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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
Ar ddydd Sadwrn, Mawrth 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.
Bore Dydd Sul, Awst 12, 1900, St. Arestio Heddlu Louis pedwar cyn-weithwyr Streetcar Llinell Transit am chwythu i fyny y llinell Stryd Olive ar Maryland Avenue rhwng N. Taylor a N. Euclid Avenues ar y noson gynt yn 11:00 y.h. Heddlu arestio Maurice Brennan, A Fred. Northway, James Schwartz a James Finnesey. Heddlu o hyd 30 bunnoedd o deinameit a 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, Yn Y Line of Duty: St. Swyddogion yr Heddlu Louis Pwy wnaeth yr aberth eithaf gan Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath a Phrif Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Gyda'i wallt gwahanu i lawr y canol a mwstash mawr, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
William T.”Willie” Cymerodd Egan drosodd “Llygod mawr Egan yn” ar farwolaeth ei frawd hŷn Tom yn 1919. Thomas “Neidr” Kinney a'i gyfaill blentyndod a'i frawd-yng-nghyfraith Tom Egan ffurfio St. Louis’ sefydliad troseddol yn y 1800au hwyr. Roedd y ddau Kinney a Tom Egan ceidwaid salŵn a gwleidyddion Democrataidd. Maent yn cyflogi “y Llygod Mawr” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Ar nos Iau, Mai 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, cefnogwr i'r streic sydd â hanes o salwch meddwl, ergyd a lladd Patrolman Dennis Crane. Ymatebodd Patrolman Crane a nifer o swyddogion eraill i'r ardal oherwydd i adroddiadau am Koenig bygythiol dinasyddion eraill. Aeth Koenig EAS and Sons Saloon ar gornel de-orllewin o S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
Mae'r 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Streic oedd rhyfel saethu rhwng y dosbarth gweithiol a'r dosbarth uchaf. Dechreuodd fel gweithred swydd gan weithwyr Streetcar o'r llinellau Streetcar newydd cyfunol. Fodd bynnag,, yn gyflym rannu y ddinas gyda'r dosbarth gwaith ategol y streic tra bod y dosbarthiadau uwch a phroffesiynol defied y streic. The result was a deadly
Ar noson oer Ionawr yn 1904, pan fydd y ddinas St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Roedd yn 5:45 y.h. on January 13th at the old Brown Shoe Company factory at the corner of Washington Avenue and North Eleventh Street. Time for the men to