Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-05
KILLS TWO OFFICERS
Fleeing Convict Adds Two More
Men to His List OF
Murders.
Outlaw Tracy Still at Large and
Militia Has Been Called
Out.
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Fights His Way Thru a Gordon
OF Police and Citizens
at Seattle.

Seattle, Wash, July 5.-Convict Far-
ny Tracey passed a red letter day in his
erratic career yesterday. He killed po-
iceman T.. L. Breese and fatally
wounded Neil Rawley in the city limits
after having murdered Deputy Sheriff
Williams of Kings county early yester-
day. In his hopeless flight for safety
with no consideration for human life
Tracey has covered probably sixty
miles. He was first encountered by q
/ Seattle posse near Bothell al $3.50
o'clock in the afternoon. Evidently the
convict caught sight of his pursuers be-
fore they saw him. He had taken a
commanding position in clump of
huge frs and opened fire before he was
discovered. He fired five shots in all.
Raymond was instantly killed by one of
| the Winchester rifle balls. Another
struck the rifle held by Williams, split
| ting it in four parts, and entered the
deputys breast. He will live, it is be-
| lieved at this time.
| Governor Mcbride, of this state, who
is in the city with Adjutant General
| Drain of the state militia, is taking the
keenest interest in the case. He has
offered a reward of $500. This. with
other rewards offered by the relatives
of the victims of Tracey's rifle brings
the rewards offered to a total of $4,000.
The governor. besides Offering the re-
ward, has ordered Adjutant General
Drain to send two troops of state milf
tia to aid the posses. the members of
which are securing all the northern SUI
burban territory of Seattle.
Sheriff Cudihee returned to the city
at 2:30 o'clock this morning, leaving on
watch large number of deputies who
will be relieved in the morning by the
state militianen.
Shortly after s o'clock in the evening
| Tracy was located in the home of Mrs.
II. III. Van Hosen at the southwest cor
her of Woodland park. The news was
conveyed to Fremont by a butchers boy
who broke the intelligence just as
Sheriff Cudilee drove into the suburb
from Bothell. The house was quickly
surrounded, but Tracy again eXempiified
his unprecedented luck and iron nerve
by boldly fighting his way thru the
guards, killing Policeman T.. Il. Breese
and mortally wounding Guard Neil
Rawley, and disappeared into the brush
towards Ravenna park. Sheriff Cudi-
hee twice had q bead on the desperate
but was unable to fire us the fugitive
had taken the precaution to walk be-
tween two whose lives would have beer
imperiled had the sheriff opened fire
with his rifle.
AS soon as the last slirmish was over
and the body of the dead policeman, to-
gether with Rawley, who was found to
be wounded in the right side, could be
removed from the road and later placed
in an ambulance, Sheriff Cudihee sum-
moned all the assistance available and
began stratgetic movements in order to
surround the fleeing murderer. Tracy
went in an easterly direction toward
Ravenna, and once Well within the
shadow of the underbrush and timber
that skirts Woodland park, no human
could pentrate its gloom.
Tracy slept in barn at Ballard, six
miles from here last night. He was
seen to leave at $50 this morning. Two
companies of militia are ready to start
in pursuit. Neil Rawley, who was shot
by the outlaw last night, died this
morning.