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- A Scandalous Escape and Elopement in Tacoma
A prominent Tacoma man's affair with his friend's schoolmate ends in a bizarre jailhouse arrest after a botched elopement involving the man's own child.
- The Hangman Creek Snake Bite
A young girl is saved from a rattlesnake strike by a desperate, high-stakes remedy of local folk medicine.
- The Hermit Rancher Who Died Without Ever Knowing He Was Worth $4 Million
For years Ansel White scratched a living from a Clallam County farm while a fortune waited for him in the East. By the time his nephew tracked him down, he had been dead three years — and sixteen heirs were still waiting for the money.
- The Inspector's Lost Son Was Working at Providence Hospital
Edward Byrnes Jr., abducted from Brooklyn as a boy, was found at Providence Hospital in Seattle and says he was stolen to punish his father, the famous New York police superintendent.
- The Missing Will That Would Have Given Seattle a Library
Henry Yesler's widow and two doctors are arrested, accused of burning a will that left the pioneer's fortune—and his mansion—to the city.