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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
No mês de abril 1885, St. Louis viveu um dos seus assassinatos mais sensacionais. Dois viajantes ingleses tinha verificado para o Hotel Sul no início de abril 1885. C. Arthur Preller e H. M. Brooks, que estava indo pelo pseudônimo de Dr.. Maxwell, parecia ser muito amigável. Embora eles tivessem quartos separados, they often stayed in the same room together. Em
Na segunda-feira, Março 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, um 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
No sábado, Março 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 e os detetives
H. H. Holmes foi primeiro serial killer conhecido da América na definição moderna da palavra. Holmes operado “Castelo Murder”, um hotel de Chicago, durante o 1893 Feira Mundial de Chicago. Holmes acabaria por ser condenado por dezesseis crimes, mas pode ter assassinado mais de 100 pessoas durante sua operação do hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Sunday morning, Agosto 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, Julho 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, que
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, No cumprimento do dever: St. Louis agentes da polícia que fizeram o sacrifício final por Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath eo Major Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Com o cabelo repartido ao meio e um grande bigode, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Em novembro 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 assumiu “Ratos de Egan” sobre a morte de seu irmão mais velho Tom em 1919. Thomas “Cobra” Kinney e seu amigo de infância e irmão-de-lei Tom Egan formado St. Louis’ organização criminosa no final de 1800. Ambos Kinney e Tom Egan eram guardiões do saloon e políticos democratas. Eles empregaram “Ratos” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas