Boss Butler a St. Louis stroje

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Pokiaľ ide o obrábacie politiky a organizovaného zločinu, Kansas City sa vždy zatienil St. Louis. Kansas City’s Pendergast political machine helped land Harry S. Truman in the White House. Kansas City bol tiež domov pre niekoľko vysoko postavených gangsterských prestreliek. St. Louis’ posledný vodca organizovaného zločinu bol zatknutý za hracie karty. 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, Apríl 22, 1922. Merrell could not pull the job by himself, so he recruited another ex-convict, 33-year-old Hugh Pinkley. Merrell bol zamestnaný ako mechanik v

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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, Svet grécko-rímsky zápas Champion a telesnej kultúry zástanca, prišiel do Los Angeles v utorok, Apríl 15, 1884 čeliť miestnej zápasník Fred Bauer. Zápas sa konal na miestnom Turnvereine Hall v 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 bojuje s Joeom Coburnom

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Novembra 30, 1871, veľký zástup mužov nastúpil do desiatich železničných vagónov na New Orleans, Mobilná a Texaská železnica, keď sa zastavila na Canal Street v New Orleans, Louisiana. Vlak pokračoval na stanicu Montgomery neďaleko Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, kde dav opustil dážď a vydal sa do lesa. Taký zvláštny sprievod

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George Baptiste Dies

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