The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-14
OFFICERS OF THE LAW ARE
AGAIN HOT ON TRACYS TRAIL
Bloodhounds Quickly Took Up Scent Murderer
Headed Toward Buckley
Many Conflicting Storescoct Said to Be Wounded and Foot
sore-Capture Hourly Expected.

the Green river tonight it carried with
an accompanying cloud, which.
though not visible. yet nevertheless
hung with unusual gloom upon the
pursuers of convict Harry Tracy.
forty-eight hours had passed since
the fugitive outlaw had been sighted.
and though the circumstances may
tend to confirm the belief that he is
badly wounded and is now nursing mis-
wounds in the depths of some impene-
trable forest, yet il serves TO also in
ject into the chase an element of IN
certainty that has not existed since
Tracy'S appearance at Meadow Point.
Not since he landed at the little
peninsula north of Ballard on the night
of July ? has Tracy failed 10 leave
some positive clue of his tran. Abso-
lutely nothing of reliable nature had
been received by any deputy in the
field since the trail was lost at the
Portrait home on Friday afternoon.
For time the several posses com
forted themselves with the assurance
that the fugitive's physical condition
would at least operate to prevent his
leaving the vicinity, and that at last.
overcome by the pangs of hunger and
his we'll known yearning for the so
ciety of some human being, he would
reveal his presence.
Tracy has upset all these caIcula-
because of the wound which he is cred
tied with having sustained in his en-
counter with Bunce and his son is. of
course. not known.
Seen Near EnumcIaw.
Shortly after dark tonight, Sheriff
Cudihee received a message from
Enumclaw stating that a boy on the
road three miles from that place had
met a maD%arrying a rife who in
uuired the distance to Buckley The
lad Immediately reported the meeting
to Sheriff Hartmann of Pierce county,
who began assembling a posse of depu-
ties along all roads leading to the
mans supposed destination
So far as Sheriff Cudihee is advised
the only circumstances leading to indi-
cate that the lone traveller was Tracy
is the boys statement that his inter
rogatOr carried rifle and bore some
resemblance to the published pictures
of the fugitive No description of his
clothing, sunken eyes. footsore. or
other characteristics which would in
evitably seem to impress even a child.
are Forthcoming, and Sheriff Cudihee is
yet 10th TO believe that Tracy was the
man reported. However, the story has
served to enlist the active co-operat ton
of Pierce county authorities, and
caused a reinforcement of Sheriff Cudi-
hee and forces
Early this morning Sheriff Brown of
Kittitas county arrived here and in
formed Cudihee that he had been
much disturbed over the prospect OF
Tracy's gaining the summit of the
Cascades. He came to confer with the
King county sheriff and assure him
that Kittitas county had already an
ticipated the possibility. Then heavily
armed deputies are awaiting develop
ments on the crest of the range and
physical boundaries will not deter
them from crossing over should the
exigencies of the situation require it
Should Harry Tracy emerge from
the cover of Puget sound forest and
head down the eastern slope" said
Sheriff Brown, lit viii be a question
of speed, not strategy Nature win not
aid him in providing a safe retreat at
every turn, and field glasses, rather
than bloodhounds, will come into
requisition."
At noon yesterday, the various
posses stationed along the Palmer cut
off were thrown into a fever of excite
ment over report emanating from
Black Diamond TO the effect that
Tracy had Geen seen and talked to i7v
a mail carrier between KangIev and
Durham. 1t, however. proved TO %
sroundless, only serving to prove that
even though the most dangerous and
desperate outlaw ever known to the
west is at large there are men zvbos
nave so little appreciation of the gray!
ity or the situation that they deliber-
ately circulate canards under the
suise of jokes