Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Á mánudaginn, Desember 15, 1902, St. Louis Police Aðstoðarmaður Chief lögreglumanna James H. Smith lét af lögreglu deild til að taka afstöðu í kol iðnaður. Chief lögreglumanna William Desmond reyndi að sannfæra Smith til að vera en hann ákvað að láta af störfum frá gildi sem fertugasta afmæli hans nálgast. Smith compiled a commendable record as Desmond’s Assistant.
Theodore Roosevelt gerði örlagaríka ákvörðun um kjördag 1904. Hann tilkynnti eftir að hafa verið kjörinn til formennsku í eigin rétti sínum eftir stíg upp til skrifstofu á morðið á William McKinley að hann myndi ekki hlaupa fyrir annað orð í 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
Á föstudaginn, 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. Á
Á mánudaginn, Mars 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
Á laugardag, Mars 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, Ágúst 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
Í einni af þessum óvenjulegu tilviljanna sögu, Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson var stunginn af stéttarfélags machinist heitir Edward Canty eftir Saloon ágreiningi. Á þeim tíma þegar nokkrir andstæðinga sína í 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike myndi elska að hafa séð hann sendur í lest út úr bænum, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Júlí 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, sem