Tag: robbery
This Week in Chester History…
Clyde Kershaw’s Purol Service Station on Main Street was robbed in 1938. The Mendham-Chester Tribune reported that Netcong detectives were stumped by conflicting stories about the events that took place leading to $7.50 being taken from his till.
This Week in Chester History…
In 1938, Ira F. French, 21, and Henry Winters, 25, of Hoboken, confessed to the February 26 murder of Gilbert Y. Hopler, 59, in his Chester store. French and Winters shot Hopler during an attempted robbery. Source: Mendham-Chester Tribune.
