Category: St. Louis Historia

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

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Matukio machache yalishtua St. Louis kama mstari wa jukumu la kifo cha Lt. Sidney Sears mwezi Juni 1924. Kwa karibu 30 miaka, Lt. Sears ilizingatiwa kuwa bastola bora zaidi kwenye uwanja wa St. Louis Idara ya Polisi. In 1904, Sears pia alikuwa Bingwa wa Kitaifa wa Bastola wa Merika. Kwa mtu kumuua Lt. Sears katika mikwaju ya risasi ilionekana kuwa haiwezekani.

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Siku ya Jumanne, Julai 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 miaka kutoka,,en,William Desmond wakiongozwa St,,en,Louis Detective ya Ofisi wakati wa moja ya ni vipindi mafanikio zaidi kabla na baada ya,,en,wanaume Desmond ya kiasi kikubwa kuwajibika kwa polisi duniani Fair,,en,Desmond alizaliwa Mei,,en,kwa William na Elizabeth Desmond katika MASSACHUSETTES,,en,Alipokuwa bado mtoto,,en,familia wakiongozwa na St,,en,Desmonds kununuliwa,,en,O'Fallon Street,,es,ambapo Desmond aliishi kwa muda mrefu wa maisha yake mapema,,en,Wakati bado upelelezi,,en,Desmond alikuwa anajulikana kwa uwezo wake kupambana,,en 1890

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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. Haijulikani ikiwa vitendo vya Charles Sanders vilivutia umakini wa Printz, au Printz alijikwaa kwa Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz alitembea hadi kwa Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. When

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Desemba 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,

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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. Hata hivyo, 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. Mkuu Desmond alisema

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Siku ya Alhamisi, Septemba 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

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For the Sunday, Juni 24, 1900 toleo la St. Louis Jamhuri ya, a reporter interviewed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond about the increasing violence of the new criminal. After 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

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