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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, A St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 év. 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 rendőrség. 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. Viszont, 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
Karácsony este 1902, két kis település, kis idő, holdup férfi fújt nyissa meg a biztonságos, az Unió, Missouri Bank. Miután megfenyegetett néhány állampolgárt, tették ki, több mint $15,000. A férfiak néhány hónapig viszonylag biztonságban voltak, amíg be nem hívták a Pinkerton Nyomozó Ügynökséget. Pinkertonéknak országos ügynökségük volt, ami a legközelebb állt a Unitedhez
Körül 10 csütörtökön vagyok, Április 10, 1919, öt erősen felfegyverzett férfi berontott a Baden Bankba. A banditák szembeszálltak M.W. Munzel, a pénztáros, és hozzáférést követelt a páncélteremhez. Összegyűjtötték a másik négy alkalmazottat, miközben Muntzel a csoportot a trezorhoz vezette. A rablók színes kendőt viseltek, hogy eltakarják arcvonásaikat. Míg az öt férfiból kettő
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
-Ben 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. Viszont, 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
Október 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, amely megölte
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