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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Divendres, Octubre 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, Octubre 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
During April 1885, St. 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
Dissabte, Març 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ 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. Holmes was America’s first known serial killer in the modern definition of the word. Holmes operated “the Murder Castle”, a Chicago hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Holmes would eventually be convicted of sixteen murders but may have murdered more than 100 people during his operation of the hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Agost 12, 1900, St. 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 p.m. 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 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
William Dillon estava responent als informes sobre l'assassinat de l'agent McKenna pels germans Lewis. Dillon creu que els germans Lewis, que eren automòbils i filferro lladres, van ser responsables de la mort de McKenna. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avinguda. He observed two of the Lewis brothers enter the garage in the Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Abans de divendres, Abril 7, 1916 havia acabat, els germans Lewis matarien 2 St. Els oficials de policia Louis, John McKenna i William Dillon. McKenna va ser el primer a caure, quan va interrompre els germans intents de robar filferro, a valuable commodity during World War I. Dillon matarien investigant l'assassinat de McKenna. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,
William T.”Willie” Egan es va fer càrrec “Rates d'Egan” a la mort del seu germà gran Tom en 1919. Thomas “Serp” Kinney i el seu amic de la infància i el seu germà-en-llei Tom Egan formar St. Louis’ organització delictiva en els anys 1800. Tant Kinney i Tom Egan eren taverners i polítics demòcrates. Van emprar “les Rates” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Dijous a la nit, Maig 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, un simpatitzant de la vaga amb un historial de malaltia mental, El patruller Dennis Crane va disparar i va matar. El patruller de la grua i diversos altres oficials van respondre a la zona a causa dels informes de Koenig amenacen altres ciutadans. Koenig va entrar Eas and Sons Saloon a la cantonada sud-oest de S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have