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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Before reading Gangs of St. 루이: Men of Respect by Daniel Waugh, I knew and wrote about Robert Creed and his brother Thomas murdering St. Louis Police Officer George Geisler on Halloween Day 1920. What I didn’t know was Robert Creed was a member of the Cuckoo Gang, an ultra violent criminal organization in the 1920s. Robert Creed was the
11 월 10, 1924, 부인. 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. 그녀의 안전을 위해 두려워, 부인. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, 과 $85.00 in cash. 부인.
12 월 마지막 주 1902, 윌리엄 루돌프, 프랭클린 카운티에 최근 반환 된 광부, 조지 콜린스 연합의 연방 은행을 강탈, MO. 그들은 하룻밤을 강탈, 아무도 금고를 폭파하여 존재하지 않는 경우. 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. 생. 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. 씨. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, 7월 8, 1885, the Coroner’s Clerk Jimmy Spaulding rushed into the Police Court at the Four Courts building. Spaulding announced one of the jail inmates waiting in the holding pen had just escaped. While most of the members of court sat stunned, Detective Billy Desmond jumped to his feet and rushed out of the courtroom.
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. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
The Tuesday Evening, 2월 18, 1919, 세인트의 판. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Aware that a shoplifting ring was working a couple of the local jewelry stores, 세인트. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the
생. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was known for his ability to gain confessions from criminals. Unlike other detectives, who would sometimes use physical intimidation, Desmond eschewed the “third degree”. Chief Desmond believed information obtained by beating suspects was completely unreliable. Desmond would start a discussion with the suspect. After putting him or her at ease, Desmond would let
토요일에, 할 수있다 5, 1900 에 11:30 오후, the explosion of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. 루이스 거리 차 스트라이크 1900. 파업은 9 월에 끝나기도 전에 1900, 세인트의 거리. Louis would be a battle ground between rich and poor with the St. 루이
Thief. Liar. Bigamist. Con Man. Murderer. All accurate labels for one of the greatest charlatans to operate in St. 루이. “Lord F. Seymour Barrington” was a bit of a local celebrity, if an extremely disreputable one, during 1903. After conducting a bigamist marriage on the East Coast, “Lord Barrington” stole his wife’s trousseau and headed to St. 루이. When Barrington