Oregon
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‘Grim Death Came and Took a Step’ : Mike Mitchell
In the years before his death on 13 January 1862, Mike Mitchell had gained a degree of fame and popularity in California and the Pacific Northwest ‘as the best jig dancer ever on this coast.’ On Saturday, 11 January 1862, Mitchell returned to his Portland, Oregon, lodging house, apparently drunk. He got into an argument… Continue reading
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Jack Mayes
The San Francisco Examiner 4 May 1915 On Thursday, 24 June 1915, Mrs. Jessie L. Mayes, a widowed mother of four, left a wicker suitcase in E.J. Shefter’s drugstore on Second and Alder Streets, Portland, Oregon. A short while later, a teenage boy arrived and announced that he had been sent to retrieve the suitcase. … Continue reading
Hellish Fiends, and Brutish Men 