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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 anos, 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
Na quinta-feira, Janeiro 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, um de São. Louis’ homens mais ricos, imóveis residenciais de propriedade e outros ativos avaliados em 2 milhão de dólares. Cooper aspirava a ser o maior proprietário do imóvel em St. Louis. Ele
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 was employed as a mechanic at
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. História Louis Polícia, 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. A hora
Os edifícios são apenas pilhas de tábuas e tijolos sem as histórias que lhes estão ligadas.. During November 1912, St. O policial de Louis, Arthur Huddleston, foi morto pelo assassino em liberdade condicional Albert Whitefield. Whitefield surpreendeu sua esposa, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for
Na terça-feira, Novembro 5, 1901, St. Louis Polícia capturou Ben Kilpatrick e Laura Bullion por sua parte no roubo de trem Grande do Norte em Montana em julho 2, 1901. Before the case was settled, Kilpatrick serviria 10 years and Laura Bullion would serve three and a half years in the Missouri Penitentiary but it would take several weeks for
Em 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
Antes de ler Gangs of St. Louis: Homens de Respeito por Daniel Waugh, Eu conhecia e escrevi sobre Robert Creed e seu irmão Thomas assassinando St. Policial de Louis George Geisler no Dia do Halloween 1920. O que eu não sabia era que Robert Creed era membro da Gangue Cuco, uma organização criminosa ultraviolenta na década de 1920. Robert Creed era o
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. Inicialmente, 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. Louis Departamento de Polícia. When the bank association turned over the