Chief Desmond Gets a New Assistant

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يوم الاثنين, ديسمبر 15, 1902, الحادي و. Louis Police Assistant Chief of Detectives James H. Smith retired from the police department to take a position in the coal industry. Chief of Detectives William Desmond attempted to convince Smith to stay but he decided to retire from the force as his fortieth birthday approached. Smith compiled a commendable record as Desmond’s Assistant.

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Prelude to 1912 الانتخابات الرئاسية

تأثير ثيودور روزفلت على انتخابات 1912

جعلت ثيودور روزفلت قرارا مصيريا في يوم الانتخابات 1904. أعلن بعد انتخابه للرئاسة في حق بلده بعد الصعود إلى المكتب على اغتيال ويليام ماكينلي انه لن يترشح لولاية أخرى في 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.

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Chief Desmond Sweats Nitro Burglar

مآثر رئيس ديزموند

يوم الجمعة, أكتوبر 21, 1904, one of the greatest tragedies in St. Louis Police history occurred when two train robbers and three St. Louis Police detectives died in a shootout. The gunfight occurred in a small hotel room on Pine Street. Two days later on Sunday, أكتوبر 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at

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المباحث تريسي النقل الجذع قاتل

المحقق جيمس تريسي

During April 1885, الحادي و. Louis experienced one of its most sensational murders. Two English travelers had checked into the Southern Hotel in early April 1885. C. Arthur Preller and H. M. Brooks, who was going by the alias of Dr. Maxwell, appeared to be very friendly. Although they had separate rooms, they often stayed in the same room together. At

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الحادي و. Louis Police Nab Robber of Policeman

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يوم الاثنين, مارس 5, 1900, الحادي و. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, و 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

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Cracksmen Caught at Eugene Field House

يوجين-فيلد-منزل-اللصوص

يوم السبت, مارس 12, 1904, الحادي و. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. لويس’ 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. موران والمحققين

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لص يساعد اقبض القاتل

ديزموند-1904-بطولات

H. H. وكان هولمز سفاح الأولى المعروفة أميركا في التعريف الحديث للكلمة. هولمز تعمل “قلعة القتل”, فندق في شيكاغو خلال 1893 معرض شيكاغو الدولي. هولمز في النهاية أن يدان من ستة عشر جرائم القتل ولكن قد قتل أكثر من 100 الناس أثناء عمليته من الفندق. What is less well known is that St.

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Amateur Sleuth Catches Dynamitards

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Sunday morning, أغسطس 12, 1900, الحادي و. 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 مساءا. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet

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Union President Stabbed In 1900 إضراب

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In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 الحادي و. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

المداعبة من بعد الإرسال

On Monday evening, يوليو 16, 1917, الحادي و. 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, الذي

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