Missouri Outlaw History (St. Louis, Springfield, Independence: disposal, damage, most beautiful)

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The Farmers' Union (Memphis, Mo) October 18, 1894 Pg6

Four masked men entered the saloon of Michael Sullivan, St. Louis, at midnight, refusing to give up his money Sullivan was shot. He returned fire and brought down one of the robbers. Both men are fatally shot.





1956
Prisoner Admits Holdup And Shooting 2 Officers
Teacher Stabbed

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Potosi Journal November 29, 1922 Pg2

Poplar Bluff.---The largest whisky still ever confiscated in southeast Missouri was taken by local officers near Fisk, 12 miles east of here. The still was said to have a capacity of 1,200 gallons.





Scott County Kicker (Benton Mo) November 15, 1902 Pg3

USED A BUTCHER'S CLEAVER

At Sarcoxie, H.W. Burden struck Charles Martin over the temple with a butcher's cleaver, killing him. Burden was acquitted, as it was proven that Martin was drunk and was about to attack Burden with a knife.

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Laclede Blade July 26, 1912 Pg7

ESCAPED FROM REFORM SCHOOL

Eleven inmates escaped from the Missouri training school at Boonville. While the employees of the institution were searching for them, Edgar Barnett discovered two of the runaways in a yard after dark and ordered them to halt. Earl Smith, sent up from Kansas, attempted to escape. After Barnett had ordered him to halt several times, he fired, the bullet hitting Smith in the right temple. Smith was taken to the hospital at the training school, where it became necessary to remove his eye. He will recover.





Fair Play (Ste Genevieve) October 1, 1892 Pg2

Jewett Shrant was shot and instantly killed by his brother-in-law, G.A. Kent, at Poplar Bluff on Tuesday last. The murder grew out of an old grudge.





St. Joseph Observer May 13, 1922 Pg5

Forty dollars were stolen from Frank Hinze on Fourth and Louis Wednesday night.

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Taney County Republican June 7, 1906

Two arrests have been made in the matter of the Springfield lynching, the men in custody being Hill Gooch and " Doss " Gailbraith, blacksmiths. Both men are in jail.




Rich Hill Tribune March 31, 1904 Pg2

Ben L Walker, a Katy conductor of Sedalia, saw a man named Maddox out in the country, 16 miles southwest of Hannibal the other day, and knowing Maddox was wanted for murder, stopped his train and arrested him. Conductor Walker took his prisoner to Hannibal and lodged him in jail.




Schoolmates Strap Kid To Railroad Tracks 1875

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St. Louis Republic March 29, 1901 Pg3

GAM LEE'S BODY STOLEN FROM THE DEATHROOM

The body of Gam Lee, dead King of Hop Alley, was stolen from the deathroom in the rear of No. 813 Market street and carried in a cab in a mad drive through Walnut, Market, Chestnut and Pine streets Thursday night.
It was finally found where it had been deserted in the cab, in front of a house at Twenty-Third and Pine streets, and taken to the morgue, where distracted Chinamen later claimed it and restored it to its position of state in the room from which it had been stolen.

Three armed men perpetrated the gruesome theft. They entered the deathroom unannounced, seized the black casket, carried it through the narrow doorway with such carelessness that a handle of the coffin was broken off, tossed it over the dashboard into the cab, and drove madly away.
A negro known as " Speedy " Miller, who had been employed as watcher over the body, was alone in the room when the three men entered. They did not speak. They walked straight to the casket, lifted it easily and carried it out the door.

Miller, unarmed, was helpless to interfere. He cried out in fright and protestation, but the men did not heed him as they carried out the casket.
Two of the men sat on the back seat, the other occupied the driver's box and whipped the two white horses into a run.

Miller started in pursuit of the cab. It went clattering down the alley to Ninth street and then onto Walnut street and west to Thirteenth. Miller, unable to keep pace with the horses, continued to follow, being guided by pedestrians whose attention had been attracted to the speeding cab.
He followed it north on Thirteenth to Market street, west on Market to Sixteenth, north on Sixteenth to Chestnut then to Twentieth, north on Twentieth to Pine, west on Pine to Twenty-Third street.

