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Pertaining To St. Louis

Posted 02-13-2021 at 07:05 AM by aliasfinn
Updated 01-31-2022 at 05:08 AM by aliasfinn
Interesting Things To Google.



A St. Louis woman, Pearl Curran, claimed to receive poetry from a spirit through a Ouija board.

Clarence Terhune, a St. Louis caddy, stowed away on the German airship Zeppelin.

The bullet that killed Wild Bill Hickok is buried in St. Louis.

Pretty Boy Floyd was sent to the Missouri penitentiary for a $12,000 St. Louis payroll robbery.

John Dillinger attended an automobile show at Municipal Auditorium in St. Louis.

The Reno Gang and their father lived in St. Louis for a couple of years when things got too hot for them in Indiana.

Frank James, Jesse's brother, was cremated in St. Louis.

Outlaw Sam Bass ran away from his Indiana home when he was a teenager and went to St. Louis but didn't stay long because he thought the city was too dangerous.

Doc Holliday practiced dentistry in St. Louis.

Jack The Ripper died in St. Louis.

Billy The Kid's mother ran a boarding house in St. Louis.

The pirate Jean Lafitte lived his last years around St. Louis and is buried across the river in Alton.

The Sundance Kid and Etta Place were spotted by Pinkerton detectives at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Charles Manson went to St. Louis in the 1950s and got a tattoo.

The 1949 exorcism in St. Louis.

Geronimo rode the Ferris wheel at the St. Louis World's Fair.

Serial killer H.H. Holmes was locked up in a St. Louis jail with a Missouri train robber.

John Slack, one of the men involved in the Great Diamond Hoax of 1872, moved to St. Louis and opened a casket making company.

Big Jim Kennally, a counterfeiter from St. Louis, came up with a plan to steal Lincoln's body in 1876.

Egan's Rats, St. Louis gangsters, were the main suspects in the St. Valentine's Day Massacre.

John Wilkes Booth was arrested in St. Louis for making anti-government threats.

Mark Gray, who worked for a St. Louis dry goods firm, attempted to assassinate Edwin Booth during a play in Chicago.

Martin Monti, a St. Louis born pilot, defected to Nazi Germany during the war and worked as a propagandist.
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    Rowan & Martin At The Chase Club 1959

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7832...ase-club-1959/



    Youth Killed In Stolen Car Crash 1971

    https://img8.newspapers.com/clip/439...post-dispatch/
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    Pygmies Attack Photographer At Fair 1904

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1331...-photographer/



    Died From Mysterious Beating 1905

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4287...ck-death-1905/
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    Shoots Herself After Attack Of Indigestion And Depression 1920

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/29715064/march-20-1920/



    Dies Refusing To Name Man Who Shot Him 1923

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6034...post-dispatch/
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    Bryan Stephens (1920-1991)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1948.

    Nels Potter (1911-1990)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1936 and the Browns 1943-1948.

    Whitey Platt (1920-1970)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1948-1949.

    Sam Dente (1922-2002)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1948.

    Clem Dreisewerd (1916-2001)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1948.
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    Jealous Girl's Nose Broken In Fight 1908

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1018...post-dispatch/


    Photographers Attacked By Mrs. Lemp's Father

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1676...post-dispatch/
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    Stranger Attacks Girl After She Gives Him Food 1912

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/37204242/first-attack/



    Woman Breaks Back Leaping From Window To Escape 3 Attackers 1912.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1513...-assault-1912/
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    Encounter With Burglar 1915

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3666...different-day/



    Gets 2 Years For Killing Man With His Fist 1915

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2601...post-dispatch/
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    Slashed Man Who Was Visiting His Wife In Hospital 1925.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2280...itor-attacked/



    Witness Attacked On Street 1921

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1532...patchst-louis/
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    Man Robbed Of Prosthetic Leg In St. Louis 2021

    https://www.columbiamissourian.com/n...7bb51bfc8.html



    Candidate For State Senator Is Attacked 1946

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1686...-tuesday-july/
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    Fisherman Kept In Lake 6 Hrs By Angry Deer 1899

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2199...h-june-1-1899/



    Five Wounds With A Knife 1898

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6352...post-dispatch/
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    Man Stabbed In Street Fight 1960

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3608...post-dispatch/



    Assaults Man Defending His Wife 1957

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4110...post-dispatch/
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    Newspaper Photographer Beaten For Taking Pictures Of Accident 1955

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4333...post-dispatch/



    Tavern Owner Robbed Of $3,900 In 1948

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1880...tar-and-times/
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    Woman Has 7 Boys Arrested For Attacking Her 1907

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7804...post-dispatch/



    Woman Mugged On Street 1906

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2326...teau-attacked/
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    Matt Batts (1921-2013)
    Played for the 1951 St. Louis Browns.

    Johnny Beradino (1917-1996)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1939-1947, 1951

    Johnny Bero (1922-1985)
    Played for the 1951 St. Louis Browns.

    Bobby Hogue (1921-1987)
    Played for the St. Louis Browns 1951, 1952.

    Cliff Mapes (1922-1996)
    Played for the 1951 St. Louis Browns.
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    Gangster Associate Shot In Leg 1931

    https://img3.newspapers.com/clip/536...h-sept-9-1931/



    Woman Shoots Man Who Beat Her 1925

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1262...ai-jrst-louis/
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    Shoe Store Owner Badly Beaten 1961

    https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/



    Driver Found Dead In Auto Crash 1962

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/3064...post-dispatch/
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