Category: 聖. 路易和其他歷史

十月 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

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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. 路易

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Before reading Gangs of St. 路易: 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

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十一月 10, 1924, 太太. 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. 由於擔心她的安全, 太太. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, 和 $85.00 in cash. 太太.

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在12月的最後一周 1902, 威廉·魯道夫, 最近回到礦工富蘭克林縣, 和喬治·柯林斯搶聯合銀行在聯合, MO. 他們搶走了一夜, 當沒有人在席炸毀安全. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff

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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. 聖. 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. 先生. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.

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On the morning of Wednesday, 七月 8, 1885, the Coroner’s Clerk Jimmy Spaulding rushed into the Police Court at the Four Courts building. 斯波爾丁公佈監獄囚犯在保持筆等待一個剛剛逃脫,,en,雖然大多數法院成員坐在目瞪口呆,,en,那個老人,,en,與繩梯的平面,,en. While most of the members of court sat stunned, 偵探比利·德斯蒙德跳了起來，衝出法庭的,,en,這位28歲的偵探跑到筆的時候正好看到兩條腿懸在孔,,en,當其他囚犯逃脫,,en,德斯蒙德抓起一條腿,,en,說過,,en,回到這來,,en,有力地拖著該男子回筆,,en,德斯蒙德低下頭去看臭名昭著聖路易斯賊精讀弗利,,en,當弗利實現德斯蒙德是抱著他的腿,,en,他投降,,en,弗利迅速查明逃犯威廉·克拉克,,en.

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在 1934, 查爾斯·亞瑟 “漂亮男孩” 弗洛伊德在東利物浦結束了他的犯罪生涯, 與聯邦調查局特工和當地執法人員發生槍戰後的俄亥俄州玉米地. 然而, 在十二月 1925, 他是犯人號 29078 在密蘇里監獄. 21 歲的 Floyd 剛剛因搶劫 Kroeger 雜貨和烘焙公司的總部而被定罪

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星期二晚上, 二月 18, 1919, 聖版. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. 意識到行竊環一對夫婦在當地的珠寶店工作, 聖. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the

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