One mention of a resident of this town occurred in the newspaper, the New Jersey Mirror, on Oct 16 1907:
No satisfactory explanation has yet been offered as to the cause leading to the suicide of Newbold Bowne, a farmer living near Bustleton, on Saturday. Only on Thursday he had held a public sale at which he had disposed of his stock, crops and implements, preparatory to his retirement from farming, and the prices realized are said to have been very satisfactory. Bowne, who was a young man and married, was reported to have under consideration the starting of a livery stable here in Mount Holly. For some hours prior to the finding of the body, stark and cold, with the revolver still clutched in his right hand, the young farmer had been missing around his place, but it was not until rather late in the forenoon that the horrifying discovery of his suicide was made. For a year or two past Bowne had been subject to fits of mild melancholia, but it was never suspected that he would commit any rash act and no particular attention was paid to his spells of despondency. Bowne was about 35 years of age and leaves a widow and one child.

The following series of articles detail a crime that was committed near Bustleton/Bustletown in the '30s, as told by the newspaper New Jersey Mirror:

OCT 9 1935:
County detectives and state troopers report that robbery was the motive for the murder of Herman Eilers, 62, who was found shot to death at his poultry farm on Cedar lane, between Jacksonville and Bustleton, in Florence township, on Monday night. Arthur Thieren, a neighbor, discovered the crime when he stopped at the farm taht night to buy eggs. Eilers' body was lying near the kitchen door. Two men, who have been arrested and committed to jail, have admitted the crime, polic report. They are George Hildebrand, 35, a farmhand living near Columbus, and Jacob J. Ceimingo, 16, of the Burlington-Columbus road, near Burlington. Ceimingo, troopers report, confessed shooting Eilers in the presence of Hildebrand. Arrested on complaint of Seargeant Carlson of Columbus barracks, the prisoners were given a hearing before Justice of the Peace William H. Grady, Vincentown, yesterday and committed to jail. They pleaded guilty to murder. Death resulted from two gunshot wounds, either of which was fatal, according to Drs. John S. Conroy, Burlington, and Edward J. Muldoon, Florence, who conducted an autopsy of the body. Both bullets were fired from a .22 calibre revolver. One entered the head above and behind the left eye and lodgd(sic) on the right side of the skull. The other entered the body just above the left clavicle and took a downward course, severing an artery and causing severe hemorrhage. The crime was committed on Sunday night. Hildebrand had worked for Eilers until about a year ago. He knew that the farmer at times kept considerable money in the house. Hildebrand, it is reported, told Ceimingo about the money and they decided to commit the robbery. Going to the rear of the Eilers home, they were confronted by the poultryman, who opened the kitchen door just as they arrived. Eilers recognized Hildebrand and called him by name. Deimingo, greatly excited at the unexpected turn of events, drew his revolver and fired the two shots. The two men then fled in an automobile without searching the house or Eilers' clothing for money. The revolver used in the killing was found at Ceimingo's home by state trooperse(sic). Two cartridges had been fired. No money was found in Eilers' pockets, when searched by troopers. Only $2.06 was located in the house. It was in a bag on the second floor. Eilers has $1,865 on deposit in the Roebling bank and is said to own real estate in Trenton. He was a bachelor and lived alone on the farm.

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OCT 16 1935
Pleas of not guilty were entered by Jacob J. Ciemiengo, 16, of Burlington, and George H. Hildebrand, 35, of Columbus, when arraigned before Judge Frank A. Hendrickson at the court house yesterday to answer to indictments charging murder of Herman Eilers, 62, at his poultry farm in Florence township on the night of October 7th. State troopers who investigated the crime state that robbery was the motive, Ellers being known to have kept considerable money in his house at times, and that, after arrest, the defendants admitted having committed the act. The two shots which caused the farmer's death, it is alleged, were fired by Ciemiengo. Date of the trial of the defendants was not fixed.

