Boss Butler és a St. Louis Machine

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Amikor a gép a politika és a szervezett bűnözés, Kansas City mindig is túlszárnyalta St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City is otthont ad számos nagy horderejű alvilági lövöldözés. 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, Április 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell szerelőként dolgozott a cégnél

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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. Louis Police history, 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, World görög-római birkózás bajnok és a fizikai kultúra támogatója, jött Los Angeles kedd, Április 15, 1884 hogy szembenézzen a helyi birkózó Fred Bauer. A mérkőzés zajlott a helyi Turnvereine Hall-ban, 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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On December 1, 1938 -on 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 éves korig. 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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