Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
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
Op november 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney verliet de St. Louis Countryclub, toen ze werd benaderd door twee Afro-Amerikaanse mannen. De lichtere man vertelde mevrouw. Stickney om haar juwelen af te geven, anders zou hij ze van haar afpakken. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney overhandigde de man haar sieraden, geschat op $17,000.00, en $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
Tijdens de laatste week van december 1902, William Rudolph, een onlangs teruggekeerd mijnwerker naar Franklin County, en George Collins beroofd van de Union Bank in Union, MO. Beroofden zij het 's nachts, als er niemand aanwezig is door het opblazen van de kluis was. Rudolph terug naar zijn ouders’ cabine 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. De heer. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, Juli 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 “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
De dinsdag Avond, Februari 18, 1919, editie van de St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Bewust dat een winkeldiefstal ring werkte een paar van de lokale juweliers, de St. 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
Op zaterdag, Mei 5, 1900 bij 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 Street Car Staking van 1900. Voor de staking voorbij was in september 1900, de straten van St. Louis would be a battle ground between rich and poor with the St. Louis
Thief. Liar. Bigamist. Con Man. Murderer. All accurate labels for one of the greatest charlatans to operate in St. Louis. “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. Louis. When Barrington