Certamina ludis Historicus et Martialis Artist
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Priusquam legeret Ganges Sancti. Ludovicus: Viri Observantiae Danielis Waugh, Scivi et scripsi de Roberto Creed et Thoma homicidio fratris St. Louis Police George Geisler in Halloween diem 1920. Quod nesciebam erat Robert Creed membrum cuculi Gang . fuit, an ultra vim criminalibus organization in 1920s. Robert Creed erat
Novembres 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney relinquebat Sancti. Ludovici Antipolis, African-Americani cum duobus viris accessit. Leviora album homo dixit Dominae. Stickney ut gemmas suas traderet aut auferret ab ea. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney traditur homini ornamento, aestimabitur $17,000.00, et $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
In ultima septimana mensis Decembris 1902, William Rudolph, Metallicus ut habitet in Franklin Comitatu, Marcus Cornelius, et eruite vi oppressum de una ripa in Unione, MO. Et eruite vi oppressum pernoctabit, cum non esset pax usque in praesentem inflatis. Rudolph ad parentes’ suscipit 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. St. 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. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, July 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.
In 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. Autem, 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
Vespere autem Martis, February 18, 1919, edition of St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Cogitantes quod shoplifting anulum quo operatus est a iugo of locus jewelry thesauris,, in S.. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the
St. 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
Die Saturni, Jube 5, 1900 at 11:30 p.m., the explosion of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. Louis de platea cursus molestie 1900. Ante ictum erat in September 1900, in plateis St. Louis would be a battle ground between rich and poor with the St. Ludovicus
Thief. Liar. Bigamist. Con Man. Murderer. All accurate labels for one of the greatest charlatans to operate in St. Ludovicus. “Lord F. Seymour Barrington” was a bit of a local celebrity, if an extremely disreputable one, during 1903. Faciendi post matrimonium bigamus ad orientalem plagam,,en,stolam suam et virens est scriptor trousseau Sancti,,en,cum Harrington,,en, “Dominus Barrington” stole his wife’s trousseau and headed to St. Ludovicus. When Barrington