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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
يوم الجمعة, أكتوبر 21, 1904, one of the greatest tragedies in St. Louis Police history occurred when two train robbers and three St. Louis Police detectives died in a shootout. The gunfight occurred in a small hotel room on Pine Street. Two days later on Sunday, أكتوبر 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
During April 1885, الحادي و. Louis experienced one of its most sensational murders. Two English travelers had checked into the Southern Hotel in early April 1885. C. Arthur Preller and H. M. Brooks, who was going by the alias of Dr. Maxwell, appeared to be very friendly. Although they had separate rooms, they often stayed in the same room together. At
يوم السبت, مارس 12, 1904, الحادي و. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. لويس’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran and the detectives
H. H. وكان هولمز سفاح الأولى المعروفة أميركا في التعريف الحديث للكلمة. هولمز تعمل “قلعة القتل”, فندق في شيكاغو خلال 1893 معرض شيكاغو الدولي. هولمز في النهاية أن يدان من ستة عشر جرائم القتل ولكن قد قتل أكثر من 100 الناس أثناء عمليته من الفندق. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, أغسطس 12, 1900, الحادي و. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 مساءا. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 الحادي و. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
William Dillon was responding to reports about the murder of Officer McKenna by the Lewis Brothers. Dillon believed that the Lewis Brothers, who were auto and wire thieves, were responsible for McKenna’s death. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. He observed two of the Lewis brothers enter the garage in the Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Before Friday, أبريل 7, 1916 was over, the Lewis brothers would kill two St. ضباط الشرطة لويس, John McKenna and William Dillon. McKenna was the first to fall, when he interrupted the brothers attempts to steal wire, a valuable commodity during World War I. Dillon would be killed investigating McKenna’s murder. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,
William T.”Willie” Egan took over “Egan’s Rats” on the death of his older brother Tom in 1919. Thomas “ثعبان” Kinney and his childhood friend and brother-in-law Tom Egan formed St. لويس’ criminal organization in the late 1800s. Both Kinney and Tom Egan were saloon keepers and Democratic politicians. They employed “the Rats” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
ليلة الخميس, مايو 31, 1900, ألبرت كوينغ, من المتعاطفين مع الإضراب مع تاريخ من المرض العقلي, النار وقتل شرطي الدورية دينيس كرين. رد الشرطي كرين وعدة ضباط آخرين إلى المنطقة بسبب تقارير كوينغ تهديد مواطنين آخرين. دخلت كوينغ شرق آسيا بالرغم صالون وأولاده في الركن الجنوبي الغربي من S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have