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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 besede, St. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 let. 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. Policija Louis. 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. Vendar, 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
Na božični večer 1902, dva mestece, mali čas, rop moški pihal odpreti varno Unije, Missouri Bank. Po grozi nekaj državljanov, se je začelo z več kot $15,000. Možje so relativno varna za nekaj mesecev, dokler je agencija detektiv Pinkerton poklical. V Pinkertons imeli državno agencijo, ki je najbližja stvar, Združeno
Around 10 zjutraj v četrtek, April 10, 1919, pet do zob oboroženih mož je vdrlo v Baden Bank. Banditi so soočili M.W. Munzel, blagajnik, in zahteval dostop do trezorja. Zgrabili so štiri druge zaposlene, medtem ko je Muntzel vodil skupino do trezorja. Roparji so nosili barvne bandane, da bi zakrili svoje poteze. Medtem ko sta dva od petih moških
Novembra 16, 1877, St. Louis Policist John S. White in njegov partner policist Heffernan sta se odzvala na prijavo iskanega moškega, ki je poskušal zastaviti ukradeno blago v zastavljalnici Wright's. Človek kasneje ugotovljeno, Frank Rande vpisana Wrighta zastavljalnica na približno 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
V 1934, Charles Arthur “Pretty Boy” Floyd končal svojo kriminalno kariero v East Liverpool, Ohio koruzno polje po ustreli ven z agenti FBI in lokalni policisti. Vendar, v decembru 1925, je bil zapornik številka 29078 na Missouri kaznilnici. 21-year-old Floyd je bil pravkar obsojen zaradi ropanja glavno pisarno Kroeger Živila in peko Company
Oktobra 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, ki je ubil
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
Decembra 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