전투 스포츠 역사가 및 무술가
Posts about St. 루이,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
Few events shocked St. Louis like the line of duty death of Lt. Sidney Sears in June 1924. For almost 30 년, Lt. Sears was considered the best pistol shot on the St. Louis Police Department. 에 1904, Sears was also National Pistol Champion of the United States. For someone to kill Lt. Sears in a shootout was considered impossible.
케이트 쇼팽, 눈에 띄는 프랑스어 가족과 시간 현지 저자의 딸, 세인트에서 붕괴. 루이 1904 7 월에 세계 박람회 20, 1904. 마담 쇼팽 만했다 54 세 뇌출혈 또는 동맥류 고통. 그녀는 8 월에 맥퍼슨 애비뉴에 그녀의 집에서 사망 22, 1904. 케이트 쇼팽은 세인트에서 케이트 오 플레어 티가 태어났다.
화요일에, 7월 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, 주니어. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
On the evening of June 1, 1879, 생. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. 루이’ South Side. Charles Sanders의 행동이 Printz의 관심을 끌었는지 확실하지 않습니다., 아니면 Printz가 방금 샌더스를 우연히 만났거나. Whatever the circumstances, 프린츠가 샌더스에게 걸어갔다., who had a revolver in his right hand. 언제
12 월 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. 남자는 갔다 $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 분이고. and surprised Harding,
생. 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. 그러나, 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. 데스몬드 추장이 말했다.
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. 루이, so it was not able to be saved. 이 사진들은
On Thursday, 9월 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. 불법 결제를 시도한 후, Fisher summoned St. Louis Police Officer John Cummings. Officer Cummings, 에 할당됨
For the Sunday, 6월 24, 1900 세인트의 판. 루이스 공화국, a reporter interviewed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond about the increasing violence of the new criminal. 후 10 years as St. Louis Chief of Detectives and one of the most noted thief takers in United States, 데스몬드 추장은 자신이 목격하고 있는 증가하는 폭력을 한탄했습니다.