Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Around 10 ben op donderdag, April 10, 1919, vijf zwaarbewapende mannen stormden de Badense Bank binnen. De bandieten confronteerden M.W. Muntzel, de kassier, en eiste toegang tot de kluis. Ze verzamelden de vier andere werknemers terwijl Muntzel de groep naar de kluis leidde. De overvallers droegen gekleurde bandana's om hun trekken te verbergen. Terwijl twee van de vijf mannen
Op augustus 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. In 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. In 1847, de
Op 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
In 1934, Charles Arthur “Mooie jongen” Floyd beëindigde zijn criminele carrière in een Oost-Liverpool, Maïsveld in Ohio na een schietpartij met FBI-agenten en lokale wetshandhavers. Echter, in december 1925, hij was het nummer van de gevangene 29078 bij de Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Op oktober 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, die doodde
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
Op 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
Op november 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney verliet de St. Louis Countryclub, toen ze werd benaderd door twee Afro-Amerikaanse mannen. De lichtere man vertelde mevrouw. Stickney om haar juwelen af te geven, anders zou hij ze van haar afpakken. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney overhandigde de man haar sieraden, geschat op $17,000.00, en $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
On 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. U
On 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. Voor de jaren, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate