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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
نوفمبر 17, 1912, Albert Whitefield achieved infamy in St. Louis history by murdering St. Louis Police Officer Arthur Huddleston. Huddleston prevented Whitefield murdering his common law wife, Annie Washington, and her gentlemen caller. Whitefield shot Huddleston to death in a Midtown alley before leading St. Louis Police on a two state chase. Arthur Huddleston was not Albert Whitefield’s first
نوفمبر 7, 1890, Chief of Detectives William Desmond brought in Pat Kennedy, a low-level St. Louis crook, who was suspected of stealing 20 cents from a cigar store on North 9th Street. A 3rd District St. Louis Police Officer captured Kennedy after he robbed a Miss Minnie Mullaney at 16th Street and Franklin Avenue. Kennedy proved a first-rate coward,
كانون الثاني 7, 1903, الحادي و. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. لكن, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, سانت. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, أو 1904 الحادي و. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. لويس, تاريخ ميسوري. بينما القديس. وكان لويس أكبر غرب مدينة نهر المسيسبي, وضع المعرض العالمي على الخريطة الدولية. في حين أن المعرض سوف تجلب سمعة سيئة, السياح وزيادة الإيرادات إلى المدينة,
يوم الاربعاء, مايو 9, 1900, في اليوم الثاني من سانت. لويس الترام سترايك, رصاصة طائشة قتلت فرانك يبريخت. فرانك ليبريخت, المخضرم الحرب الاسبانية الامريكية, كان يراقب مسيرة إضراب في زاوية فيني وN. تايلور الجادة. خلال مسيرة, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
الحادي و. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond’s success in capturing many desperate criminals made him a celebrity of sorts particularly among aspiring detectives. When Edgar Allan Poe wrote three tales based on the exploits of fictional detective C. Auguste Dupin, detective fiction captured the attention of readers. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle popularized the genre permanently with his fictional detective, Sherlock
جورج كولينز, اللص البنك الثاني المشاركة في الاتحاد, MO السطو على بنك ديسمبر 26, 1902, حاول الهروب من شارع. لويس سجن في يناير 1904. بالإضافة إلى العمل مع السجناء الآخرين على إحداث ثقب في جدار السجن, انه كما رتبت مع أحد حراس السجن أن يكون له مناشير تهريبها. Collins intended to use
On Friday night, أكتوبر 24, 1902, an informer passed information to Assistant Chief of Detectives James Smith. S. J. Schultze & Co., لسان. Louis printing firm, received an order from a stranger in town to print checks for the Elgin City Banking Company of Elgin, Illinois. The informant doubted the checks were actually destined for a real bank. Assistant
ديسمبر 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. The men took $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 صباحا إلى. and surprised Harding,
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, الحادي و. Louis had the distinction of being the largest city west of the Mississippi River. Pickpockets and thieves rode the rails to ply their illicit trade in the bustling metropolis. في أيلول 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.