Missouri Outlaw History (Kansas City, St. Louis, Independence: Dutch, selling, boulevard)

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Safecrackers Nabbed In North Carolina 1949

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The Monett Times March 10, 1922

TWO PINEVILLE BANKS LOOTED

Pineville, Mo., Mar 8---Several thousand dollars worth of Liberty bonds are believed to have been obtained by bandits, who early this morning broke into two banks here, tunneled through the walls of vaults and made away with the contents of thirty or more safety deposit boxes. Vaults in both banks were stripped. No attempts were made to break into the safes.
The banks are: Bank of Pineville, and the McDonald County bank.
Tonight bank officials were unable to estimate the actual losses, as it had not been learned what the safety deposit boxes contained. It was stated, however, that several citizens are known to have Liberty bonds in the vaults.
It is known that many legal papers valuable only to their rightful owners were taken. The burglaries were discovered this morning when the banks were opened for the day.
So quietly were the burglaries conducted that no one was aroused. Authorities learned this morning that residents heard a motor car speed through the town shortly before daylight. It is believed that the bandits escaped in one or more motor cars, and that they headed for Joplin.

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Potosi Journal August 4, 1920 Pg2

PAYS $3,000 FOR GOLD DUST

Joplin, Mo.,---Brass chips worth about $1 cost Louis Eisen, a flour miller of Joplin, $3,000, according to a story told to St. Louis police by Eisen.
Eisen was in St. Louis to identify suspects arrested. According to his story, a stranger came to his office in Joplin, introducing himself as a rich prospective investor.
Eisen said a gold miner from Klondike, short of cash but with plenty of gold dust, interrupted the conference and induced Eisen and the stranger to buy his dust, which, he said, assayed 100 per cent pure gold and was worth a little more than $4,000.





National Stockyards Bank Robbery 1902

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St. Louis Republic November 12, 1903 Pg3

IDA ASTER FATALLY SHOT

Gallatin, Mo., Nov 11---Miss Ida Aster was shot and fatally wounded by Elmer Venable about 6 pm today because she refused to marry him. She ran from the house, but was overtaken and shot down in the street while begging for her life.
Four bullets took effect, two of the wounds being mortal. Venable has disappeared and has not been apprehended. He is well connected.

Venable Murder/Suicide

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Weekly Graphic Kirksville, Mo May 8, 1880 Pg3

William Prather, charged with embezzling the money of his ward, was held over for his appearance at St. Louis last Saturday in the sum of one thousand dollars. Failing to give bond he was committed to the St. Louis jail. George F Williams, Deputy U.S. Marshal, took him to St. Louis Saturday night.




Fair Play Ste. Genevieve Mo December 31, 1921

ESCAPED PRISONER RECAPTURED

Sedalia, Mo., ---John Tredway, a Federal prisoner from Kansas City serving time in the pettis County jail, escaped through a window in the coal shed and two hours later was taken from a westbound freight train by Officer Driskell.





Keith Bearden
Violin dealer who swindled victims of their musical instruments in the 1990s.

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Weekly Graphic (Kirksville, Adair Co. Mo) May 22, 1880 Pg3

BOLD BURGLARS

Tuesday night the kitchens of Mr. Isaac Brenneman and Mr. D.M. Lantz, were raided and such edibles as suited the fastidious taste of the burglars were appropriated. Also that night the dwelling of Mr. Wilcher, in the north part of town, was entered and $25 in cash stolen.
Mr. Wilcher is an old man, infirm and nearly blind. Any decent thief, with half a thief's honor, if such a thing there be, would not have taken it, or having taken it, would return it.
Wednesday, while the agent and employees of the Q.M. & P. depot were at lunch, the office was entered and about $15 stolen.
That night the grocery stores of S.F. Furrow and Halliday Bros., were entered, and a number of articles taken. Mr. Furrow found his money drawer missing, besides a can or two of oysters and a side of bacon. The money drawer was afterward picked up in the rear of the jail and had been broken open and examined for money.
Halliday Bros. found their stock of fine pocket cutlery missing. The money drawer had also been taken out and carried to the window for examination. It is probable they had also appropriated some other articles, such as tobacco, cigars, oranges, etc. The value of the cutlery taken will run between $30 and $35.
The thieves also attempted an entrance to Richter's grocery, but were probably scared off by the light which he keeps burning in his bedroom.
We understand that Mr. Richter was awakened by the noise, and was prepared to give the gentlemen a warmer welcome than they would have appreciated.
Entrance was effected to Halliday's back room by breaking or cutting out a pane of glass and reaching through and slipping back the bar which held the door. At Furrow's the back door was merely forced open by strength.

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St. Louis Republic November 11, 1903

SCREAMS FRIGHTEN BURGLAR

Mrs. W.H. Beardsley's screams frightened a burglar from her home at No. 4716 Vernon avenue yesterday morning at 2 o'clock, but not until the thief had taken her husband's and son's overcoats.
Mrs. Beardsley was awakened by a noise on the first floor of her home and started down the stairway to investigate. She saw the shadow of the burglar and began screaming. The burglar hurried from the house. Mr. Beardsley's overcoat was found in the yard in the rear of No. 4708 Vernon avenue, where the thief probably dropped it in his hurry to get away.





