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På måndag, December 15, 1902, St. Louis Polisassistent chef för Detectives James H. Smith avgick från polisen för att ta en position i kolindustrin. Chef för Detectives William Desmond försökte övertyga Smith att stanna men han bestämde sig för att gå i pension från den kraft som hans fyrtionde födelsedag närmade. Smith compiled a commendable record as Desmond’s Assistant.
Universal Pictures released the thirteenth (affiliate länk) of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes on February 1, 1946. Twentieth Century-Fox produced the first two films. Universal produced the final 12 filmer. Terror By Night (1946) finds Holmes hired to protect the Star of Rhodesia diamond on a train bound for Scotland. Rodney Carstairs hires Holmes to
John Morrissey hävdade Världs Bare Knuckle PROFFSBOXNING Championship i en kontroversiell dust med Yankee Sullivan i oktober 1853. Efter att ha slagit en mordavgift för hans medverkan i mordet på Bill “The Butcher” Till, Morrissey beslutat att försvara sin titel mot John C. Heenan, “den Benicia Boy”. “Gamla rök” Morrissey besegrade Heenan i oktober 1858 bout held in
St. Louis Police Chief of Detectives William Desmond made many tough criminals talk over his career. John Huey, an Indiana murderer, was not one of these cases. Huey freely spoke with Desmond about his criminal past. Huey escaped from Indiana after serving 13 years for a murder in 1874. John Huey came to Lyon, Indiana in 1874 as a 22-year-old.
På måndag, Mars 5, 1900, St. Louis Police Officers Thomas Meagher and Thomas Degnan apprehended men who robbed an East St. Louis Officer of his gun. Ed Sullivan, en 22 year-old transient, robbed an East St. Louis Police Officer of his gun, jewelry and possessions in late February 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive