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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
På mandag, Desember 15, 1902, St. Louis Politiet Assistant Chief of Detectives James H. Smith pensjonert fra politiet til å ta en posisjon i kullindustrien. Chief of Detectives William Desmond forsøkt å overbevise Smith å bo, men han bestemte seg for å trekke seg tilbake fra den kraft som hans førtiende fødselsdag nærmet. Smith samlet en prisverdig rekord som Desmond assistent.
Theodore Roosevelt gjorde en skjebnesvanger avgjørelse på valgdagen 1904. Han kunngjorde etter å ha blitt valgt inn i formannskapet i sin egen rett etter stigende til kontoret på mordet på William McKinley at han ikke ville stille til en ny periode i 1908. Roosevelt hadde tjent nesten en hel periode før han ble valgt som McKinley ble myrdet i september 1901.
På fredag, Oktober 21, 1904, en av de største tragediene i St. Louis Politiet historie skjedde da to tog røvere og tre St. Louis Politiet detektiver døde i en skuddveksling. Gunfight skjedde i et lite rom på Pine Street. To dager senere på søndag, Oktober 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
I løpet av april 1885, St. Louis opplevde en av sine mest oppsiktsvekkende drapene. To engelske reisende hadde sjekket inn på Southern Hotel i begynnelsen av april 1885. C. Arthur Preller og H. M. Brooks, som skulle av aliaset Dr. Maxwell, syntes å være svært vennlig. Selv om de hadde separate rom, they often stayed in the same room together. At
På mandag, March 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, en 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
På lørdag, March 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, August 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
On Monday evening, July 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. Hans “kone” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, som