Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Before reading Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect by Daniel Waugh, I knew and wrote about Robert Creed and his brother Thomas murdering St. Louis Police Officer George Geisler on Halloween Day 1920. Wat ek nie geweet het nie, was Robert Creed was 'n lid van die Cuckoo Gang, 'n ultragewelddadige kriminele organisasie in die 1920's. Robert Creed was the
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. Aanvanklik, 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
Januarie 7, 1903, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. Egter, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, die St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
A 122-year-old brick house dominates the street scene at the corner of Whittier Street and Cook Avenue in St. Louis, Missouri. Builders erected the 2378 square foot house in 1892. Sy unieke argitektuur sluit 'n toringbalkon op die tweede verdieping van die noordoostelike muur in. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Vandag, 4200 Cook is
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, of 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, Missouri geskiedenis. Terwyl St. Louis was die grootste stad wes van die Mississippi-rivier, die World's Fair sit dit op die internasionale kaart. Terwyl die billike sou bring bekendheid, toeriste en verhoogde inkomste na die stad,
Op Vrydag, Oktober 14, and Saturday, Oktober 15, 1904, 42 wrestlers in 7 weight classes met in the first Olympic Games contested in the freestyle wrestling method. Prior Olympic Games were contested in the Greco-Roman style of wrestling. Die 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Op Woensdag, Mei 9, 1900, die tweede dag van die St. Louis Streetcar Strike, 'n verdwaalde koeël vermoor Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, 'n Spaans-Amerikaanse Oorlog veteraan, was om te kyk 'n staking tydren op die hoek van Finney en N. Taylor Avenue. Gedurende die tydren, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, die tweede bank rower betrokke in die Unie, MO bank roof op Desember 26, 1902, probeer om die St om te ontsnap. Louis tronk in Januarie 1904. Behalwe die werk met die ander gevangenes op die maak van 'n gat in die muur van die tronk, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. Januarie
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. Op September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.