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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 Metropolita Aliquam 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
Novembres 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,
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. Autem, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, in S.. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
A annorum CXXII lateres domum scene dominatur in platea iuxta angulum et Cook Avenue in Street of St Whittier. Ludovicus, Missouri. Structores erexit, 2378 In pede quadrato domum 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. Hodie,, 4200 Cook is
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, vel 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Ludovicus, Missouri history. Cum beato. Maxima civitatis in occidentali parte fluminis Mississippi Crassus, et ponet illud in externis Mauris Pulchra map. Dum pulchra adducerem notorium, peregrinatores crevit et reditus ad urbem,
Die Veneris, Aliquam 14, et a sabbatis, Aliquam 15, 1904, 42 in palaestris 7 pondus genera prima occurrit in certamine Olympia modus in colluctationis freestyle. Prior aliquanto proelium Olympia erant in Graeco et Romano more palaestrae,. In 1904 Conjuncta haberetur Olympia Aestiva 1904 Mauris Pulchra in St. Ludovicus, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
V., Jube 9, 1900, Et in die secundo congregati sunt sancti. Louis Streetcar Percute, Duis aute vaga occidit Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, a Spanish-American bellum veterani, Quippe cernebam a concursu ad cornu percusserit, et N Finney. Taylor Avenue. In confirmant et colligunt, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
Marcus Cornelius, secundus in ripa interest, ab Unione latro, MO Mensam in December 26, 1902, , fugere conatus, in St. Laqueus juvenum Louis in January 1904. Deinde cum reliquis custodiis facto opus carceris parietem, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
September 5, 1984, I walked through the doors of Grover Cleveland High School for the first time. I attended St. Ludovicus’ most popular magnet school at the time, Kennard NJROTC Academy. In S.. Louis School Board decided to move the program to “The Castle on Grand”. Cleveland High School would graduate many St. Louis children on St. Ludovicus’ South
St. Louis Police Chief of Detectives William Desmond made many tough criminals talk over his career. John Huey, an Indiana murderer, was not one of these cases. Huey freely spoke with Desmond about his criminal past. Huey escaped from Indiana after serving 13 years for a murder in 1874. John Huey came to Lyon, Indiana in 1874 as a 22-year-old.