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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. A
Il Sabato, 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 e gli investigatori
H. H. Holmes era prima noto serial killer americano nella definizione moderna del termine. Holmes operato “il Castello Murder”, un hotel di Chicago durante la 1893 Esposizione mondiale di Chicago. Holmes sarebbe poi essere condannato per sedici omicidi, ma potrebbe aver ucciso più di 100 persone durante il suo funzionamento dell'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 una di quelle strane coincidenze della storia, Il tram Unione presidente Sherman C. Patterson è stato accoltellato da un macchinista un'unione di nome Edward Canty dopo un disaccordo berlina. In un momento in cui molti dei suoi avversari nella 1900 St. Louis Tram Colpo piacerebbe averlo visto inviato su un treno fuori città, Patterson is stabbed by
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, In The Line of Duty: St. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath and Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. With his hair parted down the middle and a big mustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
William T.”Willie” Egan took over “Egan’s Rats” on the death of his older brother Tom in 1919. Thomas “Serpente” Kinney and his childhood friend and brother-in-law Tom Egan formed St. Louis’ criminal organization in the late 1800s. Both Kinney and Tom Egan were saloon keepers and Democratic politicians. They employed “the Rats” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Nella notte di Giovedi, Maggio 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, un simpatizzante sciopero con una storia di malattia mentale, sparato e ucciso Patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane e diversi altri ufficiali hanno risposto alla zona a causa di segnalazioni di Koenig minacciano altri cittadini. Koenig entrò Eas and Sons Saloon nell'angolo a sud ovest di S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
Il 1900 St. Louis Tram Sciopero fu una guerra sparando tra la classe operaia e la classe superiore. E 'iniziato come azione di posti di lavoro da parte dei lavoratori tram delle linee di tram neoconsolidate. Tuttavia, it quickly divided the city with the working class supporting the strike while the upper and professional classes defied the strike. The result was a deadly
On a cold January night in 1904, when the city of St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Era 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