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Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
Sou Oktòb 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. Ki sa mwen pa t 'konnen se Robert Creed te yon manm nan Gang la Koukou, yon òganizasyon kriminèl ultra vyolan nan ane 1920 yo. Robert Creed was the
Sou Novanm 10, 1924, Mrs. 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, Mrs. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, ak $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
Sou Sèptanm 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. Pou ane, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Pandan dènye semèn nan mwa desanm 1902, William Rudolph, yon Miner dènyèman tounen tounen yo Konte Franklin, ak George Collins vòlè Bank la Inyon nan Inyon, MO. Yo vòlè li lannwit lan, lè pa gen yon sèl te prezan pa mouche moute ki an sekirite nan. 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.
On the morning of Wednesday, Jiyè 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.
Nan 1934, Charles Arthur “Bel gason” Floyd te fini karyè kriminèl li nan yon East Liverpool, Ohio mayi jaden apre yon tire soti ak ajan FBI ak ofisye lokal ki fè respekte lalwa. Sepandan, nan mwa desanm 1925, li te nimewo prizonye 29078 nan Penitansye Missouri a. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Aswè a Madi, Fevriye 18, 1919, edisyon an St la. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Konnen ke yon bag etalaj te ap travay yon koup la boutik yo bijou lokal, St a. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the