Batalsporthistoriisto kaj Militartisto
Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
Sur oktobra 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, which killed
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
Before reading Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect by Daniel Waugh, I knew and wrote about Robert Creed and his brother Thomas murdering St. Louis Police Officer George Geisler on Halloween Day 1920. What I didn’t know was Robert Creed was a member of the Cuckoo Gang, an ultra violent criminal organization in the 1920s. Robert Creed was the
Sur novembro 10, 1924, S-ino. A.W. Stickney forlasis la St.. Louis Country Club, kiam ŝin alproksimigis du afro-amerikanaj viroj. La pli malpeza haŭta viro diris al S-ino. Stickney transdonos ŝiajn juvelojn aŭ li prenus ilin de ŝi. Timanta por ŝia sekureco, S-ino. Stickney donis al la viro siajn juvelaĵojn, taksita je $17,000.00, Kaj $85.00 En mono. S-ino.
Sur septembro 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. Por jaroj, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Dum la lasta semajno de decembro 1902, William Rudolph, ĵus revenita ministon al Franklin Gubernio, Kaj Georgo Collins rabis la Unian Bankon en Unio, MO. Ili rabis ĝin subite, Kiam neniu estis donaco de blovanta supre la monŝrankon. Rudolph revenita al liaj gepatroj’ Cabin en Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
Sur februaro 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 Strato. S-ro. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, Julio 8, 1885, the Coroner’s Clerk Jimmy Spaulding rushed into the Police Court at the Four Courts building. Spaulding announced one of the jail inmates waiting in the holding pen had just escaped. While most of the members of court sat stunned, Detective Billy Desmond jumped to his feet and rushed out of the courtroom.
Je 1934, Karlo Arturo “Bela knabo” Floyd finis sian krima kariero en Orienta Liverpool, Ohio maizo kampo post pafi kun agentoj de la FBI kaj lokaj policaj oficiroj. Tamen, en decembro 1925, li estis malliberigito nombro 29078 ĉe la Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
La marda Vespero, Februaro 18, 1919, Eldono de la St. Louis Poŝto-Sendo detalis la areston de du viroj kaj du virinoj por la ŝtelo de multenombraj luksaj eroj. Konscia ke butikoŝtela ringo estis laboranta paron de la lokaj juvelaĵaj vendejoj, La St. Louis Polica Departemento asignis plurajn inkognitajn policajn virinojn sekvi la suspektatojn. Their work resulted in the