היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Posts about the history of St. לואיס, מיזורי, and miscellaneous history.
ביום שבת, אפריל 9, 2022, החברה ההיסטורית של מחוז פרנקלין מיזורי הזמינה אותי להעביר מצגת PowerPoint על שוד הבנק של יוניון מיזורי 1902. הספר מכסה את השוד, את החקירה, שני ציד ארצי אחר הנמלט והפסקה נועזת מה-St. Louis City Jail. שני שודדים נועזים, not yet 23 גיל, משך
ביום שלישי, יולי 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, ג 'וניור. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
בדצמבר 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. לואיס, 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, ינואר 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, the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 שנים. 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. אולם, 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
בליל חג המולד 1902, two small town, small-time, holdup men blew open the safe of the Union, Missouri Bank. After threatening a few citizens, they made off with over $15,000. The men were relatively safe for a few months until the Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. The Pinkertons had a nationwide agency, which was the closest thing the United
בסביבות 10 בבוקר ביום חמישי, אפריל 10, 1919, חמישה גברים חמושים בכבדות פרצו לבנק באדן. השודדים התעמתו עם M.W. מונצל, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. הם קיבלו את ארבעת העובדים הנוספים בזמן שמונצל הוביל את הקבוצה לכספת. השודדים חבשו בנדנות צבעוניות כדי לטשטש את תווי פניהם. ואילו שניים מחמשת הגברים