Missouri Outlaw History (Kansas City, St. Louis, Springfield: professor, stone, gypsies)

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The News Boy (Scott Co) October 5, 1895 Pg2

SAID TO BE SHORT

A.L. Avery, bookkeeper and cashier for a St. Louis commission house, is said to be short anywhere from $5,000 to $30,000. He has disappeared.

HE STOLE SIXTY-FIVE CENTS

Governor Stone has pardoned Ote Hall, aged 16, who stole sixty-five cents and was sent to jail for ninety days by a Greene county justice.







Iron County Register June 25, 1914

$50 REWARD

We will pay anyone $50.00 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of anyone stealing hogs from our ranches in Iron County.
OZARK HOG CO.
St. Louis, Mo




Youth Nabbed As Burglary Suspect After Flashing Big Roll 1933

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2458...tar_and_times/

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University Missourian (Columbia) January 17, 1912

EXPLOSION IS STILL A MYSTERY

The person responsible for the gasoline explosion in which two horses and a wagon belonging to J.W. Kistler were burned last week has not been determined, according to Mr. Kistler.
Chief of Police J.L. Whitesides, who is investigating the case, says the gasoline was placed in the alley for cleaning purposes and was there only temporarily.





Janet Borland
1936 auto theft

https://smalltownnoir.com/2011/02/03...ft-8-feb-1936/

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Herman August Monnich
1950s burglar

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2015...as_city_times/







The Weekly Intelligencer (Lexington Mo) January 16, 1892 Pg3

SHOPLIFTERS IN JAIL

John Scott, James Shelton and N. Turner were locked up in the county jail Wednesday morning, by Constable Evans of Higginsville, convicted of stealing over-shoes, boots and overalls from Higginsville merchants. They were tried in Justice Bryant's court. They were tramp shoplifters, and their plan was to sell the goods to negroes and others on the outskirts of town.

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Columbia Evening Missourian June 24, 1921

BELIEVE " WIFE " SHOT HUSBAND

Kansas City, Jun 24.--Mrs. Mattie Carter, also known as Mrs. Mattie McPherson, today faced a charge of murder in the first degree in connection with the mysterious shooting of Jack McPherson, whom police said she claimed was her common-law husband.
Police are searching for two other men whom they allege are Mrs. McPherson's second and third husbands. They refuse to accept the statement of Mrs. McPherson that her husband was shot through the window by a burglar as they were preparing to retire in a practically unfurnished cottage at Mount Washington. The windows were closed and there were no broken panes of glass found. McPherson was shot twice at close range.
Mrs. McPherson was fully dressed and carried a handbag when she ran to a neighbor's and told them her husband was shot. She today denied the existence of Ernest Evans whom police say is one of her husbands. She said that John Carter, unheard of since the couple started to the races in New Orleans several years ago, is in South America but refused to say where. Police say that Carter is another former husband.

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Chariton Courier July 26, 1879 Pg3

James Armstrong, William Harmon and Henry Hartly, youths of Glasgow, got on a general drunk last Friday. Hartly went to sleep, and Harmon appropriated $18 of his money, and gave Armstrong $3 of the "pot." Harmon was sent to jail for six months, and Armstrong went free.





Ripley County Democrat (Doniphan Mo) October 23, 1908 Pg3

Deputy Sheriff Luther McCauley arrested a young fellow by the name of Tom Barnett, at Towles school house, south of town, last Saturday night and locked him up in jail on a warrant charging him with assault on a young girl who lives in the Payne settlement north of town, some days ago. Barnett is said to be a tough customer.





In September of 1892, Joseph E Mack, bookkeeper, Frank W Black, collector, and M.C. Curtis, cashier, were arrested for embezzling $40,000 from the American National Bank of St. Joseph.

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The Basnetts
1949 robbers

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1916..._postdispatch/






Sedalia Weekly Bazoo May 15, 1883

FATALLY CLUBBED

Springfield, Mo. May 12---Thomas Bradley, a livery stable manager of this city, was assaulted at 8 o'clock this evening, by Elisha Talant, a drunken rowdy, and received injuries which the surgeons consider fatal. Talant fled after making the assault, and at midnight had not been apprehended. Bradley has been in an unconscious condition ever since receiving the injuries, and can scarcely recover since the whole back of his skull has been crushed in. The weapon used in the attack was a heavy club.

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1887 Depot Robbery

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/13259961/






Will Aulgur was stabbed to death by Penn Benton at Sweet Springs on November 22, 1913. The two men had just gotten off a Missouri Pacific train from Lexington when a general fight broke out. It is alleged that the two men had been drinking.

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Farmington Times July 17, 1913 Pg3

MAJOR PAROLES LIFE CONVICT

Jefferson City.---Gov. Major has paroled Oliver P McCarver of St. Francis county, who was serving a life sentence for shooting and killing Harry Lett in a saloon at Farmington on March 14, 1901.




Chariton Courier July 12, 1879 Pg2

Frank Davidson was hung at Warrensburg Wednesday for the murder of Haggerty at a picnic last fall. A long petition was presented to the governor for his commutation to imprisonment for life, but the executive refused to interfere with the sentence.




Rich Hill Tribune March 3, 1904 Pg2

HE OPENED LETTERS

St. Louis.---Frank C Hostetter, superintendent of the World's Fair post office station, was arrested Wednesday, charged with opening, detaining and embezzling mail matter, letters and packages, covering a period of more than two months. He was taken before U.S. Commissioner Babbitt, waived a preliminary hearing, made a full confession and was admitted to $200 bonds to await action by the next federal grand jury. He has been in the post office service for 23 years.

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Helen Vachuda (1908-2004)
b. St. Louis
Killed step-father

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/17804022/helen_vachuda/



Shoots herself 1931

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4157...ts_herself_st/





https://www.geni.com/people/Helen-Ba...00043031423799

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Taney County Republican May 31, 1906

At Kansas City Monday, William Boggs plead guilty to an attempt to vote illegally at the recent city elections and was sentenced to two years in the penitentiary.





The Turleys
A doomed family

https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1134...souri_granger/





Mansfield Mirror (Wright Co) November 27, 1913

PRODUCE HOUSE ROBBED

The Mansfield Produce Co. building was robbed of 51 hides Sunday night or early Sunday morning, the robbers effecting an entrance through a window. The stolen hides consisted of 26 skunk hides, 24 opossum and 1 coon, valued at about $100.