City of Seattle Records

Office of the Prosecuting Attorney Union Block Seattle Washington ____%%____ June 3, 1891. To the Honorable, the Board of Aldermen and the House of Delegates, City of Seattle. Gentlemen:I desire to call the attention of your Honorable body and especially the Committee on License and Revenue, and each of your Honorable Body regarding the license of a certain saloon, situated at #1413 Front Street. The comptroller of the city informs me that the license of that saloon is in the name of William Efer. The facts to which I desire to call your attention, are briefly these: For sometime past, three men have been operating a swindling game of most disreputable specie, swindling strangers of considerable sums of money, making this saloon their head quarters throughout all of their unlawful acts. These three men I have just convicted in the Superior court of this County of carrying on and operating swindling games. The victum in thier latest act was an illiterate countryman arriving here from Tennessee. He was accosted on the street, and under the guise of obtaining employment was conducted to this saloon, and there swindled out of all of the money he had by one of the most notorious and disreputable swindling games that is known. The propriator of this saloon cannot be in ignorance of the acts of those swindlers who make that saloon their head