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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Lørdag, April 9, 2022, Franklin County Missouri Historical Society inviterede mig til at holde en PowerPoint-præsentation om Union Missouri Bank Robbery af 1902. Bogen dækker røveriet, undersøgelsen, to landsdækkende jagter på flygtningen og en vovet pause fra St. Louis City Jail. To vovede røvere, not yet 23 år, trukket af
Tom Allen blev født i Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men han blev berømt som en sværvægter bar kno priskæmper i Amerika. Bosætter sig i St. Louis around 1867, Allen vandt det amerikanske sværvægtsmesterskab i 1873 og holdt titlen indtil 1876. Han vendte tilbage til England i et år, før han vendte tilbage til St. Louis for godt i 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Den maj 26, 1901, O’Keefe proved his toughness and quick thinking again by saving a fellow officer from an excited horse and shed fire. St. Louis Police Officer Joseph A. Gerk patrolled his beat on Eighteenth Street during the morning of May 26, 1901, når han
Den 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, Januar 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 ord, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 år. 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. Louis Police Department. 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. Men, 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
Julenat 1902, to små byer, små-tid, holdup-mænd åbnede Unionens pengeskab, Missouri Bank. Efter at have truet et par borgere, de slap med over $15,000. Mændene var relativt sikre i et par måneder, indtil Pinkerton Detective Agency blev tilkaldt. The Pinkertons havde et landsdækkende agentur, hvilket var det nærmeste United
Om 10 er på torsdag, April 10, 1919, fem stærkt bevæbnede mænd brast ud i Baden-banken. Banditterne konfronterede M.W. Muntzel, kassereren, og krævede adgang til hvælvingen. De afrundede de fire andre ansatte, da Muntzel førte gruppen til hvælvingen. Røverne bar farvede bandanas for at skjule deres funktioner. Mens to af de fem mænd