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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Zanim przeczytasz Gangi Św. Louis: Ludzie szacunku” Daniel Waugh, Wiedziałem i pisałem o Robercie Creed i jego bracie Thomasie mordujących St. Funkcjonariusz policji w Louis, George Geisler, w dzień Halloween 1920. Nie wiedziałem, że Robert Creed był członkiem Kukułczego Gangu, niezwykle brutalna organizacja przestępcza z lat dwudziestych XX wieku. Robert Creed był
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. Initially, 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. Louis Departament Policji. When the bank association turned over the
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. Jednak, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
122-letni dom z cegły dominuje scenę ulicy na rogu ulicy i Cooka Whittier alei w St. Louis, Missouri. Budowniczowie wznieśli 2378 stóp kwadratowych domu w 1892. Jego unikalna architektura obejmuje balkon w wieżyczce na drugim piętrze północno-wschodniej ściany. Kiedy po raz pierwszy zbudowany, 4200 Kucharz musi być imponująca strona. Dzisiaj, 4200 Kucharz jest
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, lub 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, 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,
Piątek, Październik 14, and Saturday, Październik 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. The 1904 Summer Olympics was held in conjunction with the 1904 World’s Fair in St. Louis, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in
W środę, Maj 9, 1900, Drugi dzień św. Louis Tramwaj Strike, Zabłąkana kula zabiła Franka Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, weteran wojny amerykańsko-hiszpańskiej, Oglądałem wiec strajk na rogu Finney i 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, Drugi rabuś zaangażowany w Unii, MO grudnia napad na bank 26, 1902, próbował uciec ST. Louis Jail w styczniu 1904. Oprócz pracy z innymi więźniami na wykonanie otworu w ścianie więzienia, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. 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. On January
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. Września 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.