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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Over the next three weeks, I will be releasing posts, which are excerpts from the book I’m currently working on and one from a previously published book. The following unedited story is from the book I’m working on which will be released in the Fall or early Winter 2017. William Rudolph proved elusive after his Independence Day escape from the
Pocs esdeveniments van sorprendre St. Louis com la línia de la mort deure de Lt. Sidney Sears al juny 1924. per a gairebé 30 any, Lt. Sears va ser considerat el millor tret de pistola al St. Departament de Policia de Louis. En 1904, Sears també va ser Campió Nacional de Pistola dels Estats Units. Perquè algú pugui matar Lt. Sears in a shootout was considered impossible.
Kate Chopin, filla d'una prominent família francesa i en el moment en l'autor local, esfondrat al St. Louis 1904 Fira Mundial a l'agost 20, 1904. Madame Chopin només era 54 anys i va patir una hemorràgia cerebral o aneurisma. Va morir a casa a l'avinguda McPherson a l'agost 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
Dimarts, Juliol 4, 1916, former St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond passed away after an illness of two years. Desmond was in Alexian Brothers Hospital from October 1915 until his death on Independence Day 1916. The 59-year-old Desmond left a 12-year-old son, William Desmond, Jr. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
On the evening of June 1, 1879, St. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. Louis’ South Side. No està clar si les accions de Charles Sanders van cridar l'atenció de Printz, o Printz acaba de topar amb Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz es va acostar a Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. When
Al desembre 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. The men took $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 A.M. and surprised Harding,
St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond had respect for the “old school criminals”, who plied their trade in St. Louis during the late 19th Century. Però, he did not have the same degree of respect for the thug tactics of the “new school criminals”. These criminals made up for a lack of finesse with great violence. va dir el cap Desmond
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. I originally wrote about the building in 2013 but it was demolished sometime before March 2015. The building is part of an area being developed for a government complex in St. Louis, so it was not able to be saved. These pictures are
On Thursday, Setembre 9, 1875, George “Mitchell” Gassert and William Salisbury went to Fred Fisher’s Saloon at the corner of N. Jefferson and Morgan (Delmar today). After ordering drinks, the two young men of unsavory reputation refused to pay for their drinks. After trying to illicit payment, Fisher summoned St. Louis Police Officer John Cummings. Officer Cummings, assigned to the
For the Sunday, Juny 24, 1900 edició del St. Louis República, a reporter interviewed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond about the increasing violence of the new criminal. Després 10 years as St. Louis Chief of Detectives and one of the most noted thief takers in United States, Chief Desmond lamented the increasing violence he was seeing out