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The trail of a child kidnapping in 2007 led to an apartment in Kirkwood, Missouri, where Shawn Hornbeck, missing for more than four years, was found too. ....
Charles Abernathy was tracked down in Kansas City by Harry T. Brundidge, a reporter for the St. Louis Star. Brundidge won renown seven years before for helping to crack the Eganâs Rats, a criminal gang. This time, he scored a full confession from Charles Abernathy. The Star filled its front page with the scoop. Buppie, meanwhile, already had met with reporters shortly after he was washed and fed. He said the kidnapper gave him poorly cooked scrambled eggs but added, âHe treated me pretty well.â Charles Abernathy pleaded guilty and drew 15 years. Charges against his father were dropped. The kidnapper was paroled after eight years, returned to business in St. Louis and died in 1963 at age 60. ....
In 1811, a great earthquake rocked territorial St. Louis, but nobody knew the epicenter stltoday.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from stltoday.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
âA blackout at sea was never like this,â said John Sizemore, a sailor on leave, who celebrated the drill in a dimmed tavern on Washington Avenue. In the eerie darkness, sentries on the Spivey Building in East St. Louis saw the glow of locomotive fireboxes on the Eads Bridge. University City Mayor Matt Fogerty, on the roof of City Hall, spotted a lit cigarette three blocks away. Pilots reported seeing little but the interior lights of the sprawling ammunition factory on Goodfellow Boulevard, which had been exempted from the drill. There were isolated accidents and acts of malice. A woman on Lafayette Avenue suffered a broken arm in her darkened apartment. A stockboy cut his hand closing a shop door on South Broadway. Two men were robbed downtown. ....
Among those who spoke briefly was Mrs. Homer G. Phillips, widow of a Black lawyer who had campaigned tirelessly in 1923 to win the original bond issue. Phillips had been shot to death in 1931 while waiting for a streetcar on Delmar Boulevard. Two teens, including the son of a disgruntled client, were acquitted of his murder. The Board of Aldermen voted to name the new hospital in his memory. Aided by federal Depression-fighting money, the $3.1 million hospital opened in 1937. The city closed old No. 2, at 2945 Lawton Avenue, and moved patients and the nursing school to Homer G. The new, seven-story hospital was a towering symbol of pride for Blacks in St. Louis. ....