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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. En
O luns, Marzo 5, 1900, St. Louis Oficiais de Policía Thomas Meagher e Thomas Degnan aprehendido homes que roubaron un East St. Louis Officer da súa arma. Ed Sullivan, unha 22 transitoria year-old, roubou unha East St. Louis Policía de súa arma, xoias e bens a finais de febreiro 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
O sábado, Marzo 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 foi serial killer coñecido primeiro de América na definición moderna da palabra. Holmes operador “Castelo Murder”, un hotel de Chicago durante o 1893 Feira Mundial de Chicago. Holmes acabaría por ser condenado por dezaseis asasinatos, pero pode asasinar máis de 100 persoas durante a súa operación do hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Agosto 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, Xullo 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 “muller” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, que
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, No cumprimento do deber: St. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath eo Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Co pelo repartido polo medio e un gran bigote, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
En novembro 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 asumiu “Ratos de Egan” sobre a morte do seu irmán máis vello Tom en 1919. Thomas “Cobra” Kinney eo seu amigo de infancia e irmán-de-lei Tom Egan formado St. Louis’ organización criminal a finais de 1800. Ambos Kinney e Tom Egan eran gardiáns do saloon e políticos demócratas. Eles empregaron “Ratos” para slugging política e outras actividades criminais. Thomas