Detective Desmond Catches Eddie Guerin

eddie-guerin

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. Historia Louis Policji, 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

William-Muldoon

William Muldoon, Wrestling mistrz świata grecko-rzymskiego i propagator kultury fizycznej, przybył do Los Angeles we wtorek, Kwiecień 15, 1884 zmierzyć się z lokalnym zapaśnik Fred Bauer. Mecz odbył się na miejscowym Turnvereine Hall w 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

George Baptiste

Grudzień 1, 1938 w 5:15 pm, former professional wrestler and all-around athlete George Baptiste passed away at 74 lat. 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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