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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. En
O sábado, Marzo 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 foi serial killer coñecido primeiro de América na definición moderna da palabra. Holmes operador “Castelo Murder”, un hotel de Chicago durante o 1893 Feira Mundial de Chicago. Holmes acabaría por ser condenado por dezaseis asasinatos, pero pode asasinar máis de 100 persoas durante a súa operación do hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Agosto 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, No cumprimento do deber: St. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath eo Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Co pelo repartido polo medio e un gran bigote, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
William T.”Willie” Egan asumiu “Ratos de Egan” sobre a morte do seu irmán máis vello Tom en 1919. Thomas “Cobra” Kinney eo seu amigo de infancia e irmán-de-lei Tom Egan formado St. Louis’ organización criminal a finais de 1800. Ambos Kinney e Tom Egan eran gardiáns do saloon e políticos demócratas. Eles empregaron “Ratos” para slugging política e outras actividades criminais. Thomas
O xoves á noite, Maio 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, un simpatizante folga cunha historia de enfermidade mental, lanzou e matou Patrolman Dennis Guindastre. Patrulheiros Crane e outros oficiais responderon á área debido a relatos de Koenig ameazando outros cidadáns. Koenig entrou EAS and Sons Saloon na esquina suroeste de S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
O 1900 St. Louis Streetcar folga foi unha guerra de tiros entre a clase traballadora e da clase alta. Todo comezou como unha acción de traballo por parte dos traballadores tranvía das liñas de tranvía recentemente consolidadas. Porén, Lo rapidamente dividiu a cidade coa clase traballadora a apoiar a folga, mentres que as clases superiores e profesionais desafiou a folga. The result was a deadly
Nunha noite fría de xaneiro, en 1904, cando a cidade de San. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Foi 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