Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, die Amerikaanse prokureur-generaal in Council Bluffs, Iowa het John C. Mabray ('n weergawe van sy werklike naam, Mabry) en 'n dosyn beskuldigdes met die gebruik van die pos om dobbelbedrog in professionele boks te pleeg, professionele stoei, en professionele perdewedrenne. Mabry, 'n veehandelaar wat in Kansas City woon, Missouri, ingewydes in boks werk, stoei, en perd
In die vroeë oggendure van Augustus 5, 1933, vier kluisinbrekers het 'n venster by die Marshfield Brewing Company in Marshfield gebreek, Wisconsin. Die inbrekers het 'n draaiknop van die kluis afgestamp en verwyder $1,550.00 in federale seëls. In 2024 dollars, die inbrekers het gesteel $37,000.00. Dieselfde inbrekers het nog een suksesvol geneem $1,000 in federale seëls van die Wausau Brewing Company
Op Saterdag, April 9, 2022, die Franklin County Missouri Historical Society het my genooi om 'n PowerPoint-aanbieding te gee oor die Union Missouri Bank Roof van 1902. Die boek dek die roof, die ondersoek, twee landwye jagtogte op die voortvlugtige en ’n gewaagde wegbreek van die St. Louis City Jail. Twee waaghalsige rowers, not yet 23 jaar oud, afgetrek
Tom Allen is in Birmingham gebore, England on April 23, 1840 maar hy het bekend geword as 'n swaargewig kaal kneukel prysvegter in Amerika. Vestig in St. Louis around 1867, Allen het die Amerikaanse swaargewigkampioenskap in 1873 en het die titel gehou tot 1876. Hy het vir 'n jaar na Engeland teruggekeer voordat hy na St. Louis vir goed in 1878. Back
Op Dinsdag, Julie 4, 1916, former St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond passed away after an illness of two years. Desmond was in Alexian Brothers Hospital from October 1915 until his death on Independence Day 1916. The 59-year-old Desmond left a 12-year-old son, William Desmond, Jr. Chief Desmond’s wife died several years before him. For 17 years from 1890
Op Desember 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. Die mans het $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 voormiddag. and surprised Harding,
Augustus 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Louis, Missouri around 7:30 voormiddag. Three figures exited the train. Two healthy looking police officers were escorting John D. “Jack” Shea, who killed St. Louis Police Officer Patrick Doran on November 7, 1881. The gaunt and sickly Shea was no longer the young thug, who executed Doran during a chase after
On a chilly night, Januarie 9, 1915, Sgt. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 voormiddag. Sgt. Gibbons walked towards the Wabash Railroad’s Delmar Station, which was in complete darkness. Gibbons kneeled and wrapped his nightstick on the platform to signal any nearby beat officers to report to him. Patrolman Arthur J. Saxy heard the night
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 woorde, die St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 jaar. They replaced him with Desmond’s ex-assistant James Smith, who was dismissed by the previous board. How did one of the greatest, if not the greatest, detectives in
Cornelius O’Keefe earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Louis Police Department. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 6, 1911, when a burglar entered the boarding house, where O’Keefe lived and tried to steal several items including O’Keefe’s pants. O’Keefe had just woken up and was getting ready