State v. Siverly

— Early in the morning of September 25, 1924, Kobert L. Litsey, a police officer of the city of Seattle, on duty, was told by a watchman employed at a market that three men had entered a rooming house situated opposite the market and that their conduct was suspicious. The police officer proceeded to investigate, started up the stairway from the street to the rooming house, which was situated on the upper floor, and while he was on this narrow stairway, a shooting took place, resulting in the officer being shot in three places and later dying from the mortal wounds which he had received. The…