קאַמבאַט ספּאָרט היסטאריקער און מאַרשאַל קינסטלער
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
טאָם עלען איז געבוירן אין בירמינגהאַם, England on April 23, 1840 אָבער ער איז געווארן באַרימט ווי אַ שווער-וואָג נאַקעט נאַקאַל פּרייז-פייטער אין אַמעריקע. באַזעצן אין סט. Louis around 1867, עלען וואַן די אמעריקאנער העאַוויוועיגהט טשאַמפּיאָנשיפּ אין 1873 און געהאלטן דעם טיטל ביז 1876. ער אומגעקערט צו ענגלאַנד פֿאַר אַ יאָר איידער ער אומגעקערט צו סט. לאָויס פֿאַר גוט אין 1878. צוריק
אויף שבת, אַפּריל 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 City Jail. Two daring robbers, not yet 23 יאָרן פון עלטער, pulled off
On Christmas Night 1902, two small town, 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
אויף מאנטאג אָוונט, יולי 16, 1917, סט. לוי פּאָליצייַ אָפיציר יוליוס ה. פּעטרינג אַסיינד צו די צפון מאַרק דיוויזשאַן אריין אַ ראָאָמינג הויז אין 2301 ען. מאַרק סטריט. פּעטרינג געבעטן די באַלעבאָס וויליאם דיטריק צו דינגען אַ פּלאַץ פֿאַר אים און זיין פרוי. זייַן “פרוי” איז געווען זיין לעצטנס דיוואָרסט כאַווערטע פרעד האַגענמייער. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, ווער
Over his 17 year career, סט. 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. אָבער, 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, די סט. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 יאָרן. 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
אויף דעצעמבער 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, סט. 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, Kivet assaulted
אויף אקטאבער 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, 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. לוי