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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
V soboto, April 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 let, pulled off
Tom Allen se je rodil v Birminghamu, England on April 23, 1840 vendar je zaslovel kot goli borec v težki kategoriji v Ameriki. Naselitev v St. Louis around 1867, Allen je osvojil naslov ameriškega prvaka v težki kategoriji v 1873 in držal naziv do 1876. Vrnil se je v Anglijo za eno leto, preden se je vrnil v St. Louis za vedno noter 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Maja 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 Policist Joseph. Gerk patruljirajo njegov utrip na osemnajstem Street dopoldne maja 26, 1901, ko je
Avgusta 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, Januar 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 besede, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 let. 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. Policija 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. Vendar, 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
Na božični večer 1902, dva mestece, mali čas, rop moški pihal odpreti varno Unije, Missouri Bank. Po grozi nekaj državljanov, se je začelo z več kot $15,000. Možje so relativno varna za nekaj mesecev, dokler je agencija detektiv Pinkerton poklical. V Pinkertons imeli državno agencijo, ki je najbližja stvar, Združeno
Around 10 zjutraj v četrtek, April 10, 1919, pet do zob oboroženih mož je vdrlo v Baden Bank. Banditi so soočili M.W. Munzel, blagajnik, in zahteval dostop do trezorja. Zgrabili so štiri druge zaposlene, medtem ko je Muntzel vodil skupino do trezorja. Roparji so nosili barvne bandane, da bi zakrili svoje poteze. Medtem ko sta dva od petih moških