Historik bojových športov a bojový umelec
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, generálny prokurátor Spojených štátov v Council Bluffs, Iowa obvinila Johna C. Mabray (verzia jeho skutočného mena, Mabry) a tucet obžalovaných z používania pošty na páchanie hazardných podvodov v profesionálnom boxe, profesionálny wrestling, a profesionálne dostihy. Mabry, obchodník s dobytkom žijúci v Kansas City, Missouri, zamestnal insiderov v boxe, zápasenie, a koňa
augusta v skorých ranných hodinách 5, 1933, štyria lupiči do trezorov rozbili okno v Marshfield Brewing Company v Marshfielde, Wisconsin. Zlodeji zrazili ciferník z trezoru a odstránili ho $1,550.00 vo federálnych známkach. V 2024 dolárov, zlodeji ukradli $37,000.00. Tí istí vlamači úspešne vzali ďalšieho $1,000 vo federálnych známkach spoločnosti Wausau Brewing Company
V sobotu, Apríl 9, 2022, historická spoločnosť Franklin County Missouri Historical Society ma pozvala na prezentáciu v PowerPointe o bankovej lúpeži Union Missouri 1902. Kniha sa zaoberá lúpežou, vyšetrovanie, dve celoštátne poľovačky na utečenca a odvážna prestávka zo St. Louis City Jail. Dvaja odvážni lupiči, not yet 23 rokov, vytiahol
Tom Allen sa narodil v Birminghame, England on April 23, 1840 ale v Amerike sa preslávil ako bojovník s holým kolenom v ťažkej váhe. Usadiť sa v St. Louis around 1867, Allen vyhral americký šampionát v ťažkej váhe v r 1873 a titul držal až do 1876. Na rok sa vrátil do Anglicka a potom sa vrátil do St. Louis navždy 1878. Späť
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Mája 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, keď
Augusta 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, Január 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 rokov. 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. Police Department 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
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Však, 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