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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Na segunda-feira, Dezembro 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.
Theodore Roosevelt fez uma decisão fatal no dia da eleição 1904. Ele anunciou, após ter sido eleito para a Presidência em seu próprio direito depois de ascender ao escritório após o assassinato de William McKinley que ele não iria concorrer a um novo mandato em 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
Na sexta-feira, Outubro 21, 1904, one of the greatest tragedies in St. Louis Police history occurred when two train robbers and three St. Louis Police detectives died in a shootout. The gunfight occurred in a small hotel room on Pine Street. Two days later on Sunday, Outubro 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
No mês de abril 1885, St. Louis viveu um dos seus assassinatos mais sensacionais. Dois viajantes ingleses tinha verificado para o Hotel Sul no início de abril 1885. C. Arthur Preller e H. M. Brooks, que estava indo pelo pseudônimo de Dr.. Maxwell, parecia ser muito amigável. Embora eles tivessem quartos separados, they often stayed in the same room together. Em
Na segunda-feira, Março 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, um 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
No sábado, Março 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 e os detetives
H. H. Holmes foi primeiro serial killer conhecido da América na definição moderna da palavra. Holmes operado “Castelo Murder”, um hotel de Chicago, durante o 1893 Feira Mundial de Chicago. Holmes acabaria por ser condenado por dezesseis crimes, mas pode ter assassinado mais de 100 pessoas durante sua operação do hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Agosto 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, Julho 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, que