Sheriff Thompson
Named in 4 stories. Back to all names
- Aug 9, 1883‘You Are Hanging an Innocent Man’: A Condemned Killer’s Last Words Before 4,000 WitnessesEzra Snoderly, one of the Cummins murderers, is hanged in Dayton’s courthouse square — insisting to the very end that he dies for another man’s crime, while the crowd judges him ‘game.’Dayton, WA
- Feb 7, 1884The Missing Express PackageAn express agent at Ainsworth finds himself in the middle of a $15,000 mystery after a package disappears under his watch.Ainsworth, WA
- May 9, 1884The Judge Who Demanded Women JurorsWhen a grand jury panel ran dry in Walla Walla, the local judge preferred women to 'scrubby' men.Walla Walla, WA
- Jun 26, 1895A Constable, a Cattle Thief, and Five Bullets on the Road to RitzvilleDetective L. A. Conlee arrested Alfred Simes for cattle rustling at Sprague and set out for Ritzville with his prisoner. By morning he was dead in the road, shot five times, and Simes was riding north toward British Columbia.Ritzville, WA