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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. Tuttavia, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt scelse il suo Segretario alla Guerra ed ex governatore delle Filippine
Il generale William Tecumseh Sherman of fame guerra civile aveva radici profonde nella St. Louis che risale al 1843. Come un soldato, è stato assegnato a Jefferson Barracks. E 'stato anche coinvolto in St. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Street Railroad Company President until he left St. Louis for the Civil War in 1861. After the war, St. Louis’ citizens
Aprile 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, noto anche come “La Bandit Red-Headed”, entrato nella Easton-Taylor Trust Company a 4474 Easton Viale. Smith aveva una pistola in ogni mano e ha chiesto i soldi dalla cassa. Temendo per la sua vita, l'impiegato si arrese prontamente $15,309 in un sacco. John Lanigan, il presidente della banca, sedeva nel suo ufficio vicino all'atrio
I previously wrote about an incident in which a Detective Sergeant for the St. Louis Police was shot during a robbery attempt. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. Storia 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
On a cold January night in 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis polizia, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Dipartimento di Polizia di Louis. St. Louis Police Detective Sergeant James Martin King was walking to his home at 4973 Lotus Avenue via N. Kingshighway Boulevard, when two
Giovedi ', Giugno 12, 1919, Earl Hunter e Charles Bergman, un parolee ed ex-galeotto, tenuto il Meramec Trust Company poco dopo l'apertura a 07:00 a.m. The robbery was not well planned and even more poorly executed. L'angolo della Virginia Avenue e Meramec Street è stato uno dei più attivi blocchi auto strada in città. The robbers had
William Dillon was responding to reports about the murder of Officer McKenna by the Lewis Brothers. Dillon ritiene che i Fratelli Lewis, che erano auto e filo ladri, erano responsabili della morte di McKenna. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Viale. He observed two of the Lewis brothers enter the garage in the Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Before Friday, Aprile 7, 1916 was over, the Lewis brothers would kill two St. Ufficiali di polizia Louis, John McKenna and William Dillon. McKenna was the first to fall, when he interrupted the brothers attempts to steal wire, a valuable commodity during World War I. Dillon would be killed investigating McKenna’s murder. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,
L'incidente mortale in St. La storia di Louis polizia non era una sparatoria, calamità naturale o di un atto di terrorismo. L'incidente mortale in St. Storia Louis polizia si è verificato nella notte di Lunedi, September 3, 1900. Electricity was the assailant as a power line with 3300 volt di elettricità caddero sulle linee telefoniche, at Eight Street and Carr Avenue. Il
Il Venerdì, Aprile 24, 1953, three men and a getaway driver attempted to rob the Southwest Bank on the corner of Southwest Avenue and S. Kingshighway Boulevard in St. Louis, MO. Il St. Louis Police foiled the robbery, which became the focus of a 1959 film, Il Gran San. Louis Bank Robbery. The film is now in the public domain. Fred W. Bowerman,