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22 stories matching englishman
- The Flying-Machine Inventor Who Vanished and Left the Carpenter Unpaid
An Englishman named Howard hired a Tacoma carpenter to build a “living machine,” then disappeared with the key to the storeroom—leaving a very anxious workman and a mysterious apparatus.
- The Right to Retire Abroad: A Veteran's Pension Fight
When a U.S. Congressman proposed cutting off pensions for veterans living overseas, the Post-Intelligencer defended an English immigrant who served in a New England regiment and returned home to Bradford after the war.
- Counterfeiting Scheme Uncovered in Gilman
Two coal miners are arrested after allegedly being caught in the act of minting counterfeit currency.
- The Cruelest Con: Fake Letters From the Sickroom
Police say an Englishman charmed strangers, learned their children’s addresses, then mailed desperate pleas for medical money.
- A Young Lawyer's Lesson in the 'Great American Game'
A visiting English lawyer is conned in Tacoma by an elaborate 'customs officer' scam; the suspect is arrested after a quick police coordination.
- Tragedy at the Depot
A railroad worker takes his own life inside a company car in Everett.
- The Brutal Assault of a Seattle Resident
In an era of casual domestic violence, a man was held to account after beating his wife in their home.
- Death of George B. Roberts
A long-time employee of the Hudson’s Bay Company and former Puget Sound Agricultural Company manager dies in Cathlamet.
- The Ghost of the Shannon
Seattle's waterfront welcomes a legendary British warship that fought in the War of 1812.
- The Lonely End of an English Settler
A quiet man living in seclusion in a remote cabin near Seattle is found dead after years of isolation.
- Trapped in the Earth
A young immigrant rancher dies in a sixty-foot well near South Bay after being overcome by gas.
- The Seattle Adventurer Exiled from Hawaii
John Cranstoun, a former Seattle drayman with a checkered past, finds himself at the center of an international diplomatic dispute after being expelled from the Hawaiian Islands.
- The Scrubwoman and the Con Man
A Seattle police investigation into a mail-fraud scheme uncovers a hidden stash of stolen goods, implicating a woman who used her job as a cleaner to pilfer from city buildings.
- A Cry for Help, Then Two Arms Above the Tide Flats
Fred Wyott borrowed his roommate's boat for an evening fishing trip near Commercial and Charles streets. Neighbors heard him cry out but could not reach him in time.
- A Wealthy Englishman's Opium Run Ends in a Tacoma Jail
Jack Forbes, a young man with a family allowance and a taste for risk, is jailed after two trunks of opium are traced to a Tacoma hotel.
- The Secret Fortune of the Bereaved Bride
A newlywed widow, grieving the loss of her husband in a tragic, rapid courtship, remains unaware of the $10,000 legacy held in her name.
- English Homesteader Runs Out of Money Near Seattle
An immigrant family struggling to clear their homestead near Seattle loses their only daughter and everything they own to a tragic logging accident.
- The Man Who Jumped the Fence: A Tale of Love, Debt, and Disappearance
A Seattle man recounts a twenty-year-old mystery involving an English defaulter who fled to Australia, married his way out of disgrace, and left behind only a letter and a fortune.
- The Card Sharps Who Picked the Wrong Captain—and Sailed to Peru
Two Seattle gamblers went to Port Townsend to fleece the master of the British ship Dimsdale. He found out, shanghaied them both, and set sail for Callao.
- Billy Fife: Self-Taught Caricaturist of Frontier Seattle
A biography of Billy Fife, a sailor and self-taught caricaturist whose sharp wit and rare artistic skill captured Seattle's frontier life.
- Seattle’s Japanese Neighbors Answer the Call of War
In August 1894, Japanese residents packed a Jefferson Street hall to send money, flour and volunteers to the First Sino-Japanese War—while Chinese Seattleites predicted Japan’s defeat.
- A Michigan Orator Packs the Armory and Rides Down the Populists
Roswell G. Horr brings the Republican gospel of protection and sound money to a standing-room crowd in Seattle — and turns the free-silver men in the hall into the evening's comedy act.