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Den August 26, 1886, Evan “Strangler” Lewis met the British Wrestling Champion Tom Cannon in Cincinnati, Ohio. During the legitimate wrestling era, other wrestlers feared the powerful Lewis because of his stranglehold. Lewis employed a carotid arterial strangle known as the rear naked choke in Judo. Det var i hvert fald, hvad jeg oprindeligt troede, og de fleste historikere har citeret. Moderne
Min bedstefars første fætter, Julius W. “Joe” Johannpeter, var en af St. Louis’ flypionerer. Julius, der var kendt i familien som “Punks”, sluttede sig til Air National Guard i midten af 1920'erne. Han ville blive ansat som løjtnant. Julius fløj fly for både det militære og civile luftkorps. De fleste af mændene i hans enhed, som omfattede Charles
I den sidste uge af december 1902, William Rudolph, et nyligt hjemvendt minearbejder til Franklin County, og George Collins røvet Union Bank i EU, MO. De berøvet det natten, da ingen var til stede ved at sprænge sikker. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.
Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into
På onsdag, Januar 10, 1900, St. Louis politibetjent Paul Girard stod på hjørnet af S. Taylor og Lindell Boulevard, da han så en mand springe fra anden sal af 4511 Lindell Boulevard. Kender til de seneste indbrud i det velhavende Central West End-kvarter, Girard nærmede sig manden. Da den haltende mand så Girard, han løb mod S.
Polish wrestler and strongman Stanislaus Zbyszko first came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for a shot at World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. He received and lost the match in a legitimate contest during 1910. Zbyszko continued wrestling for a few more years and actually won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1914 fra forhadt rival
Over his 17 year career, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond dealt with many criminal’s family members. Some family members were as bad or worse than the criminal Chief Desmond and his men had locked up. Men, many family members were honest, hard-working people, who struggled to understand what went wrong with their loved one. Tidligt i sin karriere
On the morning of Wednesday, Juli 8, 1885, the Coroner’s Clerk Jimmy Spaulding rushed into the Police Court at the Four Courts building. Spaulding announced one of the jail inmates waiting in the holding pen had just escaped. While most of the members of court sat stunned, Detective Billy Desmond jumped to his feet and rushed out of the courtroom.
Roland V. West købte rettighederne og instrueret The Bat (1926), en af de første “gamle mørke hus” mysterier for United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson var filmfotograf for både denne film og Den Gamle Mørk House (1932), der deler lignende ekspressionistiske elementer. Begge film er i store palæer, which have seen better days. The key to the