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11 stories matching commit
- A Desperate Hour in a Chehalis Saloon
A mysterious stranger’s public suicide attempt offers a chilling snapshot of frontier instability in late 19th-century Lewis County.
- The Unlucky Suicide
A farmhand attempts to take his own life twice, only to find himself frustrated by his own survival and a change of heart.
- A Centralia Tragedy: A Logger's Jealous Rage
After a week away at a logging camp, a man returns home to commit a double murder-suicide, leaving behind a chilling note.
- A Violent Quarrel Near Riffe
A drunken dispute between two young men in Lewis County ended in a fatal shooting and a subsequent suicide.
- The Serpent Slayer of Chehalis
A man wanders into town wearing a top hat to battle a monster he believes is terrorizing the rail lines.
- The Dark Secrets of a Deathbed Will
A Centralia druggist claims his arrest on fraud charges is a retaliation for his testimony regarding a coerced deathbed will that disinherited a dying man to benefit his doctor.
- The Suicide of H. A. Ray: A Seattle Man’s Tragic End Amidst Scandal and Debt
Prominent waterworks official takes his own life in Chicago after financial ruin and a complex romantic entanglement with a woman he claimed was his sister.
- A Desperate Hour in Chehalis
After a domestic quarrel, a former probate judge in Chehalis attempts to end his life in the same room where a gruesome murder occurred years prior.
- The Price of Challenging the Northern Pacific
After suing a railroad giant for injury, George Conroy was met with a perjury charge, jailed for the summer, and driven to insanity.
- The Boy Too Tough for the Reform School
A teenage burglar escapes Chehalis, stumps the trustees, and triggers a constitutional standoff over who must deal with an incorrigible child.
- The Preacher, the W.C.T.U. Woman, and the Congregation That Chose Not to Look
Rev. C. C. Marston talked his way out of a scandal in Centralia, was dismissed in Olympia, and has resurfaced in Illinois doing revival work — with another man's wife at his side and his own wife and five children left in want.