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Office of the Prosecuting Attorney
Union Block
Seattle Washington
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June 3, 1891.
To the Honorable, the Board of Aldermen and the House of Delegates,
City of Seattle.
Gentlemen:-
I desire to call the attention of your Honorable body
and especially the Committee on License and Revenue, and each
of your Honorable Body regarding the license of a certain
saloon, situated at #1413 Front Street.
The comptroller of the city informs me that the license
of that saloon is in the name of William Efer. The facts to
which I desire to call your attention, are briefly these:
For sometime past, three men have been operating a swind-
ling game of most disreputable specie, swindling strang-
ers of considerable sums of money, making this saloon their
head quarters throughout all of their unlawful acts. These
three men I have just convicted in the Superior court of this
County of carrying on and operating swindling games. The
victum in thier latest act was an illiterate countryman
arriving here from Tennessee. He was accosted on the street,
and under the guise of obtaining employment was conducted
to this saloon, and there swindled out of all of the money
he had by one of the most notorious and disreputable swind-
ling games that is known.
The propriator of this saloon cannot be in ignorance of
the acts of those swindlers who make that saloon their head-