John Murphy
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- Sep 24, 1893Dying on the Doorstep of 'Reform'A laborer assaulted with a coupling-pin is left bleeding in the street after city officials and the health officer refuse to admit him to the hospital, citing new bureaucratic squabbles.Seattle, WA
- Mar 6, 1894A Gun Under His Nose: The North Seattle Highwaymen Go on TrialJohn Murphy and two alleged accomplices are identified by the laborer they robbed at Front and Clay, while a second sandbagging case ends in a sealed verdict.Seattle, WA
- Mar 7, 1894A Surprise Guilty Verdict in a Waterfront HoldupA jury convicts I. W. Tollman of highway robbery, while the trial of John Murphy for the same holdup of John Smith continues in Judge Bellinger's court.Seattle, WA
- Mar 8, 1894Three North Seattle Highwaymen Convicted in a WeekJohn and Martin Murphy and Tom Davis were found guilty of robbing John Smith near the Seattle waterfront. Their alibi witness, a man known as “Cutthroat” O’Brien, did not save them.Seattle, WA
- Mar 16, 1894Ten Years for a North Seattle RobberyThree men who held up a local citizen face a decade of hard labor in the penitentiary.Seattle, WA
- Sep 19, 1894A Drunken Ex-Policeman Tries to Shoot a South Seattle ButcherFrank Krebs, a butcher and former officer, is arrested after a cleaver-and-revolver quarrel with John Murphy.South Seattle College, Seattle, WA
- Feb 16, 1895A Seattle Butcher Beat the Drunkard’s Label and Kept His EstateA Gilded Age guardianship trial asked whether John Murphy’s drinking made him unfit to manage his own affairs. The jury said no—and his rags-to-property story came out in court.Superior Court of Washington for King County, Seattle, WA