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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
“For the good of the department”. With those 6 words, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 ani. 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 earned a reputation as a tough police officer during his career with the St. Louis Departamentul de Poliție. He would need all that toughness on the morning of January 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 had just woken up and was getting ready
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Totuși, 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
În noaptea de Crăciun 1902, două orașe mici, timp mic, Oamenii de atac au deschis în aer seiful Uniunii, Banca Missouri. După ce a amenințat câțiva cetățeni, au plecat cu peste $15,000. Bărbații au fost relativ în siguranță câteva luni până când Agenția de Detectivi Pinkerton a fost chemată. Familia Pinkerton avea o agenție la nivel național, care era cel mai apropiat lucru United
Around 10 am on Thursday, Aprilie 10, 1919, five heavily armed men burst into the Baden Bank. The bandits confronted M.W. Muntzel, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. They rounded up the four other employees as Muntzel led the group to the vault. The robbers wore colored bandanas to obscure their features. While two of the five men
Noiembrie 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
În 1934, Charles Arthur “Băiat drăguț” Floyd și-a încheiat cariera criminală într-un Liverpool de Est, Câmp de porumb din Ohio după o încăierare cu agenți FBI și ofițeri locali de aplicare a legii. Totuși, in decembrie 1925, el era numărul deţinutului 29078 la Penitenciarul din Missouri. Floyd, în vârstă de 21 de ani, tocmai fusese condamnat pentru că a jefuit sediul principal al companiei Kroeger Grocery and Baking.
Octombrie 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, care a ucis
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
Decembrie 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