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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Abans de llegir Gangs of St. Louis: Homes de respecte de Daniel Waugh, Vaig conèixer i vaig escriure sobre Robert Creed i el seu germà Thomas assassinant St. L'agent de policia de Louis George Geisler el dia de Halloween 1920. El que no sabia era que Robert Creed era membre de la Colla del Cuc, una organització criminal ultraviolenta dels anys vint. Robert Creed era el
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. Inicialment, 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. Departament de Policia de Louis. When the bank association turned over the
Al gener 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. Però, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, 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. 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. Avui, 4200 Cook is
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, o 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, Missouri history. Mentre St. Louis was the largest city west of the Mississippi River, the World’s Fair put it on the international map. While the fair would bring notoriety, tourists and increased revenue to the city,
Divendres, Octubre 14, and Saturday, Octubre 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. La 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Dimecres, Maig 9, 1900, el segon dia de St. Louis Streetcar vaga, una bala perduda va matar a Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, un veterà de la Guerra Espanyola-Americana, estava veient un ral · li vaga a la cantonada de Finney i N. Taylor Avenue. Durant la concentració, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, el segon atracador de bancs que participen en la Unió, MO atracament a un banc al desembre 26, 1902, intentat escapar del St. Louis presó al gener 1904. A més de treballar amb els altres presos a fer un forat a la paret de la presó, 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. Departament de Policia de Louis Metropolità. 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. Al gener
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. Al setembre 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.