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. Gospod. 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 from hated rival

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Mati se spoveduje načelniku Desmondu

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Nad njegovim 17 letna kariera, St. Louis, vodja detektivov William Desmond, se je ukvarjal s številnimi kriminalčevimi družinskimi člani. Nekateri družinski člani so bili tako slabi ali slabši kot kriminalni načelnik Desmond in njegovi možje, ki so jih zaprli. Vendar, veliko družinskih članov je bilo poštenih, pridni ljudje, ki so se trudili razumeti, kaj je šlo narobe z njihovo ljubljeno osebo. Na začetku svoje kariere

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Ketchel se reši

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V petek, Junij 10, 1910, Svetovni boksarski prvak v srednji kategoriji Stanley Ketchel je svojo zadnjo borbo odigral proti nenapovedanemu Jimu Smithu. Ketchel je očistil srednjo kategorijo, zato so se boksarski promotorji trudili najti primerno konkurenco za Ketchela. Na samo 24 stara leta, Ketchel je težko živel in se nenehno boril, kar je povzročilo zgodnjo okvaro njegovega telesa. Po boju s Smithom, Ketchel je nameraval

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