Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
En novembro 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney estaba deixando o St. Louis Country Club, cando se lle achegaron dous homes afroamericanos. O home de pel máis clara díxolle á Sra. Stickney para entregarlle as xoias ou quitárallas. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney entregoulle ao home as súas xoias, valorado en $17,000.00, e $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
En setembro de 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. Durante anos, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
O curmán primeiro do meu avó, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, foi un de St. Louis’ pioneiros do avión. Julius, que era coñecido na familia como “Punks”, uniuse á Garda Nacional Aérea a mediados da década de 1920. Sería comisionado como tenente. Julius voou avións tanto para o corpo aéreo militar como para o civil. A maioría dos homes da súa unidade, que incluía a Charles
Durante a última semana de decembro 1902, William Rudolph, un mineiro recentemente retornou ao Condado de Franklin, e George Collins roubo do Banco Unión, en Unión, MO. Roubaron-lo durante a noite, cando ninguén estaba presente por explotar o cofre. 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.
O mércores, Xaneiro 10, 1900, St. O axente de policía de Louis Paul Girard estaba de pé na esquina de S. Taylor e Lindell Boulevard, cando viu un home saltar dende o segundo piso de 4511 Bulevar Lindell. Coñecendo os roubos recentes no rico barrio do Central West End, Girard achegouse ao home. Cando o home coxeando viu a Girard, correu cara a S.
Sobre o seu 17 ano de carreira, St. Louis Xefe de Detectives William Desmond tratou con moitos membros da familia dos criminais. Algúns membros da familia eran tan malos ou peores que o xefe criminal Desmond e os seus homes encerraran. Porén, moitos membros da familia eran honestos, xente traballadora, que loitaron por comprender o que lle pasaba mal ao seu ser querido. A principios da súa carreira
On the morning of Wednesday, Xullo 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.
A martes de noite, Febreiro 18, 1919, edición do St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Consciente de que un anel de roubo estaba a traballar algunhas das ourivería locais, o St. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the
St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was known for his ability to gain confessions from criminals. Unlike other detectives, who would sometimes use physical intimidation, Desmond eschewed the “third degree”. Chief Desmond believed information obtained by beating suspects was completely unreliable. Desmond would start a discussion with the suspect. After putting him or her at ease, Desmond would let