Historik bojových športov a bojový umelec
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, and miscellaneous history.
V sobotu, Apríl 9, 2022, historická spoločnosť Franklin County Missouri Historical Society ma pozvala na prezentáciu v PowerPointe o bankovej lúpeži Union Missouri 1902. Kniha sa zaoberá lúpežou, vyšetrovanie, dve celoštátne poľovačky na utečenca a odvážna prestávka zo St. Louis City Jail. Dvaja odvážni lupiči, not yet 23 rokov, vytiahol
On Tuesday, Júl 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. Pre 17 years from 1890
Decembra 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. The men took $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
Augusta 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, Január 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 rokov. 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. Police Department Louis. 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. Však, 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
Na Štedrý večer 1902, dve malé mestá, malý čas, holdup muži odpálili trezor únie, Missouri Bank. Po vyhrážaní sa niekoľkým občanom, utiekli s nad $15,000. Muži boli niekoľko mesiacov relatívne v bezpečí, kým nezavolali detektívku Pinkerton. Pinkertonovci mali celoštátnu agentúru, čo bolo United najbližšie
Around 10 som vo štvrtok, Apríl 10, 1919, päť ťažko ozbrojených mužov vtrhlo do Baden Bank. Banditi konfrontovali M.W. Munzel, pokladníčka, a požadoval prístup do trezoru. Keď Muntzel viedol skupinu do trezoru, zhromaždili ďalších štyroch zamestnancov. Lupiči nosili farebné šatky, aby im zakryli črty tváre. Kým dvaja z piatich mužov