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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Sestdien, Aprīlis 9, 2022, Franklinas apgabala Misūri štata vēsturiskā biedrība uzaicināja mani uzstāties ar PowerPoint prezentāciju par Union Missouri bankas aplaupīšanu. 1902. Grāmata aptver laupīšanu, izmeklēšanu, divas bēgļa medības visā valstī un pārdroši pārtraukums no Sv. Louis City Jail. Divi pārdroši laupītāji, not yet 23 gadiem, novilka
Tom Allen was born in Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 but he became famous as a heavyweight bare knuckle prizefighter in America. Settling in St. Louis around 1867, Allen won the American Heavyweight Championship in 1873 and held the title until 1876. He returned to England for a year before returning to St. Louis for good in 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Gada maijā 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, kad viņš
Augustā 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. “Domkrats” 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, Janvāris 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 gadiem. 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 policijas pārvalde. 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. Tomēr, 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
Ziemassvētku naktī 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
Around 10 esmu ceturtdien, Aprīlis 10, 1919, pieci smagi bruņoti vīrieši ielauzās Bādenes bankā. Bandīti stājās pretī M.W. Munzels, kasieris, un pieprasīja piekļuvi velvei. Viņi sapulcināja četrus citus darbiniekus, kad Muncels veda grupu uz glabātuvi. Laupītāji valkāja krāsainas bandanas, lai aizsegtu savus vaibstus. Kamēr divi no pieciem vīriešiem