Kampsportshistoriker og kampsportsutøver
Posts about police history with special emphasis on St. Louis police history.
På torsdag kveld, May 31, 1900, Albert Koenig, en streik sympatisør med en historie med psykisk sykdom, skutt og drept Patrolman Dennis Crane. Patrolman Crane og flere andre offiserer svarte til området på grunn av rapporter om Koenig truende andre borgere. Koenig inngikk Eas og Sons Saloon det sørvestlige hjørnet av S. Broadway and Osage Streets. Koenig may have
Den 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike var en skyting krig mellom arbeiderklassen og overklassen. Det startet som en jobb handling av sporvogn arbeidere av de nylig konsolidert sporvogn linjer. However, 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
På en kald januarnatt i 1904, da byen St. Louis was preparing for the World’s Fair which would make it famous, overzealous co-workers killed seven boys and a man. Det var 5:45 p.m. on January 13th at the old Brown Shoe Company factory at the corner of Washington Avenue and North Eleventh Street. Time for the men to
På fredag, March 13, 1903, den Franklin County Dommer William Davidson arraigned William Rudolph og George Collins for ranet av Union Bank og drapet på Pinkerton Detective Charles Schumacher. Rudolph og Collins trygler “ikke skyldig”. Dommer Davidson tildelt tre advokater til å representere Rudolph og Collins. William Rudolph gave a confession to the St. Louis media, which was
Desember 10, 1920, an eighth St. Louis Police Officer would lose his life, the most officers to die in the line of duty in the history of the St. Louis Police Department. Four of the officers’ murders in 1920 would never be solved. This last murder would be one of the four murders never to be solved. Charles M.
På fredag, Oktober 21, 1904, fem St. Louis Police Officers gikk til en hybelhuset på 1324 Pine Street, stedet for dagens Soldier Memorial, to arrest three men suspected of an Illinois train robbery in July of the same year. What occurred next would be one of the most storied shootouts in St. Louis Politiet historie. During the World’s Fair,
April 5, 1920, Frederick Charles Smith, også kjent som “The Red-Headed Bandit”, gikk inn i Easton-Taylor Trust Company på 4474 Easton Avenue. Smith hadde en revolver i hver hånd og krevde penger fra kassen. Fearing for his life, the clerk promptly dropped $15,309 i en sekk. John Lanigan, the bank’s president, sat in his office off the lobby
På en kald januarnatt i 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis Politiet, 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 Politiet Detective Sergeant James Martin Kongen gikk til sitt hjem på 4973 Lotus Avenue via N. Kings Boulevard, when two
On Thursday, June 12, 1919, Earl Hunter and Charles Bergman, a parolee and ex-convict, held up the Meramec Trust Company shortly after it opened at 07:00 a.m. 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 was responding to reports about the murder of Officer McKenna by the Lewis Brothers. Dillon mente at Lewis Brothers, som var auto og wire tyver, var ansvarlig for McKenna død. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. Han observerte to av Lewis-brødrene gå inn i garasjen i Forden. Dillon gikk inn i garasjen