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Posts about St. Луіс,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
У панядзелак, Сьнежня 15, 1902, Вуліца. 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.
Theodore Roosevelt made a fateful decision on Election Day 1904. He announced after being elected to the Presidency in his own right after ascending to the office upon the assassination of William McKinley that he would not run for another term in 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
У пятніцу, Кастрычнік 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, Кастрычнік 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
During April 1885, Вуліца. Louis experienced one of its most sensational murders. Two English travelers had checked into the Southern Hotel in early April 1885. З. 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
У панядзелак, Сакавік 5, 1900, Вуліца. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, a 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
У суботу, Сакавік 12, 1904, Вуліца. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Луіс’ 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. Моран і дэтэктывы
H. H. Холмс быў першы вядомы серыйны забойца Амерыкі ў сучасным значэнні слова. Холмс працуе “Забойства замак”, ў горадзе Чыкага падчас 1893 Чыкага свету кірмаш. Холмс, у канчатковым рахунку можа быць асуджаны за шаснаццаць забойстваў, але, магчыма, было забіта больш за 100 людзі ў час яго эксплуатацыі гасцініцы. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Жнівень 12, 1900, Вуліца. 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 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
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 Вуліца. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Ліпеня 16, 1917, Вуліца. 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, хто