Frank Hart
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- Jun 5, 1894The Shell Game at Myers CanneryTwo women are swindled out of $300 by a gang of con artists near the Myers Cannery, leading to a police hunt for the perpetrators of this classic 'gold brick' scam.Seattle, WA
- Jun 20, 1894The Bunko Men, the Norwegian Sisters, and the Saloonkeeper's RevengeA shell-game gang swindles two Norwegian sisters out of $300 on the Seattle waterfront; Frank Hart is convicted in three minutes, then a saloonkeeper assaults one of his accusers outside court.Seattle, WA
- Mar 18, 1895The Wooden Revolver That Freed Ten PrisonersThomas Blanck held a jailer hostage with a carved fake gun, emptied the King County jail, and vanished into Seattle's streets.Seattle, WA
- Mar 20, 1895A Wooden Gun and a Jailbreak: The Hunt for Thomas BlanckNine prisoners escaped from the King County jail. Only three have been recaptured. The notorious Thomas Blanck is still at large, armed men guard the roads, and a woman's description may be the key.Black River Junction, Renton, WA
- Mar 24, 1895The Iron Hotel: Seattle's Jail Let Convicted Killers Wait Out the LawA 1905 exposé inside the King County jail found convicted murderers lingering for years in a steel cage while appeals stalled, one prisoner fashioning a pistol from a shoe shank and escaping, and taxpayers footing the bill.King County jail, Seattle, WA