Mwanahistoria wa Michezo ya Vita na Msanii wa Vita
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Siku ya Jumatatu, Machi 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. Afisa Thomas Meagher alimwona Sullivan na Harry Davis wakitembea karibu na Mzeituni
Siku ya Jumamosi, Machi 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, Agosti 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, Julai 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, who
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Katika mstari wa wajibu: St. Louis Police Officers Who Made the Ultimate Sacrifice by Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath na Meja Stephen Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. Pamoja na nywele zake wakagawana chini katikati na masharubu kubwa, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Novemba 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 alichukua juu ya “Panya Egan ya” baada ya kifo cha kaka yake Tom katika 1919. Thomas “Nyoka” Kinney na rafiki yake utoto na ndugu mkwe Tom Egan sumu St. Louis’ shirika la jinai mwishoni mwa 1800. Wote Kinney na Tom Egan walikuwa walinzi saloon na wanasiasa Democratic. Wao kuajiriwa “Panya” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Thomas
Siku ya Alhamisi usiku, Mei 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, mgomo mwamali na historia ya ugonjwa wa akili, risasi na kuuawa PATROLMAN Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane na maafisa wengine kadhaa waliitikia eneo hilo kutokana na taarifa za Koenig menacing raia wengine. Koenig aliingia Eas na Wana Saloon katika kona ya kusini magharibi S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have