Wicked Seattle

Teresa Nordheim

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2020
• eBook ISBN: 9781439669501
• Edition: 0

Early Seattle enticed settlers with an abundance of natural resources, potential wealth, stunning beauty and versatile climate. It offered gainful employment for fishermen, loggers and miners, but those who rushed west quickly discovered that all that glitters is not gold. The rapidly expanding city lacked one precious resource: women. Bored men yearned for entertainment, while prostitution, gambling and illegal alcohol grew in popularity. Over the years, politicians, police officers and crime bosses accepted graft to keep vice profiting and the city growing, including bootlegger Roy Olmstead and a brothel owner known as Madame Damnable. Teresa Nordheim, author of Murder & Mayhem in Seattle, introduces the wicked side of the Emerald City's history.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction: Wicked Seattle
• Defiance of Unlawful Authority: Governor Isaac Stevens
• Operating a House of Ill Repute: John Pinnell
• Profanity in the Seventh Degree: Mother Damnable
• Public Intoxication by Beauty: Lou Graham
• Aggravated Assault Act One: John Considine
• Bribing an Officer: Police Chief Charles Wappenstein
• Impersonating a Doctor: Dr. Linda Hazzard
• Conspiracy to Smuggle Alcohol: Officer Roy Olmstead
• Failure to Disclose: Nellie Curtis
• Racketeering and Tax Evasion: Frank Colacurcio Sr.
• Willful Abandonment of the Law: Prosecutor Charles Carroll
• Thirteen Counts of First-Degree Murder: Willie Mak, Benjamin Ng and Tony Ng
• Federal Robbery and Eluding Police: Hollywood Bandit
• Bibliography
• About the Author