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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Tub ceev xwm Louis keeb kwm.
Before reading Gangs of St. Louis: 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
Nyob rau lub kaum ib hlis 10, 1924, Mrs. 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. Fearing kom nws muaj kev ruaj ntseg, Mrs. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, thiab $85.00 nyob rau hauv cov nyiaj ntsuab. Mrs.
Thaum lub xya hlis ntuj nqeg 1902, William Rudolph, miner nyuam qhuav xa rov qab rau lub nras Franklin, thiab George Collins robbed lub sij hawm thaum pab neeg hauv pab neeg, MO. Lawv robbed nws pw, thaum sawv daws tsis tshwm sim los tshuab rau saum cov yas. Rudolph rov qab rau nws niam thiab txiv’ alarm hauv Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
Nyob rau lub ob hlis ntuj 10, 1897, 60-xyoo William H. Stewart, ib tug engineer civil, tuag rau me nyuam. Louis nroog tsev kho mob. Stewart tso kom deb ntawm lub morphine overdose. St. Louis Police muas thaum chiv thawj xav tias yog ib rooj plaub ntawm yus tua yus los yog lo lus overdose. Stewart nyob nrog nws vauv F.C. Bennett ntawm 2634 Dickson Street. Mr. Bennett categorically tsis Mr. Stewart siv tshuaj txhua yam.
Hnub peb sawv ntxov, Lub Xya hli ntuj 8, 1885, tub soj ntsuam tus ntaus khoom Jimmy Spaulding rushed mus rau hauv tsev hais plaub tus tub ceev xwm hauv lub tsev hais plaub plaub lub tsev. Spaulding tshaj tawm ib lub nkuaj inmates hauv nkuaj cia tos twb nyuam qhuav dim hauv. Nrhiav tub tes tub taw hauv lub tsev hais plaub feem ntau zaum stunned, Detective Billy Desmond dhia ntawd kom nws lub taw thiab rushed ntawm lub courtroom.
Nyob rau hauv 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. Txawm li cas los, 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
Lub hnub hmo, Lub ob hlis ntuj 18, 1919, ib tsab ntawm tus me nyuam. Louis Dispatch tom qab detailed tus ntes ob tug txiv neej thiab poj niam ob rau hauv tub sab heev heev khoom khoom kim heev. Paub hais tias ib ntiv nplhaib tawm shoplifting ntawd ua hauj lwm ib nkawg ntawm cov hniav nyiaj hniav kub lub khw muag khoom noj, cov me nyuam. Louis ceev xwm muab ntau undercover tub ceev xwm cov poj niam mus ua raws li cov suspects. Their work resulted in the
St. Louis Chief ntawm Detectives William Desmond yog paub tias kom nws muaj peev xwm tau confessions ntawm criminals. Tsis zoo li lwm detectives, leej twg yuav qee zaus siv lub cev sib thuam, Desmond eschewed cov “peb kawm ntawv”. Chief Desmond ntseeg tau ntaub ntawv los ntawm beating suspects unreliable kiag li. Desmond yuav pib muaj kev sib sab laj nrog cov nyaj. Tom qab muab nws tom yooj yim, Desmond yuav cia
Rau hnub Saturday, Tej zaum 5, 1900 tom 11:30 tsaus ntuj, tawg rau ntawm txoj kab Suburban ntawm cov Wabash thiab picture Street kev tsheb ciav hlau hla kev cim tau cov me nyuam pib. Louis txoj kev tsheb Strike ntawm 1900. Ua ntej tsam ntawd rau lub Cuaj hlis 1900, txoj kev uas cov me nyuam. Louis yuav muaj sib ntaus sib tua hauv pem teb ntawm tus nplua nuj thiab tsis muaj cov me nyuam. Louis
Tub sab.. Zab. Bigamist. Tej txiv neej. Murderer. Tag nrho yog thov rau ib lub charlatans qhib ua hauj lwm rau cov me nyuam loj tshaj. Louis. “F tswv. Seymour Barrington” yog ib lub zos celebrity me ntsis, yog ib tug tsis tshua muaj neeg disreputable, lub sij hawm 1903. Tom qab tsim lub neej bigamist rau ntawm ib sab ntug tebchaw sab hnub tuaj, “Tswv Barrington” nyiag nws tus poj niam lub trousseau thiab taws rau me nyuam. Louis. Thaum Barrington