Historik bojových sportů a bojový umělec
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, and miscellaneous history.
V sobotu, Duben 9, 2022, historická společnost Franklin County Missouri Historical Society mě pozvala, abych přednesl powerpointovou prezentaci o loupeži banky Union Missouri 1902. Kniha se zabývá loupeží, vyšetřování, dva celostátní hony na uprchlíka a odvážná přestávka od St. Louis City Jail. Dva odvážní lupiči, not yet 23 let, stáhl
V úterý, Červenec 4, 1916, former St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond passed away after an illness of two years. Desmond was in Alexian Brothers Hospital from October 1915 until his death on Independence Day 1916. The 59-year-old Desmond left a 12-year-old son, William Desmond, Jr. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
Prosince 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,
Srpna 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Louis, Missouri around 7:30 a.m. Three figures exited the train. Two healthy looking police officers were escorting John D. “Jack” Shea, who killed St. Louis Police Officer Patrick Doran on November 7, 1881. The gaunt and sickly Shea was no longer the young thug, who executed Doran during a chase after
On a chilly night, Leden 9, 1915, Sgt. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 a.m. Sgt. Gibbons walked towards the Wabash Railroad’s Delmar Station, which was in complete darkness. Gibbons kneeled and wrapped his nightstick on the platform to signal any nearby beat officers to report to him. Patrolman Arthur J. Saxy heard the night
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 let. 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
Cornelius O'Keefe si během své kariéry u sv. Louis Police Department. Ráno v lednu bude potřebovat veškerou tuhost 6, 1911, when a burglar entered the boarding house, where O’Keefe lived and tried to steal several items including O’Keefe’s pants. O'Keefe se právě probudil a připravoval se
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Však, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone and Shea were local criminals, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
Na Štědrý večer 1902, dvě malá města, malý čas, holdup muži odpálili sejf Unie, Missouri Bank. Poté, co vyhrožoval několika občanům, utekli s přes $15,000. Muži byli několik měsíců relativně v bezpečí, dokud nebyla zavolána detektivní kancelář Pinkerton. Pinkertonovi měli celostátní agenturu, což bylo United nejbližší
Kolem 10 jsem ve čtvrtek, Duben 10, 1919, do Bádenské banky vtrhlo pět těžce ozbrojených mužů. Bandité čelili M.W. Muntzel, pokladní, a požadoval přístup do trezoru. Zaokrouhlili další čtyři zaměstnance, když Muntzel vedl skupinu do trezoru. Lupiči nosili barevné šátky, aby zakryli jejich rysy. Zatímco dva z pěti mužů