Historiador de deportes de combate y artista marcial
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
En diciembre 15, 1903, three men entered the Erie House at Fourth Street and Clark Avenue. The men beat up cook Victor Dauson before shooting hotel clerk Charles Harding. Dauson died from his injuries but Charles Harding recovered. The men took $300 from the safe and fled the hotel. The men entered the hotel at 2:00 a.m. and surprised Harding,
La pista del escarlata (1945) is the fifth of eleven Charlie Chan films Monogram Pictures produced after Twentieth-Century Fox cancelled the series in 1942. Sidney Toler hizo once películas de Twentieth-Century Fox antes de pasar la serie de Monogram. After Toler died in 1947, Roland Winters took over the role for seven more films. En esta película, Inspector Charlie Chan discovers a
Recientemente, 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 edición del St. Louis Star-Times of my great grandparents and 12 of the 14 Mosblech children. I had never seen a picture of my great grandparents, Eduard
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. Sin embargo, 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 era la ciudad más grande de 58o en los Estados Unidos y el 19 área metropolitana más grande. Alrededor de la vuelta del siglo, que era la quinta o sexta ciudad más grande en los Estados Unidos y el más grande al oeste del río Mississippi. St. Louis tenía una de las prendas más grande, shoe and beer manufacturing industries in
1802 N. Jefferson Avenue was a two-family flat built in 1890 and located in the St. Louis Place neighborhood. I originally wrote about the building in 2013 but it was demolished sometime before March 2015. The building is part of an area being developed for a government complex in St. Louis, so it was not able to be saved. Estas fotos son
Charlie Chan en París (1935) es otra entrega de la serie protagonizada por Warner Oland como Charlie Chan. Charlie está regresando de su investigación Londres, cuando se detiene en París para unas vacaciones. En realidad, the vacation is a cover for his investigation of forged bonds from the Lamartine Bank. Charlie installed an undercover agent named Nardi but the gang kills Nardi
El jueves, 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. Después de intentar un pago ilícito, Fisher summoned St. Louis Police Officer John Cummings. Officer Cummings, asignado a la
For the Sunday, Junio 24, 1900 edición del St. Louis República, a reporter interviewed St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond about the increasing violence of the new criminal. After 10 years as St. Louis Chief of Detectives and one of the most noted thief takers in United States, El jefe Desmond lamentó la creciente violencia que estaba viendo