Nordstrom
Named in 3 stories. Back to all names
- Sep 1, 1894Fifty Murders, Not One Hanging: Seattle Puts Its Courts on TrialA Post-Intelligencer editorial argues that endless technical appeals have made King County a place where killers walk free — and warns that the resulting public fury is the courts' own fault.Seattle, WA
- Sep 13, 1894A Killer's Calm: Craemer Hears His Death Sentence Without a FlinchConvicted of murdering a mother and her child, the stoic German prisoner awaits a new trial while his lawyer hunts a missing alibi witness in the mountains.Seattle, 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