Chief Desmond Discovers Murder

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U veljači 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. G.. 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 od mrskog suparnika

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Majka priznao kako je glavni Desmond

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Preko njegove 17 godinu karijere, St. Louis, šef detektiva William Desmond bavio se mnogim članovima obitelji kriminalaca. Neki članovi obitelji bili su jednako loši ili gori od zločinca kojeg su šef Desmond i njegovi ljudi zatvorili. Međutim, mnogi članovi obitelji bili su pošteni, vrijedni ljudi, koji su se trudili shvatiti što nije u redu s njihovim voljenim. Na početku svoje karijere

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Policewomen Break Up Theft Ring in 1919

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The Tuesday Evening, Veljača 18, 1919, izdanje St. Louis Post-Dispatch detailed the arrest of two men and two women for the theft of numerous luxury items. Aware that a shoplifting ring was working a couple of the local jewelry stores, St. Louis Police Department assigned several undercover police women to follow the suspects. Their work resulted in the

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Ketchel se spašava

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U petak, Lipanj 10, 1910, Svjetski boksački prvak u srednjoj kategoriji Stanley Ketchel odradio je svoju posljednju borbu protiv nenajavljenog Jima Smitha. Ketchel je počistio srednju kategoriju, pa su se boksački promotori mučili pronaći odgovarajuću konkurenciju za Ketchela. U samo 24 godina, Ketchel je živio teško i neprestano se borio uzrokujući rano slom svog tijela. Nakon borbe protiv Smitha, Ketchel je namjeravao

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