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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Na sexta-feira, 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
No mês de abril 1885, St. Louis viveu um dos seus assassinatos mais sensacionais. Dois viajantes ingleses tinha verificado para o Hotel Sul no início de abril 1885. C. Arthur Preller e H. M. Brooks, que estava indo pelo pseudônimo de Dr.. Maxwell, parecia ser muito amigável. Embora eles tivessem quartos separados, they often stayed in the same room together. Em
No sábado, Março 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 foi primeiro serial killer conhecido da América na definição moderna da palavra. Holmes operado “Castelo Murder”, um hotel de Chicago, durante o 1893 Feira Mundial de Chicago. Holmes acabaria por ser condenado por dezesseis crimes, mas pode ter assassinado mais de 100 pessoas durante sua operação do hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Agosto 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 acredita que os irmãos Lewis, que eram automóveis e fios ladrões, foram responsáveis pela morte de McKenna. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. Ele observou dois dos irmãos Lewis entrarem na garagem do Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Before Friday, Abril 7, 1916 was over, the Lewis brothers would kill two St. Oficiais Louis Polícia, 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 assumiu “Ratos de Egan” sobre a morte de seu irmão mais velho Tom em 1919. Thomas “Cobra” Kinney e seu amigo de infância e irmão-de-lei Tom Egan formado St. Louis’ organização criminosa no final de 1800. Ambos Kinney e Tom Egan eram guardiões do saloon e políticos democratas. Eles empregaram “Ratos” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Na quinta-feira à noite, Maio 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, um simpatizante greve com uma história de doença mental, atirou e matou Patrolman Dennis Guindaste. Patrulheiro Crane e vários outros oficiais responderam à área devido a relatos de Koenig ameaçando outros cidadãos. Koenig entrou Eas and Sons Saloon no canto sudoeste de S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have