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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Novembres 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney relinquebat Sancti. Ludovici Antipolis, African-Americani cum duobus viris accessit. Leviora album homo dixit Dominae. Stickney ut gemmas suas traderet aut auferret ab ea. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney traditur homini ornamento, aestimabitur $17,000.00, et $85.00 in cash. Mrs.
September 15, 1887, a muscular man stood in the First District Police Court listening to Judge Cady. As he looked out between eyes almost swollen shut and a busted lip, he waited to see if justice would be done. It was as Judge Cady told the beaten man, “$10 fine for disturbing the peace. $100 for resisting arrest. You
In ultima septimana mensis Decembris 1902, William Rudolph, Metallicus ut habitet in Franklin Comitatu, Marcus Cornelius, et eruite vi oppressum de una ripa in Unione, MO. Et eruite vi oppressum pernoctabit, cum non esset pax usque in praesentem inflatis. Rudolph ad parentes’ suscipit 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. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
V., January 10, 1900, St. Louis Police Officer Paul Girard was standing at the corner of S. Taylor and Lindell Boulevard, when he saw a man jump from the second floor of 4511 Lindell Boulevard. Aware of recent burglaries in the wealthy Central West End neighborhood, Girard approached the man. When the limping man saw Girard, he ran towards S.
Super his 17 Anno vitae, St. Ludovicus dux Detectives William Desmond egit cum multis sodalibus familiaribus criminalibus. Quidam domestici membra tam mala vel peiora erant quam dux Desmond scelestus et homines eius incluserant. Autem, multae familiae membra sunt honestus, laborantem populus, quaerentes quid deviaret cum dilecto. Primo vitae suae
On the morning of Wednesday, July 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.
Vespere autem Martis, February 18, 1919, edition of St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Cogitantes quod shoplifting anulum quo operatus est a iugo of locus jewelry thesauris,, in S.. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the
St. 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
Die Saturni, Jube 5, 1900 at 11:30 p.m., the explosion of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. Louis de platea cursus molestie 1900. Ante ictum erat in September 1900, in plateis St. Louis would be a battle ground between rich and poor with the St. Ludovicus