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Post-Dispatch photos: Saturday, November 12, 2011
Date: 11/12/2011 Album ID: 1360878
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Ray the Fox Renard, former gangster with Egan's Rats, enjoying a Prohibition-era swig in February 1925, shortly after testifying against his former cronies in federal court. Renard, 26, had grown up in an orphanage and was a young pickpocket when he joined the gang. Egan's Rats was formed in Kerry Patch, the Irish neighborhood northwest of downtown, and muscled into bootlegging during Prohibition. But its specialty was big-time robbery. Renard had been sent to federal prison for a freight-car robbery and, upon hearing that his fellow gangsters might want to kill him to keep him quiet, went to the prosecutors. He said he knew all about two big heists, the $2.4 million robbery of bonds and cash from a mail truck at Fourth and Locust streets on April 2, 1923, and of a $54,000 payroll robbery at the Staunton, Ill., train station the following May 26. When the picture was taken, he was soon to be returned to federal prison. (St. Louis Star)
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William Dinty Colbeck, who had been boss of Egan's Rats since the murder of Willie Egan, the founder's brother, outside his tavern at 14th and Franklin avenues on Oct. 31, 1921. Renard accused Colbeck of leading the robbery of the mail truck downtown. The photo was taken just before the first trial began in November 1924 in the U.S. Custom House and Post Office, at Eighth and Olive streets (now the Old Post Office). U.S. District Judge Charles Faris declared a mistrial Nov. 7 after three jurors held out for aquittal, but Colbeck and other defendants were convicted a week later in Quincy, Ill., in the payroll robbery in Staunton. Most of them also were found guilty in a retrial in January 1925 in St. Louis of the mail-truck job. (Post-Dispatch)
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David Chippy Robinson, chief enforcer for Egan's Rats, at the courthouse for the trial in November 1924. He was convicted in both robberies. (Post-Dispatch)
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F.X. Donovan (left) and boatswains mate F.C. Maxwell, both of the Coast Guard, sailor inspect the iron shutters in the then-courthouse in 1942. At the time, there was talk of taking them down to use the iron in war industries. They were preserved, but were sealed inside the walls during later renovations. (Post-Dispatch)
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I don't think our customers would be too happy if we ran out. I don't think that would happen, said baker Lenora Reckerd of Hillsboro, who places a freshly topped Caramel Apple Pecan Pie at the pastry counter at The Blue Owl Restaurant Friday, November 11, 2011, in Kimmswick, Mo. Luckily, the restaurant so far is unaffected by the national shortage of pecans. And it's a good thing, too, because Oprah Winfrey just listed their Levee High Caramel Apple Pecan Pie among her favorite things in the December 2011 issue. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Waitress Kayla Smith of Arnold loads a slice of pecan pie onto her tray to be delivered to her table at The Blue Owl Restaurant Friday, November 11, 2011, in Kimmswick, Mo. Luckily, the restaurant so far is unaffected by the national shortage of pecans. And it's a good thing, too, because Oprah Winfrey just listed their Levee High Carmel Apple Pecan Pie among her favorite things in the December 2011 issue. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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The nation's pecan industry has taken a huge hit this year, losing half of its crop to drought. The poor harvest comes at a bad time: Demand from China is gobbling up the US pecan supply, driving up prices, just in time for pecan pie season. Vernon Spaunhorst of Heritage Family Tree Farm in Washington, Mo., is one of the lucky exceptions. Spaunhorst, a tree farmer, who dabbles in pecans, is having a banner crop year since his pecan trees are fed by a local creek, providing a constant water source. Spaunhorst carries a load of pecans recently shaken from the trees to a tumbler which will separate the pecans from the twigs and other brush that are mingled with the nuts Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Washington, Mo. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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The nation's pecan industry has taken a huge hit this year, losing half of its crop to drought. The poor harvest comes at a bad time: Demand from China is gobbling up the US pecan supply, driving up prices, just in time for pecan pie season. Vernon Spaunhorst of Heritage Family Tree Farm in Washington, Mo., is one of the lucky exceptions. Spaunhorst prepares a load of pecans recently shaken from the trees to be taken to a tumbler which will separate the pecans from the twigs and other brush that are mingled with the nuts Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Washington, Mo. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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The nation's pecan industry has taken a huge hit this year, losing half of its crop to drought. The poor harvest comes at a bad time: Demand from China is gobbling up the US pecan supply, driving up prices, just in time for pecan pie season. Vernon Spaunhorst of Heritage Family Tree Farm in Washington, Mo., is one of the lucky exceptions. Spaunhorst, a tree farmer, who dabbles in pecans, is having a banner crop year since his pecan trees are fed by a local creek, providing a constant water source. After running the load with a tumbler which separated the nuts from debris, Spaunhorst goes through by hand to separate pecans that are still in their shell that are mingled with the nuts Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Washington, Mo. