היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
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. אולם, 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
בליל חג המולד 1902, two small town, small-time, holdup men blew open the safe of the Union, Missouri Bank. After threatening a few citizens, they made off with over $15,000. The men were relatively safe for a few months until the Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. The Pinkertons had a nationwide agency, which was the closest thing the United
בסביבות 10 בבוקר ביום חמישי, אפריל 10, 1919, חמישה גברים חמושים בכבדות פרצו לבנק באדן. השודדים התעמתו עם M.W. מונצל, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. הם קיבלו את ארבעת העובדים הנוספים בזמן שמונצל הוביל את הקבוצה לכספת. השודדים חבשו בנדנות צבעוניות כדי לטשטש את תווי פניהם. ואילו שניים מחמשת הגברים
בתוך 1934, צ'ארלס ארתור “ילד יפה” פלויד סיים את הקריירה הפלילית שלו במזרח ליברפול, שדה תירס של אוהיו לאחר קרב יריות עם סוכני FBI וקציני אכיפת חוק מקומיים. אולם, בדצמבר 1925, הוא היה מספר אסיר 29078 בבית הכלא של מיזורי. פלויד בן ה-21 הורשע זה עתה בשוד המשרד הראשי של חברת המכולת והאפייה קרוגר
באוקטובר 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. לואיס
בדצמבר 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
בנובמבר 10, 1924, Mrs. 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, Mrs. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, ו - $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. <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". 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. מר. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.