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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Before reading Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect by Daniel Waugh, I knew and wrote about Robert Creed and his brother Thomas murdering St. Louis Police Officer George Geisler on Halloween Day 1920. What I didn’t know was Robert Creed was a member of the Cuckoo Gang, an ultra violent criminal organization in the 1920s. Robert Creed was the
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. Првично, 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. Луис полициска станица. When the bank association turned over the
Од јануари 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. Сепак, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, Ст. 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, Мисури. 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. Денес, 4200 Cook is
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, или 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, Историја Мисури. Додека свети. Луис беше најголемиот град западно од реката Мисисипи, Саемот на светот го стави на меѓународната мапа. Додека на саемот ќе донесе озлогласеност, tourists and increased revenue to the city,
Во петокот, Октомври 14, and Saturday, Октомври 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. На 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
Во средата, Мај 9, 1900, На вториот ден од Свети. Луис Трамвајот штрајк, заскитан куршум уби Френк Liebrecht. Френк Liebrecht, шпански-американската војна ветеран, гледав штрајк митинг на аголот на Фини и N. Тејлор авенија. За време на митингот, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
Џорџ Колинс, the second bank robber involved in the Union, MO bank robbery on December 26, 1902, се обиде да избега од Свети. Луис затвор во јануари 1904. Покрај работата со другите затвореници за правење на дупка во ѕидот на затвор, тој, исто така, наредени со затворски чувари да имаат пили шверцувани во него. 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. Од јануари
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. On September 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.