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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
11 월 17, 1912, Albert Whitefield achieved infamy in St. Louis history by murdering St. Louis Police Officer Arthur Huddleston. Huddleston prevented Whitefield murdering his common law wife, Annie Washington, and her gentlemen caller. Whitefield shot Huddleston to death in a Midtown alley before leading St. Louis Police on a two state chase. Arthur Huddleston was not Albert Whitefield’s first
11 월 7, 1890, Chief of Detectives William Desmond brought in Pat Kennedy, a low-level St. Louis crook, who was suspected of stealing 20 cents from a cigar store on North 9th Street. A 3rd District St. Louis Police Officer captured Kennedy after he robbed a Miss Minnie Mullaney at 16th Street and Franklin Avenue. Kennedy proved a first-rate coward,
월 1 일에 7, 1903, 생. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. 그러나, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, 세인트. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, 또는 1904 생. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. 루이, Missouri history. While St. Louis was the largest city west of the Mississippi River, the World’s Fair put it on the international map. While the fair would bring notoriety, tourists and increased revenue to the city,
수요일에, 할 수있다 9, 1900, 세인트의 두 번째 날. 루이 전차 타격, 유탄 프랭크 Liebrecht 사망. 프랭크 Liebrecht, 스페인 - 미국 전쟁 베테랑, 피니와 N의 모퉁이에 파업 집회를보고 있었다. 테일러 애비뉴. 집회 중, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
생. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond’s success in capturing many desperate criminals made him a celebrity of sorts particularly among aspiring detectives. When Edgar Allan Poe wrote three tales based on the exploits of fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin, detective fiction captured the attention of readers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle popularized the genre permanently with his fictional detective, 셜록
조지 콜린스, 연합에 포함 된 두 번째 은행 강도, 12 월 MO 은행 강도 26, 1902, 세인트에게 탈출을 시도. 월 루이 감옥 1904. 감옥의 벽에 구멍을 만드는 다른 죄수들과 함께 일하고 있습니다, 그는 또한 그에게 몰래 톱을 가지고 감옥 가드 배치. Collins intended to use
On Friday night, 10월 24, 1902, an informer passed information to Assistant Chief of Detectives James Smith. 에스. J. Schultze & Co., 세인트. Louis printing firm, received an order from a stranger in town to print checks for the Elgin City Banking Company of Elgin, 일리노이. The informant doubted the checks were actually destined for a real bank. Assistant
12 월 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. 남자는 갔다 $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 분이고. and surprised Harding,
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, 생. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.