Sullivan Beats Paddy Ryan

約翰·蘇利文

On February 7, 1882, 約翰·L. Sullivan fought Paddy Ryan for a title, which was certainly the American Heavyweight Prizefighting Championship but probably not the World Title it was billed as. 在 1880, Paddy Ryan won the title in his first and only prize fight before facing the ferocious power puncher Sullivan. The men met in Mississippi City, 密西西比州周圍

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Masked Marvel To The Rescue

琥珀色的奇蹟繪圖

Samuel Rachmann promoted the International Wrestling Tournament in New York during 1915. Rachmann invited wrestlers from around the world to the tournament but his real intention was to establish European Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion Alex Aberg as the successor to the retired Frank Gotch as World Champion. 拉赫曼建立阿貝格的計劃在比賽開始後按計劃進行

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艾拉庫珀揭開匯票盜竊,en

老STL-警察徽章

On February 22, 1924, unknown suspects took $20,000.00 in American Express Company money orders from the Mercantile Trust Company in Downtown St. 路易. 起初, the American Bankers Association hired private detectives. After the detectives were unable to discover any serious leads, the association turned the case over to the St. 路易警察局. When the bank association turned over the

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Marie H. 「寶貝」約翰彼得金克

埃爾默和貝貝金克之家 5000 街區艾默生

Marie H. “Babe” Johannpeter was born in St. 路易, Missouri on June 17, 1903. “Babe” was the second child and first daughter born to my second great-uncle Julius “Uncle Jules” Johannpeter and his wife Bertha Johannpeter nee Horst. My grandfather Gilbert Ellis spent a lot of his time with Uncle Jules family, while he was growing up. 爺爺埃利斯’ father

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Hannah McLaughlin Desmond (1879 – 1904)

漢娜·麥克勞林

一月 7, 1903, 聖. Louis Chief of Detectives William Desmond married 24-year-old Hannah McLaughlin in a ceremony he hoped to keep secret. The 46-year-old Desmond always said he would never marry due to the dangers of his job. 然而, he was clearly smitten with Hannah McLaughlin. 三月 1897, 聖. Louis Post-Dispatch printed the first rumors of an

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