Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
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. Þó, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt picked his Secretary of War and former Governor of the Phillipines
Sunday morning, Ágúst 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
Í einni af þessum óvenjulegu tilviljanna sögu, Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson var stunginn af stéttarfélags machinist heitir Edward Canty eftir Saloon ágreiningi. Á þeim tíma þegar nokkrir andstæðinga sína í 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike myndi elska að hafa séð hann sendur í lest út úr bænum, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Júlí 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, sem
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 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. Afi
Myndin af Cornelius O'Keefe í bókinni, Í línu skylda: St. Louis lögreglumanna sem gerði fullkominn fórn af Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath og Major Stephen Pollihan, sló mig í fyrsta skipti sem ég sá hana. Með hárið skildu niður á miðju og stór yfirvaraskegg, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Louis
Charlie Chan á vaxmyndasafn (1940) aðalhlutverki Sidney TOLER sem Charlie Chan er uppáhalds Charlie Chan bíómynd minn. Charlie Chan er að leita að morðingja í vaxmyndasafni. Vax Safnið er framan fyrir lýtalækni, sem breytir útliti vildu glæpamenn að verðlaunum. The skurðlæknir Dr. Rjómi, played by C. Henry Gordon, also
Uncle Oscar Von Burg and Aunt Dorothy Von Burg nee Mosblech were my grandparents’ closest friends. Amma Ellis og Aunt Dorothy voru systur aðskilin í aldri um a og hálft ár. Afi Ellis og Uncle Oscar varð nánir vinir þegar þeir voru að deita systurnar. Neither Uncle Oscar nor Grandpa danced, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt
Nóvember 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 reyndist fyrsta flokks huglaus,en,