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17 stories matching morbid
- The Morbid Crowds at the Morgue
A double murder-suicide sparks a frenzy of gawking in Seattle.
- The Waterfront 'Dead Animal' Grift
Seattle's city health authorities discover a morbid, recurring scam involving dead horses and the tides.
- Wireless Expert Disappears Following Mysterious Note
A Marconi Company employee vanishes after writing a cryptic message to his assistant.
- The Ballard Ghost Case
A morbid prank involving a 'dummy corpse' in Ballard sends the local coroner on a wild goose chase, leaving the town laughing at his indignation.
- The Swindler Who Stole More Than Just Cash
A prolific con artist wreaking havoc across the Pacific Coast has taken a final, strange step: assuming the identity of the very man he swindled.
- The Corpse in the Chicken Yard
A bungled insurance swindle in 1890s Seattle turns grisly when an amateur conspiracy, a stolen body, and a coded German letter unravel in a courtroom inquest.
- The Struggle for Inclusion in the Civil War Era
A local letter to the editor challenges the anti-immigrant prejudice of the day, arguing that foreign-born citizens are just as essential to the Republic as native-born ones.
- The Vigil Outside the Funeral Home
A morbid curiosity draws crowds to an undertaker's shop, where skeptical observers refuse to believe a woman has passed away, even after medical confirmation.
- The Price of a 'Bad Man's' Temper
A Seattle newspaper editorial rails against a lenient verdict for a saloon regular who murdered a bartender over a perceived slight.
- The Price of Discontent: A Warning from the 1877 Panic
While Seattle thrives on the steady hum of mills and logging camps, a Seattle editor warns citizens against petty grievances by recounting the harrowing hunger and unemployment plaguing the rest of the country.
- The Radloff Insurance Plot Unravels
After days of resistance, Mrs. Radloff confesses her knowledge of a morbid conspiracy to swindle insurance companies with a fake corpse.
- A Week of Tragedy in Pierce County
A string of suicides, murders, and accidents shocks Tacoma as a young student and an asylum patient end their own lives.
- The Walla Walla Wooden Leg Incident
A spectacular blaze in an Eastern Washington town ends with an unexpected, wooden-legged dance.
- The $35 Alibi in Seattle's Miller Murder
Henry Craemer says a Tacoma prospector repaid an old debt just before Mrs. Philipena Miller and her baby were killed; detectives are trying to break the story.
- Two Thousand Seattleites Filed Past the Outlaw's Corpse — and Some Said It Wasn't Him
Burial is postponed while a Fremont woman insists the dead man is her friend's missing husband. The jail keys and handcuffs in his pocket say otherwise.
- Two Dollars a Head: Seattle's Labor Commissioner Takes On the Employment Agencies
Charged with running the city's free employment office as a union errand boy, Commissioner John Lamb answers that the private agencies have been selling men jobs that do not exist.
- A Church Scandal Erupts in a Seattle Libel Trial
M. H. Nichols stood accused of criminally libeling Presiding Elder T. B. Ford. The defense spent the day trading rumors, old grudges, and one complaint about the prosecutor's booming voice.