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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Rundt 10 er på torsdag, April 10, 1919, fem tungt bevæpnede menn brøt ut i Baden Bank. Bandittene konfronterte M.W. Muntzel, kassereren, og krevde tilgang til hvelvet. De avrundet de fire andre ansatte da Muntzel ledet gruppen til hvelvet. Ranerne hadde på seg fargede bandanas for å tilsløre funksjonene deres. Mens to av de fem mennene
August 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. I 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. I 1847, den
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. Mannen senere identifisert som Frank Rande inngikk Wrights Pawnshop på ca 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
I 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd avsluttet sin kriminelle karriere i et East Liverpool, Ohio maisåker etter en skyte ut med FBI-agenter og lokale polititjenestemenn. However, i desember 1925, han var innsatt nummer 29078 ved Missouri Penitentiary. Den 21 år gamle Floyd hadde nettopp blitt dømt for å rane Kroeger dagligvare og Baking Company hovedkontor
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, som drepte
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
Desember 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 forlot St. Louis Country Club, da hun ble oppsøkt av to afroamerikanske menn. Den lysere mannen fortalte Mrs. Stickney for å overlate juvelene hennes, ellers ville han ta dem fra henne. Av frykt for hennes sikkerhet, Mrs. Stickney ga mannen hennes smykker, verdsatt til $17,000.00, and $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. You
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. For år, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate