Ira Cooper Unravels Money Order Theft

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On February 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. Ludovicus. Initio, 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. Ludovicus Lorem ipsum dolor sit. When the bank association turned over the

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Hannah McLaughlin Desmond (1879 – 1904)

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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

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Ad palaestrica 1904 Olympia Aestiva in St. Ludovicus

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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

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Detective Desmond Gets His Men

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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

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