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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
上週四, 一月 23, 1902, 聖. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, 聖之一. 路易’ 最富有的人, 擁有的住宅房地產和其他資產，其價值為 2 萬美元. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. 路易. 他
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. 然而, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professional fighting in the 19th Century enjoyed a poor reputation outside of
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, 四月 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was employed as a mechanic at
Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. 路易”, 聖. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. 路易警察歷史, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French
週二, 十一月 5, 1901, 聖. Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for
On the morning of Saturday, 四月 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 Ş. 百老匯. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. The time
該 1900 聖. 路易斯電車罷工是工人階級和上層階級之間的戰爭射擊. 它開始作為一個作業操作由新合併的路面電車線的電車工人. 然而, 它迅速劃分城市工人階級支持罷工而上，專業類無視罷工. The result was a deadly
建築物板和磚頭成堆的只是不被重視他們的故事. 十一期間 1912, 聖. 路易斯警官亞瑟·赫德爾斯頓被打死兇手假釋阿爾伯特懷特菲爾德. 懷特菲爾德曾驚訝他同居的妻子, 誰是娛樂的另一個紳士來電. 懷特菲爾德試圖前的兩聖殺了她. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for
在 1877, 聖. Louis was the largest city west of the Mississippi. 聖. Louis Police dealt with the typical problems of a major city. 聖. Louis Police Officers responded to reports of murder, rape and robbery. On the morning of December 12, 1877, 聖. Louis Police Officer Daily responded to the report of a bear on the Downtown St. 路易
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. 路易·警視廳. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. 一月