There he found it, the two white horses badly winded, standing unhitched. Across the dashboard, but turned to one side and held from falling by a corner of the front seat, was the coffin. It had not been opened. Not a man was in sight.
The cab had been stolen in front of a saloon earlier.

Gam Lee was a freemason and most esteemed among the Chinese members of the St. Louis branch of that order.

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Morgan County Democrat (Versailles Mo) April 22, 1904

Lewis Fowler, the colored boy who was arrested last week for stealing $50 from Reed Peters, of Glensted, was tried Wednesday in the circuit court and sentenced to two years in the penitentiary. He plead guilty in court and was sentenced in accordance.





University Missourian (Columbia) January 25, 1912

ST. JOSEPH DAIRYMEN ACCUSED

A report from the state veterinarian has been received by Dr. W.P. Cutler, state dairy, food and drug commissioner, informing him that 12 dairy cows in St. Joseph have been found to have tuberculosis, and that their owners are selling the milk. Doctor Cutler has sent an inspector to St. Joseph to arrest the dairymen selling milk from these cows.

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Columbia Evening Missourian June 28, 1921

DAVIS JUMPS FROM TRAIN

Larry Davis, who is being held in connection with a post-office robbery at Mokane, leaped from a M.K. and T. train yesterday afternoon as he was being taken to Jefferson City and walked back to Columbia last night. He said he was not trying to escape, but wanted to commit suicide.
Postmaster R.E. Hodges and Postal Inspector J.L. Meyers were escorting Davis to Jefferson City when he climbed through a window and jumped while the train was traveling at a high rate of speed.
Davis called Sheriff Fred C Brown shortly before 5 o'clock and told him he would be back in Columbia about 9 o'clock. He did not reach Columbia until nearly midnight.





Morgan County Democrat (Versailles Mo) March 18, 1904 Pg2

Francis Schlatter, the self-styled " divine healer " was fined $25 in the St. Louis police court for being intoxicated and swearing.



Mr. and Mrs. John F Miller, of Slater, Mo., are in jail at Marshall, suspected of having kidnapped the child of W.W. Morrison.

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St. Louis Republic January 17, 1904 Pg6

THIEF STOLE FOOD AND HAT

William Bleyer believes that the thief who visited his home, at No. 4451 Washington avenue, was hungry and hatless, judging from the articles stolen. Despite the fact that solid silver knives, forks and spoons were at hand, the thief paid no attention to them and took only butter, half a dozen lamb chops, several slices of bacon and some liver from the ice chest. Then, going into the hall, he took Mr. Bleyer's derby hat off the hall rack, but left two or three coats and umbrellas undisturbed.




Andrew Blagg Killed Samuel Reeves 1892

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The Weekly Intelligencer (Lexington Mo) January 23, 1892 Pg3

TRIED TO ESCAPE

As Ferdinand Butler and Andy Blagg were being taken from the jail to the courtroom Tuesday by Sheriff Mitchel and Jailer Wade, Blagg took advantage of the moment when Mr. Wade turned to lock a door and started in a run toward Franklin avenue. The officer was right on his heels, however, and had no difficulty in re-capturing him.

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Kansas City Times March 19, 1966 Pg3

HOLD TWO IN BREAK-IN

Police were holding two men last night after an attempted burglary at the Bob Jones Outlet store, 1906 Grand avenue. Police said a hole had been chopped through a second-floor wall of the brick building, by standing on an adjoining roof. A night watchman said he heard prowlers and called police, who surrounded the block.
Police identified the two as ex-convicts, Ross Joseph Abbate, Jr., 24, of 1002 East Missouri avenue, and Michael James Ruffolo, 32, of 713 Madison avenue.





The News Boy (Scott Co) November 2, 1895

The post-office at Triplett, Mo., was entered by burglars Saturday night, who used dynamite to blow open the safe. The explosion aroused the citizens and the robbers fled without obtaining any plunder.

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Millionaire Hiram N Holladay " The Lumber King " married two of the Haynie sisters and became infatuated with the third, who was employed by him. The husband of the third, Monroe A Johnson, caught Holladay in his wife's room and killed him in 1899.

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