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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Azaroaren on 16, 1877, St. Louis Policía 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. Gizona geroago Frank Rande gisa identifikatu Wrighten pawnshop sartu buruz at 9:30 a.m. Wright bere laguntzaile bat bidaliko polizia. As Officer White and Heffernan
Urtean 1934, Charles Arthur “Mutil Polita” Floydek bere karrera kriminala amaitu zuen East Liverpool-en, Ohioko arto-zelaia FBIko agenteekin eta tokiko legea betearazteko agenteekin tiroketa baten ostean. Hala ere, abenduan 1925, preso zenbakia zen 29078 Missouriko espetxean. Floyd 21 urteko gaztea Kroeger Grocery and Baking Companyren bulego nagusia lapurtzeagatik epaitu berri zuten.
Urriaren On 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, hil zuena
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
Abenduaren on 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
Azaroaren on 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney St. Louis Country Club, bi gizon afroamerikar hurbildu zitzaizkionean. Larru argiagoko gizonak esan zion Mrs. Stickneyk bitxiak itzultzeko edo hark kenduko zizkion. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickneyk gizonari bere bitxiak eman zizkion, baloratua $17,000.00, eta $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
Irailaren 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
Irailaren 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. Urtez, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
During the last week of December 1902, William Rudolph, a recently returned miner to Franklin County, and George Collins robbed the Union Bank in Union, MO. They robbed it overnight, when no one was present by blowing up the safe. 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.