Colonel Ellsworth Newton (1886-1956)
Murderer

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By Carlos F Hurd Sunday Times 1919



A TROLLEY SCANDAL EXTRAORDINARY

New York, Chicago and San Francisco have furnished some weird scandals in connection with their urban transportation franchises, but for novelty and shameless criminality the palm must go to St. Louis.

Richard McCulloch, President of the United Railway Co., and Bruce Cameron, Superintendent of Transportation, both of whom are under indictment for burglary, have added greatly to the horrible mess.
It seems that in June, 1918, after the city council had passed an ordinance extending the companies' franchises until 1948, a great number of citizens signed petitions asking for a referendum election on the question and the initiative and referendum has been in effect in Missouri for a decade.
Determined to prevent the petition from being filed, McCulloch and Cameron summoned Julius Caesar Jackson, Chief Special Agent of the company, and told him to stop the petitions regardless of cost or consequences, or he would be out of a job.
He first tried bribery on some of the people behind the petitions, when that didn't work he tried strong arm methods but that caused the petitioners to place the bulk of the petitions in a safe at the office of the Cigarmakers Union.
He next imported three safecrackers from Chicago but they wanted too much money for the job. He then got some local locksmiths to open the safe for him,, explaining that it was a business quarrel between companies.
When the safe was opened, he grabbed 9 bundles of petitions and threw them into the back seat of an automobile along with the burglar tools used for opening the safe.
He delivered the petitions to Cameron and was told to leave town for a while. He went to Minneapolis to stay with a friend of McCulloch and while he was there he found out that he was fired and had been indicted.
He contacted his attorney and decided to go before the Grand Jury and both McCulloch and Cameron were indicted.
At the hearing, Jackson told of strange things that the company did to break up a meeting of the opponents of the franchise ordinance to be held at City Hall.
It was decided to use poison gas. Jackson went to Kansas City and had a chemist supply him with 100 glass vials. The plan was to have men throw these on the floor during the meeting and force everyone to evacuate. The attendance was small, however, and they decided the poison gas was not needed.






Potosi journal September 15, 1920 Pg3

SPOTTER'S WIFE HARDING'S COUSIN

Springfield, Mo.---Mrs. Julius Caesar Jackson, wife of the principal witness of the State in the trial of Richard McCulloch on a charge of burglary and larceny in the second degree, is a cousin of Warren G Harding, Republican nominee for the presidency of the United States, according to a statement made by Jackson.

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Scorfina Shooting 1932

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Hannibal Journal March 29, 1853 Pg3

$100 REWARD

Broke jail at New London, last night on the 18th, two men, one by the name of David Morgan, 45 or 50 years of age, about 5 feet, 9 or 10 inches high, heavy made, had on grey blanket overcoat, pantaloons of same color, also a pair of black pants, low crowned black hat, fair complexion, hair quite thin on the top of the head, heavy whiskers.
The other, George Clark, alias White, about 5 feet, 10 or 11 inches high, has a black speck on the white of one of his eyes. They had with them a double-barreled shotgun and a single-barreled shotgun.
I will pay the above reward for the apprehension and delivery on the above named persons at New London, Ralls county, Mo.

March 19, 1853 Samuel Smith Sheriff of Ralls County.






J.M. Woodworth Killed Dr. Jackson 1906

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The Cape Girardeau Democrat January 10, 1891

ROBBERS AND COUNTERFEIT MONEY

A band of professional robbers are at work in St. Louis and have committed several very bold depredations and considerable counterfeit money is reported in circulation in the city.





Potosi Journal November 17, 1920 Pg3

TO RETURN ALLEGED AUTO THIEVES

Jefferson City, mo. ---Governor Gardner honored three requisitions from the governor of Illinois for the return of James Ross, James Jones and Alex Brown to Chicago. They are held by the St. Louis police on the charge of having stolen an automobile from Henry Henderson of Chicago.





Safecracker Suspect Held In Missouri 1952

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Mexico Missouri Message November 9, 1916 Pg3

TWO MORE CONVICTS ESCAPE

Two more convicts escaped from the state penitentiary. Gus Cruz, from St. Louis, serving five years for burglary, walked away from the rock quarry during a morning work detail. He went to the Missouri river and stole a row boat. The row boat has not been found.
The other convict was Ora Arthur, who escaped from a warehouse near the prison. Arthur had served six years of a 25 year sentence for robbery.





1930 Hanging

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Potosi Journal September 8, 1920 Pg2

BANK ROBBED OF $5,000

Deepwater, Mo.,----No trace has been found of bandits who robbed the safety deposit boxes of the Bank of Deepwater and escaped with between $5,000 and $10,000 in Liberty bonds. Bank officials, in announcing the robbery, expressed the belief that the men were in a motor car.