“It must be true, I read it in the newspaper.”

As printed in the Tacoma Evening News on March 3, 1903, C. Payne, an armless man, lost $5 at a faro table in the California Club in Butte, Montana. Infuriated, Payne returned at 2 a.m. with “a .44 caliber revolver between his toes, [and] compelled the dealer [..] to give up the $5.” Those in the saloon “scattered like coyotes at the growl of a wolf.” The police were called and came upon Payne in his room “with a razor between the toes of one foot and a big pistol between the toes of the other.” It did not do any good as Payne was arrested and taken to jail.

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Steve Levi is an Alaskan writer who specializes in the Alaska Gold Rush (nonfiction) and the ‘impossible crime,’ (fiction.) An ‘impossible crime’ is one where the detective must figure out HOW the crime was committed before going after the perpetrators – like a Greyhound bus with bank robbers and hostages disappearing off the Golden Gate Bridge –THE MATTER OF THE VANISHING GREYHOUND. Steve’s books can be found at www.authormasterminds.com/steve-levi

“It must be true, I read it in the newspaper.”

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