FEB 19 1936:
March 19th has been fixed as the date upon which the Court of Errors and Appeals will hear argument on the application of Jacob J. Ciemiengo, 16, and George Hildebrand, 26, for a new trial for the murder of Herman Eiler, Florence township poultry farmer. The two defendants were convicted of first degree murder and were sentenced to be electrocuted. The appeal to the higher court automatically acted as a stay of the death penalty. Jay B. Tomlinson is counsel for Ciemiengo, having been appointed to take the place of George M. Hillman, now deceased. Stanley K. Heilbron represented Hildebrand. Prosecutor Howard Eastwood will oppose the motions for setting aside the verdict of the Burlington county jury

18 MAR 1936:
Argument on the appeal of Jacob J. Ciemiengo and George Hildebrand for a new trial in the murder of Herman Eiler, Florence township poultryman, will be heard before the Court of Errors tomorrow. They both were convicted in the Burlington county courts of first degree murder. The defendants are represented by Stanley K. Heilbron, of Mount Holly, and Jay B. Tomlinson, of Bordentown. Prosecutor Howard Eastwood is representing the state and will argue that no errors were committed at the trial. Because of this hearing to-morrow, the weekly session of criminal court, at the court house will be postponed until Friday.

MAR 20 1936:
The Court of Errors and Appeals, in a decision handed down in Trenton on Thursday, refused to grant a new trial to Jacob Ciemiengo, 16, and George A. Hildebrand, 26, convicted of first degree murder of Herman Eiler, Florence township poultry farmer. A Burlington county jury brough(t) in the verdict that was appealed to the high court. The upholding of the conviction of Ciemiengo and Hildebrand leaves only one avenue of escape from electrocution. That is the Court of Pardons. The decision affirming the conviction of the pair was written by Supreme Court Justice Joseph L. Bodine. The court refused to uphold the contention of the defense that the examination of two witnesses by the state, Arthur Therien and John Malseed, was improper. The court said there was abundant evidence to uphold the ruling of the trial court that the confessions made were voluntary. It was stated in the decision that both confessed they had gone to Eiler's home to rob him and that one of them had shot him in the presence of the other in pursuance of a plan. It was proper to offer proof that they knew large sums of money had been upon the person of Eilers, said the ruling. "We fail to see any error in that portion of the charge of the trial court complained of," the decision stated. "The murder appears to have been brutally and deliberately conceived in order to perpetrate a robbery." A new date for the execution of the two will be fixed within 30 days by Judge Frank A. Hendrickson, of Mount Holly, who presided at the trial.

JULY 16 1936:
The Court of Pardons having commuted the death sentences of Jacob Ciemiengo and George Hildebrand, who slew Herman Eilers, a Florence farmer, in cold blood, the question arises, what sort of murder demands the exaction of the extreme penalty ?

JULY 22 1936
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Overgrown Jacob Ciemiengo celebrated his seventeenth birthday in the death house of State Prison, Trenton, on Thursday, happy because his life had been spared by the Court of Pardons. Scheduled to die the week of July 26 for the $4 holdup-murder of Herman Eilers, Florence township farmer, Ciemiengo and his companion, George Hildebrand, 27, had had their sentences commuted to life imprisonment on Tuesday two days before. The six-foot farmer boys awaited removal to another prison cell after official notice of the court's action was received by Principal Keeper Lagay. One of his attorneys, Stanley K. Heilbron, quoted the youth as saying, "I will show them I can make good." He reiterated this promise to his parish priest, Rev. M. A. Konopka of All Saints' Church, Burlington. He told the priest he intends to learn a trade in the prison shops and prepare himself for a useful life. Father Konopka, a prime mover in the drive to obtain a commuted sentence for the youth, said "Jackie is a fine kid, a good boy. I have every confidence he will make a good citizen. I still believe Jackie was innocent. He was never in any mischief before this occurred." Ciemiengo was "overjoyed," Father Konopka said, by his greatest "birthday present"--life itself.
Low mentality, in addition to their youth, has been cited as a factor that inspired commutation of the death sentences of murderers Ciemiengo and Hildebrand, sentenced to the chair in this county for the premeditated killing of farmer Eilers. Low mentality, in the lay view, fails to warrant a favored class in punishment for murder. Otherwise, the day might come when a high school diploma or a college degree is required for eligibility to the electric chair.