Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
O sábado, Abril 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 anos de idade, pulled off
Tom Allen naceu en Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 pero fíxose famoso como un peleador de peso pesado en América. Instalándose en St. Louis around 1867, Allen gañou o American Heavyweight Championship en 1873 e mantivo o título ata 1876. Volveu a Inglaterra durante un ano antes de regresar a St. Louis para sempre 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. En maio 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 Policía Joseph A. Gerk patrullada súa latexo Eighteenth Street durante a mañá de maio 26, 1901, cando
En agosto 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, Xaneiro 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, o St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 anos. 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 Departamento de Policía. 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. Porén, 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 noite de Nadal 1902, dous cidade pequena, pequeno-time, homes atracos abriron a caixa forte da Unión, Banco de Missouri. Despois de ameazar a uns cantos cidadáns, saíron con over $15,000. Os homes estiveron relativamente seguros durante uns meses ata que se chamou á Axencia de Detectives Pinkerton. Os Pinkerton tiñan unha axencia a nivel nacional, que era o máis parecido ao United
En torno a 10 son o xoves, Abril 10, 1919, cinco homes fortemente armados irromperon no banco de Baden. Os bandidos enfrontáronse a M.W. Munzel, o caixeiro, e esixiu o acceso á bóveda. Reuniron aos outros catro empregados mentres Muntzel conducía o grupo á bóveda. Os ladróns levaban bandanas de cores para ocultar os seus trazos. Mentres que dous dos cinco homes