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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Penktadienį, Spalis 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, Spalis 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. Į
Šeštadienį, Kovas 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, Rugpjūtis 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 was responding to reports about the murder of Officer McKenna by the Lewis Brothers. Dillon tikėjo, kad Lewis Broliai, kurie buvo auto ir vielos vagys, buvo atsakingas už McKenna mirties. 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, Balandis 7, 1916 was over, the Lewis brothers would kill two St. Louis Policijos pareigūnai, John McKenna ir William Dillon. McKenna buvo pirmieji, kurie, kai jis nutraukiamas broliai bando pavogti viela, 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 perėmė “Egan anketa Žiurkės” dėl jo vyresnysis brolis Tom mirties 1919. Tomas “Gyvatė” Kinney, ir jo vaikystės draugas ir brolis-in-law Tomas Egan suformuotas St. Louis’ nusikalstama organizacija 1800. Tiek Kinney ir Tomas Egan buvo sedanai laikytojai ir demokratinė politikai. Jie dirba “Žiurkių” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Tomas
Ketvirtadienio naktį, Gegužės 31, 1900, Albertas Koenig, Streikas prijaučiančio su psichikos ligos istorijos, nušovė Policijos Dennis Kranas. Patrolman Kranų ir keli kiti pareigūnai atsakė į tą vietą, nes ataskaitas Koenig grėsmingas kitiems piliečiams. Koenig įrašytas EAS and Sons Saloon į pietvakarių kampe S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have