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23 stories matching juri
- A Jury in Colville Wastes No Time on a Wife Poisoner
George Pepoon showed no more feeling at his murder conviction than he had through the whole trial — the jury reached its verdict in 67 minutes, on a single ballot.
- The Wealth Test for Justice
A new statute restricting jury duty to 'taxpayers' effectively excludes the working class from serving as peers in legal proceedings.
- Poisoning Case Waits for a Jury in Stevens County
George L. Pepoon, accused alongside an escaped convict of poisoning his wife, Edith, may not face trial until May because no April jury was drawn.
- Coroner's Jury Clears Stepson Who Shot His Stepfather
A Burlington youth shoots and kills his stepfather after the older man struck his sister and fired at him first; a jury rules it justifiable homicide.
- A Northport Man Poisoned His Wife. A Colville Jury Took 67 Minutes to Say So.
George Pepoon heard the verdict 'guilty of murder in the first degree' with the same calm he had shown through his whole trial for poisoning his wife at Northport the previous August.
- Railroad's Right-of-Way Bill Comes Back at $6,000
A Colville jury rejects a $30,000-an-acre claim from the old Jordan cement plant and hands the Idaho Washington Northern a costly but smaller condemnation verdict.
- A Railroad Injury Suit That Lasted Ten Minutes
Jack Harper sought $10,000 for an engine that struck him in the Newport yards. A Sandpoint jury sided with the railroad almost instantly.
- The Tragedy at Burlington
A domestic dispute between a stepfather and his stepson ends in a fatal shooting, ruled justifiable by a coroner's jury.
- The Price of Immunity
Three Seattle officers face indictment for allegedly accepting regular bribes from women in the underworld to guarantee protection from arrest.
- A Midnight Death at a Disorderly Resort—and a Jury That Cleared Everyone
W. Bien died in a scuffle at Gladys Bien's Ione resort. Nine people were arrested; a coroner's jury released them all.
- The Grange Takes a Stand for Reform
Lynden's Pomona Grange convenes to debate cooperative rail lines, nonpartisan judiciaries, and a grand jury to audit county books.
- "An Act of Providence": State Clears the Great Northern for the Wellington Dead
After a joint inquiry with the coroner's jury into the Wellington disaster, the state railroad commission finds the train crew did everything reasonable and calls the catastrophe an act of God — then quietly asks engineers to study the grade.
- A Jury Settles the Water for Calispell
Landowners in the Calispell bottoms are awarded damages, clearing the way for a diking district to reclaim about 100 acres from the annual overflow.
- The Sheriff Under Arrest
In a bizarre legal tangle, the King County coroner arrests the sheriff for failing to enforce slot machine laws.
- The Judge, the Railroad and the Case That Fell Apart
Prosecutors in Spokane can barely get evidence before the jury as M. J. Gordon, a former Washington chief justice, stands accused of embezzling $9,200 in railroad settlement money.
- The Bank Examiner Who Embezzled His Own Bank
A former state senator and bank examiner is convicted of looting the Palouse State Bank in Colfax — a twelve-day trial, sixty-five bank books, and $22,000 gone.
- He Came to Stop a Beating and Never Went Home
George Lust went to the Bafus place near Wilcox to shield his sister from her husband. Bafus met him with a stick of wood — and now faces a murder charge.
- The Trial of James F. Logan
A murder trial in Colville stalls as the court struggles to find an impartial jury among citizens who have already read the details in the press.
- A Poisoned Wife and a Verdict at Last: The Pepoon Murder Case
A Stevens County jury convicts George L. Pepoon of first-degree murder for the strychnine death of his wife Edith — but the man who helped him remains at large, and the county only acted after private citizens forced its hand.
- The Price of Justice in Pend Oreille
The county tallies the steep financial burden of the Logan trial, revealing the high cost of local criminal prosecution.
- The Tyranny of the Injunction
An editorial critique of the judiciary's increasing reliance on court orders to break labor strikes and circumvent legislative power.
- The Strychnine Widower: Northport Man on Trial for Poisoning His Insane Wife
George L. Pepoon stands accused of killing the mother of his three children for $1,000 in insurance and a new bride — with a paroled convict as the state's star witness.
- Newport Saloon Owners Sue the Railroad That Remade Their Street
John Koch and Max Weinkauff say the Idaho Washington Northern turned Fourth Street from a business center into a smoky, obstructed nuisance—and they want $10,000.