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Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
En octubre 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, que mató
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
Antes de leer Gangs of St.. Louis: Hombres de respeto de Daniel Waugh, Sabía y escribí sobre Robert Creed y su hermano Thomas asesinando a St.. El oficial de policía de Louis, George Geisler, el día de Halloween 1920. Lo que no sabía era que Robert Creed era miembro de Cuckoo Gang., una organización criminal ultraviolenta en la década de 1920. Robert Creed fue el
En noviembre 10, 1924, Sra.. AW. Stickney estaba dejando el St.. club de campo luis, cuando fue abordada por dos hombres afroamericanos. El hombre de piel más clara le dijo a la Sra.. Stickney para entregar sus joyas o se las quitaría. Fearing for her safety, Sra.. Stickney le entregó al hombre sus joyas., valorado en $17,000.00, y $85.00 in cash. Sra..
En septiembre 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 años, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Durante la última semana de diciembre 1902, William Rudolph, un minero recientemente regresó al condado de Franklin, y George Collins robó el Union Bank en Union, MO. Robaron toda la noche, cuando nadie estuvo presente por la voladura de la caja fuerte. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
En febrero 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. Sr.. 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.
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La Noche Martes, Febrero 18, 1919, edición del St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Consciente de que un anillo de hurto estaba trabajando un par de las joyerías locales, el St. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the