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3 stories matching brooch
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- The Hotel Thief Who Slept Under the Same Roof He Robbed
Sat Sanguinetti begged the Rainier Hotel's manager for a place to sleep, then used a skeleton key to strip its guests of diamonds and gold — until a private watchman caught him red-handed.
- Six Drowned and the Dead Looted: The Wreck of the Strathblane
Eyewitnesses described a fearful scene off North Beach as the iron ship Strathblane broke apart—farmers rode into the surf to save survivors while others rifled the dead.
- A Spyglass in the Cascades: How a Ten-Man Tacoma Posse Foiled a Northern Pacific Train Robbery
An informer, three weeks of hiding in the mountains, and a masked gang waiting on the tracks near Cle Elum — the trap was set for Friday night and it worked.