The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1902-07-12
ARMED GUARDS SURROUNDED
TRACY IN A HOUSE BUT HE
ESCAPED.
Happened but Few Miles
From Seattle-No Shots Fired
-Four Men Are Now
Known to Be Aiding
Tracy in His Flight.

another sensational escape to his list OF
exploits yesterday afternoon, when, sur
rounded in farm house by armed dep
a1ties to the number of a score, he gave
his pursuers the slip and escaped from
Gheir almost certain grasp. Not shot
sRas fred during the encounter. Tracy's
exit from the house, into the brush ard
across the country having been accom-
Flished without giving his pursuers op-
Egartutity to use their weapons. 1mme-
~jiate1y after his departure blo0dhounds
wE-ne put on his trail, but Tracy sprink-
fed red pepper in his tracks, and this the
dogs inhaled, and 10 minutes was lost in
@eXtrfcating the pepper from their nostrils.
They we're again put on the trail, but
soon lost it, and Tracy in the darkness
SHAT soon followed, got another long start
eef his pursHers.
Ihe sensational escape happened at
t4se Gerre1l's house, a mile from Renton.
'21aae news of the convicts presence there
vq;es tsrought to the sherfff's office in Seat
s@le by the eighteen-year-old son in the
heunds were taken out On the car line,
and succeeding in surrounding the house
almost before the inmates became aware
qef their presence.
Tracy had ap oeared at the house about
aqaou. He and Anderson. the man whom
Tracy forced to embark with him in the
white boat at Madison island, had been
En81ziug in the brush in the vicinity
s.gzaAaghout the forenoon. After leaving
fiSs Madison Island house, they had
crossed back to the outskirts of Seattle,
ARRIVING in the early hours OF Sunday
snerzGng. The interim up to Tuesday
NOOK, when they appeared at the GerrelI's
Elease, had been spent in the vicinity of
sSestGe. portion of the time with four
znex sEhc appeared to be friends of Ira
cy.s- One of the men Tracy called
fFre1 !" and portion of one day was
sssy,eEG with three of them, while the
zzeEsz<ssl watched Tracy's prisoner, Ander-
$sou.
f-1sscy had been at the farm house three
E2ouss when. the first of the deputies
appeared, and was there an hour there
after before making his escape. Three
z1o1aes1 and several children were in the
Z1ouse with him, and with these he was
chatting and joking up to the very mo-
zaeEt 'easat he slipped out of the house
sand-sped away. Two of the women had
G3s9E clicking blackberies across the
G-ajJreaa track near the house, when Ira
scy -accosted them. He told them that he
~was Tracy, and that he would not harm
chem He said that he would spend the
ss1ay- with them, and together they went
TO the house. Before entering, Tracy took
4lis- prisoner, Anderson, into the brush
near the house, and bound him securely
Is nderson was still there when the depu-
zlliee asrived, and after Tracy's fight he
ayas released.
-Tracy's escape from the house was
quickly made. Two deputies had entered
Ghe freRt door and asked if the convict
was there. At the moment, Tracy was in
the kitchen. His rifle was 1eveled at the
llead Of the woman, and under his in
Stfuctl0HS, The deputies were told that he |
was not ia Ike house. The deputies re-
tired, and few minutes later, Tracy
4eaped from the k1cthen door, and with a
5TeW quick steps entered the brush. He
ran down the hill to stream, along itsd
banks for short distance, then crossed |
it, ard hurried out of view past points
that the deputies in their excitement il
srI1e moment OF the convict appearance
had deserred and left unguarded. 1t was
all over in the space of few moments.
The hounds were at once put on the trail,
BUT darkness soon set in, and with anoth-
.er nights start, pursuit again is as diff
cult as though the newest adventure with
the resouccefu1 fugitive had never hap
peaed.