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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Mielőtt elolvasná a Gangs of St. Louis: Daniel Waugh: Men of Respect, Tudtam és írtam arról, hogy Robert Creed és testvére, Thomas meggyilkolták St. George Geisler Louis rendőrtiszt Halloween napján 1920. Amit nem tudtam, hogy Robert Creed a Cuckoo Gang tagja volt, ultraerőszakos bűnszervezet az 1920-as években. Robert Creed volt az
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. Initially, 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 rendőrség. When the bank association turned over the
On 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. Viszont, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, A 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. Egyedülálló építészetéhez tartozik egy toronyerkély az északkeleti fal második emeletén. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Ma, 4200 Cook az
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, vagy 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,
Pénteken, Október 14, and Saturday, Október 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. A 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Szerdán, Május 9, 1900, A második napon a Szent. Louis villamosa Strike, egy eltévedt golyó ölte meg Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, a spanyol-amerikai háború veteránja, nézte a sztrájk rally sarkán Finney és N. Taylor Avenue. A rally, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, the second bank robber involved in the Union, MO bank robbery on December 26, 1902, attempted to escape the St. Louis Jail in January 1904. Besides working with the other prisoners on making a hole in the wall of the jail, 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. On 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. Szeptember 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.