Tracking the Chief: from his home to his death

This article explaines the movements of former Seattle Police Chief William Meredith in the days and hours before he engaged in a shoot-out with John and Tom Considine in G. O. Guy's Drugstore on June 25th 1901. Meredith was killed by the Considines in the scuffle, and this article argues that Meredith, whom had been fired from office three days earlier, and that day had emptied his Police office of his firearms and carried them in bundles about the city, had not intended to kill John Considene.