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Pertaining To St. Louis

Posted 02-13-2021 at 06:05 AM by aliasfinn
Updated 01-31-2022 at 04:08 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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    Ball Player Killed By Lightning 1971

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/5771...post-dispatch/



    3 Men Charged In Fatal Bar Fracas 1974

    https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...post-dispatch/
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    Garnet Bailey (1948-2001)
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 1973-1975.

    Bob Collyard
    b. 1949
    Played For the St. Louis Blues 1973-1974.

    Ab DeMarco
    b. 1949
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 1972-1974.

    Connie Forey
    b. 1950
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 1973-1974.

    Brent Hughes
    b. 1943
    Played for the St. Louis Blues 1972-1974.
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    Bigamist Gets Two Years 1914

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1305...tar-and-times/



    First Degree Murder (Charles Drew Case) 1913

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4706...les-drew-case/
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    2 Drown When Ice Breaks 1919

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/8887...t-dispatch-20/



    Drowned Under Overturned Truck In Creek 1919

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/6284...az-accidental/
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    Clyde Barfoot (1891-1971)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1922-1923.

    Max Flack (1890-1975)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1922-1925.

    Del Gainer (1886-1947)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1922.

    Doc Lavan (1890-1952)
    Played baseball for the Browns 1913-1917 and the Cardinals 1919-1924.

    Eddie Dyer (1899-1964)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1922-1927.
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    Howard Freigau (1902-1932)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1922-1925.

    Sid Benton (1894-1977)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1922.

    Epp Sell (1897-1961)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1922-1923.

    Harry McCurdy (1899-1972)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1922-1923.

    Jeff Pfeffer (1888-1972)
    Played baseball for the Browns 1911 and the Cardinals 1921-1924.
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    Ex-St. Louisan Involved In The Jonestown Killings In Guyana 1978.

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/7901...t-louis-times/



    Man Found Guilty In 1968 Shooting

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/2522...post-dispatch/
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    Thieving Cow Looks For Salad Dressing 1907

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1617...post-dispatch/



    Stolen Furs Recovered At Secondhand Store 1907

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/1733...post-dispatch/
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    Otto McIvor (1884-1954)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1911.

    Roy Golden (1888-1961)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1910-1911.

    Gene Dale (1889-1958)
    b. St. Louis
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1911-1912.

    Ed Conwell (1890-1926)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1911.

    Harry Camnitz (1884-1951)
    Played baseball for the Cardinals 1911.
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    7 Arrested in 3 Holdup Attempts 1939

    https://stltoday.newspapers.com/clip...tar-and-times/



    Man Who Hid Pistol In Murder Case Freed 1937

    https://www.newspapers.com/clip/4678...post-dispatch/
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