Harcsporttörténész és harcművész
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. Viszont, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt hadügyminiszterét és a Fülöp-szigetek korábbi kormányzóját választotta
Sunday morning, Augusztus 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
Az egyik ilyen furcsa véletlenek történelem, Az villamosa Unió elnöke Sherman C. Patterson szúrták egy szakszervezeti gépész elemzi Edward Canty után egy limuzin nézeteltérés. Egy olyan időszakban, amikor több ellenfelei a 1900 St. Louis villamosa Strike szívesen látta volna küldeni a vonaton a városban, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Július 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, akik
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 “Díszgomb”, 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. Nagypapa
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, In The Line of Duty: St. Louis rendőrök, akik meghozta a végső áldozatot Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath és Major István Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. With his hair parted down the middle and a big mustache, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Charlie Chan a Wax Museum (1940) főszereplésével Sidney Toler mint Charlie Chan kedvenc Charlie Chan film. Charlie Chan keresi a gyilkost a panoptikum. A panoptikum egy front egy plasztikai sebész, aki megváltoztatja a megjelenését körözött bűnözők az ár. 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. Nagymama Ellis néni Dorothy testvérek voltak egymástól korban körülbelül egy év és egy fél. Nagypapa Ellis bácsi Oscar közeli barátok lettek, amikor randiztunk a nővérek. Neither Uncle Oscar nor Grandpa danced, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt
November 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,