The Savannah morning news., 1902-07-07
TRACEYS DARING
.scAPED CONVICT STILL HAS HIS
WAY.
INTIMIDATION HIS RULE
TAKES CHARGE WHEREVER HE
GOES.

,,.dc Himself at Home in Rancher's
EamiIy-His CareIessness at Mrs.
Nan HORNS Made 1t Necessary for
Him TO Kill Two Officers, He Said.
Dound and Gagged the Entire
FnmiIy and Made Hired Man Take
Him Away in ROwboat-Sherif Gu
d,bee Now in Pursuit in Electric
Tugboat.
Seattle. Wash, July 6.-Harry
Tracy. the Oregon convict, has again
eluded his pursuers, after a display of
great daring. His last act was to i'm
nrsss a farm hand into debarking on
Tho Sound in a rowboat, late yester-
dav. and at noon to-day Sheriff Cud-
thee chartered the tug Sea Lion. and
with a posse started in pursuit
According to information received
at the sheriff's office here to-day,
Tracy slept in a cemetery on the out
skirts of Seattle after his battle
Thursday night with Seattle officers.
On Friday morning he proceeded to
the ranch of a man named Fisher, Sc
cured food and slept and rested in the
woods all that day and night. Early
Saturday morning he appeared at
4 Meadow Point, on the water front,
n three miles north of Seattle, his or
q iginal point of landing. There he
compelled japanese fisherboy to row
him to Madison Point, twelve miles
not
tie. He dismissed the boy, declaring
4 that the latter would be killed by
i Tracys pal if he told of the trip.
i They landed near the house of john
son. a rancher, and Tracy watch
ed the house for an hour
TO make sure of the
number of men there. Finding only two
he entered and announced that he in
tended to kill every one on the ranch
and take charge of the place for few
days He added, But after seeing your
& pretty little girl, l will kill no one If
4 you all mind me. 1 will be here all
day"
The family prepared breakfast for
Tracy and put one plate on a table
against the wall.
i This is not right" declared the con-
4 vict, put the tables in the middle of
the room and all sit down with me-
Il which was done. Tracy then read Fri
81 day evenings papers and after learn
81 ing how Mrs. Van Horn had betrayed
81 his presence in her house to the butch
81 II boy said he had been careless in
not keeping everyone in that house
constantly under his eye.
CarcIcssness Cost Two Lives.
My carelessness in this respect made
It necessary to kill two officers he
& said.
q He forced the Johnsons to give him
bundle Of clothing and hats and six
& days supply of food, clothing and
blankets made into bundles.
At S o'clock he bound and tightly
q gagged the Johnson family, made their
hlred man, Anderson, carry the bund-
les to Johnson's rowboat. put
Anderson in the boat at the
oars and started down the
q sound Mrs. Johnson released herself
8 ana the others two hours later and
notified Deputy Sheriff Mckay, who
n hVes at Madison Point. Mckay Sc
cured boat and sent word to Seattle
lhis morning. Sheriff Cudihee was
summoned from Bothell, and at 1870
O'Clock, with several men, started
d doWn the sound in the Sea Lion, an
Il electric tugboat, looking for the des-
perado and the farmland. However
as tracy had fifteen hours start, it
~ oeAeVed he will make good his es-
cape The supposition is that he will
i row all night, probably kill Anderson,
SINK the boat and disappear into the
4 WA forests of Northern Washington
Mhere he may live many days on his
supply of food.