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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
November 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney forlot St. Louis Country Club, da hun ble oppsøkt av to afroamerikanske menn. Den lysere mannen fortalte Mrs. Stickney for å overlate juvelene hennes, ellers ville han ta dem fra henne. Av frykt for hennes sikkerhet, Mrs. Stickney ga mannen hennes smykker, verdsatt til $17,000.00, and $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
I løpet av den siste uken i desember 1902, William Rudolph, en nylig returnert miner å Franklin County, og George Collins ranet Union Bank i Union, MO. De ranet den over natten, når ingen var til stede ved å blåse opp safen. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin 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.
I 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd avsluttet sin kriminelle karriere i et East Liverpool, Ohio maisåker etter en skyte ut med FBI-agenter og lokale polititjenestemenn. However, i desember 1925, han var innsatt nummer 29078 ved Missouri Penitentiary. Den 21 år gamle Floyd hadde nettopp blitt dømt for å rane Kroeger dagligvare og Baking Company hovedkontor
The Tuesday Evening, February 18, 1919, utgave av St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Aware that a shoplifting ring was working a couple of the local jewelry stores, 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
På lørdag, May 5, 1900 på 11:30 pm, the explosion of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. Louis Street Car Strike av 1900. Før streiken var over i september 1900, gatene i 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