Chief Desmond Gets a New Assistant

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月曜日に, 12月 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.

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Prelude to 1912 大統領選

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セオドア·ルーズベルトは選挙日に運命的な決断をした 1904. 彼は、彼が別の用語に立候補しないことをウィリアム·マッキンリーの暗殺の際に事務所に昇順した後、彼自身の権利で議長に選出された後に発表しました 1908. マッキンリーは9月に暗殺されたようにルーズベルトは彼の選挙の前に、ほぼ全期間を務めていた 1901.

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チーフデズモンド発汗ニトロ盗難

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金曜日に, 10月 21, 1904, セントにおける最大の悲劇の一つ. Louis Police history occurred when two train robbers and three St. ルイ警察の刑事は銃撃戦で死亡した. 銃撃戦は、パインストリートにある小さなホテルの部屋で発生した. 二日後の日曜日に, 10月 23, 1904, 泥棒は、不動産事務所に侵入しようとした

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探偵トレイシートランスポートトランク殺人者

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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言語. 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

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ST. Louis Police Nab Robber of Policeman

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月曜日に, 3月 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

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Cracksmen Caught at Eugene Field House

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土曜日に, 3月 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. ルイ’ 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. モランと刑事たち

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強盗はキャッチ·キラーを支援

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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.

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Amateur Sleuth Catches Dynamitards

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Sunday morning, 8月 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

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

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On Monday evening, 7月 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, 誰

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