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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, el St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 año. 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. Departamento de Policía de Louis. 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. Sin embargo, 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
en la noche de Navidad 1902, dos pequeños pueblos, poco tiempo, los asaltantes volaron la caja fuerte de la Unión, Banco de Misuri. Después de amenazar a algunos ciudadanos, se largaron con más $15,000. Los hombres estuvieron relativamente seguros durante unos meses hasta que se llamó a la Agencia de Detectives Pinkerton.. Los Pinkerton tenían una agencia a nivel nacional, que era lo mas parecido al United
Alrededor 10 am el jueves, Abril 10, 1919, cinco hombres fuertemente armados irrumpieron en el banco de Baden. Los bandidos se enfrentaron a M.W. Muntzel, el cajero, y exigió acceso a la bóveda. Acorralaron a los otros cuatro empleados mientras Muntzel conducía al grupo a la bóveda.. Los ladrones llevaban pañuelos de colores para ocultar sus rasgos.. Mientras dos de los cinco hombres
En noviembre 16, 1877, St. Oficial de Policía 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. El hombre posteriormente identificado como Frank Rande entró Monte de Piedad de Wright en alrededor 9:30 a.m. Wright envió a uno de sus ayudantes para la policía. As Officer White and Heffernan
In 1934, Pretty Boy Floyd’s St “Pretty Boy Floyd’s St” Pretty Boy Floyd’s St, Pretty Boy Floyd’s St. Sin embargo, Pretty Boy Floyd’s St 1925, Pretty Boy Floyd’s St 29078 Pretty Boy Floyd’s St. Floyd, de 21 años, acababa de ser declarado culpable de robar en la oficina principal de Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company.
En 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 mató
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
En diciembre 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