Harcsporttörténész és harcművész
Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
Karácsony este 1902, két kis település, kis idő, holdup férfi fújt nyissa meg a biztonságos, az Unió, Missouri Bank. After threatening a few citizens, tették ki, több mint $15,000. The men were relatively safe for a few months until the Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. The Pinkertons had a nationwide agency, which was the closest thing the United
Kate Chopin, lánya egy neves francia család, és abban az időben helyi szerző, összeomlott a St. Louis 1904 Világkiállításon augusztus 20, 1904. Madame Chopin csak 54 éves, és szenvedett agyvérzést vagy aneurizma. Halt meg otthonában a McPherson Avenue augusztus 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Augusztus 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. -Ben 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. -Ben 1847, a
On Monday evening, Július 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, akik
Oliver Leonard Kirk a különbséget, hogy az egyetlen olimpiai ökölvívó nyerni aranyérmet két külön súlycsoportban ugyanabban olimpián. Oliver Kirk megvalósította ezt bravúr az ő szülővárosában olimpián 1904. St. Louis adott otthont a harmadik Olimpia alatt 1904 Világkiállításon kiállítás. Like the Paris Games four years before, St. Louis gave
Over his 17 year career, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond dealt with many criminal’s family members. Some family members were as bad or worse than the criminal Chief Desmond and his men had locked up. Viszont, many family members were honest, hard-working people, who struggled to understand what went wrong with their loved one. Early in his career
Decemberben 1920, robbers killed Patrolman Charles Daly at the entrance to his home in the 4000 block of Forest Park Boulevard. St. Louis Police aggressively investigated the murder but it was never solved. Prior to his death, the Daly name was already well-known in St. Louis. Charles Daly was the son of professional prizefighter Dan Daly, who fought in
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, A St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 év. They replaced him with Desmond’s ex-assistant James Smith, who was dismissed by the previous board. How did one of the greatest, if not the greatest, detectives in
On December 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
Before he was promoted to Special Officer, St. Louis Police Officer Preston Anslyn responded to calls for service like any other patrolman. On the morning of February 28, 1916, Anslyn was patrolling the area of Franklin and Jefferson Avenues. A citizen notified Anslyn that 30-year-old Albert Kivet was celebrating after his birthday on February 27th. During his revelry, Kivet assaulted