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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Before reading Gangs of St. Louis: Men of Respect by Daniel Waugh, I knew and wrote about Robert Creed and his brother Thomas murdering St. Louis Police Officer George Geisler on Halloween Day 1920. What I didn’t know was Robert Creed was a member of the Cuckoo Gang, an ultra violent criminal organization in the 1920s. Robert Creed was the
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. Initially, 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 Police Department. When the bank association turned over the
On January 7, 1903, St. 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. Tuy nhiên, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. In March 1897, St. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an
The Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, hoặc 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair as it is more popularly known, is the most significant event in St. Louis, Lịch sử Missouri. Trong khi St. Louis là phía tây thành phố lớn nhất của sông Mississippi, Hội chợ Thế giới đặt nó trên bản đồ quốc tế. Trong khi các công bằng sẽ mang lại tai tiếng, du khách và tăng doanh thu cho thành phố,
Hôm thứ Tư, Có thể 9, 1900, ngày thứ hai của St. Louis Streetcar Strike, một viên đạn đi lạc chết Frank Liebrecht. Frank Liebrecht, một cựu chiến binh chiến Tây Ban Nha-Mỹ, đã được xem một cuộc biểu tình đình công ở góc Finney và N. Taylor Avenue. Trong các cuộc biểu tình, some in the crowd observed the last two streetcars for the day coming down the tracks about a
George Collins, tên cướp ngân hàng thứ hai tham gia vào Liên minh, MO vụ cướp ngân hàng vào ngày 26, 1902, cố gắng để thoát khỏi St. Louis tù vào tháng Giêng 1904. Bên cạnh làm việc với các tù nhân khác về làm một cái lỗ trên bức tường của nhà tù, he also arranged with a prison guard to have saws smuggled to him. Collins intended to use
Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Sở Cảnh sát Metropolitan Louis. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. On January
During the Gilded Age and for several decades after, St. 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. Ngày 21, 1901, hotel employees overpowered a sneak thief, who attempted to burglarize a room in the plush Southern Hotel.
I have always said the St. Louis Streetcar Strike of 1900 was not the story of the evil streetcar companies exploiting the innocent workers. “The innocent workers” committed many deplorable acts during the streetcar strike. One of their most frequent tactics involved stripping woman in public who rode the streetcars during the strike. Amazingly, their victims were young and attractive
St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond would be primarily responsible for the security of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. Prior to the fair opening in April 1904, Desmond played a critical role in St. Louis’ boodling investigation. During his boodling investigation, St. Louis Circuit Attorney Joseph “Holy Joe” Folk indicted City Councilman Charles Kratz for taking bribes or