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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. Etan
Larunbatean, Martxoa 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.
Sunday morning, Abuztua 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, Duty-Line in: St. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath eta Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Bere ilea parted behera erdian eta bibote handi bat, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
William T.”Willie” Egan hartu baino gehiago “Egan en Rats” anaia zaharrenak Tom in heriotzari buruzko 1919. Thomas “Suge” Kinney eta bere haurtzaroko lagun eta anaia-legeak Tom Egan osatutako St. Louis’ 1800s bukaeran erakunde kriminala. Bai Kinney eta Tom Egan ziren Saloon keepers eta politikariei Demokratikoa. Okupatuak dute “Ratas” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Ostegun gauean, Maiatzaren 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, buruko gaixotasuna historia duten greba sympathizer bat, filmatu eta hil Patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane eta beste hainbat ofizialek area erantzun nahi Koenig txostenak beste herritar menacing ondorioz. Koenig sartutako Eas eta Hijos Saloon southwest S txoko. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
The 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike langileak eta goiko klase arteko tiro gerra bat izan zen. Lan ekintza batean tranbia tranbia finkatu berri den lerro langileek bezala hasi da. Hala ere, azkar banatzen da, lan klase greba onartzen duten hiriaren goiko eta lanbide eskolak greba defied bitartean. The result was a deadly
Hotza urtarrilean gauean 1904, denean St hirian. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Izan zen 5:45 p.m. 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