Robber Helps Catch Killer

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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.

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Theodore Roosevelt Wins 6 States in 1912

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After Theodore Roosevelt won reelection in his own right during November 1904, TR impetuously announced he would not run for another term. His inner circle, particularly his wife Edith, would think the decision a mistake. Обаче, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Рузвелт избра своя военен министър и бивш губернатор на Филипините

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Amateur Sleuth Catches Dynamitards

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Sunday morning, Август 12, 1900, <Педя bbox_x = "925" bbox_y = "1878" bbox_w = "13" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = ". 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

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Union President Stabbed In 1900 Стачка

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В един от тези странни съвпадения в историята, трамвая съюз председател Sherman C. Патерсън е бил намушкан от Съюза механик на име Едуард Канти след седан несъгласие. В момент, когато няколко от неговите опоненти в 1900 <Педя bbox_x = "925" bbox_y = "1878" bbox_w = "13" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = ". Louis Трамвай Strike ще се радва да го виждал да изпрати във влак извън града, Patterson is stabbed by

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

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On Monday evening, Юли 16, 1917, <Педя bbox_x = "925" bbox_y = "1878" bbox_w = "13" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = ". Louis Police Officer Julius H. Petring assigned to the North Market Division entered a rooming house at 2301 N. Market Street. Petring asked the proprietor William Dietrich to rent a room for him and his wife. Негов “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, който

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Herman Johannpeter (1878 – 1921)

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When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Завет” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Конезавод”, Julius Johannpeter. Grandpa lived with Uncle Jules from the time he left Missouri Military Academy in 1932 until he married my grandmother, Alvina Ellis nee Mosblech in 1938. Дядо

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<Педя bbox_x = "925" bbox_y = "1878" bbox_w = "13" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = ". Louis Officer Killed by Wanted Man

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Картината на Cornelius О'Кийф в книгата, В изпълнение на дълга: <Педя bbox_x = "925" bbox_y = "1878" bbox_w = "13" bbox_h = "19" fsize = "13" fweight = "3" червено = "255" зелен = "255" синьо = "255" алфа = ". Louis полицаи, които направиха върховна саможертва Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath и майор Стефан Pollihan, ме удари първи път го видях. С косата си разделиха през центъра и големи мустаци, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis

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Чарли Чан в Музея Wax (1940)

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Чарли Чан в Музея Wax (1940) с участието на Sidney търпимост като Чарли Чан е любимата ми Чарли Чан филм. Чарли Чан търси убиец в музей восък. The wax museum is a front for a plastic surgeon, who changes the appearance of wanted criminals for a price. The surgeon Dr. Cream, played by C. Henry Gordon, also

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Оскар и Дороти фон Бург

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Чичо Оскар фон Бург и леля Дороти фон Бург, родена Мосблех, бяха най-близките приятели на баба ми и дядо ми. Grandma Ellis and Aunt Dorothy were sisters separated in age by about a year and a half. Grandpa Ellis and Uncle Oscar became close friends when they were dating the sisters. Нито чичо Оскар, нито дядо танцуваха, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt

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Blind Man Identifies Crooks

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От ноември 7, 1890, Chief of Detectives William Desmond brought in Pat Kennedy, a low-level St. Louis crook, who was suspected of stealing 20 cents from a cigar store on North 9th Street. A 3rd District St. Louis Police Officer captured Kennedy after he robbed a Miss Minnie Mullaney at 16th Street and Franklin Avenue. Kennedy proved a first-rate coward,

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