John Sullivan Assassination

ID: 2553
This file appears in: Unsolved Assassination

Images Courtesy of the Spokane Daily Chronicle and Spokane
Law Enforcement Museum

This file appears in: Unsolved Assassination

By Keith Shelton
[PRIVATE RESIDENCE - Do not disturb.] A shot rang out, glass broke, and down went the former Spokane Police Chief, John Sullivan, in his own living room. On Jan. 5, 1911 the former Chief of Police was assassinated by a gunman in the house that…