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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Pada hari Sabtu, April 9, 2022, Franklin County Missouri Historical Society mengundang saya untuk memberikan presentasi PowerPoint tentang Perampokan Bank Union Missouri 1902. Buku itu mencakup perampokan, investigasi, dua perburuan nasional untuk buronan dan terobosan berani dari St. Louis City Jail. Dua perampok yang berani, not yet 23 tahun, ditarik
Tom Allen lahir di Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 tapi dia menjadi terkenal sebagai petarung hadiah bare knuckle kelas berat di Amerika. Menetap di St. Louis around 1867, Allen memenangkan Kejuaraan Kelas Berat Amerika di 1873 dan memegang gelar itu sampai 1876. Dia kembali ke Inggris selama setahun sebelum kembali ke St. Louis. Louis untuk selamanya 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Pada tanggal 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 Police Officer Joseph A. Gerk patrolled his beat on Eighteenth Street during the morning of May 26, 1901, ketika ia
Pada Agustus 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, Januari 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 tahun. 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 Kepolisian. 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. However, 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
Pada Malam Natal 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
Sekitar 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