The Camden chronicle. (Camden, Tenn.) 1890-current, 1902-11-07

compelled him Co row them across the
Columbia river. The impressed boat
man landed the runaway convicts 10
Washington near Vancouver. formerly
tbe home of Morrill,, where they un-
doubtedly expected to find friends and
shelter
Again bloodhounds were put on the .
Trail. but. as before, the outlaws threw .
the dogs on the scent by taking to /
/ The water OF the swampg and doubling .
/ hazel, on the trail. It was at this point /
IN the MAJ hunt that another victim
fell. this time one Of the pursuing
uarty being shot by his own friends
in mistake for one of the outlaws.
While the pursuit. still was making
draanet search through the swamps,
the nnritives. travelling with incredible
swiftness. made their way 100 miles
north to the line of the Northern Pa
clfc railroad. which connects Port
land with Puget Sound.
At this point in the'fight Tracy and
Merrill were known to have been to-
eether. but when Tracy next was heard
OF he was alone and in the close neigh
borhood OF Olympia. A few days later
the dead body of Merrill was found
further back on the trail with bull
let wound in his back.
After this discovery, the facts OF
the killing of Merrill came out in the
boasting Of Tracy who said he had
killed him as he had suspected Mer-
riH of having betrayed him at Port
hand. They had agreed, he said TO
! duel. the strange conditions Of which
showed in a striking manner the ma
), ture OF the outlaw.
+ According to Tracy the quarrel
= arose over the fact that Merrill was
u rated as his equal in newspaper re
l. ports Of the escape and fight, and as
u he held Merrill to be the inferior
N they had come to words and agreed
e to fight. They we're to walk back tC
back. a certain number of PAGES anC
III then turn and fire, but Tracy fearing
+ treachery on Merrilrs part, stopped
Oe short OF the agreed number of steps
10 and turning. deliberately shot the 9th
u er in the back.
At Olympia Tracy visited a fishin
y, camp in the neighborhood and held u
IS the camp, making five men prisoner
d. and pressing into his service a napi
pt- tina launch which lay at anchor there
III leaving two of his prisoners tied u
Is, on the shore while the others wei
'lu compelled to man the launch and TAX
OIL him out toward Tacoma. The launc
ny crew gave the alarm as soon as
departed, and Tracy within a fe
es- hours was trailed to a clumD Of til
u Der.
Oh The sheriff of the county, Edwa
ere Cudihee, a noted man-hunter, was a
acy sent, but his chief deputy, Jack w
EN- liams, took up the pursuit, and wi
us posse surrounded Tracy's retre'
y only to have the outlaw slip throu
his fingers, after having added o
Ter more murder to the list by the kill
OBJ of Detective Frank Raymond a
ort- wounding Williams himself.
yed When Tracy renewed his hie
leV- tloodhounds again we're put on
Win track, but the crafty outlaw had
ans vided himself with red pepper a
this he strewed over the ground
for he passed with the result that
lade dogs had their noses filled with
'enl- per and were thrown off the see
to until Tracy had time to get to wa
hot, where he obliterated his trail Ell
und- tually.
who Cudihee took up the hunt when
learned of the disastrous defeat OF
fire deputies, and promptly with the ret
'rrill of the Sheriff, Gov. Mcbride of VIZ
the ington ordered out the Washing
turn National Guard and set 200 sold
shot on the chase in addition to the nur
5. B. GUS bands of county and state otfi'
des- who already were hot on the muir
rlson er's heels.
-ered The story of the pursuit of the
made law after this is a long and excl
n as one only a few incidents can be
5 not en- here. Tracy was run to eartl
July 10 in a thicket near Gown
the on Green river, but when the purs
had we're sure they had him he b
efore through the lines, and after two
while terchanges of shots slipped away,
pdve, ing one wounded deputy behind
have The trail then was lost for
aped. days, and when picked up called
were another outing for the bloodho
begin and Indian crackers, but With
which same results. Then Tracy was
1g. for four days, till an old-time cri1
o out seeking share in the reward
host, formed the sheriffs officers that
lie ex- had submitted 10 a surgical oper