Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, and miscellaneous history.
Á laugardag, Apríl 9, 2022, sögufélagið Franklin County Missouri bauð mér að halda PowerPoint kynningu um bankarán Union Missouri banka 1902. Bókin fjallar um ránið, rannsókninni, tvær landsvísar veiðar á flóttanum og áræðin hlé frá St. Louis City Jail. Tveir áræðnir ræningjar, not yet 23 ára, dregið af
Á þriðjudag, Júlí 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
Á Desember 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,
Ágúst 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, Janúar 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 orð, The St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 ár. 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. Þó, 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
Á jólanótt 1902, tveir litlir bæir, litlum tíma, haltu menn sprengdu upp öryggisskáp Sambandsins, Missouri banki. Eftir að hafa hótað nokkrum borgurum, þeir lögðu af stað með yfir $15,000. Mennirnir voru tiltölulega öruggir í nokkra mánuði þar til Pinkerton leynilögreglustofan var kölluð til. Pinkerton-hjónin voru með umboðsskrifstofu um allt land, sem var næst því United
Around 10 er á fimmtudaginn, Apríl 10, 1919, fimm þungvopnaðir menn ruddust inn í Baden-bankann. Ræningjarnir tókust á við M.W. Munzel, gjaldkerinn, og krafðist aðgangs að gröfinni. Þeir tóku saman fjóra aðra starfsmenn þegar Muntzel leiddi hópinn að hvelfingunni. Ræningjarnir klæddust lituðum bandönum til að hylja andlit þeirra. Á meðan tveir af fimm mönnum