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Posts about St. Louis,Missouri and miscellaneous history until 1930 .
Sa Monday, Disyembre 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 ginawa isang nakamamatay na desisyon sa Araw ng Halalan 1904. Inihayag niya matapos na inihalal sa pagkapangulo sa kanyang sariling karapatan pagkatapos pataas sa opisina kapag ang pagpatay nang pataksil ng William McKinley na hindi siya tumakbo para sa isa pang termino sa 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
Sa Biyernes, Oktubre 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, Oktubre 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
Sa panahon ng Abril 1885, St. Louis nakaranas ng isa sa mga pinaka-pansin murders. Dalawang traveller Ingles ay naka-check sa Southern Hotel sa unang bahagi ng Abril 1885. C. Arthur Preller at H. M. Brooks, sino ay pagpunta sa pamamagitan ng mga alyas ng mga Dr. Maxwell, lumitaw na maging napaka-friendly na. Kahit na nagkaroon sila nakahiwalay na kuwarto, they often stayed in the same room together. At
Sa Monday, Marso 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, isang 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
Sa Sabado, Marso 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 at ang mga detective
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, 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
Sa Lunes gabi, Hulyo 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring nakatalaga sa North Market Division ipinasok isang rooming bahay sa 2301 N. Market Street. Petring tanungin ang may-ari William Dietrich magrenta ng kuwarto para sa kanya at sa kanyang asawa. Kanya “asawa” ang kanyang kamakailan diborsiyado girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Opisyal Petring ay nakikita Freda Hagenmeyer, sino