Newspaper Article: "Chinese Dine the Police Heads, Then Aid in Raid"
- Item sets
- Hop Alley
- Title
- Newspaper Article: "Chinese Dine the Police Heads, Then Aid in Raid"
- Description
- This article from the St. Louis Post Dispatch describes a coordinated event between the elites of "Hop Alley" and the St. Louis Police Department. Accordingly the police were honored guests at an important wedding, afterwards the two groups coordinated the arrest of 23 "bad Chinese" for gambling offenses.
- Creator
- St. Louis Post Dispatch
- Semester
- Spring 2026
- Subject
- "Hop Alley"
- Downtown
- Chinatown
- Police
- Temporal Coverage
- 1900 – 1910
- Spatial Coverage
- "Hop Alley," Downtown St. Louis, Missouri
- Language
- English
- Medium
- Newspaper article
- Date
- July 19, 1909
- Source
- ProQuest Historical Newspapers
- Explanation of Omeka Map Location
- The article lists arrests taking place at 10 South Eighth Street.
