Olympic Land and Investment Company
Named in 2 stories. Back to all names
- May 15, 1895The Railroad Land Agent Who Embezzled for Ten Years and Chose SuicideA Northern Pacific land agent's decade-long scheme to skim payments on timber and farm contracts unravels into a $350,000 shortage — and a bullet.Tacoma, WA
- May 16, 1895The Land Agent Who Cashed a Draft on a Man Who Never ExistedAfter the federal land agent's suicide, Seattle started talking: $4,800 drawn on a mythical San Franciscan, a friend's wine cellar drunk dry, and not enough cash left in the estate to bury him.Seattle, WA