It’s a million-dollar find — right in their own home. One family’s discovery of a lost Lewis Chessman found in a drawer could fetch up to $1.2 million at auction. The game piece was bought for GBP5, ...

Mar. 4—Astorian Robert Clark wonders what happened to the largest of Astoria's ferries, the M. R. Chessman. Good question. Capt. Fritz Elfving, who started the Astoria ferry service to Megler, ...

A medieval chess piece from the famed Lewis Chessman trove, the most revered collection of chess pieces in the world, first discovered on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland’s Outer Hebrides in 1831, is ...

Caryl Chessman was a small-fry criminal. But he became an international crime celebrity when he was condemned to die not for murder but for two sexual assaults committed during a Los Angeles crime ...

When an antiques dealer in Scotland bought an ivory chessman for £5 ($6) in 1964, he probably had no inkling that he had taken possession of one of the most famous chess pieces in the world. Stored in ...

One reason Californians will be voting, again, about the death penalty, next month, is because of a man named Caryl Chessman. He was called the “Red Light Bandit,” and he was executed in 1960 for ...

Buck Busfield is pondering the finer points of one of the most important phone calls in California political history. It was Feb. 18, 1960, the eve of the long-delayed execution of Caryl Chessman. A ...

Beloved daughter, sister, wife, friend, and teacher, Heather L. Chessman passed away peacefully on Friday, February 16 surrounded by loved ones. Heather was born March 31, 1977 and grew up in Windsor, ...

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