Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, die St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 Jahre. 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. Louis Police Department. 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
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Jedoch, 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
On Christmas Night 1902, zwei kleine Stadt, wenig Zeit, Überfallmänner sprengten den Safe der Union, Missouri-Bank. Nachdem er ein paar Bürger bedroht hatte, Sie sind mit Over davongekommen $15,000. Die Männer waren einige Monate lang relativ sicher, bis die Pinkerton Detective Agency eingeschaltet wurde. Die Pinkertons hatten eine landesweite Vertretung, Das kam den Vereinigten Staaten am nächsten
Um Herum 10 am on Thursday, April 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
On November 16, 1877, St. Louis Police Officer 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. The man later identified as Frank Rande entered Wright’s Pawnshop at about 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
In 1934, Charles Arthur “Hübscher Junge” Floyd beendet seine kriminelle Karriere in einem East Liverpool, nach einem Ohio Maisfeld mit FBI-Agenten und lokalen Strafverfolgungsbehörden herausschießen. Jedoch, Im Dezember 1925, er war Häftling Nummer 29078 am Missouri Penitentiary. Die 21-jährige Floyd hatte gerade den Kroeger Grocery und Baking Company Hauptbüro auszurauben verurteilt worden
Am 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, which killed
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
On December 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