Missouri Outlaw History (St. Louis, Columbia, St. Joseph: science, marble, good)

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Butler Weekly Times December 31, 1903 Pg2

ATTACKS WIFE WITH KNIFE

Armstrong, Mo., Dec 26--William Bransetter, a farmer residing near Washington church, attacked his wife last night with a corn knife, severely cutting her about the head. He then beat her and, thinking he had killed her, started over to the house of John Houston with the knife. She ran to a neighbor's for protection.
Bransetter then went to the home of his brother-in-law, Mr. Kilander, where he flourished the knife and threatened to kill the entire family if they did not do as he demanded. Bransetter was captured by Constable Moorehead two miles west of Fayette late this evening and will be brought back to this city for trial.






Jack Comisky
Noted crook and pickpocket 1880s

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Man Stabbed 8 Times With Scissors 1885

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On Saturday, Nov 17, 1881, Boonville City Marshal Thomas H.B. McDearmon shot and instantly killed A.B. Thornton, editor of the Boonville News, for writing articles about him.





Sedalia Criminal Court Cases 1893

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Scott County Kicker (Benton Mo) June 14, 1902 Pg2

MRS. SAMUELS DESERTS THE FARM

Mrs. Zerelda Samuels, mother of the James boys, has deserted her farm near Kearney and now lives in a hotel at Kearney. Her husband, Dr. Samuels, is in the St. Joseph Insane Asylum. It is said she is thinking of having Jesse's body removed from the home place to the graveyard at Kearney, where his wife is buried. The historic old house in which her children were born and reared still stands, but the front part of it has been cut off and moved to one side, and a new addition has been built where it stood.





1903 Double Murder In Warren County

http://www.warrencountyrecord.com/lo...90cddf199.html

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The News Boy (Scott County) June 15, 1895 Pg2

A MURDERER'S HIDING PLACE

John D Shea, the murderer of Policeman Patrick Doran of St. Louis, has been located at last.
He is in the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus, where he was sent on May 29, 1894, from Stark county, under the name of Charles Sweeney, for three years for burglary and larceny.
Shea's record forms one of the most interesting chapters in the annals of the St. Louis police, and a determined effort will be made to have him returned to St. Louis, and where he is under sentence for 99 years for murder.




The News Boy (Scott County) June 15, 1895 Pg2

WHOLESALE JAIL DELIVERY

All prisoners in the jail at Ava, eight in number, escaped the other evening. Ben Trott, the most notorious of them, was captured by Collector John W Singleton before he succeeded in getting out of town.





The Murder of Lewis Hill 1871

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The News Boy (Scott County) July 6, 1895 Pg2

SIX DOLLARS DEARLY EARNED

Charles Lockridge, who was sentenced in Randolph county in 1888 to 25 years in the penitentiary for burglary, has received clemency from the governor, who reduced the sentence to 10 years, with the benefit of the three-fourths law. Lockridge secured six dollars in the burglary.





St. Louis Republic December 29, 1903

BLACKMAILER DEMANDS $5,000

St. Joseph, Mo., Dec 28---Superintendent A.T. Perkins of the Kansas City-St. Joseph and Council Bluffs Railroad, received a letter yesterday from what is believed to be an amateur blackmailer, who signed the name of O'Dell Carter.
The letter is dated at Watson, Mo., and informed the superintendent that if he did not deposit $5,000 at a designated spot by the roadside he would be murdered. The letter was turned over to the postal authorities. This is the second communication Mr. Perkins has received of this character, and as the other proved to be written by a green farmhand, little attention is being paid to this one.

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A Big Man Fights 6 Cops 1903

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Raymond Boyer
1936 murderer

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The Butler Weekly Times March 10, 1904 Pg2

CHARGE MISSOURIAN WITH PICKING POCKETS

Colorado Springs, Col., Mar 5--J.W. Davidson, of Springfield, Mo., caught in the act of picking the pocket of a man at the Empire Theatre last week, was today bound over to the district court in the sum of $500, in default of which he was committed to El Paso county jail. He was identified by papers found in his possession.





