The killing of Joseph Perry Jr. near Hammonton (1928)

Discovery and investigation

Antonio Chalk found Perry’s body in roadside weeds. Contemporary reporting said a razor wound nearly severed his head. Investigators publicly considered both a personal dispute involving a woman and a possible gang connection in the aftermath of the Frankie Yale killing, but the surviving record does not establish either theory.

Police later held Katherine Mansly, also called Katie Buckle, Josephine Dellarea, and Philip Laboone as material witnesses. They were arrested in Atlantic City and taken to Camden County Jail. The women said Perry had brought them to Atlantic City two months earlier but had disappeared after several days. No later charge or resolution has yet been located, and all three surnames remain print-sensitive.