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Riot at bar led to charges … but not against rioters

Published: Feb. 5, 2021, 2 p.m.

Angry, surly saloonkeeper Walter Moffett attracted a large, hostile crowd with his harassment of a group of ladies holding a prayer service outside his bar. When the crowd rioted and trashed his saloon, he got the Portland police chief — also a saloon owner — to arrest them for instigating it. (Portland, Multnomah County; 1874) (For text and pictures, see http://offbeatoregon.com/1902c.temperance-wars-3of4-535.html)