Boss Butler dan St. Louis Mesin

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Apabila ia datang kepada politik mesin dan jenayah terancang, Kansas City sentiasa outshone St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City juga rumah kepada beberapa tembakan Gangland berprofil tinggi. St. Louis’ pemimpin jenayah terancang lepas telah ditangkap kerana bermain kad. 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, April 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell was employed as a mechanic at

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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. Sejarah Louis Polis, 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, Dunia Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion dan budaya penyokong fizikal, datang ke Los Angeles pada Selasa, April 15, 1884 untuk menghadapi ahli gusti tempatan Fred Bauer. Perlawanan itu diadakan di Dewan Turnvereine tempatan di 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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Pada Disember 1, 1938 pada 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 tahun. 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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