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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Le samedi, Avril 9, 2022, the Franklin County Missouri Historical Society invited me to give a PowerPoint presentation on the Union Missouri Bank Robbery of 1902. The book covers the robbery, the investigation, two nationwide hunts for the fugitive and a daring break from the St. Louis City Jail. Two daring robbers, not yet 23 ans, pulled off
Tom Allen est né à Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 mais il est devenu célèbre en tant que boxeur poids lourd aux mains nues en Amérique. S'installer à St. Louis around 1867, Allen a remporté le championnat américain des poids lourds en 1873 et détenait le titre jusqu'à 1876. Il est retourné en Angleterre pendant un an avant de retourner à St. Louis pour de bon dans 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Sur mai 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, quand il
Sur Août 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, Janvier 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, Saint-. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 ans. 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. Cependant, 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
La nuit de Noël 1902, deux petites villes, petit temps, Des braqueurs ont fait sauter le coffre-fort de l'Union., Banque du Missouri. Après avoir menacé quelques citoyens, ils sont partis avec plus $15,000. Les hommes étaient relativement en sécurité pendant quelques mois jusqu'à ce que l'agence de détectives Pinkerton soit appelée.. Les Pinkerton avaient une agence nationale, qui était la chose la plus proche des États-Unis
Around 10 je suis jeudi, Avril 10, 1919, cinq hommes lourdement armés ont fait irruption dans la banque Baden. Les bandits ont affronté M.W.. Munzel, le caissier, et a demandé l'accès au coffre-fort. Ils ont rassemblé les quatre autres employés tandis que Muntzel conduisait le groupe au coffre-fort.. Les voleurs portaient des bandanas colorés pour masquer leurs traits.. Tandis que deux des cinq hommes