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157 stories matching heist
- A Woman’s Escape from an Abusive Marriage
A Seattle woman recounts the abuse she suffered at the hands of her husband in Gilman and her struggle to leave him.
- A Costly Five Weeks of Marriage
A Gilman storekeeper finds his marriage ends in a sour legal dispute and a drained bank account.
- Roslyn Bank Robbery Trial Ends in Hung Jury
A retelling of the 1890 bank heist that terrorized a Kittitas County mining town and triggered a high-stakes manhunt.
- The Fake Postal Inspector Who Robbed the Great Northern — and Got Away With Less Than $5
A bogus federal inspector bound two mail clerks, rifled registered pouches, and slipped off the Oriental Limited at Spokane, leaving Newport authorities to piece together a brazen, almost profitless heist.
- The Great Elma Bank Heist: Fire as a Distraction
Seven masked bandits robbed the Elma bank of $3,500 on Saturday night, using a strategically timed arson attack on the local school gymnasium to draw police and citizens away from the scene.
- The Railroad’s Big Heist: Northern Pacific Claims Indian Land It Doesn’t Own
As the Puyallup Reservation faces a legal siege from the Northern Pacific Railway, federal officials warn that a treaty-protected land grab could strip thousands of acres from Native families for pennies on the dollar.
- The Statehouse Heist
A political mob forcibly seizes company records from a government official in a Spokane hotel room.
- The Great Tacoma Cylinder Heist
A local businessman is drugged and swindled out of a small fortune in company stock while bar-hopping in Tacoma.
- The Inside Story of the Roslyn Bank Job
A tipster known as 'The Queen' and a remorseful participant reveal how a secret ring of thirteen men planned a violent bank heist in the coal mining town of Roslyn.
- The Great City Hall Heist
After the Seattle city treasurer vanishes with public funds, a desperate, rumor-fueled manhunt ensues, implicating bankers and brothel keepers in a massive scandal.
- The Great Poker Heist: A Man Steals Glass to Escape His Debts
In a bizarre twist of justice in 1872 Seattle, a gambler fleeing a poker loss was caught stealing window panes from a saloon instead of cash.
- The Great Money-Jar Heist
A notorious career criminal and his accomplices are captured after a daring burglary at a Seattle clothing store, prompting the store owners to turn the crime into a promotional spectacle.
- The Great Seattle Streetcar Heist
A scathing editorial exposing the city council's plans to give away a lucrative cable car franchise on Front Street without public oversight or fair payment.
- The Olympia Safe Heist and the Culture of Corruption
A government agent discovered a $39,000 deficit in the Olympia sub-treasury, only for the missing funds to vanish entirely after the agent allegedly returned control to the defaulting official.
- The Great Pacific Northwest Timber Heist
A federal investigation reveals that $40 million worth of timber was pilfered from government lands in the Puget Sound region since 1855, fueling a battle over corporate exploitation of public resources.
- The Great Timber Land Heist
Federal investigators uncover a widespread scheme where syndicates used ‘fictitious names’ and paid off desperate men to seize Washington’s valuable timber lands.
- The Roslyn Bank Robber Hunt
An anxious stranger trying to sell a fine sorrel horse for half its value triggers a manhunt in Kent after a daring daylight bank heist.
- The Million-Dollar Water Heist
A scathing audit reveals that Tacoma taxpayers were bilked out of over a million dollars in a rigged water works acquisition deal.
- The Great County Treasury Heist
After fleeing to Whidbey Island, a disgraced ex-treasurer remains at large while investigators uncover a web of missing warrants and forged securities.
- The Port Angeles Election Heist
After voters elected a Populist candidate as mayor, the city council took the law into their own hands and recounted the ballots to strip him of the office.
- The Great Emigration Heist: How Oregon and California Stole Washington’s Future
A territorial report reveals that aggressive agents in San Francisco are actively sabotaging settlers bound for the Pacific Northwest, leaving only one man from a Nebraska colony to tell the tale.
- The Great Hotel Heist That Wasn't: How Seattle’s Gamblers Were Fooled by a Fake Fortune
A broken-down cardsharp named 'Splitcheck Jimmy' was tricked into stealing an envelope full of newspaper, only to be ambushed by actors in a staged robbery at the St. Denis Hotel.
- The Great Hose Heist: How a Seattle Fire Department Was Almost Scammed by a New York Manufacturer
A peculiar dispute over fire equipment reveals the cutthroat world of late-19th-century municipal procurement, where agents played cities against manufacturers and warrants were used as currency.
- The Wells-Fargo Frame-Up
A detective agency is caught attempting to bribe a driver to falsely implicate two men in a $2,000 express heist.
- The Ballard Roulette Heist
A masked gunman terrorized a Ballard gambling hall, making off with the house cash while twenty players stood frozen in surprise.
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- The Heist at the Seattle Saloon
Clever thieves target a West Yesler Avenue saloon, concealing themselves in a ladies' box to bypass security and escape with cash.
- The Hanford Heist
Two strangers are held in the county jail after a clean safe-cracking job leaves the town of Hanford without its store funds.
- The Bold Heist at the Washington Hotel
Thieves in Seattle cracked a 500-pound safe in broad daylight after rolling it from the city's finest hotel.
- The Hardware Heist Ends in Betrayal
Two young burglars thought their sailor friend was the perfect fence—until he walked them straight into a police ambush.
- Armed Heist at the Commercial Dock
A shopkeeper at the foot of Pacific Avenue is held at gunpoint in a daring daylight robbery.
- The Failed Heist on Second Street
A daring nighttime break-in at a Seattle hardware store is thwarted by an observant watchman.
- A High-Wire Heist at Ninth and Commerce
Budding criminals scaled a twelve-foot transom to loot a hardware store, only to ignore a massive, unlocked safe in favor of a handful of change.
- The Great Snohomish Trunk Heist
When two 'dudish' young merchants tried to skip town without paying their boarding house bill, the landlord intervened with a classic confrontation.