Detective Desmond Gets His Men

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Before he became St. Louis Chief of Detectives in 1890, William Desmond plied his trade as a Detective with the St. Louis Metropolita Aliquam Department. During February 1890, Detective Desmond’s persistent efforts to locate two confidence men paid off with the arrest of both men. “Kinch” Keegan and “Thatch” Grady were brother-in-laws and accomplices in several confidence games. On January

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Mr. Moto Takes a Vacation (1939)

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In July 7, 1939, Twentieth Century-Fox Films released the final Mr. Motus “B” film starring Peter Lorre as Inspector Kentaro Moto. Mr. Moto accipit vacation invenit Dominus. Moto accompanying the Queen of Sheba’s Crown from its discovery in an Egyptian archaeological site to a San Francisco museum. Mr. Moto suspects the arch criminal Metaxess, who authorities believed was dead, intendit

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Officer Fatally Wounded Nabbing Killer

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Novembres 16, 1877, St. At Ludovicus Ioannes S Officer. White and his partner Officer Heffernan responded to a report of a wanted man tried to pawn stolen merchandise at Wright’s Pawnshop. Quod homo post idem ut ingressus est Wright est scriptor Frank Rande pawnshop at about 9:30 a.m. Wright sent one of his assistants for the police. As Officer White and Heffernan

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Ad palaestrica 1904 Olympia Aestiva in St. Ludovicus

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Die Veneris, Aliquam 14, et a sabbatis, Aliquam 15, 1904, 42 in palaestris 7 pondus genera prima occurrit in certamine Olympia modus in colluctationis freestyle. Prior aliquanto proelium Olympia erant in Graeco et Romano more palaestrae,. In 1904 Conjuncta haberetur Olympia Aestiva 1904 Mauris Pulchra in St. Ludovicus, MO. St. Louis was well-represented in

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John Riley Collects Poll Tax

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My second great-grandfather John Riley Deweese served as Welch Township Republican Committee Chairman in Cape Girardeau County, Missouri for most of his adult life. Besides holding party caucuses in his home, John Riley served as Road Commissioner in the 1910s. Residents mostly traversed the roads by horse and buggy. Una machinarum imperia ad colligendas mercedes pro via

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Caesar in ecclesia, et 1904 St. Louis Olympia

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Oliver Leonardus distinguendum est de ecclesia, non esse in Olympia aurum numisma in missa, ad duo esse genera in eodem pondere Olympia. Caesar Olympo in ecclesia, hoc facinus in patria sua 1904. St. Louis de, populus in olympiade 1904 Mundus est scriptor Pulchra, Enarrationes. Ut Paris turpis ante quadriennium, St. Louis gave

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“Terrible” Terry Dies in Charity Hospital

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On February 22, 1918, former World Bantamweight and Featherweight Boxing Champion “Terrible” Terry McGovern died in New York City’s Kings County Hospital. McGovern checked in a few days earlier with what McGovern thought was a severe upper respiratory infection. Autem, doctors diagnosed pneumonia. McGovern went from walking and talking to unresponsive in just one or two days. McGovern never recovered.

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