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Posts about the history of St. Louis, Misuri, 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. Megjithatë, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Roosevelt zgjodhi sekretarin e tij të luftës dhe ish-guvernatorin e Filipineve
Sunday morning, Gusht 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 mëngjesit. Police arrested Maurice Brennan, Fred E. Northway, James Schwartz and James Finnesey. Police found 30 pounds of dynamite and 30 feet
In one of those strange coincidences of history, the Streetcar Union President Sherman C. Patterson was stabbed by a union machinist named Edward Canty after a saloon disagreement. At a time when several of his opponents in the 1900 St. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
Të hënën në mbrëmje, Korrik 16, 1917, St. Zyrtari i policisë Louis Julius H. Petring caktuar për Divizionin e Tregut të Veriut hyri në një shtëpi rooming në 2301 N. Rruga e Tregut. Petring pyeti pronarin William Dietrich të marrësh me qira një dhomë për të dhe gruan e tij. E tij “grua” ishte e dashura e tij e divorcuar kohët e fundit Freda Hagenmeyer. Zyrtar Petring kishte qenë duke parë Freda Hagenmeyer, që
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “I mbrojtur nga era” Ellis’ nee Johannpeter’s siblings. My grandfather told me a lot about his Uncle “Kurvar”, 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. Grandpa
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, Në krye të detyrës: St. Zyrtarët Louis Policisë që ka bërë sakrificën e fundit nga Barbara Miksicek, David McElreath dhe Major Stephen 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 në Muzeun Wax (1940) starring Sidney tolerancës si Charlie Chan është favorite filmi im Charlie Chan. Charlie Chan është në kërkim për një vrasës në një muze dylli. Muze dylli është një front për një kirurg plastik, i cili ndryshon pamjen e kriminelëve të kërkuar për një çmim. Kirurg Dr. Krem, played by C. Henry Gordon, also
Xhaxhai Oscar Von Burg dhe tezja Dorothy Von Burg nee Mosblech ishin miqtë më të ngushtë të gjyshërve të mi. Gjyshe Ellis dhe hallë Dorothy ishin motrat e ndara në moshë me rreth një vit e gjysmë. Gjysh Ellis dhe Xha Oscar u bënë miq të ngushtë kur ata ishin takim motrat. As xhaxhai Oscar dhe as gjyshi nuk kërcenin, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt
Në nëntor 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,