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On February 23, 1946, my great uncle Francis Mosblech married Rosemary Kalt at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The 23-year old Francis had recently returned from service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Aunt Rosemary was the daughter of Mr. i pani. William J. Kalt. Father Clarence Winkler officiated the ceremony. Marzec 3, 1946 edycja
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Jednak, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone i Shea byli lokalnymi przestępcami, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
At one point before I bought my own house, I thought home repairs were one of my skills. I helped my grandfather, Gilbert Ellis, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. Grandpa Ellis taught me how to replace electrical outlets, washers on sinks and build lots of things with wood. I put together lots of prefabricated
W Noc Bożego Narodzenia 1902, dwa małe miasteczka, niewielki czas, napadowcy wysadzili sejf Unii, Banku Missouri. Po grożeniu kilku obywatelom, uciekli z ponad $15,000. Do czasu wezwania Agencji Detektywistycznej Pinkertona mężczyźni byli stosunkowo bezpieczni przez kilka miesięcy. Pinkertonowie mieli ogólnokrajową agencję, co było najbliżej Stanów Zjednoczonych
Około 10 jestem w czwartek, Kwiecień 10, 1919, pięciu ciężko uzbrojonych mężczyzn wpadło do Baden Bank. Bandyci skonfrontowali się z M.W. Muntzel, kasjer, i zażądał dostępu do skarbca. Zebrali czterech innych pracowników, gdy Muntzel poprowadził grupę do skarbca. Złodzieje nosili kolorowe bandany, aby ukryć ich rysy. Podczas gdy dwóch z pięciu mężczyzn
Na sierpień 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. W 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. W 1847, the
W 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. Jednak, 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
Październik 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, który zabił
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
Grudzień 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