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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
En torno a 10 son o xoves, Abril 10, 1919, cinco homes fortemente armados irromperon no banco de Baden. Os bandidos enfrontáronse a M.W. Munzel, o caixeiro, e esixiu o acceso á bóveda. Reuniron aos outros catro empregados mentres Muntzel conducía o grupo á bóveda. Os ladróns levaban bandanas de cores para ocultar os seus trazos. Mentres que dous dos cinco homes
En agosto 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. En 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. En 1847, o
En novembro 16, 1877, St. Louis Police Officer 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. The man later identified as Frank Rande entered Wright’s Pawnshop at about 9:30 A.M. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
En 1934, Charles Arthur “Neno guapo” Floyd rematou a súa carreira criminal nun Liverpool Leste, Ohio campo de millo tras un tiroteo con axentes do FBI e policías locais. Porén, en decembro 1925, el era o número preso 29078 no Missouri Penitenciaria. The 21-year-old Floyd acabara de ser condenado por roubar a oficina principal Kroeger Grocery e Baking Company
En outubro 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, que matou
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
En decembro de 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
En novembro 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney estaba deixando o St. Louis Country Club, cando se lle achegaron dous homes afroamericanos. O home de pel máis clara díxolle á Sra. Stickney para entregarlle as xoias ou quitárallas. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney entregoulle ao home as súas xoias, valorado en $17,000.00, e $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
En setembro de 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. Vostede
En setembro de 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. Durante anos, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate