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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. Pie
Sestdien, Marts 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. Holmss bija Amerikas pirmais zināms sērijveida slepkava mūsdienu definīciju vārda. Holmes darbināmas “Murder pils”, Chicago hotel laikā 1893 Čikāgas Pasaules Fair. Holmes galu galā tiks notiesāts par sešpadsmit slepkavību, taču, iespējams, ir nogalināti vairāk nekā 100 cilvēki savā darbībā no viesnīcas laikā. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Augusts 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, In of Duty Line: St. Louis policisti, kuri izteica Ultimate Upuri Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath un 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 “Čūska” 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
Ceturtdienas vakarā, Maijs 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, streiks piekritējs ar garīgu slimību pagātnē, skrotis un nogalināja policists Dennis Crane. Policists Crane un vairākas citas amatpersonas atbildēja uz platību sakarā ar ziņojumiem par Koenig draudīgi citus pilsoņus. Koenig ievadīta Eas un Sons Saloon pie dienvidrietumu stūrī S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
The 1900 St. Louis tramvajs Strike bija šaušana karš starp strādnieku šķiras un augstākā klasē. Tas sākās kā darba rīcība tramvajs strādniekiem nesen konsolidēto tramvajs līnijas. Tomēr, tas ātri sadalīja pilsētu ar strādnieku šķiras atbalstot streiku, bet augšējo un profesionālās klases nepakļāvās streiku. The result was a deadly
Aukstā janvāris nakts 1904, kad pilsēta St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Tas bija 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