Võitlusspordiajaloolane ja võitluskunstnik
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, Ameerika Ühendriikide peaprokurör Council Bluffsis, Iowa esitas süüdistuse John C. Mabray (versioon tema tegelikust nimest, Mabry) ja kümmekond süüdistatavat, kes kasutasid posti profipoksi hasartmängupettuse toimepanemiseks, professionaalne maadlus, ja professionaalsed hobuste võiduajamised. Mabry, Kansas Citys elav loomakaupmees, Missouri, töötas poksis insaiderid, maadlus, ja hobune
Augusti varajastel hommikutundidel 5, 1933, neli turvalist sissemurdjat lõhkusid Marshfieldis asuvas Marshfield Brewing Company akna, Wisconsin. Vargad lõid seifilt sihverplaadi ja eemaldasid $1,550.00 föderaalmarkides. Sisse 2024 dollarit, sissemurdjad varastasid $37,000.00. Samad murdvargad võtsid edukalt teise $1,000 Wausau Brewing Company föderaalmarkides
In early March 1873, bare knuckle prizefighter Ned “The Irish Giant” O’Baldwin was preparing for a potential match with Jem Mace, who claimed the World Bare Knuckle Prizefighting Championship. Siiski, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Professionaalsed võitlused 19. sajandil nautisid väljaspool seda kehva maine
On laupäev, Aprill 9, 2022, Franklini maakonna Missouri ajalooselts kutsus mind pidama PowerPointi ettekannet Union Missouri pangaröövist. 1902. Raamat käsitleb röövimist, uurimine, kaks üleriigilist jahti põgenikule ja hulljulge paus St. Louis City Jail. Kaks julget röövlit, not yet 23 aastat, maha tõmmatud
Tom Allen sündis Birminghamis, England on April 23, 1840 kuid ta sai Ameerikas kuulsaks kui raskekaalu paljaste sõrmenukkidega võitleja. Asudes elama St. Louis around 1867, aastal võitis Allen Ameerika raskekaalu meistritiitli 1873 ja hoidis tiitlit kuni 1876. Ta naasis aastaks Inglismaale, enne kui naasis St. Louis lõplikult sisse 1878. Back
Teisipäeval, Juuli 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
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Mail 26, 1901, O’Keefe proved his toughness and quick thinking again by saving a fellow officer from an excited horse and shed fire. St. Louis Police Officer Joseph A. Gerk patrolled his beat on Eighteenth Street during the morning of May 26, 1901, kui ta
On detsember 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, Jaanuar 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