Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Siku ya Ijumaa, Oktoba 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, Oktoba 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
Wakati wa Aprili 1885, St. Louis uzoefu moja ya mauaji yake ya sensational. Mbili Kiingereza wasafiri alikuwa checked katika Southern Hotel mapema Aprili 1885. C. Arthur Preller na H. M. Brooks, ambaye alikuwa anaenda na uwanja wa Dr. Maxwell, alionekana kuwa rafiki sana. Ingawa walikuwa na vyumba tofauti, mara nyingi kukaa katika chumba kimoja pamoja. At
Siku ya Jumamosi, Machi 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, Agosti 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 believed that the Lewis Brothers, who were auto and wire thieves, were responsible for McKenna’s death. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. Yeye aliona ndugu wawili Lewis kuingia karakana katika Ford. Dillon aliingia karakana
Kabla ya Ijumaa, Aprili 7, 1916 alikuwa juu ya, Ndugu Lewis ingekuwa kuwaua mbili St. Maafisa Louis Polisi, John McKenna na William Dillon. McKenna mara ya kwanza kwa kuanguka, wakati yeye kuingiliwa ndugu majaribio ya kuiba waya, bidhaa ya thamani wakati wa Vita Kuu ya Dunia. Dillon angeuawa uchunguzi mauaji McKenna ya. McKenna ilikuwa kwa ajili ya kutafuta wezi waya,
William T.”Willie” Egan alichukua juu ya “Panya Egan ya” baada ya kifo cha kaka yake Tom katika 1919. Thomas “Nyoka” Kinney na rafiki yake utoto na ndugu mkwe Tom Egan sumu St. Louis’ shirika la jinai mwishoni mwa 1800. Wote Kinney na Tom Egan walikuwa walinzi saloon na wanasiasa Democratic. Wao kuajiriwa “Panya” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Siku ya Alhamisi usiku, Mei 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, mgomo mwamali na historia ya ugonjwa wa akili, risasi na kuuawa PATROLMAN Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane na maafisa wengine kadhaa waliitikia eneo hilo kutokana na taarifa za Koenig menacing raia wengine. Koenig aliingia Eas na Wana Saloon katika kona ya kusini magharibi S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have