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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Noiembrie 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
În 1934, Charles Arthur “Băiat drăguț” Floyd și-a încheiat cariera criminală într-un Liverpool de Est, Câmp de porumb din Ohio după o încăierare cu agenți FBI și ofițeri locali de aplicare a legii. Totuși, in decembrie 1925, el era numărul deţinutului 29078 la Penitenciarul din Missouri. Floyd, în vârstă de 21 de ani, tocmai fusese condamnat pentru că a jefuit sediul principal al companiei Kroeger Grocery and Baking.
Octombrie 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, care a ucis
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
Decembrie 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
Noiembrie 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney părăsea St. Louis Country Club, când a fost abordată de doi bărbați afro-americani. Bărbatul cu pielea mai deschisă i-a spus doamnei. Stickney să-i predea bijuteriile sau i le-ar lua. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney i-a înmânat bărbatului bijuteriile ei, evaluat la $17,000.00, și $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
Septembrie 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
Septembrie 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. De ani de zile, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
În ultima săptămână a lunii decembrie 1902, William Rudolph, un miner recent a revenit la Franklin County, și George Collins jefuit Banca Union în Union, MO. Ei au jefuit peste noapte, atunci când nimeni nu era prezent prin suflare până la seif. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin 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.