Detective Hart
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- Jan 3, 1895The Tailor, the Raffle Ticket, and the Entire Afternoon Police ForceA well-dressed Californian sold chances on a $30 suit of clothes to nearly every patrolman in Seattle. Then the drawing night came and went — and the swindled cops hauled him in themselves.Seattle, WA
- Jan 7, 1895The Poker Club That Wrote ‘No Gambling’ Into Its Own RulebookSeattle detectives raid a Third and Cherry social club and find a members-only poker game hiding behind a constitution that strictly forbade gambling.Seattle, WA
- Feb 12, 1895A Theft of Clothes Leads to Jail TimeA woman recently arrived from Victoria is sentenced to thirty days in jail after stealing clothes from a fellow resident at the Commercial House.Commercial Street, Seattle, WA
- Feb 13, 1895The Iron Hook AssaultA hardware store clerk is severely injured by a one-armed man wielding a prosthetic iron hook in a dispute over a wheelbarrow.Seattle, WA
- Feb 22, 1895The Girl Who Wanted to Make a SensationA 15-year-old from Los Angeles was stopped at Yesler dock on her way to a Tacoma elopement—and told Seattle police she had only been bored.Seattle, WA
- Mar 11, 1895Sunday Poker at the Union Club Draws a Police RaidDetectives Philbrick and Hart entered the exclusive Union Club on Front Street, found men hiding chips, and carted away two loads of furniture and cards.Seattle, WA
- Mar 16, 1895A Judge Reverses Himself and Lets the Gamblers WalkA raid on Moy Lung's Washington Street gambling house netted twenty-two Chinese men. Then Municipal Judge Glasgow dismissed the cases, reversed a guilty verdict, and remitted the one fine he had already imposed.Seattle, WA
- Mar 28, 1895The Woman in Black and the Newborn Left for DeadA Seattle coroner concludes that an infant found at a street corner was killed at birth by a blow to the skull. Detectives have no suspect, only a frustrated clue about a woman in black.Seattle, WA
- Apr 12, 1895The Cowboy Who Cashed His Own ChecksA visiting cowboy passed about $100 in forged Frye-Bruhn checks across Seattle saloons, then caught the steamer Kingston before the warrant could catch him.Seattle, WA