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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
W poniedziałek, Marzec 5, 1900, St. Funkcjonariusze policji Thomas Meagher Louis Thomas Degnan zatrzymanych mężczyzn, którzy obrabowali się East St. Louis Oficer karabinem. Ed Sullivan, a 22 lat przemijające, okradziony East St. Louis Policjant z karabinem, biżuteria i posiadłości pod koniec lutego 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
W sobotę, Marzec 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, Sierpień 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, Lipiec 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, kto
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, W służbie: St. Funkcjonariusze policji, którzy dokonali Louis Ofiarę Ostateczny Barbary Miksicek, David McElreath i major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Rozstał się z jego włosów na środku i duży wąsy, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
W listopadzie 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 przejęła “Egan Rats” po śmierci starszego brata Toma w 1919. Tomasz “Wąż” Kinney i przyjaciel z dzieciństwa i jego brat-in-law Tom Egan utworzone St. Louis’ organizacja przestępcza w latach 1800. Zarówno Kinney i Tom Egan były saloon hodowców i demokratycznych polityków. Oni zatrudnieni “Szczury” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Tomasz
W czwartek w nocy, Maj 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, sympatyk strajk w historii choroby psychicznej, zastrzelił policjant Dennis Crane. Odpowiedział na obszarze policjant Crane i kilku innych oficerów z powodu doniesień o Koenig groźny innych obywateli. Koenig wszedł Eas i synowie Saloon w południowo-zachodnim narożniku S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have