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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. Emellertid, 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
På julnatten 1902, två små städer, liten tid, män sprängde upp unionens kassaskåp, Missouri Bank. Efter att ha hotat några medborgare, de gjorde av med över $15,000. Männen var relativt säkra i några månader tills Pinkerton Detective Agency kallades in. The Pinkertons hade en rikstäckande agentur, vilket var det närmaste United
Runt 10 är på torsdag, April 10, 1919, fem tungt beväpnade män trängde in på Badenbanken. Banditerna konfronterade M.W. Munzel, kassörskan, och krävde tillgång till valvet. De samlade ihop de fyra andra anställda när Muntzel ledde gruppen till valvet. Rånarna bar färgade bandanas för att dölja deras ansiktsdrag. Medan två av de fem männen
I 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. Emellertid, 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
På Oktober 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, som dödade
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
På December 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
På November 10, 1924, Fru. A.W. Stickney skulle lämna St. Louis Country Club, när hon blev kontaktad av två afroamerikanska män. Den ljusare mannen berättade för Mrs. Stickney för att lämna över hennes juveler annars skulle han ta dem från henne. Fearing for her safety, Fru. Stickney räckte mannen hennes smycken, värderas till $17,000.00, och $85.00 in cash. Fru.
Under den sista veckan i december 1902, William Rudolph, en nyligen återvänt gruvarbetare till Franklin County, och George Collins rånade Union Bank i Union, MO. De rånade den över natten, när ingen var närvarande genom att blåsa upp den säkra. 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. Herr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.