Tom Blanck
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- 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
- Mar 25, 1895Two Thousand Seattleites Filed Past the Outlaw's Corpse — and Some Said It Wasn't HimBurial is postponed while a Fremont woman insists the dead man is her friend's missing husband. The jail keys and handcuffs in his pocket say otherwise.King County Jail, Seattle, WA
- Mar 29, 1895The Outlaw's Only Friend Comes Home to SeattleTom Blanck's sole confidant returns from Victoria and tells a reporter what the notorious Northwest criminal was really like — a killer who never touched liquor or tobacco, and who swore he'd never be taken alive.Seattle, WA
- May 20, 1895The Burglar Who Wanted a Razor Before Walla WallaRichard H. Ford, a self-styled 'famous burglar' with a morphine habit, was shipped off to the state penitentiary—after begging for a shave and trying to dig through the jail floor.King County Jail, Seattle, WA