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Norman F. Silkworth

Case from Seattle, WA dated Mar 07, 1952

Victim Details

Nor F. Silkworth

Male

White / Caucasian

Seattle

WA

1952-03-07

26

Norman

F. Silkworth

07/01/2026

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Norman F. Silkworth, a 26-year-old male of White/Caucasian ethnicity, was a King County sheriff’s deputy who responded before dawn on March 7, 1952, to a robbery call at the Inglewood Golf and Country Club near Kenmore, north of Seattle. Four masked men had overpowered two night watchmen and a dishwasher, looted the safe and slot machines, and fled. The dishwasher, 57-year-old Ralph Bishop, managed to free himself, retrieved a handgun from his upstairs room, and moved through the darkened buil ...
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