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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
After averaging 9 fights a year over the past 7 any, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley “The Michigan Assassin” Ketchel was exhausted. Ketchel took a vacation on the Missouri ranch of his friend Colonel R. P. Dickerson in an attempt to regain his strength and enthusiasm for fighting. Ketchel never returned from vacation as he was shot and killed at
On Thursday, Gener 23, 1902, St. Louis awakened to the news millionaire A. Deane Cooper was found murdered in the Vista Bathhouse at Franklin Avenue and North Grand Boulevard. Cooper, one of St. Louis’ wealthiest men, owned residential real estate and other assets valued at 2 milió de dòlars. Cooper aspired to be the biggest property owner in St. Louis. Ell
21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Abril 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell treballava com a mecànic a
Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Història Policia Louis, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French
On the morning of Saturday, Abril 22, 1922, a green Paige automobile pulled up in front of the Morris Packing Company at 3000 S. Broadway. One man emerged, looked around and waived for his companion to exit the back seat. After hesitating for a few seconds, the other man exited as the automobile crawled down the busy street. El temps
Els edificis són només munts de taules i maons sense les històries que s'uneixen a ells. Durant novembre 1912, St. Oficial de Policia Louis Arthur Huddleston va ser assassinat per assassí en llibertat condicional Albert Whitefield. Whitefield havia sorprès la seva concubina, que era entretingut altra persona que truca cavaller. Whitefield va intentar matar abans de les dues St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for
Dimarts, Novembre 5, 1901, St. Louis Police captured Ben Kilpatrick and Laura Bullion for their part in the Great Northern train robbery in Montana on July 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick would serve 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for
En 1877, St. Louis was the largest city west of the Mississippi. St. Louis Police dealt with the typical problems of a major city. St. Louis Police Officers responded to reports of murder, rape and robbery. On the morning of December 12, 1877, St. Louis Police Officer Daily responded to the report of a bear on the Downtown St. Louis
Abans de llegir Gangs of St. Louis: Homes de respecte de Daniel Waugh, Vaig conèixer i vaig escriure sobre Robert Creed i el seu germà Thomas assassinant St. L'agent de policia de Louis George Geisler el dia de Halloween 1920. El que no sabia era que Robert Creed era membre de la Colla del Cuc, una organització criminal ultraviolenta dels anys vint. Robert Creed era el
On February 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. Louis. Inicialment, the American Bankers Association hired private detectives. After the detectives were unable to discover any serious leads, the association turned the case over to the St. Departament de Policia de Louis. When the bank association turned over the