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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, Dalam Talian Duti: St. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath and 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. Louis
William T.”Willie” Egan mengambil alih “Tikus Egan ini” atas kematian abangnya Tom dalam 1919. Thomas “Ular” Kinney dan rakan zaman kanak-kanak dan saudara-in-undang-undang Tom Egan dibentuk St. Louis’ organisasi jenayah di tahun 1800-an. Kedua-dua Kinney dan Tom Egan adalah penjaga saloon dan ahli politik Demokratik. Mereka bekerja “Tikus” untuk slugging politik dan aktiviti jenayah lain. Thomas
Pada malam Khamis, Boleh 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, yang bersimpati mogok yang mempunyai sejarah penyakit mental, pukulan dan membunuh polis ronda Dennis Crane. Polis ronda Crane dan beberapa pegawai lain bertindak balas ke kawasan itu kerana laporan Koenig mengancam rakyat yang lain. Koenig memasuki EAS dan Anak-anak Saloon di sudut barat daya S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
Yang 1900 St. Louis trem Strike adalah perang menembak di antara kelas pekerja dan kelas atas. Ia bermula sebagai tindakan kerja oleh pekerja trem garis trem yang baru disatukan. Walau bagaimanapun, it quickly divided the city with the working class supporting the strike while the upper and professional classes defied the strike. The result was a deadly
On a cold January night in 1904, when the city of St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. It was 5:45 sore. on January 13th at the old Brown Shoe Company factory at the corner of Washington Avenue and North Eleventh Street. Time for the men to
Pada hari Jumaat, Mac 13, 1903, the Franklin County Judge William Davidson arraigned William Rudolph and George Collins for the robbery of the Union Bank and the murder of Pinkerton Detective Charles Schumacher. Rudolph and Collins plead “not guilty”. Judge Davidson assigned three attorneys to represent Rudolph and Collins. William Rudolph gave a confession to the St. Louis media, which was
Pada Disember 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. Jabatan Polis 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.
Pada hari Jumaat, Oktober 21, 1904, five St. Louis Police Officers went to a rooming house at 1324 Pine Street, site of today’s Soldier 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. Sejarah Louis Polis. During the World’s Fair,
Pada April 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, juga dikenali sebagai “The Bandit Red-Diketuai”, berjalan ke dalam Easton-Taylor Amanah Syarikat pada 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith mempunyai revolver dalam setiap tangan dan meminta wang daripada juruwang. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 dalam karung. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby