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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. Tuy nhiên, 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
Giáng sinh Đêm trên 1902, hai thị trấn nhỏ, thời gian nhỏ, người đàn ông nắm giữ đã mở két sắt của Liên minh, Ngân hàng Missouri. Sau khi đe dọa một số công dân, họ đã kiếm được hơn $15,000. Những người đàn ông này tương đối an toàn trong vài tháng cho đến khi Cơ quan Thám tử Pinkerton được gọi đến.. Pinkertons có đại lý trên toàn quốc, đó là điều gần gũi nhất với United
Xung quanh 10 am on Thursday, Tháng Tư 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
Trong 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. Tuy nhiên, 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
Vào ngày 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, which killed
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
Ngày 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
Vào ngày 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney was leaving the St. Louis Country Club, when she was approached by two African-American men. The lighter skinned man told Mrs. Stickney to turn over her jewels or he would take them from her. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, và $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
Trong tuần cuối cùng của tháng mười hai 1902, William Rudolph, một người thợ mỏ vừa trở về Franklin County, và George Collins cướp Ngân hàng Liên minh trong Liên minh, MO. Họ cướp nó qua đêm, khi không có ai có mặt bằng cách thổi lên an toàn. 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. Ông. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.