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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
På fredag, Oktober 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, Oktober 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. Vid
På lördag, 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, Augusti 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 reagerade till rapporter om mordet på Officer McKenna av Lewis Brothers. Dillon trodde att Lewis Brothers, som var auto och tråd tjuvar, var ansvariga för McKenna död. 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
Före fredag, April 7, 1916 var över, Lewis bröderna skulle döda två St. Louis poliser, John McKenna och William Dillon. McKenna var först att falla, när han avbröt bröderna försöker stjäla tråd, a valuable commodity during World War I. Dillon skulle dödas undersöka McKenna mord. McKenna was assigned to look for the wire thieves,
William T.”Willie” Egan took over “Egan’s Rats” on the death of his older brother Tom in 1919. Thomas “Snake” Kinney and his childhood friend and brother-in-law Tom Egan formed St. Louis’ criminal organization in the late 1800s. Both Kinney and Tom Egan were saloon keepers and Democratic politicians. They employed “the Rats” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
På torsdag kväll, Maj 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, en strejk sympatisör med en historia av psykisk sjukdom, sköt och dödade poliskonstapel Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane och flera andra officerare svarade på området på grund av rapporter om Koenig hotfulla andra medborgare. Koenig trädde Eas och Sons Saloon på det sydvästra hörnet av S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have