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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The nation's pecan industry has taken a huge hit this year, losing half of its crop to drought. The poor harvest comes at a bad time: Demand from China is gobbling up the US pecan supply, driving up prices, just in time for pecan pie season. Vernon Spaunhorst of Heritage Family Tree Farm in Washington, Mo., is one of the lucky exceptions. Spaunhorst, a tree farmer, who dabbles in pecans, is having a banner crop year since his pecan trees are fed by a local creek, providing a constant water source. Spaunhorst loads a bucket full of pecans recently shaken from the trees to a tumbler which will separate the pecans from the twigs and other brush that are mingled with the nuts Thursday, Nov. 10, 2011, in Washington, Mo. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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The nation's pecan industry has taken a huge hit this year, losing half of its crop to drought. The poor harvest comes at a bad time: Demand from China is gobbling up the US pecan supply, driving up prices, just in time for pecan pie season. Vernon Spaunhorst of Heritage Family Tree Farm in Washington, Mo., is one of the lucky exceptions. Spaunhorst, a tree farmer, who dabbles in pecans, is having a banner crop year since his pecan trees are fed by a local creek, providing a constant water source. The farm has more than 70 pecan producing trees on 10 acres. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Mug of Vernon Spaunhorst of Heritage Family Tree Farm in Washington, Mo. Photo by Laurie Skrivan, lskrivan@post-dispatch.com
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Tim Nolan, second from right, a United States Army veteran who served in Iraq from 2004-2005 parades through a hallway lined with Barretts Elementary students with his nephew Gavin McLean, 9, right, after he and about 35 veterans were honorary guests of a luncheon hosted by family members at the school. The entire school greeted the veterans during the procession. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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Ann Seebeck of Kirkwood visits a tree planted in memory of her son Chris Seebeck Monday Oct. 17, 2011 in Kirkwood Park. Chris Seebeck overdosed in the basement of his parent's Kirkwood home in 2010 at the age of 27. The St. Louis is in the third year of a heroin epidemic that is killing at unprecedented rates. Ann visits the tree often either alone or with her husband
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Ashley Sims, center, of Alton, takes a moment before taking her two boys Cameren Sims, 5, left, Tayson Austra, 7 to school the morning of Friday November 4, 2011. Ashley lost her husband Chad Sims to a herion overdose last June. Since then she has raised her three children without him. Ashley's daughter Brooklyn, 3, is not pictured. Photo by Christian Gooden, cgooden@post-dispatch.com
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An Occupy St. Louis protester who identified himself only has J.J. packs up some of his property in a tent in Kiener Plaza on Friday, November 11, 2011. J.J. said the items he was packing he didn't want to city confiscate if the protesters are removed from Kiener Plaza against their will. He said if the tents are taken down and he is forced to leave that he will return to continue the protest later. Photo By David Carson, dcarson@post-dispatch.com
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Veteran John Burns asks St. Louis mayor Francis Slay why he chose Veterans Day to remove the protesters after Slay attended the Blue Star Memorial Marker Dedication Friday November 11 at near Soldiers' Memorial. Occupy St. Louis protesters and Veterans for Peace marched to Soldiers Memorial from their encampment at Kiener Plaza. After their protest on the stops of the memorial, some of the Occupy St. Louis group. which included several veterans, attended the ceremony. Emily Rasinski, erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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September 20, 2011--- In May, the county assessed the value of the new River City Casino in Lemay at $284 million. Since then, the county's Board of Equalization has cut hundreds of millions of dollars off the assessed value, a move that will cost school, fire, and other districts millions of dollars in tax revenue. Emily Rasinski erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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Andre Buehler, who works for the University City Parks Department, helps install the Seasons Greetings sign that hangs across Delmar Boulevard near the corner of Kingsland Avenue in University City early Friday morning. Buehler, along with Mike Warmbold and Allen Hopkins, put up a total of 10 hanging holiday decorations in the Loop that morning. The hardest ones to get up are the ones in front of Starbucks and Bread Company because of all the cars pulling up to get their morning coffee, Hopkins commented about hanging the signs over the busy street. Emily Rasinski, erasinski@post-dispatch.com
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Red wrist bands with the heroin awareness campaign's slogan curiosity + heroin: not even once sat on a table outside the school theatre at Parkway Central High School on Monday evening October 24th, 2011 prior to the start of a town hall meeting in Chesterfield, MO. Garvey Scott/Special to the Post-Dispatch
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