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På mandag, Marts 5, 1900, St. Louis Politibetjente Thomas Meagher og Thomas Degnan pågrebet mænd, der røvede en East St. Louis Officer af hans pistol. Ed Sullivan, a 22 årige forbigående, røvet en East St. Louis polititjenestemand med hans pistol, smykker og ejendele i slutningen af februar 1900. Officer Thomas Meagher observed Sullivan and Harry Davis walking near Olive
John Camel Heenan was known to 19th Century bare knuckle prizefighting fans as “Det Benicia Boy”. Despite an 0-1-1 record as a professional fighter, Heenan claimed the World Prizefighting Championship based on a draw with Tom Sayer in an 1860 English prize-fight. Heenan’s first professional fight had been with the reigning World Heavyweight Prizefighting Champion John Morrissey’s last professional fight
Frank Gotch took the American Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from Tom Jenkins in December 1903. Gotch intended on following up this triumph with a match for World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship from George Hackenschmidt. Gotch wanted to meet “Hack” i St. Louis during the 1904 Verdensudstillingen. Unfortunately for Gotch and St. Louis, the match would not occur until 1908 in Chicago,
Lørdag, Marts 12, 1904, St. Louis Detective James J. Moran led a team of detectives to a room in a row house at 634 South Broadway on St. Louis’ Near South Side. Frank Ward, a suspected safe cracker, rented a room in the row house. Besides Ward, the detectives arrested Edward Seely and John Shumway. Moran og detektiverne
On a March night in San Francisco, heavyweight contender Marvin Hart proved pure aggressiveness could sometimes win a decision. Efter 20 rounds of boxing, referee Greggains, the only judge, awarded the decision over the great Jack Johnson to Hart. Hart met Johnson on March 28, 1905. Johnson entered the ring as the betting favorite. Han meldte sig også ind som en af
H. H. Holmes was America’s first known serial killer in the modern definition of the word. Holmes operated “the Murder Castle”, a Chicago hotel during the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Holmes would eventually be convicted of sixteen murders but may have murdered more than 100 people during his operation of the hotel. What is less well known is that St.
Jeg mødte min kone på min søster bryllup i september 1995. Jeg havde kendt Tam som min lillesøster bedste ven for 10 år, men jeg har ikke rigtig se hende som den kvinde, hun var blevet, indtil denne dag i slutningen af september. I actually got to know her better because I was on wolf duty this day although it
Charlie Chan ved Treasure Island (1939) er den tredje Twentieth-Century Fox film stjernespækket Sidney Toler som Charlie Chan. Inspektør Chan og Jimmy Chan, af Victor Sen Yung spillet, flyver til San Franciscos verdensudstilling i 1939 som filmen åbner. The bumpy ride is making Jimmy very nervous. Med på flyet er også Charlies ven Paul Essex, played
For my birthday this year, I purchased one of my favorite books, The Way to Live in Health and Strength (affiliate link) by Georg Hackenschmidt. Georg Hackenschmidt set many weightlifitng world records before focusing on professional wrestling. Hackenschmidt would win the World Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1901. Hackenschmidt would reign as undefeated World Champion for 7 år, indtil han mistede sin
Sunday morning, August 12, 1900, St. Louis Police arrested four former Transit Line streetcar workers for blowing up the Olive Street line on Maryland Avenue between N. Taylor and N. Euclid Avenues on the previous night at 11:00 p.m. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet