Bardagaíþróttasagnfræðingur og bardagalistamaður
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, family history, classic film, and miscellaneous history.
Ég skrifaði áður um atvik þar sem Detective Sergeant fyrir St. Louis Lögregla var skotinn meðan á rán tilraun. Unlike a number of other incidents in Gilded Age St. Louis sögu, Detective Sergeant James Martin King’s home in January 1920 still exists. The home is still in excellent condition. 4973 Lotus Avenue was the home of Sgt. King in
Á kaldri janúar nótt í 1920, the deadliest year for St. Louis Police, kicked off violently. Two not so-bright robbers attempted to rob one of the largest and bravest officers on the St. Louis Police Department. St. Louis Police Detective Sergeant James Martin konungur gekk heim til hans á 4973 Lotus Avenue í gegnum N. KINGSHIGHWAY Boulevard, when two
Ég heyrði fyrst um Chang Apana í featurette á einn af Charlie Chan DVD setur. I knew a real life detective inspired Earl Derr Biggers to create Charlie Chan. I did not know who the man was. Chang Apana was that man. Chang Apana (Fæddur Ah Ping Chang) á desember 26, 1871 on the island of Oahu was
The series of the Charlie Chan films starring Warner Oland were probably the strongest films in the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler made several good films also but eventually the series would become low-budget “B” films produced by Monogram Pictures. Secret Charlie Chan er (1936) was one of the earlier Twentieth-Century Fox films about Charlie Chan. The production values are better
Á fimmtudaginn, Júní 12, 1919, Earl Hunter og Charles Bergman, A parolee og fyrrverandi sakfella, hélt upp Meramec Trust Company skömmu eftir að það opnaði á 07:00 a.m. The robbery was not well planned and even more poorly executed. Horni Virginia Avenue og Meramec Street var einn af the viðskipti götu bíll blokkir í borginni. The robbers had
Chester Gould skapaði Dick Tracy grínisti ræma í 1931. Upphaflega birt í Detroit Metro, ræma flutti til Chicago Tribune þar sem það gerði pappír og Gould ríkur með fréttaskot. Það var aðeins spurning um tíma áður en Dick Tracy þreytti frumraun sína á hvíta tjaldinu. Ralph Byrd lék Dick Tracy í fjórum 15 chapter serials
Langafi Parker minn var fórnarlamb einn af stærstu náttúruhamfara til lemja Cape Girardeau, MO, á 1949 Tornado. Hún lenti á borgina á laugardag, Maí 21, 1949 á 06:54 p.m. Með 7:00 kvöldi, Parker Zimmerman var látinn 74 ára. I always found my great grandfather interesting because he led such a varied life
William Dillon var að bregðast við tilkynningum um morðið á Officer McKenna af hálfu Lewis Brothers. Dillon talið að Lewis Brothers, sem voru farartæki og vír þjófnaður, voru ábyrgir fyrir dauða McKenna er. Dillon proceeded to the DeMorris home at 4232 Athlone Avenue. He observed two of the Lewis brothers enter the garage in the Ford. Dillon entered the garage
Áður Föstudagur, Apríl 7, 1916, var yfir, the Lewis bræður mundu drepa tvo St. Louis lögreglumenn, John McKenna og William Dillon. McKenna var fyrstur til að falla, þegar hann rjúfa bræður tilraun til að stela vír, a valuable commodity during World War I. The brothers would kill Dillon, while he investigated McKenna’s murder. The St. Louis Police Department assigned
The Spanish Cape Mystery (1935) is an adaptation of one of the Ellery Queen novels. Two cousins, Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee, who wrote a number of detective novels under the pseudonym of the title character. Í þessari mynd, Ellery Queen is taking a vacation to California with his friend Judge Macklin. Of course, they are not long into their