Robber Aiuta Cattura Killer

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H. H. Holmes era prima noto serial killer americano nella definizione moderna del termine. Holmes operato “il Castello Murder”, un hotel di Chicago durante la 1893 Esposizione mondiale di Chicago. Holmes sarebbe poi essere condannato per sedici omicidi, ma potrebbe aver ucciso più di 100 persone durante il suo funzionamento dell'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. Tuttavia, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt scelse il suo Segretario alla Guerra ed ex governatore delle Filippine

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Amateur Sleuth Catches Dynamitards

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Sunday morning, Agosto 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

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Girlfriend Kills St. Louis Officer

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On Monday evening, Luglio 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 “moglie” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, che

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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 “Sottovento” 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. Nonno

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