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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
U ponedjeljak, Prosinac 15, 1902, St. Louis Police Assistant Chief of Detectives James H. Smith retired from the police department to take a position in the coal industry. Chief of Detectives William Desmond attempted to convince Smith to stay but he decided to retire from the force as his fortieth birthday approached. Smith compiled a commendable record as Desmond’s Assistant.
Theodore Roosevelt napravio sudbonosnu odluku na dan izbora 1904. On je najavio nakon što je izabran u Predsjedništvo u svoje pravo nakon rastuće u ured nakon ubojstva William McKinley da se neće kandidirati za još jedan mandat u 1908. Roosevelt je služio gotovo cijeli mandat prije njegova izbora kao McKinley je ubijen u rujnu 1901.
U petak, Listopad 21, 1904, jedna od najvećih tragedija u St. Louis Policija povijesti dogodio kada su dva vlaka razbojnika i tri St. Louis Policijski detektivi poginuo u pucnjavi. Obračun dogodio se u maloj hotelskoj sobi na Pine Street. Dva dana kasnije, u nedjelju, Listopad 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
Tijekom travnja 1885, St. Louis doživio jedan od svojih većina senzacionalno ubojstvo. Dva engleski putnici su provjereni u južnoj Hotel početkom travnja 1885. C. Arthur Preller i H. M. Brooks, tko će je pseudonim Dr. Maksvel, čini se da je vrlo prijateljski. Iako su imali odvojene sobe, često boravio u istoj sobi zajedno. Na
U ponedjeljak, Ožujak 5, 1900, St. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, a 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
U subotu, Ožujak 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 detektivi
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, Kolovoz 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 poslije podne. 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, Srpanj 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, koji