Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
Op oktober 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. 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
Op november 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney verliet de St. Louis Countryclub, toen ze werd benaderd door twee Afro-Amerikaanse mannen. De lichtere man vertelde mevrouw. Stickney om haar juwelen af te geven, anders zou hij ze van haar afpakken. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney overhandigde de man haar sieraden, geschat op $17,000.00, en $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
On 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. Voor de jaren, Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
Tijdens de laatste week van december 1902, William Rudolph, een onlangs teruggekeerd mijnwerker naar Franklin County, en George Collins beroofd van de Union Bank in Union, MO. Beroofden zij het 's nachts, als er niemand aanwezig is door het opblazen van de kluis was. Rudolph terug naar zijn ouders’ cabine 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. De heer. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, Juli 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 “Mooie jongen” Floyd beëindigde zijn criminele carrière in een Oost-Liverpool, Maïsveld in Ohio na een schietpartij met FBI-agenten en lokale wetshandhavers. Echter, in december 1925, hij was het nummer van de gevangene 29078 bij de Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
De dinsdag Avond, Februari 18, 1919, editie van de St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Bewust dat een winkeldiefstal ring werkte een paar van de lokale juweliers, de St. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the