One weekend in 1926, a young Talent, Ore., resident, attending school in Tacoma, Wash., told his family that he was going to walk across town to visit relatives. He said he knew a shortcut through a sparsely traveled area so it wouldn’t take long. When he didn’t show up by Sunday evening, his family called the police.

As It Was: Student Tells Harrowing Tale Involving Rumrunners

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