Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, o fiscal xeral dos Estados Unidos en Council Bluffs, Iowa acusou a John C. Mabray (unha versión do seu nome real, Mabry) e unha ducia de acusados por utilizar o correo para cometer fraude de xogo no boxeo profesional, loita profesional, e carreiras de cabalos profesionais. Mabry, un comerciante de gando que vive en Kansas City, Missouri, Empregados iniciados no boxeo, loita libre, e cabalo
Nas primeiras horas da mañá de agosto 5, 1933, catro ladróns seguros romperon unha fiestra na Marshfield Brewing Company en Marshfield, Wisconsin. Os ladróns botaron un disco da caixa forte e retirárono $1,550.00 en selos federais. En 2024 dólares, os ladróns roubaron $37,000.00. Os mesmos asaltantes levaron con éxito outro $1,000 en selos federais da Wausau Brewing Company
O sábado, Abril 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 anos de idade, pulled off
Tom Allen naceu en Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 pero fíxose famoso como un peleador de peso pesado en América. Instalándose en St. Louis around 1867, Allen gañou o American Heavyweight Championship en 1873 e mantivo o título ata 1876. Volveu a Inglaterra durante un ano antes de regresar a St. Louis para sempre 1878. Back
O martes, Xullo 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 anos dende 1890
En decembro de 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. Os homes levaron $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 A.M. and surprised Harding,
En agosto 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, Xaneiro 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, o St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 anos. 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 Departamento de Policía. 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