” listing| Persecution Complex none may serve a sentence in| The veteran, Howard Unruh, the jail, however, unless it is an believed that his neighbors were exceedingly short one—J}ike 30 talking about him and definitely days—officials explained. They had a persecution complex, anhold the view that about the onlyjothier expert pointed out.—adequate answer to the problem| “If a man has homicidal tendenthe|cies, such belief of persecution Marion County Jail is unlikely/can break out those tendencies ever again to be placed on the/in violent fury,” he said. “approved” list," they indicated. He said that Unruh, apparently
—————————— a religious fanatic, probably had LOCAL MAN WINS DEGREE |an illusion that he could save the
Huckleberry Hawkins, 2822 N. world. Illinois St, was graduated with “Balked in his efforts”
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Freda a bachelor of science degree from expert said, “the man's homicidal
Unruh, was under a doctor's care, the University of Cincinnati at|tendencies broke loose.”
at the home of her sister, Mrs.
the close of summer session. He| He and the other psychiatrists
E. M. Wonsetler. The sister said|is a Tech High School graduate|said teaching a mian to shoot an
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Howard Unruh . . . Thirteen persons paid. with their lives because he hated "moneychangers.'
Doctors Doubt That War
The -question was put today to four psychiatrists. . There could be a dozen reasons, but the scientists were agreed the bureau in the Justice Depart-| that the war service of the Camden veteran who shot and killed three
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By PAUL F. ELLIS, United Press Science Writer «+ NEW YORK, Sept. 7—Why should a man suddenly go
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{man homicidal tendencies in ci|vilian life. They agreed that the {Camden veteran was meptally ill |and, regardless of his service |record, would have gone berserk {if some other provocation came along. One doctor said that Unruh |probably has been suffering from (a form of insanity for a “long {time.” . “His insanity did not come suddenly,” he- sald. “You can- be sure of that.” Consciously, or not, the expert {said, the veteran was preparing for his shooting spree.
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walked toward a drug store and almost collided with James J. Hutton, an insurance collector. Unruh shot him to death because “he didn't move out of the way fast enough.” The druggist, Maurice Cohen and his wife, Rose, fled upstairs [to their living quarters with Un-
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Spectator Describes Wild Rampage Charges He's Victim Of Slayer Who Killed 13 in New Jersey Of ‘Vicious Lying’
SULLIVAN, Sept. 7 (UP) —= By ROXY DE MARCO i As Told to United Press Sullivan Circuit Judge Norval K,
CAMD EN, N.J., Sept. T—1 was delivering bread to Harris, who was linked with Nee
’ : gro. Singer. Paul . Robeson in a River Road yesterday and ran right into the middle of the [Communist aid committee, shooting. ) of
charged today he was a victim It was an awful sight. I can still see the blood and
“vicious lying and from newspapers.” 3 the kids laying around. : age og Lahde. eo He (Unruh) didn’t shoot anybody at long range. He |committee to raise funds for the came right close every time. He would just walk up and shoot defense of 11 Communists on trial and run away, » ” in New York, said criticism would : 1 was serving bread to a saloon when he almost shot me as [not stop his defense of “the civil I was in my truck. I had delivered bread toa corner store and [liberties of the humblest citizens I heard some kids yelling there was a man shooting a gun around |of the land.” — ak e the corner. r He said he was attacked “vie There was a lot of commotion, and then I could hear some shots. 1 put the kids on my truck and I drove around the corner. I heard two women screaming and hunting for their children. I asked them if the kids in rhy truck were their kids and they said yes. Then I thought the noise I heard was only a family
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I DROVE around: the corner and stopped in front of the saloon on the wrong side of the street. “Then I saw his. fellaw. walking in and. out of Blaces Sirus of. the street and shooting people... He wa . e middle o! wu es ai aX a street just casual like.— Anybody who came along was just a quests from attorneys for changes _ dead duck. He shot the people in the Nash and the Oldsmobile as they came along and slowed up for fear of hitting him. : He had the gun on me when the kid in the “Olds” came up. That. luger looked like a cannon. The boy in the automobile blew his horn, and the fellow turned and fired point-blank at him. . - » r » " AS I WENT to jump from the seat into the back of the truck, | he fired at me and the bullet whipped past ‘the steering wheel. I | got in the back of the truck and I heard the saloon-keeper shout,
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“Roxy's shot.” . ] T yelled “Iam not,” and the saloan-keeper opened the back of - my truck and I was able to run into his saloon. - We saw Unruh deliberately shoot the barber and the boy on the hobby horse getting his hair cut.
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| seeking the reason for the /sentment” -that changed. him [from a Bible-quoting churchgoer (to a ruthless gunman. Relatives told Capt. James Mulligan that the only neighborhood dispute in which they knew he was involved was with druggis Maurice Cohen. 3
Argued Over Fence
Unruh apparently argued with Mr. Cohen several months ago when the druggist erected a picket fence .which blocked Unruh from crossing a back yard to) enter the second floor partment |occupied by him and his mother. | Cohen was the seventh person {killed in the massacre. | His brother and sister blamed the outburst on his World War II army service in which he saw combat in Italy, Autria, Germahy,
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{mored field artillery unit. He was discharged honorably. in 1945. At police headquarters where he was questioned for two hours,
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In an adjoining bedroom, Unruh shot and killed the druggist’s mother, Mrs. Minnie Cohen, then went outside and shot the drug-| gist to death in-a driveway. He| opened fire at Mrs. Madeline Har- | rie; 36, and her son, Armond, 16, who were hanging clothes in their adjoining yard. Both were] wounded. | After that he retraced his steps) to a street intersection. He walked up to an automobile wait-| ing for a traffic light and fired at the three occupants. Mrs. Helen M, Wilson, 43, the driver, and her mother, Mrs, Emma Matlack, 66, were . killed. Mrs. Wilson's son, John; 12, was wounded critically. Another motorist sléwed down to_look at Hutton’'s body on the sidewalk. Unruh fired at the automobile and killed the driver, Alvin M. Day, 24-year-old television repairman. One of the bullets struck
{Unruh was quiet, soft-spoken and {seemingly - harmless.” “He didn’t look Ike a killer,” a detective |said. | The killer told police. he knew) everything he did. But his ac-
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a third motorist, Charles Peterson, 18, but the youth leaped from the car and fled into a tavern to safety. The tavern proprietor, Frank Engel, exchanged shots with Unruh but no one was hit. -
hysteria, ignorance and prejudice that was too much to expect.” Judge Harris said he was sorry - if he had caused fellow members of the bar to lose business bee cause of his appointment.
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You couldn't do anything. He had the gun and he must have reloaded two-or-three times. He shoved full clips into the pistol. n M . » . 5 THEN, TOO, you didn't know where he was at. He popped in and out of the doors across the street. Even when the police came, they didn't know at first where he was. Three cops lay under my truck to pick him off if he showed up. I didn’t hear him say a word, but there was blood slopped all over. It was horrible, with the bodies Jaying all over. You don't see things like that in the movies. They just don’t * happen like that in the movies. : }
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corner to the River Road shopping center and killed shoe repairman John J. Kilarchik Jr. in his shop with one shot. | From there. the slayer entered {a barber shop next door, crowded! with children waiting to get. hair |cuts for the opening of school « today. He shot the barber, Clark Hoover, 33, to death and killed 6-year-old Orris Smith who sat astride a rocking horse while having his hair trimmed: « The other youngsters ran screaming to the street, but Unruh did not fire at them. He
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