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| Year | Stories |
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| 1861 | 2 |
| 1872 | 2 |
| 1876 | 1 |
| 1877 | 2 |
| 1878 | 3 |
| 1882 | 1 |
| 1883 | 2 |
| 1884 | 2 |
| 1885 | 4 |
| 1886 | 5 |
| 1887 | 5 |
| 1888 | 3 |
| 1889 | 6 |
| 1890 | 1 |
| 1891 | 1 |
| 1892 | 21 |
| 1893 | 15 |
| 1894 | 11 |
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| 1905 | 1 |
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| 1917 | 1 |
5 stories matching escal
- The Unholy Row at the Pool Hall
A local hothead turned a Sunday game of billiards into a brush with death after a botched pistol shot.
- The Jailer and the Sheriff’s Keys
A power struggle inside the King County jail ends in a public firing after a suspicious security lapse involving lost keys and unauthorized visitors.
- The Deadly Feud of Talbot Road
A long-standing dispute between two neighbors in a small Washington community escalates into a fatal ambush at daybreak.
- Streetcar Chaos and the Case of the Two Dynamite Bombs
An evening confrontation on a Tacoma streetcar escalated into a brawl involving two armed men and a terrifying discovery of hidden explosives.
- The Bachelor of South Lake and the One-Dollar Fine
A territorial dispute over a fence escalated into a shooting and a lake-dunking, leading to an unlikely legal entanglement for an elderly hermit.