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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
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. At
Ar ddydd Llun, Mawrth 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, a 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
Ar ddydd Sadwrn, Mawrth 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.
Bore Dydd Sul, Awst 12, 1900, St. Arestio Heddlu Louis pedwar cyn-weithwyr Streetcar Llinell Transit am chwythu i fyny y llinell Stryd Olive ar Maryland Avenue rhwng N. Taylor a N. Euclid Avenues ar y noson gynt yn 11:00 y.h. Heddlu arestio Maurice Brennan, A Fred. Northway, James Schwartz a James Finnesey. Heddlu o hyd 30 bunnoedd o deinameit a 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, Gorffennaf 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, sydd
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Yn Y Line of Duty: St. Swyddogion yr Heddlu Louis Pwy wnaeth yr aberth eithaf gan Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath a Phrif Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Gyda'i wallt gwahanu i lawr y canol a mwstash mawr, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Ar Dachwedd 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” Cymerodd Egan drosodd “Llygod mawr Egan yn” ar farwolaeth ei frawd hŷn Tom yn 1919. Thomas “Neidr” Kinney a'i gyfaill blentyndod a'i frawd-yng-nghyfraith Tom Egan ffurfio St. Louis’ sefydliad troseddol yn y 1800au hwyr. Roedd y ddau Kinney a Tom Egan ceidwaid salŵn a gwleidyddion Democrataidd. Maent yn cyflogi “y Llygod Mawr” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas