The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-07-08
GOVERNOR INCREASES REWARD
Malta Will Assist in Running Desperate Criminal Down
Account Of the Duel in Which One Deputy Was
Killed and Another Wounded.

the bullet grazing his face. Ander
son tumbled headlong into a ditch,
partly stunned. The cold water into
which he fell revived him and he
was on his feet in an instant.
AS he rose Tracy fired twice, and
Raymond, who had just crouched to
shoot, reeled backward and against
Anderson and dropped to the ground
stone dead. AS Raymond reeled back
Sefrit fired at Tracy and the convict
turned his attention to him. Sefrit
fell to the ground and fired again at
the convict. Tracy twice shot saw
agely in quick succession at his as.
sailant. Anderson in the meantime
had plunged through the brush to
flank the convict. He met Nelson and
Brewer. NJ
Before they could move a step
Tracy fired three times, and a second
later Williams crawled out of the
brush OF his hands and knees into
the opening around the cabin with
blood apparently streaming from ev-
cry point. He was shot three times
under the heart, and even as he ap-
peared to view lurched to one side
and stretched out unconscious.
Tracy Disappears.
AS Williams collapsed Tracy disap-
peared. The whole adventure had
hardly taken more than two or three
minutes. Raymond lay dead, still
clutching his revolver. Williams had
his Il firmly grasped in his hand.
The smoke from the battle had not
drifted from the scene before the sur
vivors were working over the dead
and wounded. Anderson carried Will
liams up the railroad track to a place
| where Brewer and Raymond had tied
a horse and rig. He took the wound
ed man to the hotel at Bothel.
After leaving the stump Tracy fled
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NAL. The pursuers had no chance to
follow him. Deep u%nderbrush grows
between the trees, with here and
there a COW path winding in and out.
He went along one of these until he
struck the road which follows almost
the same route as the railroad from
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ward the latter place and came upon
Johnson, the farmer who was travel
ing in his wagon toward his home
north of this place. -
Tracy stepped up to Johnson and
said: ""
81 am a deputy sheriff and one of
the men on Tracy's track. I must go
to Seattle at once and need your
wagon. You will drive me toward the
city as quickly as possible; there is
no time for delay"
He spoke quickly. but without the
least trace of excitement. He hardly
gave the farmer time to answer be-
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side and ordered Johnson to drive on.
The last heard of them they were go
ing rapidly toward Seattle. Perry
Vincent, another farmer, who was al
so driving along the road, saw them.
He learned the facts in the case from
Johnson as they passed each other.
Tracy was we'll dressed in a salt
and pepper cutaway coat and a vest
of the same color which he secured at
South Point, near Olympia. He wore
a broad brimmed felt hat, with the
brim turned down and pulled down
over his face.
His face was pale and thin, and he
seemed wearied. His face showed
that lie has no intention of giving up
his nervy attempt at escape. The
same. vicious cunning and obstinacy
noticed by the men on the gasoline
launch, according to the description
given by his pursuers, was, if any
thing, more pronounced than ever.
Anderson took Williams back to
the hotel at Bothel, and there he was
attended by DR.. Lyttle Of Bothel. Ray
mond's body was taken to Seattle by
train.
One of Survivors Tells or 1t.
"The fight occurred about 3:15 in
the afternoon" said Anderson, one of
the survivors, "and was over in an in
credibly short time. We were pre-
pared to meet Tracy, and while his
appearance was rather sudden, we
got into action with our guns at once.
His head and neck had hardly shot
into view before he fired. We were
caught in an ambush, and while