היסטוריון ספורט קרבי ואמן לחימה
Posts about the history of St. לואיס, מיזורי, family history, and miscellaneous history.
On February 23, 1946, my great uncle Francis Mosblech married Rosemary Kalt at St. Peter and Paul Catholic Church. The 23-year old Francis had recently returned from service in the U.S. Army during World War II. Aunt Rosemary was the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ויליאם J. Kalt. Father Clarence Winkler officiated the ceremony. The March 3, 1946 מהדורה של
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. אולם, twenty-two years earlier, Frank Fone and John D. Shea broke out of the St. Louis Jail the same way. Fone and Shea were local criminals, who frequented the Downtown area. Shea was violent, while Fone was
בשלב מסוים לפני שקניתי את הבית שלי, תיקונים בבית חשבתי שהיו אחד מהכישורים שלי. I helped my grandfather, גילברט אליס, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. סבא אליס לימדה אותי איך להחליף שקעי חשמל, מכונות כביסה בכיורים ולבנות הרבה דברים עם עץ. I put together lots of prefabricated
בליל חג המולד 1902, two small town, small-time, holdup men blew open the safe of the Union, Missouri Bank. After threatening a few citizens, they made off with over $15,000. The men were relatively safe for a few months until the Pinkerton Detective Agency was called in. The Pinkertons had a nationwide agency, which was the closest thing the United
בסביבות 10 בבוקר ביום חמישי, אפריל 10, 1919, חמישה גברים חמושים בכבדות פרצו לבנק באדן. השודדים התעמתו עם M.W. מונצל, the cashier, and demanded access to the vault. הם קיבלו את ארבעת העובדים הנוספים בזמן שמונצל הוביל את הקבוצה לכספת. השודדים חבשו בנדנות צבעוניות כדי לטשטש את תווי פניהם. ואילו שניים מחמשת הגברים
On August 17, 1891, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "971" = bbox_w "2027" = bbox_h "13" = fsize "19" = fweight "13" = ירוק "3" אדום = "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = ". Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. בתוך 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. לואיס. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. בתוך 1847, <תוחלת bbox_x = bbox_y "569" = bbox_w "832" = bbox_h "22" = fsize "21" = fweight "14" = אדום = ירוק "6", "255" = "255" כחול = אלפא "255" = "
בתוך 1934, צ'ארלס ארתור “ילד יפה” פלויד סיים את הקריירה הפלילית שלו במזרח ליברפול, שדה תירס של אוהיו לאחר קרב יריות עם סוכני FBI וקציני אכיפת חוק מקומיים. אולם, בדצמבר 1925, הוא היה מספר אסיר 29078 בבית הכלא של מיזורי. פלויד בן ה-21 הורשע זה עתה בשוד המשרד הראשי של חברת המכולת והאפייה קרוגר
באוקטובר 16, 1920, Special Officers Preston Anslyn and William A. Moller were following two burglars in the 3800 block of Juanita Avenue during a heavy fog. One or both burglars shot the officers from a gangway as they walked onto the lawn of a house, where they thought the burglars entered. The officers both suffered fatal wounds, which killed
Running a pawn shop has always been a tough business because you constantly have to be on the look out for thieves attempting to pawn their stolen goods in your shop. In the late 19th Century, police detectives worked with pawn shops, as they do today, to try to stop the fencing of goods. In August 1885, future St. לואיס
בדצמבר 15, 1903, about 2:00 o’clock in the morning, George Harding, the clerk of the Erie Hotel, was busy working in his office. Used to working alone, Harding had relaxed his vigil and didn’t notice three large, hard looking men enter the hotel at Fourth and Clark Streets. His attention was arrested, when the first man entered his office