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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. 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. Ar Eanáir
Ar Samhain 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,
Ar Eanáir 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. Mar sin féin, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, Naomh. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
Cionn teach bríce 122-bliain d'aois ar an ardán sráide ag an choirnéal Shráid Whittier agus Cook Ascaill i St. Louis, Missouri. Tógálaithe in airde an 2378 Teach troigh cearnach i 1892. Its unique architecture includes a turret balcony on the second floor of the northeast wall. Nuair dtús tógtha, 4200 Ní mór Cook bheith ina láithreán mórthaibhseach. Sa lá atá inniu, 4200 Cook is
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, nó 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, Missouri history. While 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,
Ar Dé hAoine, Deireadh Fómhair 14, and Saturday, Deireadh Fómhair 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. An 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Ar Dé Céadaoin, Bealtaine 9, 1900, an dara lá de Naomh. Louis streetcar Stailc, le piléar fáin maraíodh Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, veteran Cogadh na Spáinne-Mheiriceánach, bhí ag breathnú rally stailc ar an choirnéal Finney agus N. Taylor Ascaill. I rith na rally, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, an dara robÚlaí banc a bhfuil baint acu leis an Aontas, Robáil bainc MO ar December 26, 1902, iarracht chun éalú ó na Naomh. Louis príosún i mí Eanáir 1904. Chomh maith le bheith ag obair le na príosúnaigh eile ar a dhéanamh poll sa bhalla an phríosúin, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Meán Fómhair 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Louis’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. An Naomh. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Louis’ South
St. Louis Póilíní Ceann Bleachtairí William Desmond rinneadh go leor coirpigh diana a phlé a ghairm bheatha. John Huey, an dúnmharfóir Indiana, Ní raibh ceann amháin de na cásanna. Labhair Huey shaoirse le Desmond faoina am atá thart coiriúil. Huey éalaigh ó Indiana tar éis freastal ar 13 bliana le haghaidh dúnmharú i 1874. John Huey tháinig go dtí Lyon, Indiana i 1874 mar 22-bliain d'aois.