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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Nan samdi, Avril 9, 2022, Sosyete Istorik Franklin County Missouri te envite m 'fè yon prezantasyon PowerPoint sou Inyon Missouri Bank Robbery nan 1902. Liv la kouvri vòl la, ankèt la, de lachas nan tout peyi a pou fugitif la ak yon repo nana nan St. Louis City Jail. De vòlè nana, not yet 23 ane ki gen laj, rale
Tom Allen te fèt nan Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men li te vin pi popilè kòm yon prizefighter pwa loud nan Amerik la. Etabli nan St. Louis around 1867, Allen te genyen chanpyona Ameriken Heavyweight nan 1873 epi kenbe tit la jiskaske 1876. Li te retounen Angletè pou yon ane anvan li te retounen nan St. Louis pou bon nan 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Sou Me 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, lè li te
Sou Out 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, Janvye 9, 1915, Sèjan. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 a.m. Sèjan. 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 Mo, St a. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 ane. 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. Depatman Lapolis 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. Sepandan, 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
Sou Nwèl lannwit 1902, de ti vil, ti tan, holdup mesye yo te soufle louvri sekirite a nan Inyon an, Missouri Bank. Apre menase kèk sitwayen, yo te ale ak plis pase $15,000. Mesye yo te relativman an sekirite pou kèk mwa jiskaske Ajans Detectif Pinkerton te rele. Pinkertons yo te gen yon ajans nan tout peyi a, ki te bagay ki pi pre Etazini an
Around 10 mwen menm Jedi, Avril 10, 1919, senk gason ame ki pete nan Baden Bank la. Bandi yo te konfwonte M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. Yo awondi kat lòt anplwaye yo menm jan Muntzel te mennen gwoup la nan vout la. Vòlè yo te mete bannan ki gen koulè pal pou kache karakteristik yo. Pandan ke de nan senk mesye yo