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Posts about St. หลุยส์,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Before reading Gangs of St. หลุยส์: 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. หลุยส์. 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. หลุยส์กรมตำรวจ. When the bank association turned over the
เมื่อวันที่ 7, 1903, เซนต์. 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. <ช่วง bbox_x = "543" bbox_y = "1491" bbox_w = "56" bbox_h = "20" fsize fweight = "14" = "3" สีแดง = "255" สีเขียว = "255" สีฟ้า = "255" อัลฟา = ", he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, เซนต์. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
บ้านอิฐ 122 ปี dominates ฉากถนนที่มุมของ Whittier ถนนและถนนในคุกเซนต์. หลุยส์, รัฐมิสซูรี่. ผู้สร้างสร้างขึ้น 2378 บ้านตารางฟุตใน 1892. สถาปัตยกรรมอันเป็นเอกลักษณ์ประกอบด้วยระเบียงป้อมปืนบนชั้นสองของกำแพงด้านตะวันออกเฉียงเหนือ. When first built, 4200 Cook must have been an impressive site. วันนี้, 4200 คุกก็เป็น
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, หรือ 1904 เซนต์. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. หลุยส์, 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,
ในวันศุกร์ที่, ตุลาคม 14, and Saturday, ตุลาคม 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. หลุยส์, MO. เซนต์. Louis was well-represented in
On Wednesday, พฤษภาคม 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
จอร์จคอลลิน, โจรปล้นธนาคารที่สองมีส่วนร่วมในสหภาพ, MO ปล้นธนาคารเมื่อวันที่ 26, 1902, พยายามที่จะหลบหนีเซนต์. คุกหลุยส์ในเดือนมกราคม 1904. นอกจากนี้ยังทำงานร่วมกับนักโทษคนอื่น ๆ ในการทำหลุมในผนังของห้องขัง, 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. เมื่อวันที่
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, เซนต์. 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. กันยายน 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.