Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
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. Á
Á mánudaginn, 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, A 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
Á laugardag, 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 and the detectives
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, Ágúst 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
Í einni af þessum óvenjulegu tilviljanna sögu, Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson var stunginn af stéttarfélags machinist heitir Edward Canty eftir Saloon ágreiningi. Á þeim tíma þegar nokkrir andstæðinga sína í 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike myndi elska að hafa séð hann sendur í lest út úr bænum, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Júlí 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, sem
Myndin af Cornelius O'Keefe í bókinni, Í línu skylda: St. Louis lögreglumanna sem gerði fullkominn fórn af Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath og Major Stephen Pollihan, sló mig í fyrsta skipti sem ég sá hana. Með hárið skildu niður á miðju og stór yfirvaraskegg, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Nóvember 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 reyndist fyrsta flokks huglaus,en,
William T.”Willie” Egan tók “Rottur Egan er” á dauða eldri bróður sínum Tom í 1919. Thomas “Snake” Kinney og æsku vinur hans og bróðir-í-lög Tom Egan myndast St. Louis’ glæpasamtökum í seint 1800s. Bæði Kinney og Tom Egan voru Saloon umsjónarmenn og Democratic stjórnmálamenn. Þeir starfandi “Rotturnar” fyrir pólitískan slugging og aðra glæpastarfsemi. Thomas