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Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During April 1885, St. Louis experienced one of its most sensational murders. Two English travelers had checked into the Southern Hotel in early April 1885. C. Arthur Preller and H. M. Brooks, who was going by the alias of Dr. Maxwell, appeared to be very friendly. Although they had separate rooms, they often stayed in the same room together. Në
Të hënën, Mars 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, një 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Oficeri Thomas Meagher vëzhgoi Sullivan dhe Harry Davis duke ecur pranë Olive
Të shtunën, Mars 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, Gusht 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 mëngjesit. 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
Të hënën në mbrëmje, Korrik 16, 1917, St. Zyrtari i policisë Louis Julius H. Petring caktuar për Divizionin e Tregut të Veriut hyri në një shtëpi rooming në 2301 N. Rruga e Tregut. Petring pyeti pronarin William Dietrich të marrësh me qira një dhomë për të dhe gruan e tij. E tij “grua” ishte e dashura e tij e divorcuar kohët e fundit Freda Hagenmeyer. Zyrtar Petring kishte qenë duke parë Freda Hagenmeyer, që
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Në krye të detyrës: St. Zyrtarët Louis Policisë që ka bërë sakrificën e fundit nga Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath dhe 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
Në nëntor 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 mori “Rats Egan-së” për vdekjen e vëllait të tij të vjetër Tom në 1919. Thomas “Gjarpër” Kinney dhe mik i tij të fëmijërisë dhe vëllai-in-ligj Tom Egan formuar St. Louis’ Organizata kriminale në fund të 1800s. Të dy Kinney dhe Tom Egan ishin roja veturë dhe politikanë demokratë. Ata të punësuar “the Rats” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas