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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Tom Allen nació en Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 pero se hizo famoso como boxeador de peso pesado a puño limpio en Estados Unidos.. Instalarse en St.. Louis around 1867, Allen ganó el Campeonato Americano de Peso Pesado en 1873 y mantuvo el título hasta 1876. Regresó a Inglaterra durante un año antes de regresar a St.. Louis para siempre en 1878. Back
El sábado, Abril 9, 2022, la Sociedad Histórica de Missouri del condado de Franklin me invitó a dar una presentación de PowerPoint sobre el robo del banco Union Missouri Bank de 1902. El libro cubre el robo., la investigación, dos cacerías en todo el país del fugitivo y una escapada audaz del St.. Louis City Jail. Dos ladrones atrevidos, not yet 23 years of age, sacado
en la noche de Navidad 1902, dos pequeños pueblos, poco tiempo, los asaltantes volaron la caja fuerte de la Unión, Banco de Misuri. Después de amenazar a algunos ciudadanos, se largaron con más $15,000. Los hombres estuvieron relativamente seguros durante unos meses hasta que se llamó a la Agencia de Detectives Pinkerton.. Los Pinkerton tenían una agencia a nivel nacional, que era lo mas parecido al United
On Monday evening, Julio 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. Su “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, quien
Over his 17 year career, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond dealt with many criminal’s family members. Some family members were as bad or worse than the criminal Chief Desmond and his men had locked up. Sin embargo, many family members were honest, hard-working people, who struggled to understand what went wrong with their loved one. Early in his career
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, el St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 año. They replaced him with Desmond’s ex-assistant James Smith, who was dismissed by the previous board. How did one of the greatest, if not the greatest, detectives in
En diciembre 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office
Before he was promoted to Special Officer, St. Louis Police Officer Preston Anslyn responded to calls for service like any other patrolman. On the morning of February 28, 1916, Anslyn was patrolling the area of Franklin and Jefferson Avenues. A citizen notified Anslyn that 30-year-old Albert Kivet was celebrating after his birthday on February 27th. During his revelry, Piedras asaltadas
En octubre 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, que mató
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis