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Posts about the history of St. Ludovicus, Missouri, and miscellaneous history.
Die Saturni, April 9, 2022, Franklin Comitatus Missouri Historica Societas me invitavit ut exhibeam PowerPoint praesentationem in Missouri Unionis Bank Latrocinari. 1902. Liber rapinam tegit, investigatione, duas nationes venationes fugitivorum et e St. Louis City Jail. Duo audaces latrones, nondum 23 annorum aetatis,, lacerans *
Die martis, July 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
In December 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. Quod acceperunt viri $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. Ludovicus, 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, January 9, 1915, Centurio. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 a.m. Centurio. 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 verba,, in S.. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 annis. 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. Ludovicus Lorem ipsum dolor sit. 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. Autem, 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
De Christmas 1902, civitates duas, tempus parvum,, holdup cecinit hominibus tutum Unionis, Missouri Bank. Post paucos cives minatus, fecerunt cum super $15,000. Homines paucis mensibus relative securi erant donec Agency Pinkerton Detective in nomine vocatus est. Pinkertons erat nationwide propellente, quae maxima est Civitatibus Foederatis
Circa 10 sum die Iovis, April 10, 1919, quinque gravis armatorum in Baden Bank. Praedones opponere M.W. Munzel, CONLECTARIUS, et postulavit aditum ad firmamentum. Circumductis quattuor aliis conductos ut Muntzel duxit coetus ad convexa. Latrones bandanas coloratas in lineamentis obscurare. Duobus quinque