Everett Daily Herald, January 31, 2016

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If you pull a thread in the smash-and-grab theft of an old gun, you just might unravel a 1927 chronicle of treachery, villainy and valor

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High-speed chases, which can threaten the public as well as the target, will be restricted, county Sheriff Ty Trenary announced.

PERCY BREWSTER

By Rikki King Herald Writer

EVERETT — Sheriff Ty Trenary has announced new pursuit policies for Snohomish County deputies, restricting the circumstances in which they can engage in high-speed chases. The changes go into effect Monday. “We absolutely expect our pursuits will be cut in half,” Trenary said. Law enforcement is moving away from a decades-old notion of a “need to chase everybody with a hangnail,” he said. “We needed to tighten things up.” The new rules were rolled out at a recent training session for supervisors in the sheriff ’s office. They first heard from an Illinois woman whose two young daughters were killed in a pursuit that wasn’t supposed to involve them. In law enforcement, a profession See PURSUIT, Page A10

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ULTAN — It was dark when the lone nearby City Hall are grainy, the thief a fleetBy Eric Stevick ing silhouette. figure heaved a large rock through the glass front door of Sultan’s VisiBrewster is one of 13 police and correcHerald Writer tor Information Center. tions officers from Snohomish County who The target was a glass display cabinet. The have died in the line of duty. burglar didn’t touch the dinosaur eggs, the mammoth’s The tragic tale of the small-town lawman has faded tooth, the model train engine or the taxidermied turkey. over the past 88 years, much like the weathered lettering It was the gun — the old .38 Special — that warranted on his grave. the risk on that Friday night in late November. Ray Bernethy, 68, understands that. The Gold Bar man The revolver is widely believed to be the weapon used grew up in Sultan. He is Brewster’s grand nephew. His to kill Sultan Town Marshal Percy Z. Brewster on March father, George Bernethy, was 6 when his Uncle Percy 2, 1927, although it is hard to say. was killed. Sultan police had little to go on after the break-in on See FINDING, Page A8 Main Street. The few seconds of video footage taken from

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Among photos and other items, Ray Bernethy has Percy Brewster’s Washington State Law Enforcement Medal of Honor and a photograph of Percy and wife, Kathleen. Gov. Gary Locke presented the award to Brewster’s nephew, George Bernethy, in 1998.

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