Pretty Boy Floyd’s St. Louis Robbery

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In 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers.  However, in December 1925, he was inmate number 29078 at the Missouri Penitentiary.  The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office

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Chief Desmond Discovers Murder

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On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital.  Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose.  St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street.  Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind. 

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