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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Nhar it-Tnejn, Marzu 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
Nhar is-Sibt, Marzu 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 u d-ditektifs
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, Awissu 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, Lulju 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. Tiegħu “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, li
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Fil-linja tad-Dazju: St. Uffiċjali Louis Pulizija li għamlu l-sagrifiċċju aħħari minn Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath u 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
Fuq Novembru 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 ħadet “Firien Egan tal” mal-mewt ta ħuh anzjani Tom fl 1919. Thomas “Snake” Kinney u ħabib tfulija tiegħu u ħuh fil-liġi Tom Egan ffurmati St. Louis’ f'organizzazzjoni kriminali fl-1800s tard. Kemm Kinney u Tom Egan kienu detenturi saloon u politikanti Demokratika. Huma impjegati “il-Rats” għall slugging politika u attivitajiet kriminali oħra. Thomas
Nhar il-Ħamis bil-lejl, Mejju 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, sympathiser strajk bi storja ta 'mard mentali, sparatura u maqtula patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane u diversi uffiċjali oħra wieġbet għaż-żona minħabba rapporti ta 'Koenig menacing ċittadini l-oħra. Koenig daħal Eas u Sons Saloon fil-kantuniera Lbiċ ta 'S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have