Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Op Maandag, Maart 5, 1900, St. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, 'n 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
Op Saterdag, Maart 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, Augustus 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 namiddag. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In een van daardie vreemde toevallighede van die geskiedenis, die Streetcar Unie President Sherman C. Patterson is deur 'n unie masjinis vernoem Edward levenslustig gesteek nadat 'n salon meningsverskil. In 'n tyd toe 'n paar van sy teenstanders in die 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Julie 16, 1917, St. Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, wat
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, In Die lyn van die reg: St. Louis polisiebeamptes wat die hoogste offer gemaak deur Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath en groot Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. With his hair parted down the middle and a big mustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Op November 7, 1890, Chief of Detectives William Desmond brought in Pat Kennedy, a low-level St. Louis crook, who was suspected of stealing 20 cents from a cigar store on North 9th Street. A 3rd District St. Louis Police Officer captured Kennedy after he robbed a Miss Minnie Mullaney at 16th Street and Franklin Avenue. Kennedy proved a first-rate coward,
William T.”Willie” Egan oorgeneem “Egan se rotte” oor die dood van sy ouer broer Tom in 1919. Thomas “Slang” Kinney en sy kinderjare vriend en broer-in-wet Tom Egan gevorm St. Louis’ kriminele organisasie in die laat 1800's. Beide Kinney en Tom Egan was salon wagte en die Demokratiese politici. Hulle diens “die rotte” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Op Donderdag nag, Mei 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, 'n staking simpatiseerder met 'n geskiedenis van geestesongesteldheid, doodgeskiet gendarme Dennis Crane. Gendarme Crane en verskeie ander beamptes het gereageer op die gebied as gevolg van die verslae van Koenig dreigende ander burgers. Koenig aangegaan Eas en Seuns Saloon by die suidwestelike hoek van S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have