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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Ar Dé hAoine, Deireadh Fómhair 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, Deireadh Fómhair 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. Ag
Ar Dé Sathairn, Márta 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, Lúnasa 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 bhí ag freagairt do thuairiscí mar gheall ar an dúnmharú Oifigigh McKenna ag na Bráithre Lewis. Dillon Creidtear go bhfuil na Bráithre Lewis, a bhí thieves uathoibríoch agus sreang, bhí freagrach as bás McKenna. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Baile Átha Luain Ascaill. He observed two of the Lewis brothers enter the garage in the Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Roimh Dé hAoine, Aibreán 7, 1916 Bhí os cionn, Bheadh na deartháireacha Lewis mharú dhá Naomh. Oifigigh Louis Póilíní, John McKenna agus William Dillon. Ba McKenna an chéad titim, nuair a sé isteach na deartháireacha iarracht sreang a ghoid, a valuable commodity during World War I. Bheadh Dillon a maraíodh imscrúdú dúnmharú McKenna. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,
William T.”Willie” Ghlac os cionn Egan “Rats Egan ar” ar bhás a dheartháir níos sine Tom i 1919. Thomas “Nathair” Kinney agus a chara óige agus deartháir-i-dlí Tom Egan déanta Naomh. Louis’ eagraíocht choiriúil sna 1800í déanacha. Bhí an dá Kinney agus Tom Egan coimeádaithe saloon agus polaiteoirí Dhaonlathach. Fostaithe iad “na Francaigh” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Ar an oíche Déardaoin, Bealtaine 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, ar sympathizer stailc le stair ar thinneas meabhrach, lámhaigh agus maraíodh Patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane agus roinnt oifigigh eile freagra ar an limistéar mar gheall ar thuairiscí Koenig bagarthach saoránaigh eile. Koenig isteach Eas and Sons Saloon ag an choirnéal thiar theas de S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have