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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, le procureur général des États-Unis à Council Bluffs, L'Iowa a accusé John C. Mabray (une version de son vrai nom, Mabry) et une douzaine de prévenus pour avoir utilisé le courrier pour commettre une fraude au jeu dans la boxe professionnelle, lutte professionnelle, et courses hippiques professionnelles. Mabry, un marchand de bétail vivant à Kansas City, Missouri, employés initiés dans la boxe, lutte, et cheval
Aux petites heures du matin d'août 5, 1933, quatre cambrioleurs ont brisé une fenêtre de la Marshfield Brewing Company à Marshfield, Wisconsin. Les cambrioleurs ont fait tomber un cadran du coffre-fort et ont enlevé $1,550.00 dans les timbres fédéraux. Dans 2024 dollars, les cambrioleurs ont volé $37,000.00. Les mêmes cambrioleurs ont réussi à en prendre un autre $1,000 en timbres fédéraux de la Wausau Brewing Company
Le samedi, Avril 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 ans, pulled off
Tom Allen est né à Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 mais il est devenu célèbre en tant que boxeur poids lourd aux mains nues en Amérique. S'installer à St. Louis around 1867, Allen a remporté le championnat américain des poids lourds en 1873 et détenait le titre jusqu'à 1876. Il est retourné en Angleterre pendant un an avant de retourner à St. Louis pour de bon dans 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Sur mai 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, quand il
Sur Août 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, Janvier 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, Saint-. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 ans. 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
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Cependant, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone and Shea were local criminals, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was