The first legal hanging was in Spokane, Greenwood Cemetery.

Where is Charles Brooks? Who is he? Why is he in an unknown tomb? Mr. brooks has a bad reputation. He was the first person in Spokane to be hanged according to law.

The Brooks case of 189 1 is a scandal for Spokane. Brooks, 62, is accused of murdering his wife, 27-year-old Swedish immigrant Christina dormann. As reported in the newspaper at that time, their relationship was full of speculation. There is a suspicion that Brooks, for some reason, especially wants to marry an immigrant. The other is that dormann wants to marry a rich American. At that time, it was common for border men to sometimes pay immigrant brides, so these two assumptions are probably true. To be sure, they are married. However, their marriage aroused another suspicion: dormann found out that Brooks was a janitor, not a mining tycoon, so he left Brooks and began to cheat on him. Presumably, Brooks followed her, and when she refused to come back to him, he shot her on Havemeyer Island.

The result of hanging is quite a thing. Before 1900, the execution took place at the local level and was carried out by the county magistrate. Because this is the first legal hanging in the county, an official, lettering and activity invitation letter of about 150 has been issued. . . However, more than 1000 people attended the activity held by/kloc-0 at Spokane County Court on September 6, 1992. After Brooks, there were two hangings in Spokane. According to the state law, all executions must be carried out in Valla State Prison in Valavaara. China immigrant gold list, executed in 1897 for killing another immigrant. 1897, local farmer George Webster was also executed for killing his wife's boss.

Of course, there were several other extra-curricular executions in Spokane. That is to say, in the battle of Colonel George Wright against Indians in 1858, those Jakama leaders Quirkan and other 5-20 people were hanged. . . Before Spokane's legal era,

Charles Brooks was buried in Greenwood Memorial, and there was no tombstone to show that no one volunteered to pay for a simple fact. His grave is in the west of the main office, between the hillside and a row of upright tombstones, near the largest monument to human tragedy in Spokane. 20 10 Duane Braeuer, president of the fairmont Memorial Association in charge of Greenwood, said that the tomb would remain unmarked to avoid damage and disrespect.