Historiador dels esports de combat i artista marcial
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
During April 1885, St. 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
Dissabte, Març 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 i els detectius
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, Agost 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 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 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, En el compliment del deure: St. Els oficials de policia Louis Qui fet el sacrifici màxim per Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath i el Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. With his hair parted down the middle and a big mustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
William T.”Willie” Egan es va fer càrrec “Rates d'Egan” a la mort del seu germà gran Tom en 1919. Thomas “Serp” Kinney i el seu amic de la infància i el seu germà-en-llei Tom Egan formar St. Louis’ organització delictiva en els anys 1800. Tant Kinney i Tom Egan eren taverners i polítics demòcrates. Van emprar “les Rates” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Dijous a la nit, Maig 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, un simpatitzant de la vaga amb un historial de malaltia mental, El patruller Dennis Crane va disparar i va matar. El patruller de la grua i diversos altres oficials van respondre a la zona a causa dels informes de Koenig amenacen altres ciutadans. Koenig va entrar Eas and Sons Saloon a la cantonada sud-oest de S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
La 1900 St. Louis Streetcar vaga va ser una guerra disparant entre la classe obrera i la classe alta. Va començar com una acció de treball dels treballadors del tramvia de les línies de tramvia recentment consolidades. Però, ràpidament es va dividir a la ciutat amb la classe obrera el suport a la vaga, mentre que les classes superiors i professionals van desafiar la vaga. The result was a deadly
En una freda nit de gener a 1904, quan la ciutat de St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Va ser 5:45 p.m. el 13 de gener a l'antiga fàbrica de Brown Shoe Company a la cantonada de l'avinguda Washington i el nord del carrer Onze. Time for the men to