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Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
Octobris 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, qui occisus est
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. Ludovicus
Priusquam legeret Ganges Sancti. Ludovicus: Viri Observantiae Danielis Waugh, Scivi et scripsi de Roberto Creed et Thoma homicidio fratris St. Louis Police George Geisler in Halloween diem 1920. Quod nesciebam erat Robert Creed membrum cuculi Gang . fuit, an ultra vim criminalibus organization in 1920s. Robert Creed erat
Novembres 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney relinquebat Sancti. Ludovici Antipolis, African-Americani cum duobus viris accessit. Leviora album homo dixit Dominae. Stickney ut gemmas suas traderet aut auferret ab ea. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney traditur homini ornamento, aestimabitur $17,000.00, et $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
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. Per multos annos, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
In ultima septimana mensis Decembris 1902, William Rudolph, Metallicus ut habitet in Franklin Comitatu, Marcus Cornelius, et eruite vi oppressum de una ripa in Unione, MO. Et eruite vi oppressum pernoctabit, cum non esset pax usque in praesentem inflatis. Rudolph ad parentes’ suscipit 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, July 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.
In 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. Autem, 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
Vespere autem Martis, February 18, 1919, edition of St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Cogitantes quod shoplifting anulum quo operatus est a iugo of locus jewelry thesauris,, in S.. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the