Scope and Contents note Record of criminal cases heard in Justice Court, with some volumes also containing records of search warrants granted by the judge. Case information includes name of defendant, complainant, offense, witnesses, jurors, attorneys, court costs, bail set, bond paid, fines, and disposition of the case. Each record also contains an account of the progression of the case, with dates of filings, subpoenas, hearings, and trials. Cases involve violation of Washington State criminal statutes, and most...

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Court journal of Justice Robert R. George containing a log of civil and criminal cases heard by him in early 1901. It includes summary information: names of the plaintiff and defendant, names of attorneys, charged offense, plea, bail, name of witness(es), and judgment, but does not include case numbers. This series appears to be a record maintained by the judge during the course of hearings and trials.

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Schedule of civil and criminal cases heard in Justice Court by Justice John B. Gordon. Includes case number, parties to the case, attorneys, time, and "court minutes" (offense, continuances, judgment). Case numbers do not correspond to the case numbers in the Criminal Dockets.

Scope and Contents note Summary of civil and criminal cases heard in Justice Court. Includes case number, date, names of parties to the case, offense, fees, and judgment. Each record also contains an account of the progression of the case, with dates of filings, subpoenas, hearings, and trials. Case numbers do not correspond to case numbers in the Criminal Dockets. Volume 15 contains cases in 1892 and 1893, and then was later used by a different judge for unnumbered cases from 1899 to 1900. The majority of civil...

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Annual reports of the Municipal Court of Seattle. Also included are Municipal Traffic Court and Traffic Violations Bureau reports.

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Correspondence, legislation, reports, and speeches organized by City department. Includes materials on the Mayor's Reorganization Project, energy legislation, conservation programs, and the activities of city council committees. Includes one folder of speeches by Mayor Charles Royer.

Scope and Contents note Prohibition in Washington State began in 1916, three years before the U.S. Constitution was amended to outlaw the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol on a national level. The state law was less draconian – county auditors were allowed to grant permits to import limited amounts of alcohol – but was still widely violated. Bootleggers and rumrunners did a thriving business supplying Washingtonians with illegal liquor, and many people built stills to manufacture their own. Until...

Scope and Contents note Prohibition in Washington State began in 1916, three years before the U.S. Constitution was amended to outlaw the manufacture, transportation, and sale of alcohol on a national level. The state law was less draconian – county auditors were allowed to grant permits to import limited amounts of alcohol – but was still widely violated. Bootleggers and rumrunners did a thriving business supplying Washingtonians with illegal liquor, and many people built stills to manufacture their own. Until...

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Dockets, logs, and indexes of cases heard in Seattle's Police Court.

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Indexes to the Police Court Dockets (5601-01) list the defendant's name, the volume or docket number in which the case appears, and the page number of the volume. (The first volume lists only the defendant's name and case number.) Each volume indexes between 3 and 21 dockets; within each index volume defendants are organized by first letter of their last name and then listed in order of their case number.

Scope and Contents note This series contains summary information of cases heard in Police Court and corresponds to the Police Court Dockets (5601-01). It was probably used to compute the final costs related to the cases. Includes date, case number corresponding to Police Court Docket case number, name of defendant, offense, names of attorneys, names of witnesses, plea, and judgment. Cases that were continued for two or more days have listings for each day they came before the judge. This record was compiled by the...

Scope and Contents note This is a log of cases heard in Police Court and corresponds to the Police Court Dockets (5601-01). It includes summary information: date, name of defendant, offense, bail, plea, names of prosecution witnesses, and judgment. Beginning with Volume 5, the entries include a "sheet number" which corresponds to the "blotter number" in the Police Court Dockets.The Police Judge's Journal does not include case numbers as found in the Dockets. This series appears to be a daily record maintained by...

Scope and Contents note Correspondence, memoranda, studies, staff reports, and newspaper clippings related primarily to public safety and public utilities issues. Major topics include zoning for adult cabarets, drug traffic loitering, fireworks, weed and seed, gun control, police/community relations, internal investigations, specific complaints against the police from the public, electricity rates, Seattle City Light and Seattle Public Utilities management, environmental policies and conservation, water quality,...