Historiador de deportes de combate e artista marcial
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
En setembro de 21, 1897, Joseph Bloomfield Jackson attempted to sneak into the White House armed with a loaded revolver. Jackson had boasted of plans to attack a high government official for days. Jackson was arrested before he could carry out his plans to attack President McKinley. Police quickly realized Jackson was mentally disturbed. They sent him to a Washington asylum
En 1904, St. Louis hosted the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition better known as the 1904 St. Louis’ Worlds Fair. While the Fair brought lots of tourists to town, criminals also made their way to the Gateway City. The man tasked with taking care of the security at the Fair and dealing with the increased criminal element in town was St. Louis’
En setembro de 9, 1893, Frisco line brakeman James Pennock boarded the Frisco Line at Tower Grove in St. Louis. At the Cheltenham stop, Frisco brakeman Sam Robertson and former brakeman Muncie Ray also boarded. The men boarded the train with the intent of robbing the train at Sandy Cut, two miles east of Pacific, MO. When the train got close
William Desmond prendeu moitos ladróns durante a súa 17 anos de carreira como St. Louis Xefe de Detectives. Desenvolveu unha reputación nacional como “O Ladrón de Taker”. O luns, Outubro 15, 1900, Xefe Desmond quedou coas pantalóns de un ladrón, pero non o propio ladrón. Jonas Washington entrou no curro de Shickle, Harrison and Howard Iron Foundry at 12th and Gratiot Streets
En agosto 31, 1901, Night Watchman William Doherty descuberto Willis Garner burglarizing o cargo de Schickle, Harrison e Compañía Ferro Howard en 912 S. TWELFTH Street en St. Louis, Missouri. A empresa de ferro empregada Garner, que xogou un martelo na cabeza de Doherty. The hammer missed its target but the confusion allowed Garner to jump out the window and make his
En outubro 6, 1890, barbeiros locais Luther Duncan e Bob Henderson saíu á N. 11th Street para resolver unha pelexa. Esta área de St. Louis foi coñecido como “Profundo Morgan”. “Profundo Morgan” was home to bordello, fracaso casas e as máis difíciles saloon africano-americanos na cidade, Forte’ Salón. Ambos Duncan Henderson e eran barbeiros negros, who worked in
En decembro de 3, 1896, tres homes entraron en Office Home Brewery en St. Louis en torno 2:30 p.m. Caixa Robert Hofferkamp achegouse dos homes. Os homes producido revólveres e dixo Hofferkamp eo seu asistente de vomitar as súas mans. Os homes levaron $10,000 a partir da oficina no que sería un asalto varios millóns de dólares hoxe. The robbers tied up and
St. Louis Xefe de Detectives William Desmond creou un pouco de misterio en xaneiro 1903, cando intentou escapar e casar. Era para ser a primeira voda a 45-year-old de Desmond. Xefe Desmond foi casar con Hannah McLaughlin, a filla dun constructor local. A parella estaba de lúa de mel no sur de California, antes de regresar a San. Louis
O luns, Decembro 15, 1902, St. Assistant Chief Louis Policía de detectives James H. Smith se aposentou do departamento de policía para tomar unha posición na industria do carbón. Xefe de Detectives William Desmond intentou convencer Smith para estar, pero el decidiu xubilarse a partir da forza como o seu cuadraxésimo aniversario abordado. Smith compilou un rexistro louvável como asistente de Desmond.
O venres, Outubro 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, Outubro 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at