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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Dilluns, Març 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, 01:00 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
Dissabte, Març 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 i els detectius
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, Agost 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
On Monday evening, Juliol 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, que
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, En el compliment del deure: St. Els oficials de policia Louis Qui fet el sacrifici màxim per Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath i el Major 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
Al novembre 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 es va fer càrrec “Rates d'Egan” a la mort del seu germà gran Tom en 1919. Thomas “Serp” Kinney i el seu amic de la infància i el seu germà-en-llei Tom Egan formar St. Louis’ organització delictiva en els anys 1800. Tant Kinney i Tom Egan eren taverners i polítics demòcrates. Van emprar “les Rates” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Dijous a la nit, Maig 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, un simpatitzant de la vaga amb un historial de malaltia mental, El patruller Dennis Crane va disparar i va matar. El patruller de la grua i diversos altres oficials van respondre a la zona a causa dels informes de Koenig amenacen altres ciutadans. Koenig va entrar Eas and Sons Saloon a la cantonada sud-oest de S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have