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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, and miscellaneous history.
Ar ddydd Sadwrn, Ebrill 9, 2022, gwahoddodd Cymdeithas Hanes Sir Franklin Sir Missouri fi i roi cyflwyniad PowerPoint ar Lladrad Banc Undeb Missouri o 1902. Mae'r llyfr yn ymdrin â'r lladrad, yr ymchwiliad, dwy helfa genedlaethol i'r ffo a thoriad beiddgar oddi wrth y St. Louis City Jail. Dau leidr beiddgar, not yet 23 mlwydd oed, tynnu i ffwrdd
Ar ddydd Mawrth, Gorffennaf 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
Ar Ragfyr 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,
On August 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, Ionawr 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, yr St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 blynyddoedd. 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 earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Adran Heddlu Louis. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 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 had just woken up and was getting ready
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Fodd bynnag,, 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
Ar Nos Nadolig 1902, dwy dref fechan, bach-amser, chwythodd dynion holdup agoriad diogel yr Undeb, Banc Missouri. Ar ôl bygwth ychydig o ddinasyddion, gwnaethant i ffwrdd â dros $15,000. Roedd y dynion yn gymharol ddiogel am rai misoedd nes i Asiantaeth Ditectif Pinkerton gael eu galw i mewn. Roedd gan y Pinkertons asiantaeth genedlaethol, sef y peth agosaf i'r United
Mae tua 10 am ddydd Iau, Ebrill 10, 1919, ffrwydrodd pump o ddynion arfog iawn i Fanc Baden. Roedd y lladron yn wynebu M.W. Munzel, yr ariannwr, ac yn mynnu mynediad i'r gladdgell. Fe wnaethant gronni'r pedwar gweithiwr arall wrth i Muntzel arwain y grŵp i'r gladdgell. Roedd y lladron yn gwisgo bandanas lliw i guddio eu nodweddion. Tra mae dau o'r pum dyn