Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Op Saterdag, April 9, 2022, die Franklin County Missouri Historical Society het my genooi om 'n PowerPoint-aanbieding te gee oor die Union Missouri Bank Roof van 1902. Die boek dek die roof, die ondersoek, twee landwye jagtogte op die voortvlugtige en ’n gewaagde wegbreek van die St. Louis City Jail. Twee waaghalsige rowers, not yet 23 jaar oud, afgetrek
Tom Allen is in Birmingham gebore, England on April 23, 1840 maar hy het bekend geword as 'n swaargewig kaal kneukel prysvegter in Amerika. Vestig in St. Louis around 1867, Allen het die Amerikaanse swaargewigkampioenskap in 1873 en het die titel gehou tot 1876. Hy het vir 'n jaar na Engeland teruggekeer voordat hy na St. Louis vir goed in 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Op 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 Polisie Beampte Joseph A. Gerk gepatrolleer sy klop op Agtiende Street gedurende die oggend van Mei 26, 1901, toe hy
Augustus 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Louis, Missouri around 7:30 voormiddag. 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, Januarie 9, 1915, Sgt. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 voormiddag. 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 woorde, die St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 jaar. 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 Police Department. 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. Egter, 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
Op Kersnag 1902, twee klein dorpie, kleintyd, ophou manne het die kluis van die Unie oopgeblaas, Missouri Bank. Nadat hy 'n paar burgers gedreig het, hulle het weggetrek met oor $15,000. Die mans was vir 'n paar maande relatief veilig totdat die Pinkerton-speuragentskap ingeroep is. Die Pinkertons het 'n landwye agentskap gehad, wat die naaste aan die United was
Rondom 10 is Donderdag, April 10, 1919, vyf swaar gewapende mans het by die Baden Bank ingebars. Die bandiete het M.W. Munzel, die kassier, en het toegang tot die kluis geëis. Hulle het die vier ander werknemers bymekaargemaak toe Muntzel die groep na die kluis gelei het. Die rowers het gekleurde bandanas gedra om hul gelaatstrekke te verbloem. Terwyl twee van die vyf mans