Taisteluurheiluhistorioitsija ja kamppailutaiteilija
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
Maanantaina, Maaliskuu 5, 1900, St. Louis Poliisit Thomas Meagher ja Thomas Degnan kiinni miehet, jotka ryöstivät East St. Louis Officer aseensa. Ed Sullivan, a 22 vuotiaan ohimenevä, ryöstetty East St. Louis Poliisi aseensa, koruja ja omaisuutensa helmikuun lopulla 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
Lauantaina, Maaliskuu 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. Ludvig’ 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 ja etsivät
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, Elokuu 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
Maanantai-iltana, Heinäkuu 16, 1917, St. Louis Poliisi Julius H. Petring määritetty North Market Division tuli vuokratalo klo 2301 N. Market Street. Petring kysyi haltija William Dietrich vuokrata tilaa hänelle ja hänen vaimonsa. Hänen “vaimo” oli hänen äskettäin eronnut tyttöystävänsä Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring oli tapaillut Freda Hagenmeyer, jotka
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Tehtäviin kuuluvana: St. Louis Poliisit Who Made Ultimate Sacrifice Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath ja 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. Ludvig
Marraskuun 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 n Rotat” on the death of his older brother Tom in 1919. Thomas “Käärme” Kinney and his childhood friend and brother-in-law Tom Egan formed St. Ludvig’ 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