The defense attorney for Jennings B. Henry delivered a “heart-rending appeal” that made Henry’s family break into tears – and even made some members of the jury wipe their eyes.

More damaging testimony emerged in the Jennings B. Henry murder trial – this time, from the mouth of Henry himself.

The big movie studio at Minnehaha changed hands again, further dampening Spokane’s longtime dream of becoming Hollywood North.

Liquor charges were dismissed against Albert Magnussen, who had been arrested during the Elks Lodge temple dedication ceremony several months earlier.

A member of the Morris Brawman family walked toward the home’s front door and heard “a faint wail coming from a gunnysack.”

The clash between the city’s streetcars and the competing jitneys became literal when a streetcar collided with a jitney in Hillyard, knocking it over and injuring five people.

Patrons at Whitehead’s Dancing Palace in Spokane experienced a touch of Hollywood glamour when a crew showed up to film Juanita Hansen, “serial motion picture actress,” as she danced around the ballroom.

County deputies and private detectives from the Burns and Pinkerton agencies scoured the highways and fields south of Spangle in pursuit of new clues in the State Bank of Spangle robbery.

Jack Hughes, 28, known as the “Human Fly” for his daredevil stunts, died when a climb in downtown Sandpoint went horribly wrong.

Mrs. C.W. Mullins – described as a prominent Nampa, Idaho, socialite of “unusual beauty and charming personality” – was in a heap of legal trouble in federal court in Spokane.

The region’s “club women” voted to ban the sale of “destructive literature.”

The Spokane Daily Chronicle announced that it would deliver up-to-the-minute World Series updates the modern way, via telegraph wire and megaphone.

Sam Bergman had a scare during the bucking horse event at the Winona (Washington) Race Meet and Rodeo.

Golfers at the Manito Golf Course were scratching their heads for days over The Mystery of the Disappearing Golf Balls.

Three Spokane County deputies raided the Curtis Ranch between Marshall and Cheney looking for liquor.

George Bafaro, one of the 10-year-old twins who was with William McLachlan, 8, when he drowned, changed his story in an interview with a Spokane Daily Chronicle reporter.

Two 10-year-old twins, playmates of William McLachlan, 8, told police that William went swimming of his own accord in the Spokane River, where he subsequently drowned.

Bad spelling was the downfall of Charles Sherwood, alleged check forger.

The second of Spokane’s two streetcar systems – the Spokane Traction Co. – declared that it, too, would abandon its streetcar lines if the Spokane City Council wouldn’t get the jitneys off of its routes.