Історик єдиноборств і майстер єдиноборств
Posts about the history of St. Луїс, Міссурі, family history, класичний фільм, 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. Однак, once Theodore Roosevelt made a pronouncement, he intended to keep his word. Рузвельт узяв його військовий міністр і колишній губернатор Phillipines
Sunday morning, Серпень 12, 1900, Вулиця. 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
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 Вулиця. Louis Streetcar Strike would love to have seen him sent on a train out of town, Patterson is stabbed by
On Monday evening, Липень 16, 1917, Вулиця. 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. Його “wife” was his recently divorced girlfriend Freda Hagenmeyer. Officer Petring had been seeing Freda Hagenmeyer, хто
When I started researching the family history, I only knew about two of my great-grandmother Caroline “Подветренний” Елліс’ 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. Дідусь
The picture of Cornelius O’Keefe in the book, У виконанні службових обов'язків: Вулиця. Офіцери Луї міліції, які приніс жертву Остаточний Барбара Miksicek, Девід McElreath і майор Стівен Pollihan, struck me the first time I saw it. З його проділом посередині і великий вуса, I could see him walking the streets of Downtown St. Луїс
Чарлі Чан в музеї воскових фігур (1940) у головній ролі Сідні TOLER як Чарлі Чан це мій улюблений Чарлі Чан фільм. Чарлі Чан шукає вбивцю в музей воскових фігур. Музей воскових фігур є прикриттям для пластичного хірурга, хто змінює зовнішній вигляд розшукуваних злочинців за ціну. The surgeon Dr. Cream, played by C. Henry Gordon, also
Дядько Оскар фон Бург і тітка Дороті фон Бург, уроджена Мосблех, були найближчими друзями моїх дідуся та бабусі. 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. Ні дядько Оскар, ні дідусь не танцювали, so they would escort Grandma and Aunt
Листопад 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,