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On the evening of June 1, 1879, St. Louis Police Officer Charles Printz was walking his beat near 505 Marion Street on St. Ludovicus’ South Side. Non liquet si actiones Caroli Sanders attentionem Printz allexerunt, aut Printz mox incidit in Sanders. Whatever the circumstances, Printz ambulavit ad Sanders, who had a revolver in his right hand. When
Warner Baxter returns for a fourth time as Dr. Robert Ordway in The Crime Doctor’s Courage (1945). The newly married third wife of Gordon Carson asks Dr. Ordway to look into his first two wives’ mysterious deaths. Authorities declared both cases to be accidents. Kathleen Carson, played by Hillary Brooke, has begun to doubt the official verdict. Dr. Ordway arrives
Praesent, I was searching for information about my Great Uncle Francis’ marriage to my Great Aunt Rosemary Kalt. What I discovered was an unexpected genealogy treasure, a picture in the July 5 edition of St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 autem 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard
Juve vs. Fantomas (1913) is Louis Feuillade’s second film adaptation of the popular crime series by Marcell Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Rene Navarre plays the role of Fantomas and his many aliases. Edmund Breon portrays Inspector Juve. George Melchior plays the role of Jerome Fandor, a young journalist, who assists Juve in his investigations of Fantomas. Juve and Fandor are
St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond had respect for the “old school criminals”, who plied their trade in St. Louis during the late 19th Century. Autem, he did not have the same degree of respect for the thug tactics of the “new school criminals”. These criminals made up for a lack of finesse with great violence. Chief Desmond said
In 2010, St. Louis was the 58th largest city in the United States and the 19th largest metropolitan area. Around the turn of the century, it was the fifth or sixth largest city in the United States and the largest west of the Mississippi River. St. Louis had one of the largest clothing, shoe and beer manufacturing industries in
Die Jovis, September 9, 1875, George “Mitchell” Gassert and William Salisbury went to Fred Fisher’s Saloon at the corner of N. Jefferson and Morgan (Delmar today). After ordering drinks, the two young men of unsavory reputation refused to pay for their drinks. Post mercedem quaerit illicita, Fisher summoned St. Louis Police Officer John Cummings. Officer Cummings, assignata
Die martis, November 18, 1884, Mundus Heavyweight Bare-Knuckle Prizefighting Champion John L. Sullivan pugnavit Al Greenfield apud Madison Square Garden in New York City,. Sullivan opus est vincere plus quam solum adversario suo in hoc praedura. Primum inter homines Lunae pugnare, November 17, 1884, sed auctoritates Novi Eboraci hominibus comprehensis minabantur. altercatio cum
For the Sunday, June 24, 1900 edition of St. Louis de re publica, a reporter interviewed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond about the increasing violence of the new criminal. Postquam 10 years as St. Louis Chief of Detectives and one of the most noted thief takers in United States, Dux Desmoniae lamentatus est vim augendam quam videbat
On March 22, 1881, Greco-Roman World Wrestling Champion William Muldoon met Collar-and-Elbow World Champion John McMahon at the Terrace Garden in New York City. Muldoon and McMahon met in a best-two-out-of-three-falls match. The first fall was conducted by Greco-Roman rules. The second fall would be contested using collar-and-elbow rules. Novissimus casus definiendus est per id quod est The New York