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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Körül 10 csütörtökön vagyok, Április 10, 1919, öt erősen felfegyverzett férfi berontott a Baden Bankba. A banditák szembeszálltak M.W. Munzel, a pénztáros, és hozzáférést követelt a páncélteremhez. Összegyűjtötték a másik négy alkalmazottat, miközben Muntzel a csoportot a trezorhoz vezette. A rablók színes kendőt viseltek, hogy eltakarják arcvonásaikat. Míg az öt férfiból kettő
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
November 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
-Ben 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. Viszont, 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
Október 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, amely megölte
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
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
November 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney elhagyta a St. Louis Country Club, amikor két afroamerikai férfi felkereste. A világosabb bőrű férfi azt mondta Mrs. Stickney, hogy feladja az ékszereit, különben elveszi őket tőle. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney átnyújtotta a férfinak az ékszereit, értékben $17,000.00, és $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
Szeptember 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
Szeptember 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. Évek, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate