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Old 12-14-2015, 11:37 PM
 
Location: StlNoco Mo, where the woodbine twineth
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Early Incidents in St.Louis



September 3, 1900
Two police officers killed and 12 seriously injured from being electrocuted by police call boxes.

A look back



The following is from the SLMPD Fallen Officer Memorial.

In 1879 Charles Sanders was at the home of his sisters waving a gun around and threatening them because they received the bulk of an inheritance. Officer Charles Printz showed up and Sanders shot and killed him. Bystanders chased Sanders and threw rocks at him but it is unknown if he was ever captured.


In 1921, Officer John McGrath spotted the Milton brothers, Joseph K. and Henry A. hanging around a filling station looking suspicious. He walked up to them to see what they were up to and Henry pulled a gun and killed the officer. When they were caught both confessed but at the trial they were acquitted because the court ruled their confession could not be used as evidence.
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Old 12-15-2015, 12:03 PM
 
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The Barkers

American Hauntings: THE LAST GREAT OUTLAW GANG




The Apache Kid

I just had to find a connection between the Apache Kid and Missouri because he was one of my favorite outlaws. He didn't rob banks or trains and he wasn't a ruthless killer, his main problems were liquor and hanging around with bad apples. He was an escape artist like Billy The Kid and no one was going to find him once he got loose in that desert. The only Missouri connection I could find was with the sheriff who was transporting him to Yuma, he spent a year in St.Louis attending college.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apache_Kid


The Sheriff Who Took on the Apache Kid | History Net: Where History Comes Alive – World & US History Online | From the World's Largest History Magazine Publisher
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Old 12-16-2015, 12:25 PM
 
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The Emporia News August 25, 1871

The St.Louis Democrat has an account of a terrible double murder committed at Harrisonville, Cass County, in that state on Saturday last. Tom Sabine, a noted character and an old bushwhacker, who lived a short distance from Harrisonville, went into town, got crazy drunk and set law and order at defiance. He first fired a revolver at a man working in a new building, but without effect. He then went into a lawyer's office, shot at an old man named Button, also without effect. Subsequently he traversed the awnings in front of the whole block of stores, brandishing his pistol. He passed through the second story window into the Mayor's office, and descended to the street where he found a posse of citizens called by the city marshal to assist in arresting him. He fired into the crowd, mortally wounding a farmer named Haines. Two or three shots were fired at Sabine without effect. The desperado then walked to Hueston's drug store where he shot Mr.Button, the gentleman he fired at in the lawyer's office, hitting him directly above the eye, the ball entering the brain. He lived but half an hour. Two or three more shots were then fired at Sabine without hitting him, but as he turned around to see who fired, one of the marshal's posse stepped into the street and fired a charge of birdshot into his face. Sabine attempted to return the fire, but before he could aim his revolver, a load of buckshot from the same gun was fired into his body and the murderer fell and died in about 20 minutes. Sabine's conduct created intense excitement throughout the town, but when it was known the ruffian was dead, all were relieved and gratified.
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Old 12-16-2015, 05:48 PM
 
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The Search For Pretty Boy Floyd

https://news.google.com/newspapers?n...2,414834&hl=en



John Hicks Adams 1820-1878
born 30 miles from St.Louis in Edwardsville.
He went to California in 1849 to look for gold and became a sheriff. He helped bust up Captain Ingram's partisan Ranger Gang and later went in pursuit of the Mason-Henry Gang but they eluded him. His information helped capture the notorious bandit Tiburcio Vasquez. He went to Arizona in 1878 to look for gold and was killed by Mexican bandits.



Joe T. Roff 1848-1940
b. Grundy County, Missouri
His brothers became lawmen in Texas and were ambushed by the "Lee Gang."

Recollections of Joe T


James L. "Jim" Roff (1851 - 1885) - Find A Grave Memorial
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Old 12-16-2015, 11:53 PM
 
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Some Missourians that participated in the Lee-Peacock feud in Texas.

Simp Dixon 1848-1870

Simp Dixon (1848 - 1870) - Find A Grave Memorial


Dow Nance 1843-1868

Dow Nance (1843 - 1868) - Find A Grave Memorial&


William Fitzhugh 1818-1883

William F. Fitzhugh (1818 - 1883) - Find A Grave Memorial&


Richard "Dick" Johnson 1845-1919

Richard Allen "Dick" Johnson (1845 - 1919) - Find A Grave Memorial



The Lee-Peacock Feud

The Lee-Peacock Feud
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Old 12-17-2015, 11:47 AM
 
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The Newton Massacre or The Gunfight At Hide Park 1871

It had two names and there were more victims than the Gunfight At The OK Corral but most people have never heard of it. There was an episode on the old tv show Death Valley Days called "The Friend" starring Robert Taylor that was based on this event. It happened in Newton,Kansas on August 20, 1871 in a dance hall late at night. The trouble started months earlier when Mike McCluskie killed William Bailey during an argument and quickly left town. A lot of Bailey's Texas cowboy friends were in town when McCluskie returned and the only friend McCluskie had was a skinny 18 year old boy with tuberculosis named James Riley. The cowboys spotted McCluskie in the dance hall and shot him dead. Riley must have heard the shooting and came in sporting two revolvers and when he saw his friend dead on the floor with the Texans standing over him with smoking guns he began shooting at anyone standing. With all that smoke, bullets flying and people running around and dropping like flies it must have looked like a scene from a Sam Peckinpah movie. After his guns were empty James Riley just walked away and was never heard from again.
There are many versions to this story and the original newspaper account doesn't even mention James Riley. Here is one version I found;

