Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Á föstudaginn, Október 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, Október 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. Á
Á laugardag, Mars 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, Ágúst 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
Í einni af þessum óvenjulegu tilviljanna sögu, Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson var stunginn af stéttarfélags machinist heitir Edward Canty eftir Saloon ágreiningi. Á þeim tíma þegar nokkrir andstæðinga sína í 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike myndi elska að hafa séð hann sendur í lest út úr bænum, Patterson is stabbed by
William Dillon var að bregðast við tilkynningum um morðið á Officer McKenna af hálfu Lewis Brothers. Dillon talið að Lewis Brothers, sem voru farartæki og vír þjófnaður, voru ábyrgir fyrir dauða McKenna er. 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
Áður Föstudagur, Apríl 7, 1916 var yfir, the Lewis bræður mundu drepa tvo St. Louis lögreglumenn, John McKenna og William Dillon. McKenna var fyrstur til að falla, þegar hann rjúfa bræður tilraun til að stela vír, a valuable commodity during World War I. Dillon yrði drepinn rannsaka morð McKenna er. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,
William T.”Willie” Egan tók “Rottur Egan er” á dauða eldri bróður sínum Tom í 1919. Thomas “Snake” Kinney og æsku vinur hans og bróðir-í-lög Tom Egan myndast St. Louis’ glæpasamtökum í seint 1800s. Bæði Kinney og Tom Egan voru Saloon umsjónarmenn og Democratic stjórnmálamenn. Þeir starfandi “Rotturnar” fyrir pólitískan slugging og aðra glæpastarfsemi. Thomas
Á fimmtudagskvöld, Maí 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, verkfall sympathizer með sögu um geðsjúkdóma, skot og drap patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane og nokkrir aðrir yfirmenn brugðist við á svæðinu vegna skýrslur um Koenig menacing aðra borgara. Koenig inn EAS og Sons Saloon á suðvesturhorni S. Broadway og Osage Streets. Koenig may have