The Vashon Machinery Heist
Two men receive three-year sentences for stealing a scow-load of machinery from a Vashon Island brickyard.
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Eugene Kelley and Charles Ames, convicted last Wednesday of stealing a scow-load of machinery from a brickyard on Vashon Island, had their motions for a new trial denied by Judge Humes and were at once sentenced to three years each in the Walla Walla penitentiary. If their cases are not appealed, they will be taken over at once.
“Stealing a scow-load of machinery from a brickyard on Vashon island.”
While Vashon Island has transitioned from an industrial site to a rural residential community, the historical record of local industrial thefts like this provides a glimpse into the raw, extraction-based economy that built early Seattle.
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