Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Am Samstag,, April 9, 2022, Die Franklin County Missouri Historical Society lud mich ein, eine PowerPoint-Präsentation über den Bankraub der Union Missouri zu halten 1902. Das Buch behandelt den Raub, die Ermittlung, zwei landesweite Fahndungen nach dem Flüchtigen und ein gewagter Ausbruch aus dem St. Louis City Jail. Zwei waghalsige Räuber, not yet 23 Jahren, abgezogen
Tom Allen wurde in Birmingham geboren, England on April 23, 1840 Berühmt wurde er jedoch als Schwergewichts-Preiskämpfer mit bloßen Fingerknöcheln in Amerika. Sich in St. niederlassen. Louis around 1867, Allen gewann die amerikanische Schwergewichtsmeisterschaft 1873 und hielt den Titel bis 1876. Er kehrte für ein Jahr nach England zurück, bevor er nach St. zurückkehrte. Louis für immer 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. On May 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 Polizist Joseph A. Gerk patrouillierten seinen Schlag auf Eighteenth Street am Morgen Mai 26, 1901, als er
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 words, die St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 Jahre. 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. Jedoch, 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
On Christmas Night 1902, zwei kleine Stadt, wenig Zeit, Überfallmänner sprengten den Safe der Union, Missouri-Bank. Nachdem er ein paar Bürger bedroht hatte, Sie sind mit Over davongekommen $15,000. Die Männer waren einige Monate lang relativ sicher, bis die Pinkerton Detective Agency eingeschaltet wurde. Die Pinkertons hatten eine landesweite Vertretung, Das kam den Vereinigten Staaten am nächsten
Um Herum 10 am on Thursday, April 10, 1919, five heavily armed men burst into the Baden Bank. The bandits confronted M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. They rounded up the four other employees as Muntzel led the group to the vault. The robbers wore colored bandanas to obscure their features. While two of the five men