Robert Creed Kills CuckoosLeader

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Before reading Gangs of St. Louis: 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

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Ira Cooper Solves Jewel Robbery

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От ноември 10, 1924, Г-жа. A.W. Stickney was leaving the St. Louis Country Club, when she was approached by two African-American men. The lighter skinned man told Mrs. Stickney to turn over her jewels or he would take them from her. Fearing for her safety, Г-жа. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, и $85.00 in cash. Г-жа.

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William Rudolph and Union Bank Robbery

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През последната седмица на декември 1902, Уилям Rudolph, наскоро завърнал миньор да Franklin County, и Джордж Колинс ограбили банка съюз в съюз, MO. Те го ограбен през нощта, когато никой не е присъствал от взривяване на сейфа. Рудолф се върна при родителите си’ кабина в Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff

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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. <Педя bbox_x = "925" bbox_y = "1878" bbox_w = "13" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = ". 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. Г-н. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.

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Detective Desmond Stops Jail Escape

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On the morning of Wednesday, Юли 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.

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Pretty Boy Floyd’s St. Louis Robbery

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В 1934, Charles ArthurPretty BoyFloyd ended his criminal career in an East Liverpool, Ohio corn field after a shoot out with FBI agents and local law enforcement officers. Обаче, 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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Policewomen Break Up Theft Ring in 1919

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The Evening вторник, Февруари 18, 1919, издание на Св. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Съзнавайки, че кражбите пръстен е работил няколко от местните магазини за бижута, Св. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the

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Chief Desmond Gets a Confession

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В събота, Май 5, 1900 в 11:30 <Педя bbox_x = "318" bbox_y = "942" bbox_w = "28" bbox_h = "20" fsize = "14" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = ", the explosion of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. Louis Street Car Strike of 1900. Before the strike was over in September 1900, the streets of St. Louis would be a battle ground between rich and poor with the St. Louis

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Lord Barrington Is Beaten Up

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Thief. Liar. Bigamist. Con Man. Murderer. All accurate labels for one of the greatest charlatans to operate in St. Louis. “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, “Lord Barrington” stole his wife’s trousseau and headed to St. Louis. When Barrington

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