Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
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, In The Line of Duty: St. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath og major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Med håret skilt på midten og en stor bart, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
William T.”Willie” Egan overtok “Egan er Rats” på at hans eldre bror Tom i 1919. Thomas “Snake” Kinney og hans barndomsvenn og svoger Tom Egan dannet St. Louis’ kriminell organisasjon på slutten av 1800-tallet. Både Kinney og Tom Egan var sedan keepere og demokratiske politikere. De næringsdrivende “rottene” for politisk slugging og andre kriminelle aktiviteter. Thomas
På torsdag kveld, May 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, en streik sympatisør med en historie med psykisk sykdom, skutt og drept Patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane og flere andre offiserer svarte til området på grunn av rapporter om Koenig truende andre borgere. Koenig inngikk Eas og Sons Saloon det sørvestlige hjørnet av S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
Den 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike var en skyting krig mellom arbeiderklassen og overklassen. Det startet som en jobb handling av sporvogn arbeidere av de nylig konsolidert sporvogn linjer. However, 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
På en kald januarnatt i 1904, da byen St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Det var 5:45 p.m. 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
På fredag, March 13, 1903, den Franklin County Dommer William Davidson arraigned William Rudolph og George Collins for ranet av Union Bank og drapet på Pinkerton Detective Charles Schumacher. Rudolph og Collins trygler “ikke skyldig”. Dommer Davidson tildelt tre advokater til å representere Rudolph og Collins. William Rudolph gave a confession to the St. Louis media, which was
Desember 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. Louis Police Department. 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.
På fredag, Oktober 21, 1904, fem St. Louis Police Officers gikk til en hybelhuset på 1324 Pine Street, stedet for dagens 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. Louis Politiet historie. During the World’s Fair,
April 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, også kjent som “The Red-Headed Bandit”, gikk inn i Easton-Taylor Trust Company på 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith hadde en revolver i hver hånd og krevde penger fra kassen. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 i en sekk. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby