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Posts about St. Ludovicus,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Novembres 16, 1877, St. At Ludovicus Ioannes S Officer. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. Quod homo post idem ut ingressus est Wright est scriptor Frank Rande pawnshop at about 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
In 1934, Carolus Arthur “Puer pulchellus” Floyd finivit vitam criminalem in Oriente Liverpool, Ohio sata post virga cum FBI agentibus et ministris legis localis. Autem, mense Decembri 1925, et deversari numerus 29078 in Missouri Poenitentiario. A XXI annos Floyd fuerat iustus damnatus est Kroeger Grocery et Baking Company principalis officium
Octobris 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, qui occisus est
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. Ludovicus
In 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
Novembres 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney relinquebat Sancti. Ludovici Antipolis, African-Americani cum duobus viris accessit. Leviora album homo dixit Dominae. Stickney ut gemmas suas traderet aut auferret ab ea. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney traditur homini ornamento, aestimabitur $17,000.00, et $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
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. You
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. Per multos annos, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
In ultima septimana mensis Decembris 1902, William Rudolph, Metallicus ut habitet in Franklin Comitatu, Marcus Cornelius, et eruite vi oppressum de una ripa in Unione, MO. Et eruite vi oppressum pernoctabit, cum non esset pax usque in praesentem inflatis. Rudolph ad parentes’ suscipit 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.