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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
På lørdag, April 9, 2022, Franklin County Missouri Historical Society inviterte meg til å holde en PowerPoint-presentasjon om Union Missouri Bank Robbery of 1902. Boken dekker ranet, etterforskningen, to landsomfattende jakter på flyktningen og et vågalt avbrekk fra St. Louis City Jail. To dristige ranere, not yet 23 år, trukket av
Tom Allen ble født i Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men han ble berømt som en tungvekts bar knoke priskjemper i Amerika. Bosette seg i St. Louis around 1867, Allen vant American Heavyweight Championship i 1873 og holdt tittelen til 1876. Han returnerte til England i et år før han returnerte til St. Louis for godt i 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Mai 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 patruljerte hans takten på attende gate i løpet av formiddagen av mai 26, 1901, når han
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, Januar 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 år. 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 opparbeidet seg et rykte som en tøff politibetjent i løpet av sin karriere i St.. Louis Police Department. Han ville trenge all den seigheten morgenen januar 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 hadde nettopp våknet og gjorde seg klar
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. However, 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
On Christmas Night 1902, to småby, liten tid, holdup menn blåste opp safen til unionen, Missouri Bank. Etter å ha truet noen få borgere, de tok av med over $15,000. Mennene var relativt trygge i noen måneder inntil Pinkerton Detective Agency ble kalt inn. The Pinkertons hadde et landsdekkende byrå, som var det nærmeste United
Rundt 10 er på torsdag, April 10, 1919, fem tungt bevæpnede menn brøt ut i Baden Bank. Bandittene konfronterte M.W. Muntzel, kassereren, og krevde tilgang til hvelvet. De avrundet de fire andre ansatte da Muntzel ledet gruppen til hvelvet. Ranerne hadde på seg fargede bandanas for å tilsløre funksjonene deres. Mens to av de fem mennene