Prosecuting Attorney Hastie
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- Feb 6, 1895The Treasurer's Bond Begins to CrumbleTwo surety names vanish from John W. Maple's $400,000 bond, and more may follow as King County waits for its prosecutor.Seattle, WA
- Feb 19, 1895Murphy Must Face a Second Jury for the Copper Chief Saloon KillingA double-jeopardy plea fails in Seattle, and jury selection opens in the 1892 murder of barkeeper Phil Dawes over a bottle of whisky bought on credit.Seattle, WA
- Feb 19, 1895Bond Battle: King County Treasurer Resigns After Commissioners Reject His SuretyA.P. Mitten steps down after the board refuses his bond, declaring the office vacant—but not before a pointed exchange over legal instructions.Seattle, WA
- Mar 5, 1895The Populist Takes the County TreasuryAfter a long bond fight, J. W. Maple finally took control of King County's money—and the temporary treasurer resigned rather than stand in the way.King County Courthouse, Seattle, WA
- Mar 19, 1895The Wooden Revolver That Sprung Tom BlanckA murderer awaiting appeal in the King County jail used a hand-carved fake gun to force his way past the night jailer, then vanished into the Black River woods as a sheriff's posse rushed south by special train.King County Jail, Seattle, WA
- Mar 31, 1895Redmond's School Board Told Two Girls to Pay Up—or Stay OutA residency dispute over free public schooling put a frontier town's school board on the defensive in 1895.Redmond, WA
- May 21, 1895The South Seattle Cabin Murder Goes to TrialWilliam A. Wilcox's jury is finally seated after thirty veniremen and a defense blizzard of motions; the state opens with a story of chloroform, a stocking, and a dead mother on the South Seattle hillside.South Seattle hillside, Seattle, WA
- May 26, 1895The $5,000 Price of Freedom: Tacoma's Wilcox Trial and the Taxpayers' BurdenA detailed accounting of the Wilcox murder trial reveals the staggering cost of criminal prosecutions in 1899, from $137 for a witness from Los Angeles to the fees for 76 witnesses and a jury.Tacoma, WA
- Jun 26, 1895Nine Minutes to Acquit: A Kent Killing Ruled Self-DefenseA jury took barely nine minutes to free a longtime King County man who killed a neighbor with a pitchfork after a quarrel over money on the road home from Kent.Kent, WA
- Jun 30, 1895The Drunken Clerk Who Shot a Policeman Walked Out With a $1,000 FineHarry C. Good, a young man of good reputation, shot Officer Glasscock in a drunken freak. A judge who could have sent him to prison for years let him off with a fine — while a horse thief and a burglar each got three years.Seattle, WA