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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
På fredag, Oktober 21, 1904, en av de største tragediene i St. Louis Politiet historie skjedde da to tog røvere og tre St. Louis Politiet detektiver døde i en skuddveksling. Gunfight skjedde i et lite rom på Pine Street. To dager senere på søndag, Oktober 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
I løpet av april 1885, St. Louis opplevde en av sine mest oppsiktsvekkende drapene. To engelske reisende hadde sjekket inn på Southern Hotel i begynnelsen av april 1885. C. Arthur Preller og H. M. Brooks, som skulle av aliaset Dr. Maxwell, syntes å være svært vennlig. Selv om de hadde separate rom, they often stayed in the same room together. At
På lørdag, March 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, August 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 mente at Lewis Brothers, som var auto og wire tyver, var ansvarlig for McKenna død. 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, April 7, 1916 was over, the Lewis brothers would kill two St. Louis Police Officers, John McKenna and William Dillon. McKenna was the first to fall, when he interrupted the brothers attempts to steal wire, 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 overtok “Egan er Rats” på at hans eldre bror Tom i 1919. Thomas “Snake” Kinney og hans barndomsvenn og svoger Tom Egan dannet St. Louis’ kriminell organisasjon på slutten av 1800-tallet. Både Kinney og Tom Egan var sedan keepere og demokratiske politikere. De næringsdrivende “rottene” for politisk slugging og andre kriminelle aktiviteter. Thomas
På torsdag kveld, May 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, en streik sympatisør med en historie med psykisk sykdom, skutt og drept Patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane og flere andre offiserer svarte til området på grunn av rapporter om Koenig truende andre borgere. Koenig inngikk Eas og Sons Saloon det sørvestlige hjørnet av S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have