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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. Į
Šeštadienį, Kovas 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. Moranas ir detektyvai
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, Rugpjūtis 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 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
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Be muito linija: 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 perėmė “Egan anketa Žiurkės” dėl jo vyresnysis brolis Tom mirties 1919. Tomas “Gyvatė” Kinney, ir jo vaikystės draugas ir brolis-in-law Tomas Egan suformuotas St. Louis’ nusikalstama organizacija 1800. Tiek Kinney ir Tomas Egan buvo sedanai laikytojai ir demokratinė politikai. Jie dirba “Žiurkių” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Tomas
Ketvirtadienio naktį, Gegužės 31, 1900, Albertas Koenig, Streikas prijaučiančio su psichikos ligos istorijos, nušovė Policijos Dennis Kranas. Patrolman Kranų ir keli kiti pareigūnai atsakė į tą vietą, nes ataskaitas Koenig grėsmingas kitiems piliečiams. Koenig įrašytas EAS and Sons Saloon į pietvakarių kampe S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
The 1900 St. Louis tramvajų Strike buvo šaudymo karas tarp darbininkų klasės ir aukštesnės klasės. Jis pradėjo kaip darbo veiksmų tramvajus darbuotojų naujai konsoliduotų tramvajų linijų. Tačiau, 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
Šaltą Gruodis Naktis į 1904, kai Šv miestas. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Tai buvo 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