Dolar Laplant

Death by Force

In the late summer of 1925, the small town of Eatonville, Washington, was shaken by the violent death of its newly appointed Town Marshal, Dolar Laplant. A 53-year-old White male and a veteran of the Spanish-American War, Laplant had only been in his position for four days before the fatal encounter. On the afternoon of September 4th, his brief and tragically short career in law enforcement came to a brutal end when he responded to reports of a man recklessly firing a gun down Center Street, wit ...Read More

Marshal Dolar LaPlant

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