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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, San. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 snin. 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 Dipartiment tal-Pulizija. 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. Madankollu, 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
Fuq Lejl tal-Milied 1902, tnejn belt żgħira, żmien żgħira, holdup men nefaħ is-safe tal-Unjoni, Missouri Bank. Wara li hedded ftit ċittadini, huma għamlu off ma 'over $15,000. L-irġiel kienu relattivament siguri għal ftit xhur sakemm issejjaħ l-Aġenzija tad-Ditektifs Pinkerton. Il-Pinkertons kellhom aġenzija nazzjonali, li kienet l-eqreb ħaġa l-United
Around 10 am nhar il-Ħamis, April 10, 1919, ħamest irġiel armati ħafna daħlu fil-Baden Bank. Il-banditi kkonfrontaw lil M.W. Munzel, il-kaxxier, u talab aċċess għall-kaxxa-forti. Huma ġabru l-erba’ impjegati l-oħra hekk kif Muntzel mexxa lill-grupp sal-kaxxa-forti. Il-ħallelin kienu jilbsu bandanas ikkuluriti biex joskuraw il-karatteristiċi tagħhom. Filwaqt li tnejn mill-ħames irġiel
Fuq Novembru 16, 1877, St. Uffiċjal tal-Pulizija Louis 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. Ir-raġel aktar tard identifikat bħala Frank Rande daħal Pawnshop Wright fi madwar 9:30 a.m. Wright mibgħuta wieħed mill-assistenti tiegħu għall-pulizija. As Officer White and Heffernan
Fil 1934, Kuntatt “Kuntatt” Kuntatt, Kuntatt. Madankollu, Kuntatt 1925, Kuntatt 29078 Kuntatt. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Ottubru 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, li qatel
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
Fuq Diċembru 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