Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-12
LATEST TRACY STORY
SAYS he WILL BE
A Thief OF THIEVES
MAKING FOR WYOMING. WHERE
CLAIMS HE WILL BE SAFE.
EXPERIENCE OF AFER.
RYMAN.

/ Spokane. Wash, Aug. IA Water
Vile special to the Spokesman Review
says: George Mccain has Just arriv-
ii with report that at . o'clock this
morning, about fifteen miles west Of
Coulee City. he passed man answer
ny Trays description. He had the
lorses supposed to have been taken
Wenatchee. Deputy Sheriff Friel and
city Marshal Dcyers left last night to
Intercept Tracy at Moses Lake. the only
route that could be taken If he is head
ed for the mountains.
Deputy Sheriff Sedgwick of Coulce
City has been directed TO look up the
clew reported by Mccain. Tracy
crossed the Columbia at 3 O'Clock
Thursday morning and could easily
have covered the distance between the
Ferry and the point where Mccain met
the man answering his description.
Tracy Is said to be unwounded. in
good health and armed with four guns
and 200 rounds Of ammunition. provis-
Toned for five days and equipped with
headed toward the Idaho line.
Tracy declared that he wanted to
hold up bank or rob an express car.
He says that he has promised to give
the sum of $1,000 within one year to
the parties who helped him to escape
from the Oregon penitentiary. He is
making his way to the Hole in the
WalI In Wyoming. When there he
declares he will be- a thief among
thieves. and thinks he win be safe.
Tracy spent Wednesday mt the
ranch Of w. A. Sanders. six miles be-
low Wcnatchee. on the Columbia river.
lie crossed the Columbia Thursday
morning at O'Clock at a ferry eighteen
miles below Wenatchee. The reason
the outlaw was not reported sooner by
Sanders was that he threatened that If
he got into any trouble he would re-
idrn and get even with the people
who reported on him. If 1t was the last
thing he did on earth"
About | o'clock Wednesday morning
u rider leading pack horse approach
ed the ranch Of w. 4. Sanders. He
said: do you know VINO ann" Sand
ers replied: NO" Il am Harry Tracy.
the escaped convict"
The outlaw announced that he would
stay all day and that he would not
harm them If they did not do any
funny business. He ate two meals at
the ranch. Tracy inquired about the |
bank nj WenatChee and wanted one of
the men TO help him rob II, but the lat |
Ter begged OF.
The outlaw denied that he had been |
wounded and declared he had gained !
fifteen or twenty pounds since escaping
IT, ie penitentary. He left after
lark, having exchanged his two horses
for two fresh ones.
~ II y. m. he appeared OF the ferry. i
about eighteen miles below Wenat-
'hcC, and wanted to cross the Column
)ia. He did not tell his name. The
crryman refused to cross in the night,
70 Tracy hung around the vicinity un-
II daylight Thursday morning. He
hen reused the ferryman. After cross
NJ the river he said he had no money
md could not pay for the ferry.
A special to the Chronicle from Ell
ensburg states that Sheriff Brown has ,
Investigated the story that Sill Evans.
living fifteen miles north Of that town.
vas held up by Harry Tracy last Mon
lay at his cabin and compelled TO fur
lish the fugitive with food. Evans
tory as reported. went into lively de-
ais, declaring Tracy showed a wound ,
Il the back of his head and was max ,
ng his way to. the Columbia river. and
warned the man that he had better stay I
n his cabin next day. AZ a result OF I
is investigation Sheriff Brown de- =
lares Evans story fake. u
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