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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
På lördag, April 9, 2022, Franklin County Missouri Historical Society bjöd in mig att ge en PowerPoint-presentation om Union Missouri Bank Robbery av 1902. Boken tar upp rånet, utredningen, två rikstäckande jakter på flyktingen och ett vågat avbrott från St. Louis City Jail. Två vågade rånare, inte ännu 23 år, drog av
Tom Allen föddes i Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 men han blev känd som en tungviktsbar knoge-prisfighter i Amerika. Bosätter sig i St. Louis around 1867, Allen vann American Heavyweight Championship i 1873 och höll titeln tills 1876. Han återvände till England i ett år innan han återvände till St. Louis för gott in 1878. Tillbaka
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. På 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. Louis Police Officer Joseph A. Gerk patrolled his beat on Eighteenth Street during the morning of May 26, 1901, när han
På Augusti 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, Januari 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 år. 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 polisen. 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. Emellertid, 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
På julnatten 1902, två små städer, liten tid, män sprängde upp unionens kassaskåp, Missouri Bank. Efter att ha hotat några medborgare, de gjorde av med över $15,000. Männen var relativt säkra i några månader tills Pinkerton Detective Agency kallades in. The Pinkertons hade en rikstäckande agentur, vilket var det närmaste United
Runt 10 är på torsdag, April 10, 1919, fem tungt beväpnade män trängde in på Badenbanken. Banditerna konfronterade M.W. Munzel, kassörskan, och krävde tillgång till valvet. De samlade ihop de fyra andra anställda när Muntzel ledde gruppen till valvet. Rånarna bar färgade bandanas för att dölja deras ansiktsdrag. Medan två av de fem männen