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  • Bold bandits robbed train 3 miles from Roseburg

    Bold bandits robbed train 3 miles from Roseburg
    2025/10/30
    The job got off to a bad start when the fireman escaped and sprinted for the nearby town. The main suspect in the robbery quickly left town, and a few months later was killed in a streetcar holdup in Washington. (Roseburg, Douglas County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1502c.roseburg-train-robbery-jack-case.326.html)
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    8 分
  • Cow Creek train robbers were liberal with the dynamite

    Cow Creek train robbers were liberal with the dynamite
    2025/10/29
    The “Baritone Bandit” led a small group of desperados with a large cache of dynamite, and they got away with a good bit of loot from the Douglas County robbery. But one of the passengers saw behind the bandit's mask ... (Cow Creek Canyon, Douglas County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1502b.cow-creek-train-robbery.325.html)
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    8 分
  • Oregon crooks have always loved their dynamite

    Oregon crooks have always loved their dynamite
    2025/10/28
    Extortionists, jailbreakers, safecrackers, jealous lovers and even truant students have, throughout the early years of Oregon history, found high explosives a powerful aid to their nefarious schemes. (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1501d.crime-and-dynamite.html)
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    11 分
  • How to rob trains with dynamite: Tips from a pro

    How to rob trains with dynamite: Tips from a pro
    2025/10/27
    Award-winning criminal mastermind/ motivational speaker Blackie DuQuesne shares a few key insights for aspiring train robbers on how to avoid “n00b mistakes” on a railroad heist. (1890s, 1900s, 1910s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1501c.how-to-rob-trains-with-blackie-duquesne.html)
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    10 分
  • ‘Prepaid shanghaiing’ plot went off the rails — fatally

    ‘Prepaid shanghaiing’ plot went off the rails — fatally
    2025/10/24
    The sailor wanted to quit, but the captain didn't want him to; so he deposited a $60 'blood money' bonus with the British consul, as a reward if shanghaier Jim Turk could swindle him back aboard. Unfortunately, they killed him in the attempt. This kicked off a three-act courtroom drama oddly reminiscent of a Three Stooges episode. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1880s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1903e.frederick-kalashua-shanghaied-541.html)
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    11 分
  • Old Oregon loggers, millworkers were tough characters

    Old Oregon loggers, millworkers were tough characters
    2025/10/23
    For workers in the 'bad old days' of working in the woods and in janky, underengineered sawmills, the occasional loss of a finger or two just came with the territory. (Garibaldi, Tillamook County; 1930s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1904b.loggers-were-tough-guys-543.html)
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    9 分
  • When the Confederate flag flew over Oregon soil

    When the Confederate flag flew over Oregon soil
    2025/10/22
    Smithfield rebels' gesture of defiance on the main stagecoach route caused shock and outrage, but nobody was outraged enough to risk being shot over it; so the flag waved there until federal troops arrived and confiscated it. (Franklin, Lane County; 1860s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1502a.rebel-flag-over-oregon.324.html)
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    8 分
  • Lava Lake murders still officially unsolved, but ...

    Lava Lake murders still officially unsolved, but ...
    2025/10/21
    The evidence against Charles Kimzey was circumstantial, but police had the goods on him for an attempted murder the year before, so he was sent up the river on a life stretch. But clearly two men had done the killing -- and no one ever really got a line on who his partner might have been. (Big Lava Lake, Deschutes County; 1920s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/1904d.trapper-murders-lava-lake-part2-545.html)
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    9 分