Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, Yhdysvaltain oikeusministeri Council Bluffsissa, Iowa syytti John C. Mabray (versio hänen oikeasta nimestään, Mabry) ja kymmenkunta syytettyä, jotka käyttivät postia rahapelipetokseen ammattinyrkkeilyssä, ammattipaini, ja ammattimaiset hevoskilpailut. Mabry, Kansas Cityssä asuva karjakauppias, Missouri, työllisti nyrkkeilyssä sisäpiiriläisiä, paini, ja hevonen
Elokuun aikaisin aamulla 5, 1933, neljä turvamurtovarasta rikkoi ikkunan Marshfield Brewing Companyssa Marshfieldissä, Wisconsin. Murtovarkaat löivät kassakaapin irti kellotaulun ja poistivat sen $1,550.00 liittovaltion postimerkeissä. Sisään 2024 dollars, murtovarkaat varastivat $37,000.00. Samat murtovarkaat veivät onnistuneesti toisen $1,000 Wausau Brewing Companyn liittovaltion postimerkeissä
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. Kuitenkin, before O’Baldwin could face Mace, he served as a second for a friend and fellow prizefighter named Hicken. Ammattitaistelut 1800-luvulla nauttivat huonosta maineesta sen ulkopuolella
Lauantaina, Huhtikuu 9, 2022, the Franklin County Missouri Historical Society invited me to give a PowerPoint presentation on the Union Missouri Bank Robbery of 1902. The book covers the robbery, the investigation, two nationwide hunts for the fugitive and a daring break from the St. Louis City Jail. Two daring robbers, not yet 23 vuotiaita, pulled off
Tom Allen syntyi Birminghamissa, Englannissa huhtikuussa 23, 1840 mutta hänestä tuli kuuluisa raskaansarjan paljas rystysten voittaja Amerikassa. Asuminen St. Louis around 1867, Allen voitti Yhdysvaltain raskaansarjan mestaruuden vuonna 1873 ja piti titteliä kunnes 1876. Hän palasi Englantiin vuodeksi ennen kuin palasi St. Louis lopullisesti sisään 1878. Back
Tiistaina, Heinäkuu 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. Toukokuun 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, kun hän
Joulukuun 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,
On August 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. Ludvig, Missouri around 7:30 a.m. Three figures exited the train. Two healthy looking police officers were escorting John D. “Tunkki” 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, Tammikuu 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