היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, the United States Attorney General in Council Bluffs, Iowa charged John C. Mabray (a version of his actual name, Mabry) and a dozen defendants with using the mail to commit gambling fraud in professional boxing, professional wrestling, and professional horse racing. Mabry, a livestock dealer living in Kansas City, מיזורי, employed insiders in boxing, wrestling, and horse
בשעות הבוקר המוקדמות של אוגוסט 5, 1933, ארבעה פורצי כספות שברו חלון בחברת הבירה מארשפילד במארשפילד, Wisconsin. הפורצים הפילו חוגה מהכספת והוציאו $1,550.00 בבולים פדרליים. בתוך 2024 dollars, הפורצים גנבו $37,000.00. אותם פורצים הצליחו לקחו עוד אחד $1,000 in federal stamps from the Wausau Brewing Company
ביום שבת, אפריל 9, 2022, החברה ההיסטורית של מחוז פרנקלין מיזורי הזמינה אותי להעביר מצגת PowerPoint על שוד הבנק של יוניון מיזורי 1902. הספר מכסה את השוד, את החקירה, שני ציד ארצי אחר הנמלט והפסקה נועזת מה-St. Louis City Jail. שני שודדים נועזים, not yet 23 גיל, משך
טום אלן נולד בברמינגהם, England on April 23, 1840 אבל הוא התפרסם בתור לוחם פרסים חשוף במשקל כבד באמריקה. מתיישב בסנט. Louis around 1867, אלן זכה באליפות אמריקה במשקל כבד ב 1873 והחזיק בתואר עד 1876. הוא חזר לאנגליה לשנה לפני שחזר לסנט. לואיס לתמיד ב 1878. Back
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On August 11, 1896, a train arrived in St. לואיס, 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, ינואר 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, the St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 שנים. 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. אולם, 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