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Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
அக்டோபர் 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. லூயிஸ்
Before reading Gangs of St. லூயிஸ்: 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
நவம்பர் 10, 1924, திருமதி. 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, திருமதி. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, மற்றும் $85.00 in cash. திருமதி.
On September 15, 1919, ஸ்டம்ப். 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. ஆண்டுகள், Alexander was known as one of the fittest St. Louisans. An early advocate
டிசம்பர் கடைசி வாரத்தில் 1902, வில்லியம் ருடால்ப், பிராங்க்ளின் உள்ளூரில் ஒரு சமீபத்தில் திரும்பினார் சுரங்க, மற்றும் ஜார்ஜ் காலின்ஸ் ஒன்றியத்தில் யூனியன் வங்கி அழிந்தது, MO. அவர்கள் ஒரே இரவில் அதை அழித்தனர், எந்த ஒரு பாதுகாப்பான வரை வீசுகிறது மூலம் தற்போது போது. 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. ஸ்டம்ப். 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. திரு. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, ஜூலை 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.
இல் 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. எனினும், 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
செவ்வாய்க்கிழமை மாலை, பிப்ரவரி 18, 1919, செயின்ட் பதிப்பு. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. ஒரு கடையில் மோதிரம் உள்ளூர் நகை கடைகளில் ஒரு ஜோடி வேலை என்று தெரியும், செயின்ட். Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the