전투 스포츠 역사가 및 무술가
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, 세인트. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 년. 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 Police Department. 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. 그러나, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone과 Shea는 지역 범죄자였습니다., who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
크리스마스 밤에 1902, 두 개의 작은 마을, 적은 시간, 억류자들이 연합의 금고를 폭파했다, 미주리 은행. 시민 몇 명을 위협한 뒤, 그들은 끝장났어 $15,000. 그 남자들은 핑커튼 탐정사가 호출될 때까지 몇 달 동안 비교적 안전했습니다.. Pinkertons에는 전국적인 대리점이 있었습니다., 그것은 미국에 가장 가까운 것이었습니다
Around 10 목요일에 있어요, 4월 10, 1919, 다섯 명의 중무장한 남자가 바덴 은행에 들이닥쳤습니다.. 도적들이 M.W에 맞서다. 문젤, 계산원, 금고에 대한 접근을 요구했습니다.. Muntzel이 그룹을 금고로 이끄는 동안 그들은 다른 직원 4명을 모아냈습니다.. 강도들은 얼굴을 가리기 위해 색깔 있는 반다나를 입었습니다.. 다섯 명 중 두 명은
11 월 16, 1877, 생. 루이 경찰 존 S. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. 나중에 프랭크 Rande은 식별 남자는 약에 라이트의 매입 정보를 입력 9:30 분이고. 라이트는 경찰에 대한 그의 조수 중 하나를 전송. As Officer White and Heffernan
에 1934, 찰스 아서 “귀여운 소년” Floyd는 East 리버풀에서 범죄 경력을 마감했습니다., FBI 요원 및 지역 법 집행관과 총격전 후 오하이오 옥수수 밭. 그러나, 십이월에 1925, 그는 수감자 번호였다 29078 미주리 교도소에서. 21세의 플로이드는 크로거 식료품점 및 제빵회사 본사를 강탈한 혐의로 방금 유죄판결을 받았습니다.
10월에 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. 루이
12 월 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