Sistersville daily oil review. [volume] (Sistersville, W. Va.) 1902-1905, 1902-08-07

Spokane, Wash, Aug. 7.-Harry
Tracy, the outlaw, committed suicide,
near Fellewes, a station on the Wash
ington Central railroad, about so
miles west of Spokane, Wednesday
hight. .-
After battling the officers Of two
states, after a wonderful flight OF
nearly 400 miles across Oregon and
Washington. Tracy was hunted down
by four citizens Of the little farming
town of Creston and a lone deputy
sheriff. Sheriff Gardner and posse
arrived in time to guard the wheat
field through the night, but the work
nad already been done.
The posse that will share the re-
ward was made up as follows: c. A.
Straub, deputy sheriff; DR.. E. c. Lam
ter, Maurice Smith, attorney; j. j..
Morrison, railway section foreman.
and Frank Lillengen. These men,
armed to the teeth, set out from Cres-
ton Wednesday afternoon about 2
o'clock. They were working on the
information of the Goldfnch youth,
who had been forcibly made the com
panion Of the Oregon convict for
over "A hours at the ranch Of L. 2.
Eddy, on Lake creek, about three
miles south from Fellows. a station
On the Washington Central railway
Tracy Fought His Pursuers.
Tracy fought his pursuers, but failed
&c hit any of them.
He escaped into a wheat field and
darkness set in. The wheat field was
then surrounded and daylight awaited
Shortly after Tracy disappeared
shot was aeard from the direction OF
he wheat field. No investigation
was made, however, until yesterday
morning. AS soon as dawn came an
entrance was made into the wheat
field.
Tracy's dead body was found lying
amid the grain, with his face turne1
toward the sky. His left hand, thrown
ever his head, held a revolver, which
Lad inflicted the death wound. The
thumb OF his hand was on the trigge:
0f the pistol. His right hand, thrown
across the lower part of his body,
firmly grasped the barrel of the ia
nous rifle. Death was inflicted by
revolver held close to the forehead
The top Of his head was badly shat
tered.
Two bullet wounds on the left leg
showed the cause Of the mans
Gespondency. One shot had broken
the leg between the ankle and the
hnee. The other cut the tibial artery
which OF itself was sufficient cause
+or death.
Harry Tracy escaped from the Ore
sCn state penitentiary at Salem on
June 9 in company with David Mer.
Till, after killing four men, Frank w.
Ferrell. G.. B. T. Jones and B. F. TIT.
fany, guards. and Frank Ipgraham, a.
convict, who tried to prevent his
fight On June 2S Tracy killed Mer.
rill near Napavine, Wash, shooting
him from behind, and leaving his
body in the forest, where it was
found on July Is. On July 8, near
Seattle. in a fight with a posse. Tracy
shet and killed Charles Raymond, a.
deputy sheriff; E. E. Bresse, police
1nan, and mortally wounded Neil Raw
ley. who Gied on the following day,
and wounded Carl Anderson and Louis
Seafrite, newspaper reporters.
Committed Many Feats Of Daring.
Tracy committed many feats oi
daring in his flight, in the course OF
which he eluded various posses when
apparently surrounded and held up
numerous farmers, whom he forced
- furnish food and clothing, and by
threats of numbering their families
compelled them to cover up his
tracks. Perhaps his greatest show
OF daring was displayed on July al
South Bay, near Olympia. when he
leld up six men and forced four, in
Guiding Captain Clark, Of large gaso
Inc launch, to embark with him on
Puget sound and pilot him up stream
iur 10 hours.
In 1897 Tracy murdered Valentine
Hoge, a Colorado cattleman, and VII
lam Strong, boy in the same state
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