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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Før du læser Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect af Daniel Waugh, Jeg vidste og skrev om Robert Creed og hans bror Thomas, der myrdede St. Louis politibetjent George Geisler på Halloween-dagen 1920. Hvad jeg ikke vidste var, at Robert Creed var medlem af Gøgebanden, en ultravoldelig kriminel organisation i 1920'erne. Robert Creed var
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. Oprindeligt, 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
Den January 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. Men, 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. Dens unikke arkitektur omfatter en tårnbalkon på anden sal af den nordøstlige væg. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. I dag, 4200 Cook er
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, eller 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, Missouri historie. Mens St. Louis var den største by vest for Mississippi-floden, Verdensudstillingen sætte det på det internationale kort. Mens messen ville bringe berygtet, tourists and increased revenue to the city,
På fredag, 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. Den 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
På onsdag, Maj 9, 1900, den anden dag i St. Louis Streetcar Strike, en vildfaren kugle dræbte Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, en spansk-amerikanske krig veteran, ser en strejke rally på hjørnet af Finney og N. Taylor Avenue. Under rally, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, den anden bankrøver involveret i EU, MO bankrøveri på December 26, 1902, forsøgt at undslippe St. Louis Jail i januar 1904. Udover at arbejde med de andre fanger om at lave et hul i væggen i fængsel, 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. Den January
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. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.