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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Ar Dachwedd 16, 1877, St. Heddwas Louis 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. Y dyn a nodwyd yn ddiweddarach fel Frank Rande aeth pawnshop Wright ar tua 9:30 a.m. Wright anfon un o'i gynorthwywyr ar gyfer yr heddlu. As Officer White and Heffernan
Yn 1934, Charles Arthur “Bachgen Pretty” Daeth Floyd â'i yrfa droseddol i ben yn Nwyrain Lerpwl, Cae yd Ohio ar ôl saethu allan gydag asiantau FBI a swyddogion gorfodi'r gyfraith lleol. Fodd bynnag,, ym mis Rhagfyr 1925, rhif y carcharor ydoedd 29078 yn y Missouri Penitentiary. Roedd Floyd, 21 oed, newydd ei gael yn euog o ladrata o brif swyddfa Cwmni Bwyd a Pobi Kroeger
Ar Hydref 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, which killed
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
Ar Ragfyr 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
Ar Dachwedd 10, 1924, Mrs. Mae A.W. Roedd Stickney yn gadael y St. Clwb Gwledig Louis, pan ddaeth dau ddyn Affricanaidd-Americanaidd ati. Dywedodd y dyn ysgafnach ei groen wrth Mrs. Stickney i droi ei thlysau drosodd neu byddai'n eu cymryd oddi wrthi. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Rhoddodd Stickney ei gemwaith i'r dyn, gwerthfawrogi yn $17,000.00, a $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
On 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. Chi
On 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. Ar gyfer blynyddoedd, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Yn ystod wythnos olaf mis Rhagfyr 1902, William Rudolph, glöwr newydd ddychwelyd i Franklin Sir, a George Collins robbed y Banc Undeb yn Undeb, MO. Maent yn dwyn dros nos, pan nad oes unrhyw un yn bresennol trwy chwythu i fyny 'r yn ddiogel. 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. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.