Staraí Spóirt agus Ealaíontóir Comhraic
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, Ard-Aighne na Stát Aontaithe i Bluffs na Comhairle, Ghearr Iowa John C. Mhabrai (leagan dá ainm féin, Mabraigh) agus dosaen cosantóirí ag baint úsáide as an bpost chun calaois chearrbhachais a dhéanamh sa dornálaíocht ghairmiúil, wrestling proifisiúnta, agus rásaíocht capall gairmiúil. Mabraigh, déileálaí beostoic a chónaíonn i Kansas City, Missouri, fostaithe istigh sa dornálaíocht, wrestling, agus capall
Go luath ar maidin de Lúnasa 5, 1933, bhris ceithre bhuirgléir shábháilte fuinneog ag an Marshfield Brewing Company i Marshfield, Wisconsin. Bhuail na buirgléirí a dhiailiú amach as an sábháilte agus baineadh as $1,550.00 i stampaí feidearálacha. In 2024 dollars, ghoid na buirgléir os a chionn $37,000.00. D'éirigh leis na burgairí céanna ceann eile a ghlacadh $1,000 i stampaí cónaidhme ón Wausau Brewing Company
Ar Dé Sathairn, Aibreán 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 bliana d'aois, pulled off
Rugadh Tom Allen i mBirmingham, England on April 23, 1840 ach bhain sé cáil amach mar trodaire trom meáchain lom i Meiriceá. Ag socrú i St. Louis around 1867, Bhuaigh Allen Craobh Meáchain Trom Mheiriceá i 1873 agus shealbhaigh sé an teideal go dtí 1876. D’fhill sé ar Shasana ar feadh bliana sular fhill sé ar St. Louis le haghaidh maith i 1878. Back
Ar Dé Máirt, Iúil 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
Ar Nollaig 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,
Ar Lúnasa 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, Eanáir 9, 1915, Sáirsint. Michael Gibbons stepped off the westbound Delmar owl streetcar about 3:00 a.m. Sáirsint. 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, Naomh. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 bliana. 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. Póilíní Roinn Louis. 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