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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
Mens nogle skuespillere spillede Charlie Chan før Warner Oland og et par portrætteret Inspector Chan efter Roland Winters, hoveddelen af Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan film tilpasninger fandt sted mellem 1931 til 1949. Warner Oland begyndte at spille Charlie Chan i The Black Camel (1931). Efter hans død, Sidney Toler started playing the role of Charlie Chan in the
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.
Lørdag, November 25, 1899, St. Louis wrestling fans experienced a shock, when a visiting wrestler easily threw local champion Oscar Wasem in a little over 20 minutter. 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 besat
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
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.