Ira Cooper Unravels Money Order Theft

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En febrero 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. Louis. Inicialmente, 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. Departamento de Policía de Louis. When the bank association turned over the

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Hannah McLaughlin Desmond (1879 – 1904)

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En enero 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. Sin embargo, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, el St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an

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La Casa Grande en la Avenida de Cook

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Una casa de ladrillo de 122 años de edad, domina la escena de la calle en la esquina de la Calle Whittier y Cook Avenue en St. Louis, Misuri. Constructores erigieron la 2378 casa de pies cuadrados en 1892. Su arquitectura única incluye un balcón en forma de torreta en el segundo piso del muro noreste.. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Hoy, 4200 cocinar es

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Wrestling at the 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis

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El viernes, 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

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Streetcar Strike Claims First Victim

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El miércoles, Mayo 9, 1900, el segundo día de St. Louis Streetcar huelga, una bala perdida mató a Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, un veterano de la Guerra Española-Americana, estaba viendo un rally huelga en la esquina de Finney y N. Taylor Avenue. Durante la concentración, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a

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Detective Desmond Gets His Men

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Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Departamento de Policía de Louis Metropolitano. 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. En enero

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