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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, Санкт-. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 гадоў. 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. Дэпартамент Луі паліцыі. 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
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На калядную ноч 1902, два невялікія мястэчкі, малачасовы, захопленыя людзі ўзарвалі сейф Саюза, Банк Місуры. Пасля пагроз некалькім грамадзянам, яны ўцяклі з над $15,000. Мужчыны знаходзіліся ў адноснай бяспецы на працягу некалькіх месяцаў, пакуль не выклікалі дэтэктыўнае агенцтва Пінкертана. Пінкертоны мелі агульнанацыянальнае агенцтва, which was the closest thing the United
Around 10 am on Thursday, Красавіка 10, 1919, five heavily armed men burst into the Baden Bank. The bandits confronted M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. They rounded up the four other employees as Muntzel led the group to the vault. The robbers wore colored bandanas to obscure their features. While two of the five men
Лістапада 16, 1877, Вуліца. Луі паліцэйскі Джон S. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. Чалавек як пасля высветлілася, Фрэнк Rande ўвайшлі ламбард Райта каля 9:30 A.M. Райт паслаў аднаго са сваіх памочнікаў у паліцыі. As Officer White and Heffernan
У 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. Аднак, 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
Кастрычнік 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, які забіваў
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. Луіс
Сьнежня 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