Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1902-07-17
ESCAPED CONVICT
He Puts Up a Desperate Fight
Against His Pursuers.
He Sin OOts "a Number Of Men, Three OF
Whom Are Dead-Oregon Out
law 81 Very ''Bad Actor''-
Large Rewards
Offered.

Seattle, Wash, July 4.-Tracy, the
escaped Oregon convict, in battle
with a Seattle posse near Bothell last
evening shot and instantly killed
Charles Raymond, deputy sheriff
from Everett, who joined the pur-
suers, and dangerously wounded
Deputy Sheriff John Williams, of this
city. Carl Anderson, newspaper
man, was slightly grazed on the arm.
Louie Seefrit, another reporter, was
wounded in the face.
So intense is the excitement over
the killing of Raymond and the
wounding of Williams that an effort
is being made to have Gov. Mcbride
call out the militia. Tracy was last
seen below Bothell and was headed
| for Seattle in a wagon.
| A special train carrying more than
25 men armed with Winchesters, has
left for the scene.
Tracy was seen walking the track
of the Seattle & International rail-
road yesterday morning by Jack
Freeman, night watchman at the
Sldlt university y. ne DIT once DoIlIleu
the sheritf's Office and the pursuit be-
gan. The posse of deputy sheriffs was
soon joined by a number of citizens.
According to the latest reports
! Tracy was concealed in cabin on
the banks of Squal Slough, two miles
from Bothell When the posse came
in sight Tracy commenced firing
| Williams and Raymond were both
hit. Tracy then retreated and con
cealed himself in the cabin. Ander-
son claims to have fred three times
at Tracy. but does not know whether
he hit him.
Capt. Clark. of the steam launch
H. and s.. yesterday gave a thrilling
account of the trip of himself and
crew up the sound on Wednesday in
company with Harry Tracy. the
escaped Oregon convict. who at the
point of a rifle forced all hands to
embark and pilot him northward. For
nearly ten hours Tracy was com
mander of the craft by virtue of
force, finally abandoning it and escap-
ing into the woods.
Seattle, Wash, July 5.-Convict
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and fatally wounded Neil Rowley, in
the city limits, after having murdered
Deputy Sheriff Charles Raymond, of
Snohomish county, and probably ia
tally wounded Deputy Sheriff John
Williams, of Kings county.
Gov Mcbride is taking the keenest
interest in the case. He has offered
reward of $500. This, with other
rewards offered by relatives of the
victims of Tracy's rife, brings the
rewards offered up to $4,000.
Thursday night Tracy was located
in the home of Mrs. X. II. Van Horn
at Woodland Park. The news was
conveyed to Fremont by a butchers
boy, who broke the intelligence just
as Sheriff Cudihee drove into the
suburb from Bothell. The house was
surrounded, but Tracy deliberately
fought his way through the guards,
killing Policeman Breese and mortally
wounding Guard Neil Rowley and dis
appeared into the brush towards Ra
VIENNA park. Sheriff Cudihee twice had
bead upon the desperado, but was
unable to fire for the reason that the
fugitive had taken the precautiOn to
walk between two impressed men
who would have been imperiled had
the sheriff opened fire with his rifle.
Tracy slept in a barn at Ballard,
six miles from here, Thursday night.
He was seen to leave Friday morning.
Neil Rowley, who was shot by the
outlaw, died yesterday.
Gov. Me Bride has ordered two com
panies of national guard to assemble
at their armories. 1t is understood
that Gov. Mcbride has no intention of
calling the troops out unless Tracy
should be taken alive, in which case
they would be used to prevent a
lynching.
Though suburban residents in every
quarter have notified the sheriff of
strange men. supposed to be Tracy,
In their neighborhood, the most re-
liable report received after that of
| Tracy's departure from Woodland
Park was that of his appearance near
Bothell where Thursdays desperate
encounter was fought.
4 correspondent in bulletin sent
! from Bothell stated that the convict
was reported to have been seen about
three miles south of Bothell, driving
on a country road. Posses were
called in and picketed in circle
about the neighborhood, where he
was supposed to be. They beat the
brush to central point, all meeting
there. Believing that Tracy had
eluded them by some divergent path
leading toward Lake Washington on
the east. Sheriff Cuddihee released the
most of his deputies and proceeded
back toward Seattle, establishing n
Gordon of pickets along the entire
road