Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Egter, 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
Op Kersnag 1902, twee klein dorpie, kleintyd, ophou manne het die kluis van die Unie oopgeblaas, Missouri Bank. Nadat hy 'n paar burgers gedreig het, hulle het weggetrek met oor $15,000. Die mans was vir 'n paar maande relatief veilig totdat die Pinkerton-speuragentskap ingeroep is. Die Pinkertons het 'n landwye agentskap gehad, wat die naaste aan die United was
Rondom 10 is Donderdag, April 10, 1919, vyf swaar gewapende mans het by die Baden Bank ingebars. Die bandiete het M.W. Munzel, die kassier, en het toegang tot die kluis geëis. Hulle het die vier ander werknemers bymekaargemaak toe Muntzel die groep na die kluis gelei het. Die rowers het gekleurde bandanas gedra om hul gelaatstrekke te verbloem. Terwyl twee van die vyf mans
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. Egter, 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
Op Oktober 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, wat vermoor het
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
Op Desember 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office
Op November 10, 1924, Mev. A.W. Stickney was besig om die St. Louis Buiteklub, toe sy deur twee Afro-Amerikaanse mans genader is. Die ligter vel het aan mev. Stickney om haar juwele om te draai of hy sal dit by haar neem. Fearing for her safety, Mev. Stickney het haar juweliersware aan die man gegee, gewaardeer op $17,000.00, en $85.00 in cash. Mev.
Gedurende die laaste week van Desember 1902, William Rudolph, 'n onlangs teruggekeer mynwerker Franklin County, en George Collins beroof die Unie Bank in Unie, MO. Hulle beroof dit oornag, wanneer niemand teenwoordig deur die blaas van die kluis was. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
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. Mnr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.