Chief Desmond Discovers Murder

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On February 10, 1897, 60-year-old William H. Stewart, a civil engineer, died in St. Louis City Hospital. Stewart passed away from a morphine overdose. St. Louis Police originally thought it was a case of suicide or accidental overdose. Stewart lived with his son-in-law F.C. Bennett at 2634 Dickson Street. Mr. Bennett categorically denied Mr. Stewart used drugs of any kind.

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Russian Civil War Snags Aberg and Lurich

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Estonia gave birth to three of the greatest wrestlers of the first two decades of the 20th Century: Georg Lurich, George Hackenschmidt and Aleksander “Alex” Aberg. As part of the Russian Empire at the time, Estonia contained a number of elementary and high schools with superior physical education programs. Lurich and Hackenschmidt both started out as weightlifters and transitioned into

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Zbyszko “Wins” World Title in 1921

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Polish wrestler and strongman Stanislaus Zbyszko first came to the United States in 1909 to campaign for a shot at World Heavyweight Wrestling Champion Frank Gotch. He received and lost the match in a legitimate contest during 1910. Zbyszko continued wrestling for a few more years and actually won the World Greco-Roman Heavyweight Wrestling Championship in 1914 vihatulta kilpailijalta

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Äiti tunnustaa päällikkö Desmondille

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Hänen yli 17 vuoden ura, St. Louisin etsivien päällikkö William Desmond oli tekemisissä monien rikollisten perheenjäsenten kanssa. Jotkut perheenjäsenet olivat yhtä pahoja tai pahempia kuin rikollispäällikkö Desmond ja hänen miehensä olivat vangittuina. Kuitenkin, monet perheenjäsenet olivat rehellisiä, ahkeria ihmisiä, jotka kamppailivat ymmärtääkseen, mikä heidän rakkaansa meni pieleen. Uransa alussa

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Policewomen Break Up Theft Ring in 1919

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Tiistai-iltana, Helmikuu 18, 1919, painos St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Tietoinen siitä, että myymälävarkaudet rengas työskenteli pari paikallista Koruliikkeet, St. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the

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Ketchel Saves Himself

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Perjantaina, Kesäkuu 10, 1910, World Middleweight Boxing Champion Stanley Ketchel fought his last fight against unheralded Jim Smith. Ketchel has cleared out the middleweight division, so boxing promoters struggled to find suitable competition for Ketchel. At only 24 vuotias, Ketchel lived hard and fought constantly causing an early breakdown of his body. After fighting Smith, Ketchel intended to

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