Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-08-14
OUTLAW TRACY.
BY His Own Hand His Career
Is Ended.
surrounded by n Posse and Wounded
In Right Thigh tho Desperate
Shoots Himself I'm "A Wheat-
field 30 Miles West OF
Spokane, wash.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. T. Harry
Tracy, the notorious outlaw, who
with David Merrill. escaped from the
Oregon penitentiary, on June 8, after
killing three prison guards, killed
himself early yesterday morning, af-
ter being wounded by the rifle of one
of a posse in pursuit. Tracy was
surrounded in a wheat field near Fell
low, a station on the Washington Cen
trail railroad, about so miles west of
Spokane, last night. Word was sent
back to Davenport, the county seat,
and a large number of armed men
hurried to the scene.
The posse, under Sheriff Gardner,
opened fire on the outlaw, and one
bullet pierced his right leg between
the knee and thigh. About 20 minutes
after being wounded, he shot himself
with one of his revolvers and his body
was found yesterday morning after
.daybreak. The revolver with which he
killed himself was grasped tightly in
his right hand.
Tracy was hunted down by a posse
of Creston citizens. Surrounded, he
engaged in a running battle with his
pursuers. His leg was broken by a
bullet and an artery bled profusely.
He crept into wheatficld and tried
to tie up the artery. Becoming deS-
perate, he put his revolver to his head
and fired bullet into his brain. At
daylight yesterday morning his body
was found, already cold.
Harry Tracy escaped from the Ore
gon state penitentiary at Salem on
July 9, in company with David Merrill,
after killing four men, Frank w. Fer
rell, G.. II. Il. Jones and i. +. Tiffany,
guards, and Frank Ingraham, con-
Wet, who tried to prevent his flight.
On June % Tracy killed Merrill near
Napavine, Wash, shooting him from
behind, and leaving his body in the
forest, where it was found on July -.
On July 3 near Seattle, in fight with
a posse, Tracy shot and killed Charles
Raymond, deputy sheriff; +. L.
Bresse, policeman, and mortally
wounded Nat Rawley, who died ON
the following day.
Perhaps his greatest show of daring
was displayed on July l at South
Bay, near Olympia, when he held up
six men and forced four, including
Capt. Clark, of large gasoline
launch, to embark with him on Puget
Sound and pilot him up stream for
ten hours.
In 1897 Tracy murdered Valentine
Hoge, Colorado cattle man, and
William Strong, a boy in the same
state. \ total reward of $500 was
offered for his arrest, Governor Nc
Bride, of Washington, Offering $500
for his capture, dead or alive. The
state of Oregon offered $4,000 and IA
BROTHER of one of the guards killed at
the penitentiary offered 500.
Salem, Ore, Aug. Gov. Geer yes
terday received a telegram from Con-
stable c. \. Straub, of Creston, Wash.
telling of Tracy's suicide. He tcle-
graphed Sheriff Gardner, of Lincoln
county, Wash, suggesting that the
body be embalmed and forwarded to
Seattle for identification by the Wash
ington authorities, for the purpose
of paying the reward. and asking that
the body be forwarded from Seattle
to Salem to the Oregon authorities
Gov. Geer stands ready to pay the re-
ward to the men responsible for his
death.