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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Before reading Gangs of St. لويس: Men of Respect by Daniel Waugh, I knew and wrote about Robert Creed and his brother Thomas murdering St. Louis Police Officer George Geisler on Halloween Day 1920. What I didn’t know was Robert Creed was a member of the Cuckoo Gang, an ultra violent criminal organization in the 1920s. Robert Creed was the
نوفمبر 10, 1924, السيدة. A.W. ستيكني كان يغادر سان. كونتري كلوب لويس, حين اقتربت من قبل اثنين من الرجال من أصل إفريقي. قال الرجل البشرة أفتح السيدة. ستيكني لتسليم المجوهرات لها أو انه أخذها من وظيفتها. Fearing for her safety, السيدة. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, و $85.00 in cash. السيدة.
خلال الأسبوع الأخير من ديسمبر 1902, ويليام رودولف, عامل منجم عاد مؤخرا إلى مقاطعة فرانكلين, وجورج كولينز سرق بنك الاتحاد في الاتحاد, MO. انهم سرقوا بين عشية وضحاها, عندما كان لا أحد الحاضرين بتفجير آمن. عاد رودولف لوالديه’ كوخ في ستانتون, 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. الحادي و. 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. السيد. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, يوليو 8, 1885, the Coroner’s Clerk Jimmy Spaulding rushed into the Police Court at the Four Courts building. Spaulding announced one of the jail inmates waiting in the holding pen had just escaped. While most of the members of court sat stunned, Detective Billy Desmond jumped to his feet and rushed out of the courtroom.
<تمتد bbox_x = "359" bbox_y = "1385" bbox_w = "12" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" أحمر = "255" أخضر = "255" أزرق = "255" ألفا = " 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. لكن, 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
The Tuesday Evening, فبراير 18, 1919, طبعة من سانت. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Aware that a shoplifting ring was working a couple of the local jewelry stores, سانت. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the
الحادي و. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was known for his ability to gain confessions from criminals. Unlike other detectives, who would sometimes use physical intimidation, Desmond eschewed the “third degree”. Chief Desmond believed information obtained by beating suspects was completely unreliable. Desmond would start a discussion with the suspect. After putting him or her at ease, Desmond would let
يوم السبت, مايو 5, 1900 في 11:30 مساءا, the explosion of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. لويس شارع سترايك سيارة 1900. قبل أن الإضراب أكثر من في سبتمبر 1900, شوارع سانت. Louis would be a battle ground between rich and poor with the St. لويس
Thief. Liar. Bigamist. Con Man. Murderer. All accurate labels for one of the greatest charlatans to operate in St. لويس. “Lord F. Seymour Barrington” was a bit of a local celebrity, if an extremely disreputable one, during 1903. After conducting a bigamist marriage on the East Coast, “الرب بارينغتون” stole his wife’s trousseau and headed to St. لويس. When Barrington