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, Svět řecko-římský zápas Champion a tělesné kultury zastánce, přišel do Los Angeles v úterý, Duben 15, 1884 čelit místní zápasník Fred Bauer. Zápas se konal na místním 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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George Baptiste Dies

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