קאַמבאַט ספּאָרט היסטאריקער און מאַרשאַל קינסטלער
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Before reading Gangs of St. לוי: Men of Respect by Daniel Waugh, I knew and wrote about Robert Creed and his brother Thomas murdering St. Louis Police Officer George Geisler on Halloween Day 1920. What I didn’t know was Robert Creed was a member of the Cuckoo Gang, an ultra violent criminal organization in the 1920s. Robert Creed was the
אויף נאוועמבער 10, 1924, מרס. 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, מרס. Stickney handed the man her jewelry, valued at $17,000.00, און $85.00 in cash. מרס.
בעשאַס די לעצטע וואָך פון דעצעמבער 1902, וויליאם רודאָלף, אַ לעצטנס אומגעקערט מיינער צו פרענקלין קאָונטי, און דזשארזש קאָללינס ראַבד דער יוניאַן באַנק אין פֿאַרבאַנד, מאָ. זיי ראַבד עס יבערנאַכטיק, ווען קיין איינער איז געווען פאָרשטעלן דורך בלאָוינג אַרויף די זיכער. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, מאָ. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
אויף פעברואר 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. סט. לוי פּאַליס ערידזשנאַלי געדאַנק עס איז געווען אַ פאַל פון זעלבסטמאָרד אָדער אַקסאַדענטאַל אָוווערדאָוס,,en,סטוערט געלעבט מיט זיין זון-אין-געזעץ פ.ק,,en,בעננעטט ביי,,en,בעננעטט קאַטאַגאַריקלי געלייקנט מר,,en,סטוערט געניצט דרוגס פון קיין מין,,en. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. מר. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
On the morning of Wednesday, יולי 8, 1885, the Coroner’s Clerk Jimmy Spaulding rushed into the Police Court at the Four Courts building. Spaulding announced one of the jail inmates waiting in the holding pen had just escaped. While most of the members of court sat stunned, Detective Billy Desmond jumped to his feet and rushed out of the courtroom.
אין 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. אָבער, 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
די דינסטאג אָוונט, פעברואַר 18, 1919, אויסגאבע פון די סט. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. אַווער אַז אַ שאָפּליפטינג רינג איז ארבעטן אַ פּאָר פון די היגע צירונג סטאָרז, די סט. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the
סט. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was known for his ability to gain confessions from criminals. Unlike other detectives, who would sometimes use physical intimidation, Desmond eschewed the “third degree”. Chief Desmond believed information obtained by beating suspects was completely unreliable. Desmond would start a discussion with the suspect. After putting him or her at ease, Desmond would let
אויף שבת, מייַ 5, 1900 בייַ 11:30 פּיעם, the explosion of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. לוי סטריט מאַשין סטרייק פון 1900. איידער די שלאָגן איז געווען איבער אין סעפטעמבער 1900, די גאסן פון סט. Louis would be a battle ground between rich and poor with the St. לוי
Thief. Liar. Bigamist. Con Man. Murderer. All accurate labels for one of the greatest charlatans to operate in St. לוי. “Lord F. Seymour Barrington” was a bit of a local celebrity, if an extremely disreputable one, during 1903. After conducting a bigamist marriage on the East Coast, “Lord Barrington” stole his wife’s trousseau and headed to St. לוי. When Barrington