BAD TOWN #3 BAD BUD TOWN

It’s time for EPISODE #3 of CITY OF SUBDUED… /BAD TOWN

BAD BUD TOWN

If you didn’t already know - the Good Time Girls have teamed up with the ladies of The City of Subdued Podcast to bring you the darkest, the most oppressive, the spookiest, and the baaaaaadest parts of Bellingham History!

This week’s story, episode 3, is about BAD BUD COX, original Bad Town Bad Boy.

The story begins with a “notorious crime” committed in Fairhaven… We also take a deeper look into the life of one of the men involved, “Bud Cox.” It’s also a story about a man who spent his life addicted and incarcerated in the late 1800’s and early 1900s, and of torture at the hands of the state.

These are stone markers or “plaques” placed around Fairhaven, Bellingham’s historic south side shopping district. The original marker for the marker that inspired our story is missing, but was titled “Butch’s Saloon” and was located on Harris near 4th near one that says “Junction Saloon.” The original brochure that accompanied the markers had this description: Late one night in 1902 two graduates from the state prison decide to rob a few of the boys at Butch’s Place Saloon. The clientele and bullets flew like promises at election time. Two men were wounded, one man killed, and two sent up the river for a stretch of 12 to 20 years.” And in all caps, a quote from Bad Bud Cox: “I’M GLAD THE WITNESSES ARE ALL YOUNG SO THAT THEY WILL LIVE UNTIL I GET OUT OF THE PEN AND CAN KILL THEM!”

Here is a gallery of various mugshots of “Bad Bud” Cox (alias many other names)

1154 – Walla Walla (1893) - Burglary in Snohomish County

1445 – Walla Walla (1895) - Burglary in Snohomish County

2812 – Walla Walla (1902) - Robbery in Fairhaven

27177 – San Quentin (1914) - Train Robbery in Oregon

13658 – Folsom (1925) - Poison Law Violation, San Francisco, CA

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