Gevechtssporthistoricus en krijgskunstenaar
Posts about the history of St. Louis, Missouri, 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. en mevrouw. William J. Kalt. Father Clarence Winkler officiated the ceremony. The March 3, 1946 editie van
When William Rudolph broke out of the St. Louis Jail on Independence Day 1903, the newspapers called it an act of unprecedented daring. Echter, 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
Op een gegeven moment voordat ik kocht mijn eigen huis, Ik dacht thuis reparaties waren een van mijn vaardigheden. I helped my grandfather, Gilbert Ellis, make repairs to our house and the flat he lived in. Opa Ellis leerde me hoe ik de stopcontacten te vervangen, ringen op de wastafels en bouwen veel dingen met hout. I put together lots of prefabricated
On Christmas Night 1902, twee kleine stad, korte tijd, 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
Around 10 ben op donderdag, April 10, 1919, vijf zwaarbewapende mannen stormden de Badense Bank binnen. De bandieten confronteerden M.W. Muntzel, de kassier, en eiste toegang tot de kluis. Ze verzamelden de vier andere werknemers terwijl Muntzel de groep naar de kluis leidde. De overvallers droegen gekleurde bandana's om hun trekken te verbergen. Terwijl twee van de vijf mannen
Op augustus 17, 1891, St. Louis Archbishop Peter Richard Kenrick celebrated his 85th birthday and fifty years as head of the St. Louis Catholic Church. In 1841, Kenrick was appointed as Coadjutor Bishop of St. Louis. When St. Louis Bishop Joseph Rosati died in Rome during 1843, Bishop Kenrick was appointed Bishop of the St. Louis Diocese. In 1847, de
In 1934, Charles Arthur “Mooie jongen” Floyd beëindigde zijn criminele carrière in een Oost-Liverpool, Maïsveld in Ohio na een schietpartij met FBI-agenten en lokale wetshandhavers. Echter, in december 1925, hij was het nummer van de gevangene 29078 bij de Missouri Penitentiary. De 21-jarige Floyd was net veroordeeld voor het beroven van het hoofdkantoor van Kroeger Grocery and Baking Company
Op oktober 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, die doodde
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. Louis
Op december 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