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Bold bandits robbed train 3 miles from Roseburg
The job got off to a bad start when the fireman escaped and sprinted for the nearby town. The main suspect in the robbery quickly left town, and a few months later was killed in a streetcar holdup in…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Cow Creek train robbers were liberal with the dynamite
The “Baritone Bandit” led a small group of desperados with a large cache of dynamite, and they got away with a good bit of loot from the Douglas County robbery. But one of the passengers saw behind t…
Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago
Oregon crooks have always loved their dynamite
Extortionists, jailbreakers, safecrackers, jealous lovers and even truant students have, throughout the early years of Oregon history, found high explosives a powerful aid to their nefarious schemes.…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
How to rob trains with dynamite: Tips from a pro
Award-winning criminal mastermind/ motivational speaker Blackie DuQuesne shares a few key insights for aspiring train robbers on how to avoid “n00b mistakes” on a railroad heist. (1890s, 1900s, 1910s…
Published on 1 month, 4 weeks ago
‘Prepaid shanghaiing’ plot went off the rails — fatally
The sailor wanted to quit, but the captain didn't want him to; so he deposited a $60 'blood money' bonus with the British consul, as a reward if shanghaier Jim Turk could swindle him back aboard. Unf…
Published on 2 months ago
Old Oregon loggers, millworkers were tough characters
For workers in the 'bad old days' of working in the woods and in janky, underengineered sawmills, the occasional loss of a finger or two just came with the territory. (Garibaldi, Tillamook County; 19…
Published on 2 months ago
When the Confederate flag flew over Oregon soil
Smithfield rebels' gesture of defiance on the main stagecoach route caused shock and outrage, but nobody was outraged enough to risk being shot over it; so the flag waved there until federal troops a…
Published on 2 months ago
Lava Lake murders still officially unsolved, but ...
The evidence against Charles Kimzey was circumstantial, but police had the goods on him for an attempted murder the year before, so he was sent up the river on a life stretch. But clearly two men had…
Published on 2 months ago
Missing trapper’s mom suspected foul play
Ed Nickols hadn't wanted to spend the winter by himself at the remote cabin, because he'd made a dangerous enemy in a former coworker who turned out to be an escaped convict. So Roy Wilson and Dewey …
Published on 2 months ago
Lawyer schemed to steal land by shanghaiing its owner
Astoria shyster L.G. Carpenter coveted Darius Norris's valuable acreage on Long Beach Peninsula. So he got the police chief to arrest Norris on bogus charges, swindled him into signing over his prope…
Published on 2 months, 1 week ago