Lupič zabije iného policajta v 1920

Decembra 10, 1920, ôsmy St. Louis policajt stratí svoj život, the most officers to die in the line of duty in the history of the St. Police Department Louis. Štyri dôstojníci’ Vraždy v 1920 nikdy by byť vyriešený. This last murder would be one of the four murders never to be solved.

Charles M. Daly became the eighth St. Louis Police Officer to lose his life, when a robber attempted to hold him up in front of his home at 4021 Forest Park Boulevard. The robber shot Daly in the course of the holdup. His actions would lead to Officer Daly’s death. Daly had recently been assigned as a Special Police Officer at the Magnolia Police Station due to his fine record as a patrol officer at Grand Boulevard and Easton Avenue.

Special Officer Daly was returning to his home after his shift at 10:30 p.m.. on Tuesday, December 7, 1920. As he turned up his sidewalk, a man approached him and told him to “stick ’em up”. Officer Daly was carrying his service revolver in his right coat pocket.

Daly pulled out his revolver but the robber shot him first. The shots struck Daly in the abdomen twice. Officer Daly told his wife Josephine later that he also observed another man across the street hiding in the bushes during the robbery. Officer Daly fired three shots at both men before collapsing to the sidewalk. His wife found him, when she heard the shooting in the front yard.

According to the Wednesday, December 8, 1920 vydanie St. Louis Post-Dispatch, his doctor’s said he had a “fighting chance”. The paper also noted Officer Daly was the son of the late Dan Daly, lokálne cena-bojovník poznámky. Polícia zatkla niekoľko podozrivých osôb, ale Daly povedal, že nikdy dobré pozrieť sa na zlodeja v tme a neveril, že ho mohol určiť, či bol privedený k nemu.

Podivne, Dôstojník Daly bol napadnutý gangom mužov niekoľko týždňov predtým, než smrtiaci útok. Muži ho nasledoval po tom, čo vystúpil z Sarah Street ulici auto. Oni mu skočil pred jeho dome, ale jeho žena ho schmatla za služobné revolver a strach je preč.

Povedala, že mnoho kriminálnych živlov v okolí si strážil držal zášť proti nemu, pretože jeho pracovitosti pri vykonávaní svojich povinností. Však, orgány neboli nikdy schopné pripojiť dva útoky a ani sa domnievajú, že tento incident bol niečo viac ako lúpež.

V piatok, December 10, 1920 na 06:20 popoludní, Dali podľahol svojim zraneniam. Daly, who was born on January 15, 1890 v St. Louis, was 30 years old. St. Louis Police Department lost another brave officer.

The house at 4021 Forest Park Boulevard, which no longer exists, had a bloody history. According to John Auble’s book A History of St. Louis Gangsters, May Traynor, a local madam was shot by two men there on September 20, 1961. Before she died, Traynor blamed Joe Costello, a local gangster. She died on September 22, 1961 na 71 rokov.

1920 was an anomaly in the history of the St. Police Department Louis. Never did so many officers lose their lives in the line of duty. Našťastie, it has never been repeated.

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