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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During April 1885, الحادي و. 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
يوم الاثنين, مارس 5, 1900, الحادي و. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, و 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
يوم السبت, مارس 12, 1904, الحادي و. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. لويس’ 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. موران والمحققين
H. H. وكان هولمز سفاح الأولى المعروفة أميركا في التعريف الحديث للكلمة. هولمز تعمل “قلعة القتل”, فندق في شيكاغو خلال 1893 معرض شيكاغو الدولي. هولمز في النهاية أن يدان من ستة عشر جرائم القتل ولكن قد قتل أكثر من 100 الناس أثناء عمليته من الفندق. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, أغسطس 12, 1900, الحادي و. 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 مساءا. 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 الحادي و. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, يوليو 16, 1917, الحادي و. 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, الذي
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, في أداء واجبهم: الحادي و. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, ديفيد McElreath والرائد ستيفن Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. مع مفترق شعره عن طريق الوسط والشارب الكبير, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. لويس
نوفمبر 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 took over “Egan’s Rats” on the death of his older brother Tom in 1919. Thomas “ثعبان” Kinney and his childhood friend and brother-in-law Tom Egan formed St. لويس’ 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