Stridssportshistoriker och kampsportare
Min farfars första kusin, Julius I. “Joe” Johannpeter, var en av St. Louis’ flygplanspionjärer. Julius, som var känd i familjen som “Punks”, gick med i Air National Guard i mitten av 1920-talet. Han skulle få uppdraget som löjtnant. Julius flög plan för både den militära och civila flygkåren. De flesta av männen i hans enhet, som inkluderade Charles
Under den sista veckan i december 1902, William Rudolph, en nyligen återvänt gruvarbetare till Franklin County, och George Collins rånade Union Bank i Union, MO. De rånade den över natten, när ingen var närvarande genom att blåsa upp den säkra. Rudolph returned to his parents’ cabin in Stanton, MO. He and his accomplice hid out until the Franklin County Sheriff
While a few actors played Charlie Chan before Warner Oland and a few portrayed Inspector Chan after Roland Winters, the main body of Earl Derr Biggers’ Charlie Chan film adaptations occurred between 1931 till 1949. Warner Oland began playing Charlie Chan in The Black Camel (1931). After his death, 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. Herr. 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” Åberg. 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, Januari 10, 1900, St. Louis-polisen Paul Girard stod i hörnet av S. Taylor och Lindell Boulevard, när han såg en man hoppa från andra våningen i 4511 Lindell Boulevard. Medveten om de senaste inbrotten i det rika stadsdelen Central West End, Girard gick fram till mannen. När den haltande mannen såg Girard, han sprang mot S.
På lördag, 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 minuter. 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 besatt
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
Över hans 17 års karriär, St. Louis detektivchef William Desmond hanterade många brottslingars familjemedlemmar. Vissa familjemedlemmar var lika dåliga eller värre än den kriminella chefen Desmond och hans män hade låst in. Emellertid, många familjemedlemmar var ärliga, hårt arbetande människor, som kämpade för att förstå vad som gick fel med deras älskade. Tidigt i sin karriär
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.