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Theodore Roosevelt gjorde en skæbnesvanger beslutning på valgdagen 1904. Han meddelte, efter at være blevet valgt til formandskabet i sin egen ret, efter at stigende til kontoret på mordet på William McKinley, at han ikke ville køre for et andet udtryk i 1908. Roosevelt had served almost a full term before his election as McKinley was assassinated in September 1901.
På fredag, Oktober 21, 1904, one of the greatest tragedies in St. Louis Police history occurred when two train robbers and three St. Louis Police detectives died in a shootout. The gunfight occurred in a small hotel room on Pine Street. Two days later on Sunday, Oktober 23, 1904, a burglar attempted to gain entry to a realty office at
I den første af de tre Shadow film fra Monogram Pictures stjernespækket Kane Richomond, et antal borgere er faldet fra vinduer til deres død. To af mændene tilsyneladende begå selvmord foran Lamont Cranston, skyggen, og Inspector Cordonna spillet af Joseph Crehan. Crehan was a character actor who often played policeman in films such as The
Hvis du ønsker at være i stand til at forsvare dig selv, arbejde på din condition største teknik i verden er kun så effektive, hvis du ikke har udholdenhed til at overleve et angreb. Conditioning er en af de mest oversete aspekter af kampsport uddannelse. Cardio Conditioning – Remember the old saying, “Fatigue makes a coward of all of
During April 1885, St. Louis experienced one of its most sensational murders. Two English travelers had checked into the Southern Hotel in early April 1885. C. Arthur Preller and H. M. Brooks, who was going by the alias of Dr. Maxwell, appeared to be very friendly. Although they had separate rooms, they often stayed in the same room together. På
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,
Sherlock Holmes i Washington (1943) er den tredje af tolv Universal Picture produktioner af Sherlock Holmes franchisen. Basil Rathbone og Nigel Bruce spillede som Holmes og Watson i henholdsvis to film for Twentieth-Century Fox og tolv mere for Universal Pictures. Denne film er atter i 1940'erne. Holmes og Watson er rejst til Washington, D.C. at hemmeligholde
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