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Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
ઓક્ટોબર પર 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. લૂઈસ
Before reading Gangs of St. લૂઈસ: 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
નવેમ્બર પર 10, 1924, શ્રીમતી. A.W. Stickney was leaving the St. Louis Country Club, when she was approached by two African-American men. The lighter skinned man told Mrs. Stickney to turn over her jewels or he would take them from her. Fearing for her safety, શ્રીમતી. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, અને $85.00 in cash. શ્રીમતી.
સપ્ટેમ્બર પર 15, 1919, સ્ટ્રીટ. 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. વર્ષો સુધી, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
ડિસેમ્બરના છેલ્લા અઠવાડિયામાં 1902, વિલિયમ રુડોલ્ફ, ફ્રેન્કલિન કાઉન્ટી માટે તાજેતરમાં પરત ખાણિયો, અને જ્યોર્જ કોલિન્સ યુનિયનમાં યુનિયન બેન્ક લૂંટી, : MO. તેઓ તે રાતોરાત લૂંટી, કોઈ એક સલામત ફૂંકાતા દ્વારા હાજર હતા ત્યારે. 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. સ્ટ્રીટ. 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. મિસ્ટર. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, જુલાઈ 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.
માં 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. તેમ છતાં, 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
The Tuesday Evening, ઈસાઈ વર્ષનો બીજો મહિનો 18, 1919, સેન્ટ ઓફ આવૃત્તિ. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Aware that a shoplifting ring was working a couple of the local jewelry stores, સેન્ટ. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the