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Chief Justice Greene On Mob Law, Leander T. Turner, Roger S. Greene
Chief Justice Greene On Mob Law, Leander T. Turner, Roger S. Greene
Washington Law Review
On January 18, 1882, three men were hung by a mob in Seattle on what is now James Street between First and Second Avenues. Two of them had just been held for trial after a hearing before a justice of the peace for the murder the evening before of a popular Seattle citizen. They were seized by a mob in the court room and hurried to the place of execution, the sheriff and his deputies present being overpowered. The third was in jail awaiting trial for the murder of a policeman and was taken from the jail on the same …