圣. 路易警察捉住逃犯印第安纳

圣. 路易警察局长侦探威廉·德斯蒙德提出了许多艰难的罪犯谈话在他的职业生涯. 约翰·休伊, 印第安纳凶手, 是不是这些情况之一. 休伊畅所欲言与德斯蒙德有关他过去的犯罪. 休伊来自印第安纳州逃出后，服 13 年的谋杀案 1874.

约翰·休伊来到里昂, 在印第安纳州 1874 as a 22-year-old. Huey began hanging out with Elihu Hardin. By Huey’s account, Hardin was a tough man who bullied others. 十二月 30, 1874, Hardin demanded that Huey buy him a drink or fight. When Huey took off his jacket to fight, Hardin pulled a knife.

Huey fled the tavern and retrieved a firearm from his room. Huey stated that he intended to leave town but Hardin was waiting for him down the street. Hardin approached Huey with the knife. Despite Huey’s pleas for Hardin to back off, Hardin continued to advance. Huey shot Hardin in the head. Hardin died instantly.

Huey fled Lyon and lived in Terre Haute until arrested for Hardin’s murder in 1876. 一月 1877, the case was tried but ended in a hung jury. The prosecuting attorney dropped the murder charge in exchange for Huey’s plea to manslaughter. In a surprise to everyone in the court room, the judge sentenced the 25-year-old Huey to 20 years in prison.

Huey later became a trustee. It was in this role that with only six months left before a parole that was going to be granted that Huey walked away from the Jeffersonville, Indiana prison during August 1890. Huey worked in Southern Illinois before coming to visit his sisters in St. 路易. Huey came to St. Louis at the end of April and believed one of his relatives turned him in.

Detectives McGrath and O’Connell picked Huey up at his sister’s residence near the intersection of Glasgow and Cass Avenues. Huey admitted his identity to them almost immediately. They took him to speak to Chief Desmond at the Four Courts Building, where he told the above story.

Huey returned to Indiana and served the remainder of his term. 不幸的是, Huey’s congenial nature did not lead him to go straight. Indiana officials arrested him and his brother Jack for theft in 1901. The newspaper noted that the Hueys were known burglars.

Chief Desmond would have many criminals confess to him over the years. While many of his contemporaries used techniques such as “the third degree” or beating prisoners, Desmond said violence was ineffective. Desmond got his results by talking to criminals.

He sometimes interrogated them like a drill instructor but for the most part he won their trust by treating them better than they were used to. Criminals would contact Desmond after they were in prison to provide him information. Bank and train robber Marion Hedgepeth helped Desmond catch serial killer H.H. 福尔摩斯.

在 1891, Desmond was a young Chief of Detectives. Some of his greatest triumphs were yet to come.

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