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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Sâmbătă, Aprilie 9, 2022, Societatea istorică din comitatul Franklin Missouri m-a invitat să fac o prezentare PowerPoint despre jaful de bancă din Uniune Missouri 1902. Cartea acoperă jaful, investigatia, două vânătoare la nivel național pentru fugar și o pauză îndrăzneață de la St. Louis City Jail. Doi tâlhari îndrăzneți, Nu încă 23 ani, scos
Tom Allen s-a născut la Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 dar a devenit celebru ca un luptător de premii cu degetul greu în America. Stabilindu-se in St. Louis around 1867, Allen a câștigat campionatul american la categoria grea în 1873 și a deținut titlul până când 1876. S-a întors în Anglia timp de un an înainte de a se întoarce la St. Louis pentru totdeauna în 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. La data de 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, atunci când el
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, Ianuarie 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 ani. 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 Departamentul de Poliție. 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. Totuși, 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
În noaptea de Crăciun 1902, două orașe mici, timp mic, Oamenii de atac au deschis în aer seiful Uniunii, Banca Missouri. După ce a amenințat câțiva cetățeni, au plecat cu peste $15,000. Bărbații au fost relativ în siguranță câteva luni până când Agenția de Detectivi Pinkerton a fost chemată. Familia Pinkerton avea o agenție la nivel național, care era cel mai apropiat lucru United
Around 10 am on Thursday, Aprilie 10, 1919, five heavily armed men burst into the Baden Bank. The bandits confronted M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. They rounded up the four other employees as Muntzel led the group to the vault. The robbers wore colored bandanas to obscure their features. While two of the five men