Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
On laupäev, Aprill 9, 2022, Franklini maakonna Missouri ajalooselts kutsus mind pidama PowerPointi ettekannet Union Missouri pangaröövist. 1902. Raamat käsitleb röövimist, uurimine, kaks üleriigilist jahti põgenikule ja hulljulge paus St. Louis City Jail. Kaks julget röövlit, not yet 23 aastat, maha tõmmatud
Tom Allen sündis Birminghamis, England on April 23, 1840 kuid ta sai Ameerikas kuulsaks kui raskekaalu paljaste sõrmenukkidega võitleja. Asudes elama St. Louis around 1867, aastal võitis Allen Ameerika raskekaalu meistritiitli 1873 ja hoidis tiitlit kuni 1876. Ta naasis aastaks Inglismaale, enne kui naasis St. Louis lõplikult sisse 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Mail 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, kui ta
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, Jaanuar 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 aastat. 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 politseijaoskond. 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. Siiski, 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
Jõuluöö 1902, kaks väikelinna, tähtsusetu, holdup men blew open the safe of the Union, Missouri Bank. After threatening a few citizens, they made off with over $15,000. The men were relatively safe for a few months until the Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. The Pinkertons had a nationwide agency, which was the closest thing the United
Ümber 10 olen neljapäeval, Aprill 10, 1919, viis raskelt relvastatud meest tungisid Badeni panka. Bandiidid astusid M.W. Munzel, kassapidaja, ja nõudis juurdepääsu varahoidlasse. Nad kogusid neli ülejäänud töötajat kokku, kui Muntzel juhtis rühma varahoidlasse. Röövlid kandsid oma näojoonte varjamiseks värvilisi bandaane. Kuigi kaks viiest mehest