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Posts about St. Ludovicus,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Die Saturni, April 9, 2022, Franklin Comitatus Missouri Historica Societas me invitavit ut exhibeam PowerPoint praesentationem in Missouri Unionis Bank Latrocinari. 1902. Liber rapinam tegit, investigatione, duas nationes venationes fugitivorum et e St. Louis City Jail. Duo audaces latrones, nondum 23 annorum aetatis,, lacerans *
Tom Allen natus est in Birminghamia, England on April 23, 1840 sed clarus factus est ut heavyweight nudum talorum prizefighter in America. Habitavit in St. Louis around 1867, Allen vicit American Heavyweight VINDICIAE in 1873 et tenuit titulo usque ad 1876. In Angliam rediit ante annum quam ad St. Ludovici pro bono in 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. May 26, 1901, O’Keefe proved his toughness and quick thinking again by saving a fellow officer from an excited horse and shed fire. St. Police Ludovicum A Joseph Officer. Perambulaverunt Gerk his verberet Eighteenth Street in mane May 26, 1901, cum
On August 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Ludovicus, 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, January 9, 1915, Centurio. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 a.m. Centurio. 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 verba,, in S.. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 annis. 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. Ludovicus Lorem ipsum dolor sit. 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. Autem, 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
De Christmas 1902, civitates duas, tempus parvum,, holdup cecinit hominibus tutum Unionis, Missouri Bank. Post paucos cives minatus, fecerunt cum super $15,000. Homines paucis mensibus relative securi erant donec Agency Pinkerton Detective in nomine vocatus est. Pinkertons erat nationwide propellente, quae maxima est Civitatibus Foederatis
Circa 10 sum die Iovis, April 10, 1919, quinque gravis armatorum in Baden Bank. Praedones opponere M.W. Munzel, CONLECTARIUS, et postulavit aditum ad firmamentum. Circumductis quattuor aliis conductos ut Muntzel duxit coetus ad convexa. Latrones bandanas coloratas in lineamentis obscurare. Duobus quinque