Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During March 1910, de procureur-generaal van de Verenigde Staten in Council Bluffs, Iowa beschuldigde John C. Mabray (een versie van zijn echte naam, Mabry) en een tiental beklaagden die de post gebruikten om gokfraude te plegen in het professionele boksen, professioneel worstelen, en professionele paardenraces. Mabry, een veehandelaar die in Kansas City woont, Missouri, had insiders in dienst in het boksen, worstelen, en paard
In de vroege ochtenduren van augustus 5, 1933, vier veilige inbrekers braken een raam in bij de Marshfield Brewing Company in Marshfield, Wisconsin. De inbrekers hebben een draaiknop van de kluis geslagen en verwijderd $1,550.00 in federale postzegels. In 2024 dollars, de inbrekers zijn er langs geslopen $37,000.00. Dezelfde inbrekers hebben met succes een andere inbreker meegenomen $1,000 in federale postzegels van de Wausau Brewing Company
Op zaterdag, April 9, 2022, de Franklin County Missouri Historical Society nodigde mij uit om een PowerPoint-presentatie te geven over de bankoverval in Union Missouri 1902. Het boek behandelt de overval, het onderzoek, twee landelijke jachten op de voortvluchtige en een gewaagde ontsnapping uit de St. Louis City Jail. Twee gedurfde overvallers, not yet 23 jaar, afgetrokken
Tom Allen was born in Birmingham, England on April 23, 1840 but he became famous as a heavyweight bare knuckle prizefighter in America. Settling in St. Louis around 1867, Allen won the American Heavyweight Championship in 1873 and held the title until 1876. He returned to England for a year before returning to St. Louis for good in 1878. Back
St. Louis Police Officer Cornelius O’Keefe performed countless acts of bravery over his career. Op mei 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, wanneer hij
Op augustus 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, Januari 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, de St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 jaren. 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 verwierf een reputatie als een stoere politieagent tijdens zijn carrière bij de St.. Louis Police Department. Hij zou al die hardheid nodig hebben op de ochtend van januari 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 was net wakker geworden en maakte zich klaar
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Echter, 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