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Posts about St. Луїс,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 років, Lt. Sears was considered the best pistol shot on the St. Департамент Louis поліції. У 1904, Sears was also National Pistol Champion of the United States. For someone to kill Lt. Sears in a shootout was considered impossible.
Кейт Шопен, дочка видатного французького сім'ї і в той час місцеві автора, звалився на St. Луїс 1904 Всесвітня виставка серпня 20, 1904. Мадам Шопен був тільки 54 років і переніс крововилив в мозок або аневризму. Вона померла в своєму будинку на McPherson авеню серпня 22, 1904. Kate Chopin was born Kate O’Flaherty in St.
У вівторок, Липень 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, Молодший. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
On the evening of June 1, 1879, Вулиця. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. Луїс’ South Side. Невідомо, чи дії Чарльза Сандерса привернули увагу Прінца, або Прінц просто натрапив на Сандерса. Whatever the circumstances, Прінц підійшов до Сандерса, who had a revolver in his right hand. Коли
Грудня 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,
Вулиця. 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. Однак, 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. — сказав начальник Дезмонд
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. Луїс, so it was not able to be saved. These pictures are
На четвер, Вересень 9, 1875, Джордж “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, Червень 24, 1900 видання St. Луї Республіка, a reporter interviewed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond about the increasing violence of the new criminal. Після 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