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Paul Pons merupakan Juara Gusti Greco-Roman Perancis di tahun 1890-an. Beliau memenangi kejohanan pada Folies-Bergeres sebelum memenangi kejohanan di Rusia pada 1898. Kemenangan ini membolehkannya untuk menuntut Kejohanan Gusti Greco-Roman Dunia. Pons kesempatan terkenal ini dengan membuka gym untuk gusti kereta api dan orang yang kuat. Pons’ kemenangan amat luar biasa kerana
Dalam 1934, Charles Arthur “Budak Cantik” Floyd menamatkan kerjaya jenayahnya di Liverpool Timur, Ladang jagung Ohio selepas berbalas tembak dengan ejen FBI dan pegawai penguatkuasa undang-undang tempatan. Walau bagaimanapun, pada bulan Disember 1925, dia nombor banduan 29078 di Penjara Missouri. Floyd yang berusia 21 tahun baru sahaja disabitkan kesalahan merompak pejabat utama Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company
Pada bulan Oktober 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, yang membunuh
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 released Appointment with Danger (link affiliate) in London in 1950 but didn’t release it in the 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
Pada Disember 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. After
In the second surviving Sherlock Holmes film (link affiliate) starring Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes, dua penjenayah telah melarikan diri penjara. Mereka sedang mencari untuk membalas dendam ke atas lelaki, yang dua kali melintasi seorang penjenayah, Jonathan Smalls. Smalls memberitahu dua daripada warden penjara beliau di mana kekayaan yang besar disembunyikan. The wardens find the treasure, have a
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,
Pada akhir 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 “Petani” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Walau bagaimanapun, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Oleh 1902, George