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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Però, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
El general William Tecumseh Sherman de la fama de la guerra civil tenia profundes arrels a St. Louis es remunta a 1843. Com soldat, va ser assignat a la Caserna de Jefferson. Ell també va estar implicat en St. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Street Railroad Company president fins que va marxar de Sant. Louis for the Civil War in 1861. After the war, St. Louis’ citizens
A l'abril 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, també conegut com “El bandit de cap vermell”, va entrar a la Trust Company Easton-Taylor en 4474 Easton Avinguda. Smith tenia un revòlver a cada mà i va exigir els diners de la caixa. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 en un sac. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby
Jo ja vaig escriure sobre un incident en què un sergent detectiu per St. Policia Louis va rebre un tret durant un intent de robatori. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. Història Louis, Detective Sergeant James Martin King’s home in January 1920 still exists. The home is still in excellent condition. 4973 Lotus Avenue was the home of Sgt. King in
En una freda nit de gener a 1920, the deadliest year for St. Policia Louis, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Departament de Policia de Louis. St. Detectiu de la Policia Louis sergent James Martin King caminava cap a casa a 4973 Avinguda Lotus via N. KINGSHIGHWAY bulevard, when two
On Thursday, Juny 12, 1919, Earl Hunter i Charles Bergman, a parolee and ex-convict, held up the Meramec Trust Company shortly after it opened at 07:00 A.M. The robbery was not well planned and even more poorly executed. The corner of Virginia Avenue and Meramec Street was one of the busiest street car blocks in the city. The robbers had
William Dillon estava responent als informes sobre l'assassinat de l'agent McKenna pels germans Lewis. Dillon creu que els germans Lewis, que eren automòbils i filferro lladres, van ser responsables de la mort de McKenna. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avinguda. He observed two of the Lewis brothers enter the garage in the Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Abans de divendres, Abril 7, 1916 havia acabat, els germans Lewis matarien 2 St. Els oficials de policia Louis, John McKenna i William Dillon. McKenna va ser el primer a caure, quan va interrompre els germans intents de robar filferro, a valuable commodity during World War I. Dillon matarien investigant l'assassinat de McKenna. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,
L'incident més mortífer a St. Història Policia Louis no era un tiroteig, desastre natural o un acte de terrorisme. L'incident més mortífer a St. Història Policia Louis va ocórrer en la nit de dilluns, Setembre 3, 1900. L'electricitat va ser l'agressor com a línia elèctrica amb 3300 volts d'electricitat van caure sobre les línies telefòniques, at Eight Street and Carr Avenue. La
Divendres, Abril 24, 1953, tres homes i un conductor de la partida intentar robar el Banc de Southwest a la cantonada de l'avinguda Southwest i S. KINGSHIGHWAY Boulevard a San. Louis, MO. El St. Policia Louis frustrar el robatori, que es va convertir en el focus d'un 1959 pel · lícula, El Gran Sant. Robatori Louis Banc. The film is now in the public domain. Fred W. Bowerman,