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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Jednak, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone i Shea byli lokalnymi przestępcami, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
W Noc Bożego Narodzenia 1902, dwa małe miasteczka, niewielki czas, napadowcy wysadzili sejf Unii, Banku Missouri. Po grożeniu kilku obywatelom, uciekli z ponad $15,000. Do czasu wezwania Agencji Detektywistycznej Pinkertona mężczyźni byli stosunkowo bezpieczni przez kilka miesięcy. Pinkertonowie mieli ogólnokrajową agencję, co było najbliżej Stanów Zjednoczonych
Około 10 jestem w czwartek, Kwiecień 10, 1919, pięciu ciężko uzbrojonych mężczyzn wpadło do Baden Bank. Bandyci skonfrontowali się z M.W. Muntzel, kasjer, i zażądał dostępu do skarbca. Zebrali czterech innych pracowników, gdy Muntzel poprowadził grupę do skarbca. Złodzieje nosili kolorowe bandany, aby ukryć ich rysy. Podczas gdy dwóch z pięciu mężczyzn
W 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. Jednak, 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
Październik 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, który zabił
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
Grudzień 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
W listopadzie 10, 1924, Pani. A.W. Stickney opuszczał St. Klub wiejski w Louisie, kiedy podeszło do niej dwóch Afroamerykanów. Jasnoskóry mężczyzna powiedział pani M. Stickneya, aby oddał jej klejnoty, w przeciwnym razie mógłby je jej odebrać. Fearing for her safety, Pani. Stickney wręczył mężczyźnie biżuterię, wyceniony na $17,000.00, i $85.00 in cash. Pani.
W ostatnim tygodniu grudnia 1902, William Rudolph, Niedawno wrócił górnik Franklin County, i George Collins okradł Union Bank w Unii, MO. Oni obrabowali go z dnia na dzień, gdy nikt nie był obecny przez wysadzenie sejfu. 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. Panie. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.