Lawyer schemed to steal man’s land via shanghaiing

Published: Feb. 17, 2021, 2 p.m.

Astoria shyster L.G. Carpenter coveted Darius Norris's valuable acreage on Long Beach Peninsula. So he got the police chief to arrest Norris on bogus charges, swindled him into signing over his property, and shanghaied him off out of town on a sailing ship. (Astoria, Clatsop County; 1890s) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1903b.darius-norris-shanghaied-538.html)