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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Të shtunën, Prill 9, 2022, Shoqëria Historike e Misurit të Qarkut Franklin më ftoi të bëja një prezantim në PowerPoint mbi Grabitjen e Bankës së Union Missouri të 1902. Libri mbulon grabitjen, hetimin, dy gjueti mbarëkombëtare për të arratisurin dhe një shkëputje e guximshme nga St. Louis City Jail. Dy grabitës të guximshëm, ende jo 23 vjeç, u tërhoq
Tom Allen ka lindur në Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 por ai u bë i famshëm si një luftëtar çmimesh i zhveshur në peshën e rëndë në Amerikë. Vendosja në St. Louis around 1867, Allen fitoi kampionatin amerikan të peshave të rënda në 1873 dhe mbajti titullin deri 1876. Ai u kthye në Angli për një vit përpara se të kthehej në St. Louis për të mirë në 1878. Prapa
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Në maj 26, 1901, O’Keefe proved his toughness and quick thinking again by saving a fellow officer from an excited horse and shed fire. St. Zyrtari i policisë Louis Joseph A. Gerk patrulluar mundi e tij mbi tetëmbëdhjetë Rruga gjatë mëngjesin e majit 26, 1901, kur ai
Më gusht 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, Janar 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 vjet. 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. Departamenti i policisë 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. Megjithatë, 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
Natën e Krishtlindjes 1902, dy qytete të vogla, kohë të vogël, burrat e mbajtjes hapën kasafortën e Unionit, Banka e Misurit. Pasi ka kërcënuar disa qytetarë, ata u larguan me mbi $15,000. Burrat ishin relativisht të sigurt për disa muaj derisa u thirr Agjencia e Detektivëve Pinkerton. Pinkertonët kishin një agjenci mbarëkombëtare, që ishte gjëja më e afërt e United
Rreth 10 am on Thursday, Prill 10, 1919, five heavily armed men burst into the Baden Bank. The bandits confronted M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. They rounded up the four other employees as Muntzel led the group to the vault. The robbers wore colored bandanas to obscure their features. While two of the five men