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Pada hari Sabtu, April 9, 2022, Persatuan Sejarah Missouri Daerah Franklin menjemput saya untuk memberikan persembahan PowerPoint mengenai Rompakan Bank Union Missouri 1902. Buku itu merangkumi rompakan, penyiasatan itu, dua pemburuan di seluruh negara untuk pelarian dan rehat berani dari St. Louis City Jail. Dua perompak berani, not yet 23 tahun, ditarik keluar
Tom Allen dilahirkan di Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 tetapi dia menjadi terkenal sebagai pejuang hadiah buku jari telanjang kelas berat di Amerika. Menetap di St. Louis around 1867, Allen memenangi Kejohanan Heavyweight Amerika di 1873 dan memegang gelaran sehingga 1876. Dia kembali ke England selama setahun sebelum kembali ke St. Louis untuk kebaikan 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Pada Mei 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, apabila dia
On August 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, 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 memperoleh reputasi sebagai pegawai polis yang sukar semasa kerjayanya di St. Jabatan Polis Louis. Dia akan memerlukan kesukaran itu pada pagi Januari 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 baru saja bangun dan bersiap-siap
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Walau bagaimanapun, 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 Krismas 1902, dua bandar kecil, masa kecil, lelaki tahanan meletupkan peti besi Kesatuan, Bank Missouri. Selepas mengugut beberapa orang rakyat, mereka membuat off dengan lebih $15,000. Lelaki itu agak selamat selama beberapa bulan sehingga Agensi Detektif Pinkerton dipanggil. Pinkertons mempunyai agensi di seluruh negara, yang merupakan perkara yang paling dekat dengan United
Sekitar 10 pagi Khamis, April 10, 1919, lima lelaki bersenjata berat menyerbu ke dalam Tebing Baden. Penyamun itu berhadapan dengan M.W. Munzel, juruwang, dan menuntut akses ke bilik kebal. Mereka mengumpulkan empat pekerja lain ketika Muntzel mengetuai kumpulan itu ke bilik kebal. Perompak itu memakai bandana berwarna untuk mengaburkan ciri-ciri mereka. Manakala dua daripada lima lelaki itu