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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. At
W sobotę, Marzec 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, Sierpień 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, W służbie: St. Funkcjonariusze policji, którzy dokonali Louis Ofiarę Ostateczny Barbary Miksicek, David McElreath i major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Rozstał się z jego włosów na środku i duży wąsy, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
William T.”Willie” Egan przejęła “Egan Rats” po śmierci starszego brata Toma w 1919. Tomasz “Wąż” Kinney i przyjaciel z dzieciństwa i jego brat-in-law Tom Egan utworzone St. Louis’ organizacja przestępcza w latach 1800. Zarówno Kinney i Tom Egan były saloon hodowców i demokratycznych polityków. Oni zatrudnieni “Szczury” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Tomasz
W czwartek w nocy, Maj 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, sympatyk strajk w historii choroby psychicznej, zastrzelił policjant Dennis Crane. Odpowiedział na obszarze policjant Crane i kilku innych oficerów z powodu doniesień o Koenig groźny innych obywateli. Koenig wszedł Eas i synowie Saloon w południowo-zachodnim narożniku S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
The 1900 St. Louis Tramwaj Strike było strzelanie wojna między klasą robotniczą i wyższej klasy. Zaczęło się od działania pracy przez pracowników Tramwaj nowo linii tramwajowych skonsolidowanych. Jednak, szybko dzieli miasto z klasą robotniczą wspierając strajk, podczas gdy górne i profesjonalne zajęcia strajku przeciwstawił. The result was a deadly
W zimną noc stycznia w 1904, gdy miasto St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. To było 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