Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1902-08-16

gOOu CltlIens maue general 0emanD
Of the mayor to rid the town OF the
outlaws.
The mayor responded by organizing
a posse TO exterminate the gang, and
among. the first volunteers we're the
Cudihee brothers. Both we're stran.
gers to fear. but Ed. combined with
physical courage an intelligence tina.
soon made him a captain and eventual.
ly a leader Of the posse that complete.
ly annihilated the gang and restored
order in the town. Then Ed. Cudihes
found life as a policeman a tribe mo.
notonous in Leadville, so he moved
farther west. Joining the police force
of Seattle, he became a detective, then
chief of detectives, and about a year
ago was elected sheriff of the county
Had Tracy known this, he might
have avoided Seattle. or, at least, have
approached II more carefully, for as
soon as Jack Williams, the first of Gu.
dihees deputies to hear Of the matter.
learned that Tracy was in Kings coun.
ty he prepared for trouble. He imms-
diately sent word to his chief, and
then. accompanied by another deputy
and the newspaper men, he set out IA
search of the bandit.
Tired and Sleepy.
When Tracy sent Scott back to the
launch he was evidently lonely. tired,
and sleepy What he did during the
time Is uncertain. He may have gone
into the city and come out, again, or he
may have slept In barn or fence row.
In the meantime Sheriff Cudihee ar.
rived and took charge Of the hunt. Not
since he fired the first gun in the pr.s.
on at Salem was the desperate OUTLAW
in the danger he was while Cudihas
was on his trail. The veteran MAJ
hunter was In his element. Unerrins
ly he tracked Tracy to Fremont where
he learned that he had stopped a.
Mrs. Van Horns. The sheriff's arrly
al attracted some attention, and on
Ger Enoch +. Breeze and NeI Rawlcy
volunteered to join the sheriff. Cudi.
hee urged them not to follow, bN .hey
disregarded his advice, and. as showl
later, paid their lives for the privilege
of enabling the noted desperate to es'
cape the one man who could have
landed him.
Cudihee's Tactics.
Cudihee knew that there was bat
one successful way to fight Tracy, aud
that was by adopting his own tactics.
namely. shooting from ambush. He
knew perfectly well that Tracy was
crack shot and would at the drop
of hat-that he had every advantage
in being well armed and utterly obl.v
,ious to 'all consequences. Cudihee
reasoned that there was only one way
TO get Tracy, and that was to shoot
him from cover when he was unaware
OF danger. He determined TO take no
chance OF losing his man. and told tn .
others who wanted to accompany him
to the scene oil the fight to stay away
II they valued their lives.
The sheriff drove 100 yards beyond
the Van Horn house and then left the
. buggy, carrying Jack Williams rife in
, his hands. He also mad his revolver
, Steadily he crept back to the house
and got inside the park and concealed
J himself behind a stump. He located
, himself so that he could watch the cot
, tage and could have a good range, GOV
q ering Tracy when he came from m,
. house, whether he went TO one side C
4 the other OF the team. The sher.f
9 figured that Tracy would take Johnso:
Il the wagon again and make him drlE,
4 away in the darkness.
|. The next thing the sheriff saw. aft
waiting few minutes, was three mo-
=, emerging from the house. One WALL
a ed between the other two. This wa
=, Tracy, and he carried a gun. The shcI
:, III got ready for action and was pr
=. pairing for Tracy to get within clos
=. range when Breeze, J. |. McKnign
:, ana Rawley rushed up out OF the dsrI
10 ness.
&c Breeze, standing with gun in hanC
= about ten PAGES from Tracy, shouted
u, Throw down that gun, Tracy"
Immediately Tracy WI eeled and n
4 ed point blank at the officer. Then !
p. fired again and again, the third sh,
: evidently taking effect In Rawley
body. Both fell to the ground VII
an oath Tracy turned, looking for MOI
victims, and then dashed through u
fence about seventy.fve- yards to Il
east of Cudihee.
Was a Bad Shot
The sheriff lcyclcd his rifle at Il
rapidly disappearing convict and dr,
twice Evidently neither shot took :
feet Tracy then disappeared into Il
darkness ana the dense brush OF u
park, going in a southeasterly dire
ton Rawley lay on the ground gas
ing Tor breath and groaning pitiful
the blood pouring from his woun
Breeze lay few feet away, stone dea
lie had never uttered a word
After that time the bandit set
ded about the city in most b.wlld
ing manner. Hard pressed, he cross
neck of the sound, stole a sailbo
and fed some thirty-fve or forty mil
up toward the Canadian line. I
revenue cutter Grant pursued d
boat.
Capture seemed certain, when 8
denly the desperate reappeared n
the scene OF the first fight, and cludi
all pursuit, circled the city, making
in a suuthensterly direction toward
Cascade Mountains.