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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, سینٹ. Louis Board of Police Commissioners removed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond from the position he held for 17 سال. 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. لوئس پولیس ڈیپارٹمنٹ. 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. تاہم, 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
کرسمس کی رات پر 1902, دو چھوٹے شہر, چھوٹے وقت, ہولڈ اپ مردوں نے یونین کے سیف کو اڑا دیا۔, میسوری بینک. چند شہریوں کو دھمکیاں دینے کے بعد, وہ اوور کے ساتھ بند کر دیا $15,000. پنکرٹن جاسوسی ایجنسی کو بلانے تک یہ افراد چند مہینوں تک نسبتاً محفوظ تھے۔. Pinkertons کی ملک گیر ایجنسی تھی۔, جو متحدہ کے قریب ترین چیز تھی۔
کے ارد گرد 10 جمعرات کو ہوں, اپریل 10, 1919, پانچ بھاری ہتھیاروں سے لیس افراد بیڈن بینک میں گھس گئے۔. ڈاکوؤں کا مقابلہ M.W. منزیل, کیشئر, اور والٹ تک رسائی کا مطالبہ کیا۔. انہوں نے چار دیگر ملازمین کو پکڑ لیا جب منتزیل گروپ کو والٹ کی طرف لے گیا۔. ڈاکوؤں نے اپنی خصوصیات کو دھندلا کرنے کے لیے رنگین بندنا پہن رکھے تھے۔. جبکہ پانچ میں سے دو آدمی
نومبر 16, 1877, سینٹ. 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 بجے. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan
میں 1934, چارلس آرتھر “پیارا لڑکا” Floyd کی ایک مشرقی لیورپول میں اپنی مجرمانہ کیریئر ختم, ایک کے بعد اوہائیو مکئی کے میدان ایف بی آئی ایجنٹوں اور مقامی قانون نافذ کرنے والے افسران کے ساتھ باہر گولی مار. تاہم, دسمبر میں 1925, وہ تھا قیدی نمبر کے 29078 مسوری سدارگرہ اوپر. 21 سالہ فلائڈ صرف Kroeger گروسری اور بیکنگ کمپنی کے مرکزی دفتر کو لوٹ کا مجرم قرار دیا گیا تھا
اکتوبر 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, جس نے مارا
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. لوئس
دسمبر 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