Cap Butler i el St. Louis Machine

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Quan es tracta de la maquinària política i el crim organitzat, Kansas City sempre ha eclipsat St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City també va ser la llar de diversos tirotejos entre bandes d'alt perfil. St. Louis’ last organized crime leader was arrested for playing cards. We did have a Democratic party political machine around

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Morris Packing Co. Robbers Caught

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21-year old Charles Merrell had already served a term in the Missouri Penitentiary for stealing a car in Scotland County, when he got the idea to hold up the Morris Packing Company on Saturday, Abril 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell treballava com a mecànic a

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Detective Desmond Catches Eddie Guerin

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Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Louis”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Història Policia Louis, Desmond met one of the most famous international criminals in history, Eddie Guerin, in the mid-1880s. Guerin robbed the American Express Office in Paris in the early 1900s. French

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William Muldoon Defeats Local Wrestler

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William Muldoon, el Campió del Món de Lluita Greco-romana i defensor de la cultura física, va arribar a Los Angeles dimarts, Abril 15, 1884 per enfrontar el lluitador local de Fred Bauer. El partit va tenir lloc al Saló de Turnvereine local a Los Angeles. Muldoon was so confident of victory that he stipulated that he would throw Bauer ten times within an hour or he

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Jem Mace lluita contra Joe Coburn

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Al novembre 30, 1871, una gran multitud d'homes va pujar a deu vagons a Nova Orleans, Mobile i el ferrocarril de Texas quan s'aturava a Canal Street a Nova Orleans, Louisiana. El tren va continuar cap a l'estació de Montgomery a prop de Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, on la gent va deixar la pluja i es va dirigir cap al bosc. Una processó tan estranya

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George Baptiste Dies

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Al desembre 1, 1938 en 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 anys d'edat. While enjoying robust strength his whole life, Baptiste’s doctor discovered he had stomach cancer in June 1938. The doctor operated on Baptiste but was unable to remove all the cancer. Baptiste had been living at his country home

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