Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Op November 16, 1877, St. Louis Polisie Beampte John S. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. Die man het later geïdentifiseer as Frank Rande aangegaan Wright se pandjieswinkel omstreeks 9:30 voormiddag. Wright het een van sy assistente vir die polisie. As Officer White and Heffernan
In 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. Egter, in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Op Oktober 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, wat vermoor het
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
Op Desember 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office
Op November 10, 1924, Mev. A.W. Stickney was besig om die St. Louis Buiteklub, toe sy deur twee Afro-Amerikaanse mans genader is. Die ligter vel het aan mev. Stickney om haar juwele om te draai of hy sal dit by haar neem. Fearing for her safety, Mev. Stickney het haar juweliersware aan die man gegee, gewaardeer op $17,000.00, en $85.00 in cash. Mev.
Op September 15, 1887, a muscular man stood in the First District Police Court listening to Judge Cady. As he looked out between eyes almost swollen shut and a busted lip, he waited to see if justice would be done. It was as Judge Cady told the beaten man, “$10 fine for disturbing the peace. $100 for resisting arrest. You
Op September 15, 1919, St. Louis citizens woke up to read about the death of one of their oldest citizens, Alexander Baptiste. Just a few months before his 101st or 102nd birthday depending on which source you believed, Alexander Baptiste passed away from intestinal disease. Vir jare, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Gedurende die laaste week van Desember 1902, William Rudolph, 'n onlangs teruggekeer mynwerker Franklin County, en George Collins beroof die Unie Bank in Unie, MO. Hulle beroof dit oornag, wanneer niemand teenwoordig deur die blaas van die kluis was. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. Mnr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.