Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, de St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 jaren. 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 verwierf een reputatie als een stoere politieagent tijdens zijn carrière bij de St.. Louis Police Department. Hij zou al die hardheid nodig hebben op de ochtend van januari 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 was net wakker geworden en maakte zich klaar
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Echter, 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
On Christmas Night 1902, twee kleine stad, korte tijd, holdup men blew open the safe of the Union, Missouri Bank. After threatening a few citizens, they made off with over $15,000. The men were relatively safe for a few months until the Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. The Pinkertons had a nationwide agency, which was the closest thing the United
Around 10 ben op donderdag, April 10, 1919, vijf zwaarbewapende mannen stormden de Badense Bank binnen. De bandieten confronteerden M.W. Muntzel, de kassier, en eiste toegang tot de kluis. Ze verzamelden de vier andere werknemers terwijl Muntzel de groep naar de kluis leidde. De overvallers droegen gekleurde bandana's om hun trekken te verbergen. Terwijl twee van de vijf mannen
Op november 16, 1877, St. Louis Police Officer 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. The man later identified as Frank Rande entered Wright’s Pawnshop at about 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
In 1934, Charles Arthur “Mooie jongen” Floyd beëindigde zijn criminele carrière in een Oost-Liverpool, Maïsveld in Ohio na een schietpartij met FBI-agenten en lokale wetshandhavers. Echter, in december 1925, hij was het nummer van de gevangene 29078 bij de Missouri Penitentiary. The 21-year-old Floyd had just been convicted of robbing the Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company main office
Op oktober 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, die doodde
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
Op december 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