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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, and miscellaneous history.
Il Sabato, Aprile 9, 2022, la Franklin County Missouri Historical Society mi ha invitato a tenere una presentazione PowerPoint sulla rapina alla banca della Union Missouri 1902. Il libro tratta della rapina, l'indagine, due cacce a livello nazionale al fuggitivo e un'audace fuga dalla St. Louis City Jail. Due audaci ladri, not yet 23 anni, tirato fuori
Il Martedì, Luglio 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
Dicembre 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,
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, Gennaio 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 anni. 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. Dipartimento di Polizia di Louis. 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. Tuttavia, 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
La notte di Natale 1902, due piccole città, piccolo tempo, gli uomini della rapina hanno fatto saltare la cassaforte dell'Unione, Banca del Missouri. Dopo aver minacciato alcuni cittadini, se ne sono andati con over $15,000. Gli uomini furono relativamente al sicuro per alcuni mesi finché non fu chiamata l'agenzia investigativa Pinkerton. I Pinkerton avevano un'agenzia nazionale, che era la cosa più vicina allo United
In giro 10 sono giovedì, Aprile 10, 1919, cinque uomini pesantemente armati irruppero nella Banca del Baden. I banditi affrontarono M.W. Munzel, il cassiere, e ha chiesto l'accesso al caveau. Hanno radunato gli altri quattro dipendenti mentre Muntzel guidava il gruppo al caveau. I ladri indossavano bandane colorate per nascondere i loro lineamenti. Mentre due dei cinque uomini