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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Të hënën, Dhjetor 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 bërë një vendim fatal për ditën e zgjedhjeve 1904. Ai njoftoi pasi u zgjodh në Presidencën në të drejtën e tij, pasi u ngritur në zyrën e me vrasjen e William McKinley se ai nuk do të kandidojë për një mandat tjetër në 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
Të premten, Tetor 21, 1904, një nga tragjeditë më të mëdha në St. Historia Louis Policia ka ndodhur kur dy grabitës tren dhe tre St. Detectives Louis Policisë vdiqën në një shkëmbim zjarri. Shkëmbim zjarri ka ndodhur në një dhomë të vogël hoteli në Rruga me Pisha. Dy ditë më vonë të dielën, Tetor 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
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. Në
Të hënën, Mars 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, një 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Oficeri Thomas Meagher vëzhgoi Sullivan dhe Harry Davis duke ecur pranë Olive
Të shtunën, Mars 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, Gusht 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 mëngjesit. 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
Të hënën në mbrëmje, Korrik 16, 1917, St. Zyrtari i policisë Louis Julius H. Petring caktuar për Divizionin e Tregut të Veriut hyri në një shtëpi rooming në 2301 N. Rruga e Tregut. Petring pyeti pronarin William Dietrich të marrësh me qira një dhomë për të dhe gruan e tij. E tij “grua” ishte e dashura e tij e divorcuar kohët e fundit Freda Hagenmeyer. Zyrtar Petring kishte qenë duke parë Freda Hagenmeyer, që