Detective Desmond Catches Eddie Guerin

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Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Louis Politiet historie, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French

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William Muldoon Defeats Local Wrestler

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William Muldoon, Verdens gresk-romersk bryting Champion og fysisk kultur talsmann, kom til Los Angeles på tirsdag, April 15, 1884 å møte den lokale wrestler Fred Bauer. Kampen ble spilt på den lokale Turnvereine Hall i Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he

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Drap kl 2912 Washington

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Bygninger er bare hauger av plater og murstein uten historiene som er festet til dem. During November 1912, St. Louis politibetjent Arthur Huddleston ble drept av den prøveløslatte morderen Albert Whitefield. Whitefield hadde overrasket sin samboer, who was entertaining another gentleman caller. Whitefield attempted to kill her before two St. Louis Police Officers responded to her cries for

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