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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
Ftit avvenimenti ixxukkjaw lil St. Louis bħall-linja tad-dmir mewt tal-Lt. Sidney Sears f'Ġunju 1924. Għal kważi 30 snin, Lt. Sears kien meqjus bħala l-aqwa sparatura tal-pistola fuq is-St. Louis Dipartiment tal-Pulizija. Fil 1904, Sears kien ukoll Champion Nazzjonali tal-Pistola tal-Istati Uniti. Biex xi ħadd joqtol lil Lt. Sears fi shootout kien ikkunsidrat impossibbli.
Kate Chopin, bint ta 'familja Franċiża prominenti u fil-ħin awtur lokali, waqa 'fil-St. Louis 1904 Fair Dinja fuq Awissu 20, 1904. Madame Chopin kien biss 54 sena u sofra emorraġija moħħ jew aneurism. Hija mietet fid-dar tagħha fuq McPherson Avenue dwar Awissu 22, 1904. Kate Chopin twieled Kate O'Flaherty f'St.
Nhar it-Tlieta, Lulju 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 snin minn 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. Mhux ċar jekk l-azzjonijiet ta’ Charles Sanders ġibdux l-attenzjoni ta’ Printz, jew Printz biss stumbled fuq Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz mar lejn Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. When
Fuq Diċembru 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. L-irġiel ħadu $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. Madankollu, 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. qal il-Kap Desmond
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Lokal Louis Post. 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. Dawn l-istampi huma
Nhar il-Ħamis, Settembru 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. Wara li ppruvaw ħlas illeċitu, Fisher summoned St. Louis Police Officer John Cummings. Officer Cummings, assenjat lill-
For the Sunday, Ġunju 24, 1900 edizzjoni tal-St. Louis Repubblika, a reporter interviewed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond about the increasing violence of the new criminal. Wara 10 years as St. Louis Chief of Detectives and one of the most noted thief takers in United States, Il-Kap Desmond lamenta l-vjolenza li qed tiżdied li kien qed jara barra