Officer Fatally Wounded Nabbing Killer

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Новембра 16, 1877, Свети. 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 сати пре подне. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan

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Pretty Boy Floyd’s St. Louis Robbery

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У 1934, Charles ArthurPretty BoyFloyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. <Спан ббок_к = "289" ббок_и = "553" ббок_в = "56" ббок_х = "20" фсизе = "14" фвеигхт = "3" црвено = "255" зелено = "255" плави = "255" алфа = ", 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

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Suspects But No Murderers

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Октобра 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, који је убио

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Detective Desmond Closes Pawn Shop

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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. Лоуис

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Willis Hall Gets 99 Years for Murder

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На дан 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

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Ира Цоопер решава пљачку драгуља

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Новембра 10, 1924, Госпођа. А.В. Стицкнеи је напуштао болницу Ст. Лоуис Цоунтри Цлуб, када су јој пришла два Афроамериканца. Човек светлије пути рекао је гђи. Стицкнеи да јој окрене драгуље или би јој их узео. Бојећи се за своју безбедност, Госпођа. Стицкнеи је мушкарцу пружила свој накит, вреднован на $17,000.00, и $85.00 in cash. Госпођа.

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A Day in Judge Cady’s Court

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Септембар 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

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Alexander Baptiste Passes at 100

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Септембар 15, 1919, Свети. 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. Годинама, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate

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William Rudolph and Union Bank Robbery

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Током последње недеље децембра 1902, Вилијам Рудолф, недавно се вратио у рудар Франклин Цоунти, и Џорџ Колинс опљачкали Унион Банк у Унији, МО. Они су га опљачкали преко ноћи, када нико није био присутан од минирања сигурној. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, МО. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff

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Chief Desmond Discovers Murder

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Фебруара 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. Свети. 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. Господин. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.

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