Hlau tub sab tua Policeman

Ua ntej hnub Friday, Tim 7, 1916, ntawd, cov kwv tij Lewis yuav tua tau ob tug me nyuam. Louis tub ceev xwm Officers, John McKenna thiab William Dillon. McKenna yog thawj lub caij nplooj zeeg, thaum nws tu ncua cov kwv tij npaj siab mus nyiag hlau, a valuable commodity during World War I. The brothers would kill Dillon, while he investigated McKenna’s murder.

Cov me nyuam. Louis Police Department assigned McKenna to look for the wire thieves, leej twg yuav tsum tau nyiag rau cov nyob ze ntawm lub hnub no Central West End. McKenna observed the Lewis Brothers, Ora and Roy, park their stolen vehicle, in the alley behind 4178 Delmar Boulevard. When McKenna went to speak with the Lewis brothers, they attempted to flee. McKenna pulled his revolver on the Lewis brothers and stopped them at 4172 Delmar Boulevard.

McKenna took a pistol off the taller of the two men and placed it in his pocket. McKenna then put his own revolver away and walked the Lewis brothers to the Motor Car Gasoline Co. tom 618 N. Whittier Street. Cov chaw muag roj tsheb tseem tshuav ib chaw muag roj tsheb mus txog 1997, thaum nws raug muab rhuav. McKenna asked George Fisher, tus neeg ua hauj lwm rau lub tuam txhab, hu rau qhov chaw nres tsheb uas tsis yog tub ceev xwm.

McKenna then began to search the larger man. Roy Lewis, the taller brother, distracted McKenna allowing Ora Lewis to walk behind McKenna. Ora Lewis pulled a pistol that McKenna missed during his initial search of the brothers.

Ora Lewis fired a single shot into McKenna’s skull. The bullet killed McKenna two hours later. St. Louis Detectives learned that Ora Lewis asked for a drink of water. Thaum McKenna tso nws, Ora Lewis walked behind McKenna and shot him in the back of the head.

Fisher hnov tau txhaj tshuaj tag thiab muab saib tsis McKenna. The Lewis brothers ran back to their automobile and fled down the alley at a high rate of speed. A milk truck driver and another citizen attempted to follow the brothers, but they lost the fleeing felons at the intersection of Vandeventer and Delmar Boulevards.

A citizen saw the brothers abandon the mud-spattered car at Belleview and College Avenues. The Lewis brothers transferred bundles from the stolen Ford into a Hudson. The brothers stole the Ford from Palm Street on March 21, 1916.

Cov zov kev 4172 Delmar Boulevard, where McKenna stopped the brothers said the description of the murderers matched two men, leej twg los cas nws chaw rau tsheb. Lawv tau thov kom muaj los ntawm Springfield, Illinois. They had been coming in and out with different automobiles during the past two months.

The brothers lived in the 4200 thaiv ntawm Athlone Avenue. It would be there that they killed their second police officer in 24 teev. William Dillon li no txoj hauj lwm li cov cov kwv tij Lewis, also known as the DeMorris boys after their stepfather, Dillon decided to head to the DeMorris home and investigate.

McKenna yug rau lub Cuaj hlis 10, 1886, thiab yog 29 xyoo. Nws tshuav ib tug poj ntsuam. Nws yog cov tub thiab cov kwv tub ntawm cov me nyuam. Louis tub ceev xwm Officers. Nws tus txiv, leej niam thiab tus muam nyob ntawm nws lub bedside, when McKenna passed.

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