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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, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 anni. 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. Dipartimento di Polizia di 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. Tuttavia, 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
La notte di Natale 1902, due piccole città, piccolo tempo, gli uomini della rapina hanno fatto saltare la cassaforte dell'Unione, Banca del Missouri. Dopo aver minacciato alcuni cittadini, se ne sono andati con over $15,000. Gli uomini furono relativamente al sicuro per alcuni mesi finché non fu chiamata l'agenzia investigativa Pinkerton. I Pinkerton avevano un'agenzia nazionale, che era la cosa più vicina allo United
In giro 10 sono giovedì, Aprile 10, 1919, cinque uomini pesantemente armati irruppero nella Banca del Baden. I banditi affrontarono M.W. Munzel, il cassiere, e ha chiesto l'accesso al caveau. Hanno radunato gli altri quattro dipendenti mentre Muntzel guidava il gruppo al caveau. I ladri indossavano bandane colorate per nascondere i loro lineamenti. Mentre due dei cinque uomini
Novembre 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, Carlo Arturo “Bel ragazzo” Floyd ha concluso la sua carriera criminale in un East Liverpool, Campo di mais dell'Ohio dopo una sparatoria con agenti dell'FBI e agenti delle forze dell'ordine locali. Tuttavia, a dicembre 1925, era il numero del detenuto 29078 al penitenziario del Missouri. Il ventunenne Floyd era stato appena condannato per aver rapinato la sede principale della Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company
Ottobre 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, che ha ucciso
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
Dicembre 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