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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
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.
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. Cependant, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt a choisi son secrétaire à la Guerre et ancien gouverneur des Philippines
Dimanche matin, Août 12, 1900, St. Louis La police a arrêté quatre anciens travailleurs de tramway ligne de transport pour souffler jusqu'à la ligne Olive Street sur l'avenue Maryland entre N. Taylor et N. Euclid Avenue sur la nuit précédente à 11:00 p.m. La police a arrêté Maurice Brennan, Et Fred. Northway, James Schwartz et James Finnesey. La police a trouvé 30 livres de dynamite et 30 feet
Dans un de ces étranges coïncidences de l'histoire, l'Union tramway Président Sherman C. Patterson a été poignardé par un machiniste de l'union nommé Edward Canty après un désaccord berline. À un moment où plusieurs de ses adversaires dans le 1900 St. Louis tramway grève aimerait avoir vu lui a envoyé dans un train hors de la ville, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Juillet 16, 1917, St. 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. His “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, qui
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Lee” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Jules”, Julius Johann Peter. 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. Grand-père
L'image de Cornelius O'Keefe dans le livre, Dans la ligne du devoir: St. Les agents de police Louis Qui fait le sacrifice ultime de Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath et le Major Stephen Pollihan, m'a frappé la première fois je l'ai vu. Avec ses cheveux séparés par une raie au milieu et une grosse moustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Charlie Chan au musée de cire (1940) mettant en vedette Sidney Toler comme Charlie Chan est mon film Charlie Chan favori. Charlie Chan est à la recherche d'un meurtrier dans un musée de cire. 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
Uncle Oscar Von Burg and Aunt Dorothy Von Burg nee Mosblech were my grandparents’ closest friends. 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. Neither Uncle Oscar nor Grandpa danced, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt
Sur Novembre 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,