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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
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
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Nan liy lan nan devwa: St. Ofisye Louis Lapolis ki te fè sèvis ofrann bèt la ultim pa Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath ak Gwo 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
William T.”Willie” Egan te pran plis pase “Rat Egan a” sou lanmò a nan Tom gran frè l 'nan 1919. Thomas “Koulèv” Kinney ak zanmi anfans li ak frè-an-lwa Tom Egan fòme St. Louis’ òganizasyon kriminèl nan fen ane 1800 yo. Tou de Kinney ak Tom Egan te gadò saloon ak politisyen Demokratik. Yo travay “Rat yo” pou slugging politik ak lòt aktivite kriminèl. Thomas
Nan Jedi swa, Me 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, yon senpatize grèv ki gen yon istwa nan maladi mantal, tire epi tiye Patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane ak plizyè lòt ofisye reponn a zòn nan akòz rapò sou moun ki Koenig menasan lòt sitwayen. Koenig te antre nan EAS ak pitit gason Berlin nan kwen an nan sidwès S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
Nan 1900 St. Louis tramwe grèv se te yon lagè te tire ant klas la ap travay ak klas siperyè a. Li te kòmanse kòm yon aksyon travay pa travayè strèetar nan liy ki strèetar ki fèk konsolide. Sepandan, li byen vit divize lavil la ak klas la ap travay sipòte grèv la pandan y ap klas yo anwo ak pwofesyonèl defye grèv la. The result was a deadly
Sou yon mwa janvye lannwit frèt nan 1904, lè vil la nan St. Louis te prepare pou san Patipri nan mond lan ki ta fè l 'pi popilè, overzealous ko-travayè touye sèt ti gason ak yon nonm. Li te 5:45 p.m. sou Janvye 13th a fin vye granmoun Brown Soulye Konpayi faktori a nan kwen an nan Washington Avenue ak North Onzyèm Street. Time for the men to
Nan Vandredi, Mas 13, 1903, Konte Franklin Jij William Davidson nan arraigned William Rudolph ak George Collins pou vòl la nan Bank la Inyon ak touye moun nan Pinkerton Detectif Charles Schumacher. Rudolph ak Collins plede “pa koupab”. Jij Davidson plase twa avoka ki reprezante Rudolph ak Collins. William Rudolph gave a confession to the St. Louis media, ki te
Sou Desanm 10, 1920, an eighth St. Louis Police Officer would lose his life, the most officers to die in the line of duty in the history of the St. Depatman Lapolis Louis. Four of the officers’ murders in 1920 would never be solved. This last murder would be one of the four murders never to be solved. Charles M.
Nan Vandredi, Oktòb 21, 1904, senk St. Ofisye Louis Lapolis te ale nan yon kay rooming nan 1324 Pine Street, sit la jodi a sòlda Memorial, to arrest three men suspected of an Illinois train robbery in July of the same year. What occurred next would be one of the most storied shootouts in St. Istwa Louis Lapolis. During the World’s Fair,
Sou Avril 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, konnen tou kòm “Bandit Wouj la-te dirije”, mache nan Easton-Taylor Trust Konpayi an nan 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith te gen yon revòlvè nan chak men Lèfini, li mande lajan ki sòti nan kesye a. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 nan yon sak. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby