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Á október 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, sem drap
I’m continuing with watching some old Alan Ladd movies that I first saw thirty years ago on American Movie Classics (AMC), when they showed classic movies. I recently watched Appointment with Danger (1950), which was as entertaining as I remembered it. Paramount Pictures gaf út Appointment with Danger (tengja hlekkur) in London in 1950 en gaf það ekki út í United
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. Louis
Á Desember 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office
When the 1915 New York International Wrestling Tournament restarted in October 1915, a mysterious masked man sat at ringside demanding an entry into the tournament. Prior to the masked man’s arrival, the tournament had been lightly attended. The attraction of the masked man sitting at ringside attracted both fan and newspaper interest. Crowds started showing up for the matches. Eftir
During March 1891, George Baptiste travelled from St. Louis to Detroit to take part in a catch-as-catch-can wrestling tournament. While primarily a Greco-Roman wrestler, Baptiste would compete in the dominant American style of catch-as-catch-can. The 26-year-old Baptiste was an accomplished amateur and professional wrestler. Entering the Detroit tournament, Baptiste had lost only one match as a professional. The year prior,
Í seint 1902, Harvey Parker, a professional wrestler who began wrestling in 1900, travelled to St. Louis to challenge the local wrestling community. Parker may have thought St. Louis to be an easier town than “Farmer” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Þó, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Með 1902, George
Ágúst 11, 1915, núverandi heimsmeistari í þungavigt í hnefaleikum, Sam McVey, barðist við Sandy Ferguson í Boston, Massachusetts í Atlas Athletic Association líkamsræktarstöðinni. McVey barðist á tímum þar sem verkefnisstjórar frusu út alla afrísku bandarísku hnefaleikakappana, nema hinn frábæri Jack Johnson, frá því að berjast um heimsmeistaratitilinn. McVey sigraði flesta aðra frábæru svarta bardagamenn í þessu
Eins og ég hef skrifað í nokkrum færslum, bestu þungavigtarboxararnir á milli 1900 og 1919 voru afrísk-amerísku boxararnir neyddir til að berjast hver við annan fyrir “Litað meistaramót”. Jafnvel eftir að hinn frábæri Jack Johnson braut loksins litalínuna og vann heimsmeistaramótið í þungavigt, hann myndi aðeins verja titilinn gegn hvítum keppendum. Þar af leiðandi, erfiðustu keppendurnir
Nóvember 10, 1924, Mrs. A.W. Stickney var að yfirgefa St. Louis Country Club, þegar tveir afrísk-amerískir karlmenn komu til hennar. Ljósari maðurinn sagði Mrs. Stickney að afhenda skartgripunum sínum eða hann myndi taka þá af henni. Fearing for her safety, Mrs. Stickney rétti manninum skartgripina sína, metið á $17,000.00, og $85.00 in cash. Mrs.