Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
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. Porén, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt escolleu ao seu secretario de guerra e antigo gobernador das Filipinas
Xeneral William Tecumseh Sherman da fama Guerra Civil tiña raíces profundas na St. Louis que se remonta a 1843. Como un soldado, el foi designado para Jefferson Barracks. Tamén estaba involucrado en St. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Rúa Railroad Company presidente ata que deixou St. Louis for the Civil War in 1861. After the war, St. Louis’ citizens
En abril 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, also known as “The Red-Headed Bandit”, walked into the Easton-Taylor Trust Company at 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith had a revolver in each hand and demanded money from the cashier. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 in a sack. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby
Eu xa escribín sobre un incidente no que un sarxento detective ao St. Louis Policía foi baleado durante un intento de asalto. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. Historia 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
Nunha noite fría de xaneiro, en 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis Policía, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Louis Departamento de Policía. St. Louis Policía Detective Sergeant James Martin King estaba camiñando para a súa casa en 4973 Lotus Avenue vía N. Kingshighway Boulevard, when two
O xoves, Xuño 12, 1919, Earl Hunter and Charles Bergman, unha liberdade condicional e ex-presidiário, incrementar o Meramec Trust Company, logo aberto no 07:00 A.M. The robbery was not well planned and even more poorly executed. O canto da Virginia Avenue e Meramec Street era un dos máis movidos bloques coche rúa na cidade. The robbers had
William Dillon estaba respondendo a relatos sobre o asasinato de Director McKenna polos Lewis Irmáns. Dillon cría que os irmáns Lewis, que eran automóbiles e fío ladróns, foron responsables da morte de McKenna. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. He observed two of the Lewis brothers enter the garage in the Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Antes do venres, Abril 7, 1916 foi máis, os irmáns Lewis mataría dous St. Oficiais Louis Policía, John McKenna e William Dillon. McKenna foi o primeiro en caer, cando interrompeu os irmáns intenta roubar fío, a valuable commodity during World War I. Dillon sería morto investigando o asasinato de McKenna. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,
O incidente máis mortífero en St. Historia Louis Policía non era un tiroteo, desastre natural ou acto de terrorismo. O incidente máis mortífero en St. Historia Louis policía tivo lugar na noite deste luns, Setembro 3, 1900. Electricity was the assailant as a power line with 3300 voltios de electricidade caeu sobre as liñas telefónicas, at Eight Rúa e Carr Avenue. O
O venres, Abril 24, 1953, tres homes e un condutor de fuga tentaron asaltar o Banco do suroeste, na esquina da Avenida Suroeste e S. Kingshighway Boulevard en St. Louis, MO. O St. Louis Policía frustrou o asalto, que se fixo o foco dunha 1959 película, A gran San. Roubo Louis Banco. A película está no dominio público. Fred W. Bowerman,