Newspaper Articles, St. Louis County,MO..Prt of Genealogy Trails

Convicted of Registration Frauds.
St. Louis, Mo—Late Thursday the Jury found Henry Exnicious guilty of false registration and sentenced him to five years in the penitentiary.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 - Barb Z 2009

Greek Boys As Slaves.
St. Louis, Mo.—That more than 300 Greek boys who work In St. Louis, bootblack stands are held In practical slavery by patrons who pay them $1 a day for 18 hours' work and search their pockets for tips every night Is the information on which warrants were issued Tuesday by United States Commissioner Morsey for Peter Anagnos.
John Mavrakos and James Chilfers.
Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 16, 1908 Page 2 Barb Z 2009

ACCUSED ARMY OFFICER IS CRITICALLY ILL.
Was Ordered to Government Hospital at the Request of Mrs. John A. Logan.

St. Louis, Mo.—Col. William P. Tucker, assistant paymaster of the United Slates army, on whom a warrant was served at Decatur, III., early Tuesday, charging wife desertion, left St. Louis for Hot Springs, Ark., on an Iron Mountain train at nine o'clock Wednesday night.
Col. Tucker is a very sick man, and whether he will survive the journey is problematical. He was accompanied to the Union station by Dr. Louis H. Behrens, the house physician who was called Into the case Tuesday night. Accompanying Col. Tucker to Hot Springs are G. E. Frey of Chicago and his sister, Mrs. Myrtle Platt, a former
teacher in the Philippines, who has been nursing Col. Tucker In his present Illness, Mrs. Jennie T. Johnson of Oak Park, Ill., who is a sister of Col. Tucker will be taken to the government hospital at Hot Springs whither he was ordered by Secretary of War Wright The action of Secretary Wright, it appears, was taken at the Instigation of Mrs. John A. Logan, the mother-in-law of the colonel, who desired that he be no longer nursed by Mrs. Platt.
Under the rules of the hospital at Hot Springs, outside nurses are not permitted to care for patients there.

Alma, Wabaunsee County, Kansas October 23, 1908 Page 2 - Barb Z 2009

Nine Hours They Worked on the Safe Robbers Made Successful Escape on Horseback,
It is Believed Former Discharged Cashier had been accused of Embezzling $12,000.

ST. LOUIS.—(Special.) Six masked men entered the National Stock Yards Bank, north of East St Louis. Ill, and, after capturing and gagging the two night watchmen and firemen at the steam plant and blowing open the vaults with dynamite, secured $5,000 in coin and currency, with which they decamped. For nine hours, from 7 o'clock at night until 4 a. m., they were at work on the vault without being interfered with. The entire East St Louis police force, aided by the St. Louis police, are guarding all the avenues of escape, but as yet have obtained no clue as to the whereabouts of the robbers, who. It is believed, escaped on horseback.
About midnight one of the robbers was left to guard the three captives, while the other five went to the bank, which Is located on the first floor of the exchange building, near the center. With nitro-glycerlne the robbers blew open the steel doors of the vault. These doors, of a double thickness of steel, were shattered and the bank's books and papers blown into shreds. Entering the vault, the big steel safe, with quadruple plate doors, was next encountered. These doors were drilled and a charge of the explosive inserted, which blew them off. The explosion destroyed more books and papers, and scattered about $600 in gold and silver upon the floor. This money was not taken by the robbers. They took all the currency and other coin, amounting to about $5,000. as nearly as the banks officials can estimate. The five men left the bank and signaled to the one who was guarding the captive watchman and fireman. This man joined his companions. In addition to the $5,000. the robbers secured $550 left with the bank by
Assistant Postmaster Bushnell, of the stock yards. This Is the bank whose officers recently swore out a warrant
charging Theodore Duddleston, the assistant cashier, with embezzling $12,000.

The Valley Falls, Jefferson County, Kansas Friday Jan. 10 1902 Page 1 - Barb Z. 2009

Friday the 13^th
Cops Overheard Plans
St. Louis Jan. 13 - Three men were planning a big payroll robbery while a squad of policemen sat in an adjoining room listening. Calaboose.
Friday, 13th they said.
The Daily Messenger. NY.; Friday, Jan 13 1922 (submitted by: Melissa- 2008)

Reformed Bandit is Being Trailed Again
St. Louis, Jan. 14 – Al Jennings, reformed bandit and train robber, was trailed by authorities once again today.
A warrant charging assault was issued by the prosecutor’s office against Jennings on complaint of Harry Kerr, whose wife was alleged to have been found in Jennings’ company at a hotel.
The Daily Messenger. Canandaigua, NY. Jan 14, 1922 (submitted by: Melissa- 2008)

BOYS STONE PEDDLER TO DEATH “JUST FOR FUN;” TELL POLICE
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 8 – Five boys were arrested in the class rooms in the high school today charged with the murder of William, Wachter, a peddler found with his skull crushed yesterday. The arrests followed information given by Mrs. Mary Goebhardt, mother of the prisoners.
The boys are: Joseph Lao, George Remmel, Frank Mamie, Henry and Arthur Goebhardt. They told the police they had stoned Wachter “just for fun.”
(Source: The Oklahoman 1/9/1909. Contributed by Dale Donlon)