Kampfsporthistoriker und Kampfkünstler
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Am Montag, März 5, 1900, St. Louis Polizisten Thomas Meagher und Thomas Degnan genommen Männer, die East St raubt. Louis Vorsitzender der seine Waffe. Ed Sullivan, a 22 jährige transiente, beraubt ein East St. Louis Polizist seine Waffe, Schmuck und Besitzungen Ende Februar 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
Am Samstag,, März 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 und die Detectives
H. H. Holmes war ersten bekannten amerikanischen Serienmörder in der modernen Definition des Wortes. Holmes betrieben “die Murder Castle”, ein Hotel in Chicago während der 1893 Weltausstellung Chicago. Holmes schließlich sechzehn Morde verurteilt werden, kann aber mehr als ermordet haben 100 Menschen bei seinem Betrieb des Hotels. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, August 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, Juli 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, die
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, In The Line of Duty: St. Louis Police Officers Wer machte das ultimative Opfer von Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath und 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
On 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.”Pimmel” Egan übernahm “Egan Ratten” nach dem Tod seines älteren Bruders Tom in 1919. Thomas “Schlange” Kinney und sein Kindheitsfreund und Bruder-in-law Tom Egan gebildet St. Louis’ kriminellen Vereinigung in den späten 1800er Jahren. Sowohl Kinney Egan und Tom waren Salon Halter und Politiker der Demokratischen Partei. Sie beschäftigten “Die Ratten” aus politischen Schläge und andere kriminelle Aktivitäten. Thomas
Am Donnerstag Abend, Mai 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, ein Streik Sympathisant mit einer Geschichte von psychischen Erkrankungen, erschossen Streifenpolizist Dennis Crane. Streifenpolizist Kran und mehrere andere Offiziere reagierten auf die Fläche aufgrund von Berichten über Koenig bedrohlich andere Bürger. Koenig eingegeben Eas und Söhne Saloon an der südwestlichen Ecke von S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have