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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. Gennaio
Novembre 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,
Gennaio 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. Tuttavia, 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. Its unique architecture includes a turret balcony on the second floor of the northeast wall. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. Oggi, 4200 Cook is
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, o 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, Storia Missouri. Mentre St. Louis era la più grande città ad ovest del fiume Mississippi, Fiera Mondiale metterlo sulla mappa internazionale. Mentre la fiera avrebbe portato notorietà, turisti e un aumento delle entrate per la città,
Il Venerdì, Ottobre 14, e Sabato, Ottobre 15, 1904, 42 lottatori in 7 classi di peso sono incontrati nei primi giochi olimpici contestate nel metodo freestyle wrestling. Olimpiadi precedenti sono stati contestati in stile greco-romano di wrestling. Il 1904 Olimpiadi estive si è svolta in collaborazione con il 1904 Fiera Mondiale di St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Il Mercoledì, Maggio 9, 1900, the second day of St. Louis Streetcar Strike, a stray bullet killed Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, a Spanish-American War veteran, was watching a strike rally at the corner of Finney and N. Taylor Avenue. During the 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
Nel settembre 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. Il St. 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 capo della polizia di Detectives William Desmond ha fatto molti criminali difficili parlano sopra la sua carriera. John Huey, un assassino Indiana, Non è stato uno di questi casi. Huey ha parlato liberamente con Desmond sul suo passato criminale. Huey fuggito da Indiana dopo aver scontato 13 anni per un omicidio in 1874. John Huey venne a Lione, Indiana in 1874 as a 22-year-old.