Boss Butler ja St. Louis Machine

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Kun se tulee koneen politiikan ja järjestäytyneen rikollisuuden, Kansas City on aina loisti St. Ludvig. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City oli myös useita korkean profiilin gangland ampumista. St. Ludvig’ viime järjestäytyneen rikollisuuden johtaja pidätettiin pelikortit. 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, Huhtikuu 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell työskenteli mekaanikkona osoitteessa

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Detective Desmond Catches Eddie Guerin

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Before he was the “Sherlock Holmes of St. Ludvig”, St. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond was Detective “Billy” Desmond. One of the most talented detectives in St. Louis Poliisi historia, 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, Maailman kreikkalais-roomalaisen painin mestari ja liikuntakulttuurin kannattaja, tuli Los Angeles tiistaina, Huhtikuu 15, 1884 kohtaamaan paikallisen painija Fred Bauer. Ottelu pelattiin paikallisessa Turnvereine Hall 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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George Baptiste Dies

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Joulukuun 1, 1938 at 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 vuotiaita. 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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