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| Year | Stories |
|---|---|
| 1894 | 2 |
| 1895 | 5 |
7 stories matching friar
- A Stranger, a Pistol, and No Motive: The Unsolved Shooting of Harry Fraser
Seattle mourners fill a chapel for Harry J. Fraser as the man accused of killing him sits in the county jail—and no one can explain why the shot was fired.
- The Price of Red Tape in Everett
After a man is left to die from neglect, local observers point to a fractured county bureaucracy that prioritizes procedure over the lives of the indigent.
- A Saloon Shooting Becomes a First-Degree Murder Case
Harry L. Fraser died after Paul Page's revolver went off at the Northern Hotel saloon. Page will be charged with murder as Fraser's widow takes his body home to California.
- A Road Through the Barn: Drunk Commissioners and a Judge's Rebuke
A Snohomish County road crew moves to cut a highway through T. Larson's house and barn; testimony says two commissioners were too drunk to inspect the route.
- The Widow, the Prisoner, and a Near-Miss on Yesler Hill
Mrs. Harry L. Fraser demanded to face Paul Page, the man accused of killing her husband in a Northern Hotel barroom—while Page was being arraigned a few blocks away.
- Everett Takes Stock: Mills, Smelters and a Whaleback
The 1894 annual review counts payrolls, ore, lumber and shingles—and a new steel steamer—as proof that the young Snohomish County city is on the rise.
- Hasheesh, Absinthe, and a Human Pelvis in the Page Murder Trial
Defense experts told a Seattle jury that a drug could explain Page's condition on the morning he shot Fraser, while the state argued he remembered everything.