Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Posts kuhusu St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Siku ya Jumatatu, Desemba 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 uamuzi tukio hilo juu ya Siku ya Uchaguzi 1904. Alitangaza baada ya kuchaguliwa kwa Urais katika haki yake mwenyewe baada ya kupaa kwenda ofisi juu ya mauaji ya William McKinley kwamba asingeweza kukimbia kwa muda mwingine katika 1908. Roosevelt aliwahi karibu kamili mfupi kabla ya uchaguzi wake kama McKinley aliuawa katika Septemba 1901.
Siku ya Ijumaa, Oktoba 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, Oktoba 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
Wakati wa Aprili 1885, St. Louis uzoefu moja ya mauaji yake ya sensational. Mbili Kiingereza wasafiri alikuwa checked katika Southern Hotel mapema Aprili 1885. C. Arthur Preller na H. M. Brooks, ambaye alikuwa anaenda na uwanja wa Dr. Maxwell, alionekana kuwa rafiki sana. Ingawa walikuwa na vyumba tofauti, mara nyingi kukaa katika chumba kimoja pamoja. At
Siku ya Jumatatu, Machi 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, a 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Afisa Thomas Meagher alimwona Sullivan na Harry Davis wakitembea karibu na Mzeituni
Siku ya Jumamosi, Machi 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, Agosti 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, Julai 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, who