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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, Jungtinių Valstijų generalinis prokuroras Council Bluffs, Ajova apkaltino Johną C. Mabray (tikrojo vardo versija, Mabry) ir keliolika kaltinamųjų, pasinaudojusių paštu sukčiavimui lošimo srityje profesionaliame bokse, profesionalios imtynės, ir profesionalias žirgų lenktynes. Mabry, gyvulių prekeivis, gyvenantis Kanzas Sityje, Misūris, įdarbino bokso savininkus, imtynės, ir arklys
Ankstų rugpjūčio rytą 5, 1933, keturi saugūs įsilaužėliai išdaužė langą Marshfield Brewing Company Maršfilde, Wisconsin. Įsilaužėliai numušė nuo seifo ciferblatą ir išėmė $1,550.00 federaliniuose pašto ženkluose. Į 2024 dollars, vagys apvogė $37,000.00. Tie patys įsilaužėliai sėkmingai paėmė kitą $1,000 federaliniuose Wausau Brewing Company pašto ženkluose
Šeštadienį, Balandis 9, 2022, Franklino apygardos Misūrio istorijos draugija pakvietė mane skaityti PowerPoint pranešimą apie Union Missouri banko apiplėšimą 1902. Knyga apima apiplėšimą, tyrimą, dvi bėglio medžioklės visoje šalyje ir drąsus atitrūkimas nuo Šv. Louis City Jail. Du drąsūs plėšikai, not yet 23 metų, nusitraukė
Tomas Allenas gimė Birmingeme, England on April 23, 1840 bet Amerikoje jis išgarsėjo kaip sunkiasvoris plikas pirštas. Įsikūręs Šv. Louis around 1867, Allenas laimėjo Amerikos sunkiasvorių čempionatą 1873 ir titulą išlaikė iki 1876. Jis metams grįžo į Angliją, kol grįžo į Šv. Louis visam laikui 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Gegužės 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, kai jis
Rugpjūčio 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, Sausis 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, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 metai. 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 Policijos departamentas. 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. Tačiau, 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