Historiador de esportes de combate e artista marcial
Na quarta-feira, Janeiro 10, 1900, St. O policial de Louis, Paul Girard, estava parado na esquina da S. Avenida Taylor e Lindell, quando ele viu um homem pular do segundo andar de 4511 Avenida Lindell. Ciente dos recentes assaltos no rico bairro de Central West End, Girard se aproximou do homem. Quando o homem manco viu Girard, ele correu em direção a S.
No sábado, Novembro 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minutes. After the easy victory, fans smelled a rat, when the “Indianapolis Cyclone” spoke with a Lancashire accent. Oscar Wasem surpassed George Baptiste as St. Louis’ wrestling champion in the mid-1890s. Wasem possessed
On February 26, 1943, RKO Pictures released the third film based on the popular Lum and Abner radio show. Two Weeks To Live (1943) stars Chester Lauck as Lum Edwards and Norris Goff as Abner Peabody. Lauck and Goff, who also wrote the show, played the characters on radio beginning in 1931. The show began as a 15 minute radio
Acima dele 17 ano de carreira, St. Louis, chefe dos detetives, William Desmond, lidou com muitos familiares de criminosos. Alguns membros da família eram tão ruins ou piores do que o criminoso que o chefe Desmond e seus homens prenderam. However, muitos membros da família foram honestos, pessoas trabalhadoras, que lutaram para entender o que deu errado com seu ente querido. No início de sua carreira
On the morning of Wednesday, Julho 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. Ocidente comprou os direitos e dirigiu The Bat (1926), um dos primeiros “velha casa escura” mistérios para United Artist in 1926. Arthur Edeson foi o diretor de fotografia, tanto para este filme e The Old Dark Casa (1932), que compartilham elementos expressionistas semelhantes. Ambos os filmes são definidas em grandes mansões, which have seen better days. The key to the
A terça-feira de noite, Fevereiro 18, 1919, edição do St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Ciente de que um anel de roubo estava trabalhando algumas das joalherias locais, o St. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the
Em junho 4, 1883, the Greco-Roman World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion William Muldoon faced skilled French wrestler Jules Rigal in San Francisco, Califórnia. When the wrestlers stripped to their trunks for the match, it was obvious Muldoon’s power would prove a formidable challenge to Rigal. Muldoon stood around 6 feet tall and weighed between 193 e 210 pounds during his career.
St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was known for his ability to gain confessions from criminals. Unlike other detectives, who would sometimes use physical intimidation, Desmond eschewed the “third degree”. Chief Desmond believed information obtained by beating suspects was completely unreliable. Desmond would start a discussion with the suspect. After putting him or her at ease, Desmond would let
No sábado, Maio 5, 1900 em 11:30 da tarde, the explosion of the Suburban Line at the Wabash and Sarah Street railroad crossing marked the beginning of the St. Louis Street Car greve de 1900. Antes de a greve acabou em setembro 1900, nas ruas de St. Louis would be a battle ground between rich and poor with the St. Louis