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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Noiembrie 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
Noiembrie 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,
Ianuarie 7, 1903, St. 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. Totuși, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, sau 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, 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,
Miercuri, Mai 9, 1900, a doua zi de St. Louis tramvai Strike, un glonț rătăcit a ucis Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, un veteran de război spaniol-american, uitam la un miting de grevă la colțul de Finney și N. Taylor Avenue. În timpul raliului, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
St. Succesul Louis șef al detectivilor William Desmond în capturarea multe criminali disperate l-au făcut celebru de felul în special în rândul detectivi care aspiră. Când Edgar Allan Poe a scris trei povești bazate pe faptele de detectiv fictiv C. Auguste Dupin, detectiv ficțiune captat atenția cititorilor. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle popularized the genre permanently with his fictional detective, Sherlock
George Collins, de-al doilea jefuitor de banci implicate în Uniune, MO jaf decembrie 26, 1902, a încercat să scape de St. Louis închisoare în ianuarie 1904. Pe lângă lucrul cu ceilalți deținuți pentru a face o gaură în perete de închisoare, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Vineri seara, Octombrie 24, 1902, un informator a trecut de informații asistent șef al detectivilor James Smith. S. J. Schultze & Co., un St. Louis firma de imprimare, a primit o comanda de la un străin în oraș pentru a imprima controale pentru societate bancara Elgin City of Elgin, Illinois. The informant doubted the checks were actually destined for a real bank. Assistant
Decembrie 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. The men took $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. 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. Septembrie 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.