Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, and miscellaneous history.
Nóvember 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney var að yfirgefa St. Louis Country Club, þegar tveir afrísk-amerískir karlmenn komu til hennar. Ljósari maðurinn sagði Mrs. Stickney að afhenda skartgripunum sínum eða hann myndi taka þá af henni. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney rétti manninum skartgripina sína, metið á $17,000.00, og $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
Á 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. Í mörg ár, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Fyrsti frændi afa míns, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, var einn af St. Louis’ brautryðjendur flugvéla. Julius, sem var þekktur í fjölskyldunni sem “Punks”, gekk til liðs við þjóðvarðliðið um miðjan 1920. Hann yrði skipaður undirforingi. Júlíus flaug flugvélum bæði fyrir herinn og borgaralega flugherinn. Flestir menn í herdeild hans, sem innihélt Charles
During the last week of December 1902, William Rudolph, a recently returned miner to Franklin County, and George Collins robbed the Union Bank in Union, MO. They robbed it overnight, when no one was present by blowing up the safe. 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.
Á miðvikudaginn, Janúar 10, 1900, St. Louis lögreglumaðurinn Paul Girard stóð á horni S. Taylor og Lindell Boulevard, þegar hann sá mann hoppa af annarri hæð í 4511 Lindell Boulevard. Veit um nýleg innbrot í auðuga Central West End hverfinu, Girard nálgaðist manninn. Þegar haltrandi sá Girard, hann hljóp í átt að S.
Yfir hans 17 árs feril, St. William Desmond, rannsóknarlögreglustjóri Louis, tókst á við marga fjölskyldumeðlimi glæpamannsins. Sumir fjölskyldumeðlimir voru jafn slæmir eða verri en glæpamaðurinn Desmond og menn hans höfðu læst inni. Þó, margir fjölskyldumeðlimir voru heiðarlegir, duglegt fólk, sem átti erfitt með að skilja hvað fór úrskeiðis hjá ástvini þeirra. Snemma á ferlinum
On the morning of Wednesday, Júlí 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.
The þriðjudagskvöld, Febrúar 18, 1919, útgáfa af St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Ljóst að shoplifting hringur var að vinna a par af staðbundnum verslunum skartgripi, The 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