Wednesday, February 10, 2010 - Page updated at 12:00 a.m.

COURTESY OF RUSS HANBEY

In the early 1900s, Seattle police Officer John F. Weedin started a family tradition of peacekeepers. But in the tumultuous town that was Seattle in 1916, an encounter with a wary watchman outside a bootlegging operation late one summer night would end in his and another officer's death: the first multiple killing of city police in its history. Read story

1916 Seattle was a hotbed of sin when 2 officers were killed

In a city roiling with sin, keeping the peace was deadly business. So just what did happen on the night of July 24, 1916, in a shootout that ended the lives of two police officers and a watchman?

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