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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Hétfőn, December 15, 1902, St. Louis Police Assistant Chief Detektív James H. Smith visszavonult a rendőrség állást a szénipari. Chief of nyomozók William Desmond próbálta meggyőzni Smith maradni, de úgy döntött, hogy visszavonul a hatályos a negyvenedik születésnapját megközelítette. Smith összeállította a dicséretes rekordot Desmond Assistant.
Theodore Roosevelt tett egy végzetes döntést a választás napján 1904. Bejelentette, miután megválasztották az elnökség maga után növekvő az irodába fel a merénylet William McKinley, hogy ő nem tart újabb kifejezést 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
Pénteken, Október 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, Október 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. At
Hétfőn, Március 5, 1900, St. Louis Rendőr Thomas Meagher és Thomas Degnan elfogott férfi, aki kirabolt egy East St. Louis tisztviselője puskáját. Ed Sullivan, a 22 éves átmeneti, kirabolt egy East St. Louis Rendőr puskáját, ékszerek és vagyonát február végén 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
Szombaton, Március 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 és a detektívek
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, Augusztus 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
Az egyik ilyen furcsa véletlenek történelem, Az villamosa Unió elnöke Sherman C. Patterson szúrták egy szakszervezeti gépész elemzi Edward Canty után egy limuzin nézeteltérés. Egy olyan időszakban, amikor több ellenfelei a 1900 St. Louis villamosa Strike szívesen látta volna küldeni a vonaton a városban, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Július 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, akik