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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
La nit de Nadal 1902, 2 petita ciutat, D'estar per casa, els atracadors van bufar obrir la caixa forta de la Unió, Banc Missouri. Després d'amenaçar uns ciutadans, que es van fer amb més de $15,000. Els homes estaven relativament segurs durant uns mesos fins que es va trucar a l'agència de detectius de Pinkerton. Els Pinkerton tenien una agència nacional, que era el més semblant al United
Al voltant 10 am on Thursday, Abril 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
Al novembre 16, 1877, St. Oficial de Policia Louis John S. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. L'home posteriorment identificat com Frank Rande entrar Mont de Pietat de Wright en al voltant 9:30 A.M. Wright va enviar a un dels seus ajudants per la policia. As Officer White and Heffernan
En 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. Però, 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
A l'octubre 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, que va matar
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
Al desembre 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
Al novembre 10, 1924, Sra. A.W. Stickney estava deixant el St. Louis Country Club, quan se li van acostar dos homes afroamericans. L'home de pell més clara li va dir a la Sra. Stickney li donaria les joies o se les prendria. Fearing for her safety, Sra. Stickney va lliurar a l'home les seves joies, valorat en $17,000.00, i $85.00 in cash. Sra.
Al setembre 15, 1887, a muscular man stood in the First District Police Court listening to Judge Cady. As he looked out between eyes almost swollen shut and a busted lip, he waited to see if justice would be done. It was as Judge Cady told the beaten man, “$10 fine for disturbing the peace. $100 for resisting arrest. You
Durant l'última setmana de desembre 1902, William Rudolph, un miner recentment va tornar al comtat de Franklin, i George Collins va robar el Union Bank a Union, MO. Van robar tota la nit, quan ningú va estar present per la voladura de la caixa forta. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff