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Paul Pons ishte kampion mundje greko-romake i Francës në vitet 1890. Ai fitoi një turne në Folies-Bergeres para se të fituar një turne në Rusi në 1898. Këto fitore e lejuan atë të pretendonte Kampionatin Botëror të Mundjes Greko-Romake. Pons kapitalizuar mbi këtë famë duke hapur një palestër për mundësit e trenit dhe burrave të fortë. Pons’ fitorja ishte veçanërisht e jashtëzakonshme për shkak të
Në 1934, Charles Arthur “Djalë i bukur” Floyd e përfundoi karrierën e tij kriminale në një Liverpool Lindor, Fusha e misrit në Ohio pas një përplasjeje me agjentët e FBI-së dhe oficerët lokalë të zbatimit të ligjit. Megjithatë, në dhjetor 1925, ai ishte numri i të burgosurve 29078 në burgun e Misurit. 21-vjeçari Floyd sapo ishte dënuar për grabitjen e zyrës kryesore të Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company.
Në tetor 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, e cila vrau
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 (lidhje Filialin) 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
Më dhjetor 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. Pas
In the second surviving Sherlock Holmes film (lidhje Filialin) starring Arthur Wontner si Sherlock Holmes, Dy kriminelët kanë ikur nga burgu. Ata janë duke kërkuar për hakmarrje për burrat, të cilët me dy kaloi një nga kriminelët, Jonathan Smalls. SmaLLs tha dy nga gardianë të burgut të tij, ku një pasuri e madhe u fshehur. Të gardianë të gjetur thesarin, 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,
Në fund 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 “Fermer” Burns territory in Chicago and Iowa. Megjithatë, Parker would discover two capable wrestler in St. Louis, George Baptiste and Oscar Wasem. Nga 1902, George