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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. However, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
General William Tecumseh Sherman da fama Guerra Civil tinha raízes profundas na St. Louis que remonta a 1843. Como um soldado, ele foi designado para Jefferson Barracks. Ele também estava envolvido em St. Louis businesses as the St. Louis Rua Railroad Company presidente até que ele deixou St. Louis for the Civil War in 1861. After the war, St. Louis’ citizens
Em abril de 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, também conhecido como “A Bandit Red-Headed”, entrou na Easton-Taylor Trust Company em 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith tinha um revólver em cada mão e exigiu o dinheiro do caixa. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 em um saco. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby
Eu já escrevi sobre um incidente no qual um sargento detetive para o St. Louis Polícia foi baleado durante uma tentativa de assalto. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. História 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
Em uma noite fria de janeiro, em 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis Polícia, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Louis Departamento de Polícia. St. Louis Police Detective Sergeant James Martin King was walking to his home at 4973 Lotus Avenue via N. Kingshighway Boulevard, when two
Na quinta-feira, Junho 12, 1919, Earl Hunter and Charles Bergman, uma liberdade condicional e ex-presidiário, levantou o Meramec Trust Company, logo após 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 um dos mais movimentados blocos carro rua na cidade. The robbers had
William Dillon was responding to reports about the murder of Officer McKenna by the Lewis Brothers. Dillon acredita que os irmãos Lewis, que eram automóveis e fios ladrões, foram responsáveis pela morte de McKenna. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. Ele observou dois dos irmãos Lewis entrarem na garagem do Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Before Friday, Abril 7, 1916 was over, the Lewis brothers would kill two St. Oficiais Louis Polícia, 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,
O incidente mais mortífero em St. História Louis Polícia não era um tiroteio, desastre natural ou ato de terrorismo. O incidente mais mortífero em St. História Louis polícia ocorreu na noite desta segunda-feira, Setembro 3, 1900. Electricity was the assailant as a power line with 3300 volts de eletricidade caiu sobre as linhas telefônicas, at Eight Street and Carr Avenue. O
Na sexta-feira, Abril 24, 1953, três homens e um motorista de fuga tentaram assaltar o Banco do sudoeste, na esquina da Avenida Sudoeste e S. Kingshighway Boulevard em St. Louis, MO. O St. Louis Polícia frustrou o assalto, que se tornou o foco de uma 1959 filme, A Grande São. Roubo Louis Banco. O filme está agora no domínio público. Fred W. Bowerman,