Where is Gilman, Washington?
As a native of Renton and onetime resident of Issaquah, I have never heard of a place named Gilman 30 miles east of Seattle.
Sounds like it should be near North Bend ...
Neighborhood in Issaquah, Washington
Aha! It was right about Issaquah:
“MOB LEAVES MAN OUT TO DRYEVENT: SQUABBLE LEADS TO DOWNTOWN LYNCHING
The second stop on our tour takes us near the Julius Boehm Pool on Clark Street.
Long before the site played host to swim meets and pool parties, it hosted a large maple tree and the city’s only recorded hanging, done by a mob of angry citizens in 1889.
There are several different accounts of the execution, each with slight variations, but both tell the story of a feud that led a man to blow up a local building with the hopes of killing his adversary inside. The man who triggered the explosion was arrested, but later, while the sheriff was away, an angry mob seized him and hanged him from the tree.
One newspaper account of the hanging tells the story of a feud that originated in Chicago between two men: Albert Schaeffer and George Bodala.
Bodala fled to Chicago and then moved to the Issaquah area to avoid Schaeffer’s harassment, but Schaeffer followed Bodala and blew up his Issaquah house, killing the entire Bodala family.
The next day, an agitated mob took Schaeffer while the sheriff was at lunch, and demanded Schaeffer confess to the killings. Schaeffer refused, and the mob strung him from the tree for 30 seconds. Again, the angry people demanded a confession, and again he refused, and they responded by stringing him up for 45 seconds.
They demanded a confession one last time, but when Schaeffer again refused, they hanged him until he died.
The other account, from a local man, tells the story of an unnamed man using dynamite to blow up a boarding house — on the site of modern-day Issaquah Middle School — in an attempt to kill his former girlfriend and her new lover inside.
The blast destroyed the building and killed a miner, but not the man’s girlfriend or her lover.
The man stood trial for the crime, but while the sheriff was away having dinner the night of the trial, the mob took the man, stole a clothesline from the boarding house where the sheriff was dining, and used the clothesline to hang the man from the tree.
After the man was dead, the lynch mob did not return the clothesline to its rightful owner, forcing those at the boarding house to find a new way to dry their clothes.”
https://timpfarr.com/uncover-the-dark-side-of-issaquah/
De-Anglicized into Issaquah.
It’s issaquah.