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Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
On October 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 Novembre 10, 1924, Mme. A.W.. Stickney quittait le St. Louis Country Club, lorsqu'elle a été approchée par deux hommes afro-américains. L'homme à la peau plus claire a dit à Mme. Stickney devait lui rendre ses bijoux, sinon il les lui prendrait. Fearing for her safety, Mme. Stickney a remis ses bijoux à l'homme, estimé à $17,000.00, and $85.00 in cash. Mme.
On September 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. Pendant des années,, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Au cours de la dernière semaine de Décembre 1902, William Rudolph, un mineur récemment retourné à Franklin County, et George Collins volé la Banque de l'Union dans l'Union, MO. Ils ont volé pendant la nuit, quand il n'y avait personne en faisant sauter le coffre-fort. 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. M.. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, Juillet 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.
Dans 1934, Charles Arthur “Joli garçon” Floyd a terminé sa carrière criminelle dans un East Liverpool, champ de maïs de l'Ohio après une fusillade avec des agents du FBI et les agents chargés de l'application de la loi locale. Cependant, en décembre 1925, il était détenu nombre 29078 au pénitencier du Missouri. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Le mardi soir, Février 18, 1919, édition de la St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Conscients qu'un anneau de vol à l'étalage a travaillé quelques magasins de bijoux locaux, Saint-. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the