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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Tub ceev xwm Louis keeb kwm.
Tom Allen was born in Birmingham, Hais rau hnub tim 23, 1840 but he became famous as a heavyweight bare knuckle prizefighter in America. Settling in St. Louis ib ncig 1867, Allen won the American Heavyweight Championship in 1873 and held the title until 1876. He returned to England for a year before returning to St. Louis for good in 1878. Tom qab
Rau hnub Saturday, Tim 9, 2022, the Franklin County Missouri Historical Society invited me to give a PowerPoint presentation on the Union Missouri Bank Robbery of 1902. The book covers the robbery, the investigation, two nationwide hunts for the fugitive and a daring break from the St. Louis nroog yog nkuaj. Two daring robbers, not yet 23 xyoo, pulled off
Nyob rau hmo Christmas 1902, ob lub zos me me, Small-time, holdup men blew open the safe of the Union, Missouri Bank. After threatening a few citizens, they made off with over $15,000. The men were relatively safe for a few months until the Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. The Pinkertons had a nationwide agency, which was the closest thing the United
Nyob rau yav tsaus ntuj hnub Monday, Lub Xya hli ntuj 16, 1917, St. Louis tub ceev xwm Julius H. Petring rau txoj kev faib North lag luam nkag mus rau ib lub tsev rooming tom 2301 N. Txoj kev lag luam. Petring kom cov zov William Dietrich mus xauj ib chav rau nws thiab nws tus poj niam. Nws “tus poj niam” yog nws nyuam qhuav sib nrauj tus hluas nkauj Freda Hagenmeyer. Petring neeg khiav dej num yuav tsum tau pom Freda Hagenmeyer, leej twg
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. Txawm li cas los, 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 lo lus, cov me nyuam. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 xyoo. 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
Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 15, 1903, hais txog 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
Ua ntej nws tau nce mus Special Officer, St. Louis tub ceev xwm Preston Anslyn teb hu rau kev pab cuam ib yam li lwm yam patrolman. Lub ob hlis ntuj sawv ntxov 28, 1916, Anslyn muaj patrolling cov cheeb tsam hauv Franklin thiab hauv hom. Ib tug pej xeem qhia Anslyn tias 30 xyoo Albert Kivet yog qhuas tom qab nws lub hnub yug rau lub ob hlis ntuj 27th. Thaum nws revelry, Kivet assaulted
Nyob rau lub kaum hli ntuj 16, 1920, Tshwj xeeb cov neeg khiav dej num rau Preston Anslyn thiab William A. Moller tau tom qab muaj ob burglars hauv lub 3800 thaiv kev rov Avenue thaum ib tug hnyav pos huab. Ib yam lossis ob burglars tua tus neeg khiav dej num hauv lub gangway thaum lawv taug kev mus rau kev cov nyom ntawm ib lub tsev, qhov uas lawv xav tias nkag mus rau lub burglars. Cov neeg khiav dej num leej raug tuag ntawm tej qhov txhab, which killed
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