Wire wezi kuua Policeman

Kabla ya Ijumaa, Aprili 7, 1916, alikuwa juu ya, Ndugu Lewis ingekuwa kuwaua mbili St. Maafisa Louis Polisi, John McKenna na William Dillon. McKenna mara ya kwanza kwa kuanguka, wakati yeye kuingiliwa ndugu majaribio ya kuiba waya, bidhaa ya thamani wakati wa Vita Kuu ya Dunia. The brothers would kill Dillon, while he investigated McKenna’s murder.

St. Louis Police Department assigned McKenna to look for the wire thieves, ambaye alikuwa kuiba kutoka eneo karibu ya leo 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. katika 618 N. Whittier Street. kituo cha gesi alibakia kituo cha gesi mpaka 1997, wakati ilikuwa lenye chini. McKenna asked George Fisher, mfanyakazi wa kampuni, kuwaita kituo cha polisi.

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. Wakati McKenna akampa ruhusa, Ora Lewis walked behind McKenna and shot him in the back of the head.

Fisher kusikia risasi na akageuka kuona McKenna kuanguka. 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.

mmiliki wa 4172 Delmar Boulevard, where McKenna stopped the brothers said the description of the murderers matched two men, ambao walikuwa kukodisha gereji yake. Walidai kuwa kutoka Springfield, Illinois. They had been coming in and out with different automobiles during the past two months.

The brothers lived in the 4200 block ya Athlone Avenue. It would be there that they killed their second police officer in 24 masaa. William Dillon kutambuliwa maelezo kama ile ya Brothers Lewis, also known as the DeMorris boys after their stepfather, Dillon decided to head to the DeMorris home and investigate.

McKenna alizaliwa Septemba 10, 1886, na alikuwa 29 umri wa miaka. Aliacha mjane. Alikuwa mwana na mpwa wa St. Maafisa Louis Polisi. Baba yake, mama na dada walikuwa katika kitanda chake, when McKenna passed.

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