Gevegsporthistorikus en gevegskunstenaar
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
Die 1900 St. Louis Streetcar staking was 'n skietery oorlog tussen die werkersklas en die boonste klas. Dit het begin as 'n werk optrede deur trem werkers van die nuwe gekonsolideer tram lyne. Egter, it quickly divided the city with the working class supporting the strike while the upper and professional classes defied the strike. The result was a deadly
Op 'n koue nag in Januarie 1904, toe die stad van St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Dit was 5:45 namiddag. op 13 Januarie by die ou Brown Shoe Company fabriek op die hoek van Washington Avenue en Noord Elfdestraat. Time for the men to
Op Vrydag, Maart 13, 1903, die Franklin County Regter William Davidson teregstaan William Rudolph en George Collins vir die roof van die Unie Bank en die moord van Pinkerton Detective Charles Schumacher. Rudolph en Collins pleit “onskuldig”. Regter Davidson opgedra drie prokureurs Rudolph en Collins te verteenwoordig. William Rudolph gave a confession to the St. Louis media, which was
Op Desember 10, 1920, 'n agtste St. Louis polisieman sy lewe verloor, die mees beamptes om te sterf in die lyn van die reg in die geskiedenis van die St. Louis Police Department. Vier van die beamptes’ moorde in 1920 sou nooit opgelos word. Hierdie laaste moord een van die vier moorde nooit opgelos moet word sou wees. Charles M.
Op Vrydag, Oktober 21, 1904, five St. Louis Police Officers went to a rooming house at 1324 Pine Street, site of today’s Soldier Memorial, to arrest three men suspected of an Illinois train robbery in August of the same year. What occurred next would be one of the most storied shootouts in St. Louis Polisie geskiedenis. During the World’s Fair,
Op April 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, ook bekend as “Die rooikop-Bandit”, geloop het in die Easton-Taylor Trust Company op 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith het 'n rewolwer in elke hand en geld van die kassier. Vrees vir sy lewe, die klerk het dadelik afgesak $15,309 in 'n sak. John Lanigan, die bank se president, het in sy kantoor buite die voorportaal gesit
Op 'n koue nag in Januarie 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis Polisie, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Louis Police Department. St. Louis Police Detective Sergeant James Martin King was walking to his home at 4973 Lotus Avenue via N. KINGSHIGHWAY Boulevard, when two
On Thursday, Junie 12, 1919, Earl Hunter en Charles Bergman, a parolee and ex-convict, held up the Meramec Trust Company shortly after it opened at 07:00 voormiddag. The robbery was not well planned and even more poorly executed. The corner of Virginia Avenue and Meramec Street was one of the busiest street car blocks in the city. The robbers had
William Dillon het gereageer op berigte oor die moord Beampte McKenna deur die Lewis Brothers. Dillon het geglo dat die Lewis Brothers, wat die motor en draad diewe, was verantwoordelik vir die McKenna se dood. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. Hy het gesien hoe twee van die Lewis-broers die motorhuis in die Ford binnekom. Dillon entered the garage
Voor Vrydag, April 7, 1916, was oor, die Lewis-broers sou doodmaak twee St. Louis Polisiebeamptes, John McKenna en William Dillon. McKenna was die eerste om te val, toe hy onderbreek die broers probeer draad om te steel, a valuable commodity during World War I. The brothers would kill Dillon, while he investigated McKenna’s murder. Die St. Louis Police Department assigned