Historiador de deportes de combate y artista marcial
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
El sábado, Abril 9, 2022, la Sociedad Histórica de Missouri del condado de Franklin me invitó a dar una presentación de PowerPoint sobre el robo del banco Union Missouri Bank de 1902. El libro cubre el robo., la investigación, dos cacerías en todo el país del fugitivo y una escapada audaz del St.. Louis City Jail. Dos ladrones atrevidos, not yet 23 years of age, sacado
Tom Allen nació en Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 pero se hizo famoso como boxeador de peso pesado a puño limpio en Estados Unidos.. Instalarse en St.. Louis around 1867, Allen ganó el Campeonato Americano de Peso Pesado en 1873 y mantuvo el título hasta 1876. Regresó a Inglaterra durante un año antes de regresar a St.. Louis para siempre en 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. En mayo 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, cuando
En agosto 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, Enero 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, el St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 año. 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. Departamento de Policía de 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. Sin embargo, 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
en la noche de Navidad 1902, dos pequeños pueblos, poco tiempo, los asaltantes volaron la caja fuerte de la Unión, Banco de Misuri. Después de amenazar a algunos ciudadanos, se largaron con más $15,000. Los hombres estuvieron relativamente seguros durante unos meses hasta que se llamó a la Agencia de Detectives Pinkerton.. Los Pinkerton tenían una agencia a nivel nacional, que era lo mas parecido al United
Alrededor 10 am el jueves, Abril 10, 1919, cinco hombres fuertemente armados irrumpieron en el banco de Baden. Los bandidos se enfrentaron a M.W. Muntzel, el cajero, y exigió acceso a la bóveda. Acorralaron a los otros cuatro empleados mientras Muntzel conducía al grupo a la bóveda.. Los ladrones llevaban pañuelos de colores para ocultar sus rasgos.. Mientras dos de los cinco hombres