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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. À
Lundi, Mars 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, une 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
Le samedi, Mars 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 et les détectives
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.
Dimanche matin, Août 12, 1900, St. Louis La police a arrêté quatre anciens travailleurs de tramway ligne de transport pour souffler jusqu'à la ligne Olive Street sur l'avenue Maryland entre N. Taylor et N. Euclid Avenue sur la nuit précédente à 11:00 p.m. La police a arrêté Maurice Brennan, Et Fred. Northway, James Schwartz et James Finnesey. La police a trouvé 30 livres de dynamite et 30 feet
Dans un de ces étranges coïncidences de l'histoire, l'Union tramway Président Sherman C. Patterson a été poignardé par un machiniste de l'union nommé Edward Canty après un désaccord berline. À un moment où plusieurs de ses adversaires dans le 1900 St. Louis tramway grève aimerait avoir vu lui a envoyé dans un train hors de la ville, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Juillet 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, qui
L'image de Cornelius O'Keefe dans le livre, Dans la ligne du devoir: St. Les agents de police Louis Qui fait le sacrifice ultime de Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath et le Major Stephen Pollihan, m'a frappé la première fois je l'ai vu. Avec ses cheveux séparés par une raie au milieu et une grosse moustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Sur 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 a repris “Rats Egan” à la mort de son frère aîné Tom dans 1919. Thomas “Serpent” Kinney et son ami d'enfance et frère-frère Tom Egan formés St. Louis’ organisation criminelle dans les années 1800. Les deux Kinney et Tom Egan étaient gardiens berlines et les politiciens démocrates. Ils employaient “Rats” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas