Articles from the September 18, 2015 edition

Sep 18, 2015

Headlines By Finn J.D. John When the story first hit the newspapers, it all seemed very clear and simple: An Albina man got drunk and beat up his wife. Her brother went looking for him to teach him a lesson, and brought along a friend who happened to be a police officer. The wifebeater, tracked down at a local saloon, came out shooting, and moments later the innocent, luckless policeman lay dying on the sidewalk as the wife-beating murderer fled into the night. For newspaper readers on the morning of Dec. 19, 1907, it was like a Vaudeville...