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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, and miscellaneous history.
U subotu, Travanj 9, 2022, Povijesno društvo Franklin County Missouri pozvalo me da održim PowerPoint prezentaciju o pljački banke Union Missouri 1902. Knjiga pokriva pljačku, istraga, dva državna lova na bjegunca i smion bijeg od St. Louis City Jail. Dva odvažna razbojnika, not yet 23 godina, skinuo
U utorak, Srpanj 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. Za 17 years from 1890
U prosincu 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,
Kolovoza 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, Siječanj 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, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 godina. 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. Odjel Louis policije. 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. Međutim, 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
U Božićnoj noći 1902, dva mala grada, malovrijeme, pljačkaši su raznijeli sef Unije, Missouri banka. Nakon prijetnji nekolicini građana, pobjegli su s preko $15,000. Muškarci su bili relativno sigurni nekoliko mjeseci dok nije pozvana detektivska agencija Pinkerton. Pinkertonovi su imali agenciju diljem zemlje, što je bilo najbliže Unitedu
Around 10 ujutro u četvrtak, Travanj 10, 1919, pet do zuba naoružanih ljudi upalo je u Baden Bank. Banditi su se sukobili s M.W. Munzel, blagajnik, i zahtijevao pristup trezoru. Okupili su četvero drugih zaposlenika dok je Muntzel vodio grupu do trezora. Pljačkaši su nosili šarene marame kako bi prikrili svoje lice. Dok su dvojica od pet muškaraca