St. Louis Republic March 19, 1901 Pg2

WEAPONS, KNIFE AND POKER

Linn, Mo., Mar 18---Sunday night Ambrose Rhoads of Freedom, Osage county, was brought to Linn and placed in jail on the charge of assaulting Wesley Cox, his employer. They quarreled over accounts and Rhoads inflicted wounds with a pocketknife and poker from which it is feared that Cox will not recover.





A Man Murdered By Women 1865

https://www.nytimes.com/1865/09/10/a...-by-women.html

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The Monett Times May 30, 1919

Jay Lynch Hanged In Courtyard

Lamar, Mo., May 28---Jay Lynch, confessed slayer of Sheriff John Harlow of Barton county and his son Walter Harlow, was hanged here late this afternoon by a mob which took him from the hands of officers in the courthouse and lynched him in the courthouse yard.
Lynch, a few minutes previously had pleaded guilty to the charge and had been given a sentence of life imprisonment by Judge R.G. Thurman.

The murder of which he was convicted took place on March 3.
Lynch had been brought by train from Butler, Mo., where he has been in confinement since being apprehended at La Junta, Col., two weeks ago, for trial. The train arrived at 2 o'clock and at 3 o'clock the trial was completed.
Judge Thurman had the prisoner taken into his private office, fearing violence. About 500 persons were in the courtroom and Lynch was guarded by 7 officers. Shortly after 3 o'clock, 24 men came into the private office, overpowered the guards, put a rope around Lynch's neck and dragged him out into the courtyard. His lynching came at 3:45.






Gangster Virgil Summers Killed 1962

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St. Louis Republic January 11, 1904

MEN IN SOLDIERS' GARB ROB SHERIFF

Joking cost Robert Jones, a deputy sheriff from Little Rock, Ark., $45.
At 12:30 this morning, two men that he befriended and had a fun time with had turned on him and held him up on Market street near Fourteenth. Jones said the men were United States soldiers, or that they wore the uniforms if they were not.
Jones was walking down Market street when he struck up an informal acquaintance with the soldiers. Jones was jovial and in a joking frame of mind. He and his new-found friends walked down the street together until near Fourteenth street, when they suddenly turned on him. While one held him, the other went through his pockets and secured the $45. The men escaped.
Jones wandered about until he met Sergeant Louis Nolte, to whom he reported the robbery. Nolte suggested that probably the men were in one of the saloons in the neighborhood. Jones and Nolte began going into each saloon to look for the robbers and Jones ordered drinks at each place.
Jones said he could identify them by their uniforms but could give no other descriptions of the fellows. In the hunt for the robbers Jones drank so much that he became irresponsible and had to be taken to the Four Courts for safe-keeping overnight. He had just 76 cents left.





The Evening Missourian (Columbia Mo) July 10, 1919

Izora Jackson, a negro, was fined $1,000 and given 12 months in the Boone county jail for selling two glasses of beer for twenty cents.

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The St. Joseph Observer February 14, 1922

A COWARDLY OUTRAGE

Murderous Thugs Throw A Bomb Under The Porch Of A Man Who Would Not Strike

Shortly before 9 o'clock Monday night, and just after J.M. Baldridge, 6212 Brown street, in South St. Joseph, had taken his two little seventeen-months-old twin girls from that room, a bomb exploded under the porch at the corner of the house and wrecked the porch and the front part of the building. Mrs. Baldridge was ill and the shock was a serious one for her. None of the family were hurt.
Six strikers, Frank Snelthen, Ordra Hickman, Michael J Coughlin, Thomas Jenkins, Fred Ray and James James, were arrested, but later released as they could not be connected with the outrage.
Both Baldridge and his wife saw six men running from the house as the bomb exploded.
Organizer Bozik says the men arrested were at a strike meeting at the time of the explosion---as usual.
James Tandananad, 914 Alabama, who also refused to quit work, was shot at twice Monday night.






Policeman Watches Robber Open Safe 1918

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