Історик єдиноборств і майстер єдиноборств
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
During April 1885, Вулиця. Louis experienced one of its most sensational murders. Two English travelers had checked into the Southern Hotel in early April 1885. З. 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. В
У понеділок, Березень 5, 1900, Вулиця. 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. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
У суботу, Березень 12, 1904, Вулиця. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Луїс’ 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. Моран і детективи
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, Серпень 12, 1900, Вулиця. 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 Вулиця. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Липень 16, 1917, Вулиця. 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. Його “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, хто
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, У виконанні службових обов'язків: Вулиця. Офіцери Луї міліції, які приніс жертву Остаточний Барбара Miksicek, Девід McElreath і майор Стівен Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. З його проділом посередині і великий вуса, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Луїс
Листопад 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,
Вільям Т.”Віллі” Іган взяв на себе “Щури Іган” у зв'язку зі смертю його старшого брата Тома в 1919. Томас “Змія” Кінні і його друг дитинства і брат-в-законі Том Іган формується St. Луїс’ злочинна організація в кінці 1800-х. Обидва Кінні і Том Іган були салон зберігачі та політиків-демократів. Вони використовували “Щури” for political slugging and other criminal activities. Томас