High-Stakes Poker and Perjury in the Wickersham Trial
A local poker dealer and several associates are arrested in a cross-territory legal fallout involving allegations of perjury linked to a high-profile case.
C. W. Young, a stud poker dealer, was arrested in this city last week and taken to Seattle to answer to the charge of perjury in testifying in the Wickersham trial that he had seen Sadie Brantner and R. F. Radebaugh together in McGuire’s road house. Sadie Smith, who was in Yakima last week, returned to Seattle, and she, with her sister May and Alex McGuire, were also arrested on the same charge.
“C. W. Young, a stud poker dealer, was arrested in this city last week and taken to Seattle to answer to the charge of perjury.”
This reflects the often-lurid nature of legal scandals in the late 19th-century Pacific Northwest, where personal feuds frequently bled into the court system. It provides a glimpse into the transient, rough-and-tumble world of gambling and 'road house' life in early Washington.
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