ಯುದ್ಧ ಕ್ರೀಡಾ ಇತಿಹಾಸಕಾರ ಮತ್ತು ಸಮರ ಕಲಾವಿದ
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. ಲೂಯಿಸ್ ಮೆಟ್ರೋಪಾಲಿಟನ್ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಇಲಾಖೆ. 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. ಜನವರಿ
ನವೆಂಬರ್ ರಂದು 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,
ಜನವರಿ 7, 1903, ಸೇಂಟ್. 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. ಹೇಗಾದರೂ, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. ಮಾರ್ಚ್ 1897, ಸೇಂಟ್. 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. ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿನ ಚಿನ್ನದ ನಾಣ್ಯ, ಮಿಸೌರಿ. 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. ಇಂದು, 4200 Cook is
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, ಅಥವಾ 1904 ಸೇಂಟ್. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿನ ಚಿನ್ನದ ನಾಣ್ಯ, 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,
ಶುಕ್ರವಾರ, ಅಕ್ಟೋಬರ್ 14, and Saturday, ಅಕ್ಟೋಬರ್ 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. ದಿ 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿನ ಚಿನ್ನದ ನಾಣ್ಯ, MO,. ಸೇಂಟ್. Louis was well-represented in
On Wednesday, ಮೇ ತಿಂಗಳು 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
ಜಾರ್ಜ್ ಕಾಲಿನ್ಸ್, ಯೂನಿಯನ್ ಒಳಗೊಂಡಿರುವ ಎರಡನೇ ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ದರೋಡೆ, ಡಿಸೆಂಬರ್ MO, ಬ್ಯಾಂಕ್ ದರೋಡೆ 26, 1902, ಸೇಂಟ್ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳಲು ಪ್ರಯತ್ನಿಸಿದರು. ಜನವರಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಲೂಯಿಸ್ ಜೈಲ್ 1904. ಜೈಲಿನಿಂದ ಗೋಡೆಯಲ್ಲಿ ರಂಧ್ರವನ್ನು ಮಾಡುವ ಇತರ ಕೈದಿಗಳ ಕೆಲಸ ಹೊರತುಪಡಿಸಿ, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
On September 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿನ ಚಿನ್ನದ ನಾಣ್ಯ’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. ಸೇಂಟ್. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. ಫ್ರಾನ್ಸಿನ ಚಿನ್ನದ ನಾಣ್ಯ’ South
ಸೇಂಟ್. ಲೂಯಿಸ್ ಪೊಲೀಸ್ ಮುಖ್ಯ ಡಿಟೆಕ್ಟಿವ್ಸ್ ವಿಲಿಯಂ ಡೆಸ್ಮಂಡ್ ಹಲವು ಕಠಿಣ ಅಪರಾಧಿಗಳು ತನ್ನ ವೃತ್ತಿಜೀವನದ ಅವಧಿಯಲ್ಲಿ ಮಾತನಾಡಲು ಮಾಡಿದ. ಜಾನ್ ಹುಯೆ, ಇಂಡಿಯಾನದ ಕೊಲೆಗಾರ, ಈ ಸಂದರ್ಭಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದು ಅಲ್ಲ. ಹುಯೆ ಮುಕ್ತವಾಗಿ ತನ್ನ ಕ್ರಿಮಿನಲ್ ಭೂತಕಾಲವನ್ನು ಬಗ್ಗೆ ಡೆಸ್ಮಂಡ್ ಮಾತನಾಡಿದರು. ಹುಯೆ ಸಲ್ಲಿಸಿದ ನಂತರ ಇಂಡಿಯಾನಾ ತಪ್ಪಿಸಿಕೊಂಡ 13 ಒಂದು ಕೊಲೆ ವರ್ಷಗಳ 1874. ಜಾನ್ ಹುಯೆ ಲಿಯಾನ್ ಬಂದು, ಇಂಡಿಯಾನಾ 1874 as a 22-year-old.