Fatal Shooting at Coulee City Restaurant
A gambler’s reckless gunfire leaves a local pioneer dead and another man wounded.
On Monday night, at Coulee City, a man named John Corley began shooting inside a restaurant. When the proprietor ejected him, Corley fired into the building from the street. By Tuesday morning, it was discovered that Charles Pascoe, a pioneer of the town, had been killed by a bullet through the breast. Another man, known as Patsy, was wounded in the arm. Corley, a gambler of bad reputation, has been arrested for the act.
“Early Tuesday morning, the result of this fusillade was found to be the killing of Charles Pascoe, one of the pioneers of the town.”
This reflects the volatile nature of life in Washington's rapidly growing frontier towns, where public disputes in social spaces often escalated into lethal encounters.
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