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A Hero’s Wake and a Con Artist’s Fall
In 1976, a brave 13-year-old named Jimmy Bakken saved his family during a house fire by calmly evacuating his siblings, waking others, and ensuring everyone got out safely—thanks to firefighter lessons he’d absorbed. Decades earlier, in 1926, Spokane’s most notorious con artist, “the Count” Morris Lustwig, vanished after swindling $45,000 from a gullible investor with a fake money-making scheme. Arrested twice, he was finally caught in New York, hailed as a slick Austrian criminal who’d perfected his scams abroad. These two wildly different Spokane stories—one of heroism, one of deceit—show…
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