Historien des sports de combat et artiste martial
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, and miscellaneous history.
Le samedi, Avril 9, 2022, the Franklin County Missouri Historical Society invited me to give a PowerPoint presentation on the Union Missouri Bank Robbery of 1902. The book covers the robbery, the investigation, two nationwide hunts for the fugitive and a daring break from the St. Louis City Jail. Two daring robbers, not yet 23 ans, pulled off
Mardi, Juillet 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
Sur Décembre 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. Les hommes ont pris $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
Sur Août 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, Janvier 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, Saint-. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 ans. 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. Cependant, 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
La nuit de Noël 1902, deux petites villes, petit temps, Des braqueurs ont fait sauter le coffre-fort de l'Union., Banque du Missouri. Après avoir menacé quelques citoyens, ils sont partis avec plus $15,000. Les hommes étaient relativement en sécurité pendant quelques mois jusqu'à ce que l'agence de détectives Pinkerton soit appelée.. Les Pinkerton avaient une agence nationale, qui était la chose la plus proche des États-Unis
Around 10 je suis jeudi, Avril 10, 1919, cinq hommes lourdement armés ont fait irruption dans la banque Baden. Les bandits ont affronté M.W.. Munzel, le caissier, et a demandé l'accès au coffre-fort. Ils ont rassemblé les quatre autres employés tandis que Muntzel conduisait le groupe au coffre-fort.. Les voleurs portaient des bandanas colorés pour masquer leurs traits.. Tandis que deux des cinq hommes