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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Tub ceev xwm Louis keeb kwm.
It was very cold on the morning of Sunday, Hlis ntuj nqeg 5, 1880, hais txog 2 sijhawm ua ntej tavsu, thaum me nyuam. Louis Police Officer Sheehan found the front door open to John R. Lionberger’s home. Owing to the bitter cold, Sheehan feared burglars had entered the residence. Sheehan rang the bell repeatedly but could not awaken anyone inside. Sheehan began rapping his night stick against the
Nyob rau peb lub asthiv tom ntej, Kuv yuav tau tso posts, uas raug excerpts hauv phau kuv tabtom ua haujlwm tamsim no nyob rau ntawm phau ntawv published yav tas los. Unedited zaj dabneeg nram qab no yog los ntawm cov phau ntawv kuv yuav ua hauj lwm ntawm uas yuav txiav txim rau lub caij nplooj zeeg los yog thaum lub caij ntuj no 2017. William Rudolph proved elusive tom qab nws hnub ywj pheej khiav tawm los ntawm cov
Ob peb txheej xwm tom St. Louis xws li tus kab hauv cov tub tuag Lt. Sidney Sears nyob rau lub rau hli ntuj 1924. Mus yuav luag 30 xyoo, LT. Sears twb yog tus rab yaj phom zoo txhaj rau cov me nyuam. Louis tub ceevxwm. Nyob rau hauv 1904, Sears kuj yog National rab yaj phom tau zus ib ntawm lub teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas. Rau ib tug neeg tua Lt. Sears nyob hauv ib lub shootout twb saib tsis.
Tuesday, Lub Xya hli ntuj 4, 1916, tus me nyuam. Louis Chief ntawm Detectives William Desmond tso tseg tom qab ib tug mob uas muaj ob xyoos. Desmond nyob rau hauv tsev kho mob kwv tij Alexian ntawm lub kaum hli ntuj 1915 kom txog rau thaum nws tuag rau hnub ywj pheej 1916. Tus txog 59 xyoos xyoo Desmond tshuav tub 12 xyoo, William Desmond, ❏ Jr ❏. Tus poj niam tus Chief Desmond tuag ob peb xyoo ua ntej nws. Rau 17 thiaj 1890
On the evening of June 1, 1879, St. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. Louis’ Sab sab qab zog. It is not clear if Charles Sanders actions attracted Printz’s attention, or Printz just stumbled upon Sanders. Txawm muaj tej yam txoj, Printz walked up to Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. Thauj tw
Nyob rau lub hlis ntuj nqeg 15, 1903, peb cov txiv neej nkag mus rau lub tsev Erie ntawm plaub txoj kev thiab Clark Avenue. Cov txiv neej sib ntaus ua noj Victor Dauson ua ntej shooting tsev so clerk Charles Harding. Dauson tuag los ntawm nws kev raug mob, tiam sis Charles Harding zoo tu qab tso. Cov txiv neej coj $300 los ntawm cov yas thiab khiav lub tsev so. Cov txiv neej nkag mus rau hauv tsev so rau 2:00 a.m. thiab Harding tag,
St. Louis Chief ntawm Detectives William Desmond yuav tsum hwm rau lub “tsev kawm ntawv laus criminals”, leej twg plied nws lag luam tawm nyob rau hauv St. Louis thaum lub caij xyoo pua puv 19. Txawm li cas los, nws tsis muaj cov tib neeg kawm ntawv kev hwm cov thug tactics ntawm tus “tsev kawm ntawv tshiab criminals”. Cov criminals tiaj nras rau cov uas tsis muaj cov finesse uas muaj kev kub ntxhov loj. Chief Desmond said
Txog hnub plaub, Cuaj hlis 9, 1875, George “Mitchell” Gassert thiab William Salisbury mus rau Fred Fisher Saloon ntawm lub kaum kev N. Jefferson thiab Morgan (Delmar hnub no). Tom qab ordering dej qab zib, ob tug me txiv neej ntawm lub koob npe nrov unsavory tsis kam them rau cov dej qab zib. Tom qab sim them nyiaj rau cov nyiaj them poob haujlwm, Fisher summoned St. Louis tub ceev xwm John Cummings. Officer Cummings, raug xa mus rau lub tsev kawm ntawv
Rau cov hnub xya, Lub rau hli ntuj 24, 1900 ib tsab ntawm tus me nyuam. Koom pheej Louis, ib tug reporter peb cov me nyuam. Louis Chief ntawm Detectives William Desmond txog kev nruj kev tsiv zuj zus ntawm lub txim txhaum tshiab. Tom qab 10 xyoo li me nyuam. Louis Chief Detectives thiab ib feem sau tubnyiag takers nyob rau hauv teb chaws As Mes Lis Kas, Chief Desmond lamented the increasing violence he was seeing out
54-xyoo William Henry Anderson plied nws pauv raws li ib tug me nyuam. Louis tub ceev xwm Officer rau 25 xyoo. Assigned to a beat near Natural Bridge and Vandeventer Avenues, Anderson neeg khiav dej num yog hu ua tus “Tus phooj ywg tooj” los ntawm cov neeg thiab cov lag luam ntawm nws dhia ceev ceev. Khiav hauj lwm rau cov ua haujlwm kom pw rau ib lub ob hlis ntuj txias thaum ntxov, Officer Anderson was walking on Vandeventer just south of