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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Antes de ler Gangs of St. Louis: Homes de respecto de Daniel Waugh, Coñecía e escribín sobre Robert Creed e o seu irmán Thomas asasinando a St. O oficial de policía de Louis George Geisler o día de Halloween 1920. O que non sabía era que Robert Creed era membro da banda do cuco, unha organización criminal ultraviolenta na década de 1920. Robert Creed foi o
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. 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. Louis Departamento de Policía. When the bank association turned over the
En xaneiro de 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. Porén, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, o 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. A súa singular arquitectura inclúe un balcón de torre no segundo andar do muro nordeste. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Hoxe, 4200 Cook é
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, ou 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,
O venres, Outubro 14, and Saturday, Outubro 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. O 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
O mércores, Maio 9, 1900, o segundo día de St. Louis Streetcar folga, unha bala perdida matou Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, un veterano da Guerra Hispano-Americana, estaba asistir a un mitin folga na esquina da Finney e N. Taylor Avenue. Durante o mitin, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, o segundo asaltante de bancos implicados na Unión, Asalto a base MO en decembro 26, 1902, tentou fuxir do St. Louis Jail en xaneiro 1904. Ademais de traballar cos outros prisioneiros en facer un buraco na parede da prisión, 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 Departamento de Policía Metropolitana. 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 xaneiro de
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. En setembro de 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.