Family Feud on Commercial Street
A domestic dispute escalates to public threats when a husband allegedly stalks his estranged wife's brother.
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Constable Terry King was searching yesterday afternoon for a baker named Gustave A. Randolph, who is wanted on the charge of having threatened the life of Joseph K. Arnold, steward at the Branch, on Commercial Street. Randolph married Arnold's sister, and she left him about a month ago, coming to live with her brother's family. Arnold says his sister left her husband because he got drunk and mistreated her, and that Randolph has ill-feeling toward him and comes to the Branch frequently while under the influence of liquor and threatens to shoot him.
“Arnold says his sister left her husband because he got drunk and mistreated her, and that Randolph has ill-feeling toward him and comes to the Branch frequently.”
Domestic disputes leading to public threats were a frequent fixture of the police blotter in late 19th-century Seattle. The location, Commercial Street (now 1st Avenue South in Pioneer Square), was the heart of the city's early commercial and social life.
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