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Legacy posts about St. Louis history with a particular emphasis on building and police history.
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. إدارة شرطة العاصمة لويس. 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. كانون الثاني
نوفمبر 7, 1890, Chief of Detectives William Desmond brought in Pat Kennedy, a low-level St. Louis crook, who was suspected of stealing 20 cents from a cigar store on North 9th Street. A 3rd District St. Louis Police Officer captured Kennedy after he robbed a Miss Minnie Mullaney at 16th Street and Franklin Avenue. Kennedy proved a first-rate coward,
كانون الثاني 7, 1903, الحادي و. 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. لكن, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, سانت. 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. لويس, ميسوري. Builders erected the 2378 square foot house in 1892. Its unique architecture includes a turret balcony on the second floor of the northeast wall. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. اليوم, 4200 Cook is
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, أو 1904 الحادي و. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. لويس, تاريخ ميسوري. بينما القديس. وكان لويس أكبر غرب مدينة نهر المسيسبي, وضع المعرض العالمي على الخريطة الدولية. في حين أن المعرض سوف تجلب سمعة سيئة, السياح وزيادة الإيرادات إلى المدينة,
يوم الجمعة, أكتوبر 14, and Saturday, أكتوبر 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. ال 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. لويس, MO. الحادي و. Louis was well-represented in
يوم الاربعاء, مايو 9, 1900, في اليوم الثاني من سانت. لويس الترام سترايك, رصاصة طائشة قتلت فرانك يبريخت. فرانك ليبريخت, المخضرم الحرب الاسبانية الامريكية, كان يراقب مسيرة إضراب في زاوية فيني وN. تايلور الجادة. خلال مسيرة, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
جورج كولينز, اللص البنك الثاني المشاركة في الاتحاد, MO السطو على بنك ديسمبر 26, 1902, حاول الهروب من شارع. لويس سجن في يناير 1904. بالإضافة إلى العمل مع السجناء الآخرين على إحداث ثقب في جدار السجن, انه كما رتبت مع أحد حراس السجن أن يكون له مناشير تهريبها. Collins intended to use
في أيلول 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. لويس’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. سانت. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. لويس’ South
الحادي و. Louis Police Chief of Detectives William Desmond made many tough criminals talk over his career. John Huey, an Indiana murderer, was not one of these cases. Huey freely spoke with Desmond about his criminal past. Huey escaped from Indiana after serving 13 years for a murder in 1874. John Huey came to Lyon, Indiana in 1874 as a 22-year-old.