Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, der Generalstaatsanwalt der Vereinigten Staaten in Council Bluffs, Iowa hat John C. angeklagt. Mabray (eine Version seines tatsächlichen Namens, Mabry) und einem Dutzend Angeklagten, die die Post zur Begehung von Glücksspielbetrug im Profiboxen genutzt haben, professionelles Wrestling, und professionelle Pferderennen. Mabry, ein Viehhändler, der in Kansas City lebt, Missouri, beschäftigte Insider im Boxsport, Ringen, und Pferd
In den frühen Morgenstunden im August 5, 1933, Vier sichere Einbrecher schlugen ein Fenster der Marshfield Brewing Company in Marshfield ein, Wisconsin. Die Einbrecher schlugen ein Zifferblatt aus dem Safe und entfernten es $1,550.00 in Bundesmarken. In 2024 dollars, Die Einbrecher haben rüber gestohlen $37,000.00. Den gleichen Einbrechern gelang es, ein weiteres zu erbeuten $1,000 in Bundesbriefmarken der Wausau Brewing Company
Am Samstag,, April 9, 2022, Die Franklin County Missouri Historical Society lud mich ein, eine PowerPoint-Präsentation über den Bankraub der Union Missouri zu halten 1902. Das Buch behandelt den Raub, die Ermittlung, zwei landesweite Fahndungen nach dem Flüchtigen und ein gewagter Ausbruch aus dem St. Louis City Jail. Zwei waghalsige Räuber, not yet 23 Jahren, abgezogen
Tom Allen wurde in Birmingham geboren, England on April 23, 1840 Berühmt wurde er jedoch als Schwergewichts-Preiskämpfer mit bloßen Fingerknöcheln in Amerika. Sich in St. niederlassen. Louis around 1867, Allen gewann die amerikanische Schwergewichtsmeisterschaft 1873 und hielt den Titel bis 1876. Er kehrte für ein Jahr nach England zurück, bevor er nach St. zurückkehrte. Louis für immer 1878. Back
Am Dienstag, Juli 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
On December 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. The men took $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
August 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Louis, Missouri around 7:30 a.m. 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, Januar 9, 1915, Sgt.. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 a.m. 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 words, die St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 Jahre. 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