Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Op Maandag, Desember 15, 1902, St. Louis Polisie Assistent Hoof van Speurders James H. Smith van die polisie-afdeling afgetree 'n posisie in die steenkoolbedryf te neem. Hoof van Speurders William Desmond probeer Smith te oortuig om te bly, maar hy het besluit om af te tree uit die krag as sy veertigste verjaardag genader. Smith saamgestel 'n prysenswaardige rekord as Desmond se Assistent.
Theodore Roosevelt het 'n noodlottige besluit op stemdag 1904. Hy het aangekondig nadat hy in sy eie reg verkies tot die presidensie na stygende na die kantoor op die moord van William McKinley dat hy nie sou hardloop vir nog 'n termyn in 1908. Roosevelt gedien het byna 'n volle termyn voor sy verkiesing as McKinley vermoor is in September 1901.
Op Vrydag, Oktober 21, 1904, een van die grootste tragedies in St. Louis Polisie geskiedenis plaasgevind toe twee trein rowers en drie St. Louis polisie speurders het gesterf in 'n skietery. Die skietgeveg het in 'n klein hotel kamer op Pine Street. Twee dae later, op Sondag, Oktober 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
Gedurende April 1885, St. Louis het een van sy mees sensasionele moorde. Twee Engelse reisigers het in die Suider-Hotel nagegaan vroeg in April 1885. C. Arthur Preller en H. M. Brooks, wat gaan deur die alias van dr. Maxwell, blyk te wees baie vriendelik. Hoewel hulle het aparte kamers, hulle dikwels gebly in dieselfde kamer saam. Op
Op Maandag, Maart 5, 1900, St. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, 'n 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
Op Saterdag, Maart 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran and the detectives
H. H. Holmes was America’s first known serial killer in the modern definition of the word. Holmes operated “the Murder Castle”, a Chicago hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Holmes would eventually be convicted of sixteen murders but may have murdered more than 100 people during his operation of the hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Augustus 12, 1900, St. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 namiddag. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In een van daardie vreemde toevallighede van die geskiedenis, die Streetcar Unie President Sherman C. Patterson is deur 'n unie masjinis vernoem Edward levenslustig gesteek nadat 'n salon meningsverskil. In 'n tyd toe 'n paar van sy teenstanders in die 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Julie 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, wat