Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
On February 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. Louis. Upphaflega, the American Bankers Association hired private detectives. After the detectives were unable to discover any serious leads, the association turned the case over to the St. Louis Police Department. When the bank association turned over the
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place hverfinu. 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
Á fimmtudaginn, September 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
Í 2010, St. Louis var 58 stærsta borg í Bandaríkjunum og 19. stærsta höfuðborgarsvæðinu. Kringum aldamótin, það var fimmta eða sjötta stærsta borg í Bandaríkjunum og stærsta vestan Mississippi River. St. Louis had one of the largest clothing, shoe and beer manufacturing industries in
In May 1925, the lifeless body of Dr. William Dillon was found on a walking path. The divorcee was a prominent St. Louis physician, who lived hard and was a known lady’s man. St. Louis Police initially suspected a rival of Dillon’s shot the physically and socially powerful Dillon rather than fight him. Þó, suspicion eventually settled on Dillon’s 19-year-old
Á maí 1, 1925, a custodian at Washington University arrived at work around 6:00 a.m. Looking towards the gravel path to Francis Field, he spied what he thought was a bundle of laundry. Figuring a careless student dropped his laundry, the custodian walked down the path to the bundle. As he got closer, he realized it wasn’t clothing but a
Á fimmtudaginn, Janúar 23, 1902, St. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, einn af St. Louis’ wealthiest men, eigu íbúðarhúsnæði og aðrar eignir metnar á 2 million dollars. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Hann
Á miðvikudaginn, Nóvember 26, 1902, 110 couples arrived at the St. Louis Marriage License Bureau to be officially married on Thanksgiving. The 110 couples broke the previous record set in 1901. This record would also only stand for one year until 1903. Beginning at 9 a.m. and continuing until 5 kvöldi, Recorder Hahn issued license after license as three ministers
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Þó, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professional fighting in the 19th Century enjoyed a poor reputation outside of
After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Þó, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines