Steven Watson

Death by Force

In the turbulent summer of 1934, amidst the heated tensions of a bitter waterfront strike that had paralyzed Seattle and other West Coast ports, 48-year-old Steve S. Watson, a special deputy sheriff for King County, met a violent and untimely end. On July 9, this male officer was caught in the midst of a street brawl in downtown Seattle, a confrontation that would prove to be fatal. Early reports suggested he was unarmed when he was pulled from his car by an angry mob, but later accounts indicat ...Read More

Deputy Sheriff Steven S. Watson