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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
På mandag, December 15, 1902, St. Louis Politi assisterende chef for Detectives James H. Smith pensioneret fra politiet til at tage stilling i kulindustrien. Chef for Detectives William Desmond forsøgte at overbevise Smith at bo, men han besluttede at trække sig tilbage fra den kraft som hans fyrretyvende fødselsdag nærmede. Smith compiled a commendable record as Desmond’s Assistant.
Theodore Roosevelt gjorde en skæbnesvanger beslutning på valgdagen 1904. Han meddelte, efter at være blevet valgt til formandskabet i sin egen ret, efter at stigende til kontoret på mordet på William McKinley, at han ikke ville køre for et andet udtryk i 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
På fredag, Oktober 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, Oktober 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
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. På
På mandag, Marts 5, 1900, St. Louis Politibetjente Thomas Meagher og Thomas Degnan pågrebet mænd, der røvede en East St. Louis Officer af hans pistol. Ed Sullivan, a 22 årige forbigående, røvet en East St. Louis polititjenestemand med hans pistol, smykker og ejendele i slutningen af februar 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
Lørdag, Marts 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 og detektiverne
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, August 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
On Monday evening, Juli 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, der