Yakima County Sheriff, 1879-1882.
Served as the elected Sheriff of Yakima County, Washington, for (2) 2-year terms from 1879-1882. This was back when Yakima County was huge, over 9,200 square miles, before both Kittitas County (1883) and Benton County (1905) were created out of Yakima County. At that time, from 1865 until 1883, Yakima County extended from the Klickitat County line in the south all the way to the Wenatchee River in the north. It also ran from the top of Chinook Pass in the west, over 120 miles southeast to where the City of Kennewick is now.
Following the murders of Lorenzo D. Perkins and his young wife Blanche on July 9, 1878 at Rattlesnake Springs, Sheriff Schnebly deputized a group of men and eventually joined up with a larger group headed by Captain William Splawn and Captain Ennius of the Yakima Indian Police. Together they spent 2 weeks hunting the 7 suspects, some of it east of the Columbia River, but it was not until November of 1880 that full justice had been served.
He was succeeded as Sheriff by J J Tyler in 1882.
Served as the elected Sheriff of Yakima County, Washington, for (2) 2-year terms from 1879-1882. This was back when Yakima County was huge, over 9,200 square miles, before both Kittitas County (1883) and Benton County (1905) were created out of Yakima County. At that time, from 1865 until 1883, Yakima County extended from the Klickitat County line in the south all the way to the Wenatchee River in the north. It also ran from the top of Chinook Pass in the west, over 120 miles southeast to where the City of Kennewick is now.
Following the murders of Lorenzo D. Perkins and his young wife Blanche on July 9, 1878 at Rattlesnake Springs, Sheriff Schnebly deputized a group of men and eventually joined up with a larger group headed by Captain William Splawn and Captain Ennius of the Yakima Indian Police. Together they spent 2 weeks hunting the 7 suspects, some of it east of the Columbia River, but it was not until November of 1880 that full justice had been served.
He was succeeded as Sheriff by J J Tyler in 1882.
Yakima County Sheriff, 1879-1882.
Served as the elected Sheriff of Yakima County, Washington, for (2) 2-year terms from 1879-1882. This was back when Yakima County was huge, over 9,200 square miles, before both Kittitas County (1883) and Benton County (1905) were created out of Yakima County. At that time, from 1865 until 1883, Yakima County extended from the Klickitat County line in the south all the way to the Wenatchee River in the north. It also ran from the top of Chinook Pass in the west, over 120 miles southeast to where the City of Kennewick is now.
Following the murders of Lorenzo D. Perkins and his young wife Blanche on July 9, 1878 at Rattlesnake Springs, Sheriff Schnebly deputized a group of men and eventually joined up with a larger group headed by Captain William Splawn and Captain Ennius of the Yakima Indian Police. Together they spent 2 weeks hunting the 7 suspects, some of it east of the Columbia River, but it was not until November of 1880 that full justice had been served.
He was succeeded as Sheriff by J J Tyler in 1882.
Served as the elected Sheriff of Yakima County, Washington, for (2) 2-year terms from 1879-1882. This was back when Yakima County was huge, over 9,200 square miles, before both Kittitas County (1883) and Benton County (1905) were created out of Yakima County. At that time, from 1865 until 1883, Yakima County extended from the Klickitat County line in the south all the way to the Wenatchee River in the north. It also ran from the top of Chinook Pass in the west, over 120 miles southeast to where the City of Kennewick is now.
Following the murders of Lorenzo D. Perkins and his young wife Blanche on July 9, 1878 at Rattlesnake Springs, Sheriff Schnebly deputized a group of men and eventually joined up with a larger group headed by Captain William Splawn and Captain Ennius of the Yakima Indian Police. Together they spent 2 weeks hunting the 7 suspects, some of it east of the Columbia River, but it was not until November of 1880 that full justice had been served.
He was succeeded as Sheriff by J J Tyler in 1882.
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