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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Vineri, Octombrie 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, Octombrie 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. At
Sâmbătă, Martie 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 a răspuns la rapoarte cu privire la uciderea de Ofițer McKenna de frații Lewis. Dillon a crezut că Brothers Lewis, care au fost auto și sârmă hoți, au fost responsabili pentru moartea lui McKenna. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. A observat că doi dintre frații Lewis intrau în garaj cu Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Înainte de vineri, Aprilie 7, 1916 a fost de peste, frații Lewis ar ucide doi St. Ofițerii de poliție Louis, John McKenna și William Dillon. McKenna a fost primul de a cădea, când a întrerupt frații încearcă să fure sârmă, 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 a preluat “Sobolanii Egan” cu privire la moartea fratelui său mai mare, Tom în 1919. Thomas “Șarpe” Kinney și prietenul său din copilărie și fratele-in-lege Tom Egan format St. Louis’ organizație criminală în la sfârșitul anilor 1800. Atât Kinney și Tom Egan erau deținătorii de salon și politicieni Democrat. Ei au angajat “șobolanii” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Joi noaptea, Mai 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, un simpatizant grevă, cu o istorie de boli psihice, împușcat și ucis pe polițist Dennis Crane. Polițist Crane și mai multe alți ofițeri au răspuns la zona ca urmare a rapoartelor de Koenig amenință altor cetățeni. Koenig introduse Eas și Sons Saloon în colțul de sud-vest a S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have