Sunday,August 20, 1871 Newton Kansas--There's been a feud festering between Texan Hugh Anderson and the gambling railroader "Mike McCluskie" (real name Arthur Delaney, at least until he skipped Missouri,just ahead of the law). It all started when McCluskie killed Texas trouble maker William Bailey (also called Baylor) with a shot to the heart. Early Sunday morning, Anderson and four of his Texas companions entered Perry Tuttle's Dance Hall. Anderson said something to McCluskie, then suddenly drew his six-shooter and shot McCluskie at point-blank range. What was said between Anderson and McCluskie has been lost to history. But what followed has become known as the Newton General Massacre. The dying man half-rose to his feet in an attempt to retaliate,but the revolver hang-fired. Bathed in his own blood, McCluskie went down still trying to discharge his revolver. But McCluskie had one friend in that town, a skinny, tubercular youth of about 18 years of age named Jim Riley. Mike had befriended the penniless boy some months earlier, and now it was up to Riley to settle the score. Without a word, Riley turned and bolted the door, drew his guns and cut loose. Someone doused or shot out the lights, the dance hall filled with smoke and death. Jim Martin, a Texas cowboy, motioned for the men to stop but a bullet severed an artery and he fell dead clutching his neck. Riley fired a shot at Jim Wilkinson, standing there by the bar, blowing off the tip of his nose. When the gunsmoke cleared, five men lay dead or dying and another five were wounded. How many men were hit by Riley's bullets and how many were shot in the general melee, no one knows for certain. When it was finished, Jim Riley slipped out the back. Some say that he was killed in a gunfight in Arizona or New Mexico, some say that the consumption got him in Colorado. McCluskie was buried in Newton's Boot Hill, his relatives later re-interred him in Missouri. Friends managed to sneak the badly crippled Hugh Anderson out of town, but two years later in Medicine Lodge he and McCluskie's brother would kill each other in a duel to the death. This gunfight would only be equaled in ferocity by the Gunfight At the OK Corral in 1881. In all, there were 40-50 shots fired in a space of less than three minutes. By the time that local lawmen arrived, all those involved were either dead or had left town.

Here is more information on the gunfight including the original newspaper account;

Newton's General Massacre
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Old 12-18-2015, 11:50 AM
 
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Walter Dietrich 1904-1979
b. St.Louis,Missouri
He was a member of Baron Lamm's gang. They were prolific bank robbers during the 1920's who stole over $1 million during their spree. He was in the Indiana prison when John Dillinger broke him and 8 other prisoners out during a bold escape. He later became a member of the "College Kidnappers" led by "Handsome Jack" Klutas. They would kidnap wealthy mobsters and hold them for ransom because they knew they had money and wouldn't go to the cops. Capone wasn't too happy with them.

https://shrineodreams.wordpress.com/...-bank-robbery/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_Lamm



Home Brewed Mojo: HANDSOME JACK GETS GUNNED

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_College_Kidnappers





Frank L.Schmid 1866-1893
Jaybird-Woodpecker War

Frank L. Schmid (1866 - 1893) - Find A Grave Memorial
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Old 12-18-2015, 11:47 PM
 
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Harvey Bailey 1887-1979
Bank robber

REH: Two-Gun Raconteur » Blog Archive » J. Harvey Bailey, Dean of the American Bank Robbers



The Kansas city Massacre

Who Was Behind the Kansas City Massacre?


Frank "Jelly" Nash 1887-1933

Frank "Jelly" Nash (1887 - 1933) - Find A Grave Memorial


Pretty Boy Floyd 1904-1934

Charles Arthur "Pretty Boy" Floyd (1904 - 1934) - Find A Grave Memorial


Adam Richetti 1909-1938

Adam C. Richetti (1909 - 1938) - Find A Grave Memorial


Vernon Miller 1896-1933

Vernon Clate Miller (1896 - 1933) - Find A Grave Memorial


Lawrence Devol 1903-1936



Lawrence James DeVol (1903 - 1936) - Find A Grave Memorial
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Old 12-19-2015, 10:25 PM
 
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Dr.Thomas O'Toole
Manufactured patent medicine.
He lived in Fort Scott,Kansas. One day in 1900, his wife came back from Texas, where they had been vacationing, and announced that he died from smallpox and attempted to collect $3,100 life insurance from the lodge which he was a member. The insurance officials became suspicious and contacted Texas authorities who exhumed the grave that O'Toole was supposedly buried in and found only rocks wrapped in a blanket. A warrant for attempted fraud was sworn out for Mr.O'Toole's arrest. His wife and two children flew the coop.


Harry O'Brien Blee

Harry O'Brien Blee and the Irish O'Malley Gang



Belle Starr

http://archives.chicagotribune.com/1...ls-belle-starr



Some area bank robberies over the last 10 years

seMissourian.com: Local News: Timeline: Area bank robberies during the past 10 years (06/05/14)
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Old 12-20-2015, 07:56 PM
 
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At about 8:40 am, on the morning of June 10, 2002, a 71 year old man named Lloyd Robert Jeffress of Kearney, Missouri, packed two rifles and drove 70 miles to a monastery where he killed Father Phillip Schuster, 84, Brother Damian Larson, 62, and wounded Father Norbert Schappler, 75, Father Kenneth Reichert, 68, before killing himself. No motive has ever been determined for the shooting.


Richard Honeck
The longest prison sentences ever served

The longest prison sentences ever served | A Blast From The Past




Unsolved robbery in St.Louis of $847,000 on October 23, 1992

Heist reminiscent of unsolved Brinks robbery here : News
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