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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Hala ere, 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
Gabon gauean 1902, bi herri txiki, denbora txikian, Atxiloketa-gizonek Batasuneko segurua leherrarazi zuten, Missouri Bankua. Herritar batzuk mehatxatu ostean, baino gehiagorekin alde egin zuten $15,000. Gizonak nahiko seguru egon ziren hilabete batzuetan Pinkerton Detektibe Agentziara deitu zuten arte. Pinkerton-ek nazio mailako agentzia bat zuten, zein izan zen Batua hurbilena
Inguruan 10 am on Thursday, Apirila 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
Urtean 1934, Charles Arthur “Mutil Polita” Floydek bere karrera kriminala amaitu zuen East Liverpool-en, Ohioko arto-zelaia FBIko agenteekin eta tokiko legea betearazteko agenteekin tiroketa baten ostean. Hala ere, abenduan 1925, preso zenbakia zen 29078 Missouriko espetxean. Floyd 21 urteko gaztea Kroeger Grocery and Baking Companyren bulego nagusia lapurtzeagatik epaitu berri zuten.
Urriaren On 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, hil zuena
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
Abenduaren on 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
Azaroaren on 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney St. Louis Country Club, bi gizon afroamerikar hurbildu zitzaizkionean. Larru argiagoko gizonak esan zion Mrs. Stickneyk bitxiak itzultzeko edo hark kenduko zizkion. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickneyk gizonari bere bitxiak eman zizkion, baloratua $17,000.00, eta $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
During the last week of December 1902, William Rudolph, a recently returned miner to Franklin County, and George Collins robbed the Union Bank in Union, MO. They robbed it overnight, when no one was present by blowing up the safe. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
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. St. 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. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.