Daily new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1897-1906, 1902-08-07
OUTLAW TRACY DEAD
Committed Suicide in Wheat
field. After Being Badly
ound e d.
HAD MADE A DESPERATE FIGHT.
Rad Made Desperate Fisht-His Aid
Was Bad and He Failed to Add to
His Long List Of victims-5oy Be-
trayed Him-sketch of His Career.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. Harry
Tracy, the outlaw, committed suicide,
near Fellowes, "a station on the Wash
ington Central railroad, about so
miles west of Spokane. Wednesday
night
After battling the officers of two
states, after 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 lone deputy
sheriff Sheriff Gardner and posse
| arrived in time to guard the wheat
field through the night, but the work
rad already been done.
The posse that will share the re.
ward was made up as follows: c.. A.
Straub, deputy sheriff; DR.. E. c. Ian.
ter Maurice Smith, attorney; j. j.
Morrison, railway section foreman,
and Frank Lillengen. These men,
armed to the teeth, set out from Ores.
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. P.
Eddy, on Lake creek, about three
miles south from Fellows, station
On the Washington Central railway.
Tracy Fought His Pursuers.
Tracy fought his pursuers, but failed
10 hit any of them.
He escaped into wheat field and
darkness set in. The wheat field was
then surrounded and daylight awaited.
Shortly after Tracy disappeared a
shot was neard from the direction Of
the 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 turned
toward the sky. His left hand, thrown
yer his head, held a revolver, which
Lad inflicted the death wound The
thumb of his hand was on the trigger
Of 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 a
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
dependency One shot had broken
Loo hcf h.
knee. The other cut the tibial artery
which of itself was sufficient cause
for death.
Harry Tracy escaped from the Ore.
gGn state penitentiary at Salem on
June in company with David Mer
rill, after killing four men, Frank w
Ferrell, G. b. 7. Jones and B. F. Tiff
fanny, guards, and Frank Ingraham, a
convict who tried to prevent his
fight On June % 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, neal
Seattle, in a fight with posse, Tracy
shot and killed Charles Raymond,
deputy sheriff. 9. E. Bresse, a police
man. and morta1ly wounded Neil Raw
ley, who eied on the following day.
and wounded Carl Anderson and Louis
Seafrite, newspaper reporters
Committed Many Feats of Daring.
Tracy committed many feats oil
daring in his fight, 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 2 at
South Bay, near Olympia, when he
held 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
Cor 10 hours.
In 1897 Tracy murdered Valentine
Hoge, a Colorado cattleman, and Viii
liam Strong, boy in the same state
4 total reward of $500 was offered
tor his arrest, Governor Mcbride, OF
Washington, offering $500 for his
capture, dead or alive. The state OF
Oregon offered $4,000, and a brother
If one of the guards killed at the pen
itentiary offered 800.
At the time Of his escape Tracy
vas in prison for burglary he having
been arrested in Portland Feb 6,
1893, after an exciting battle with De
toctiye David Weiner. Tracy fired
two shots at the detective, wounding
him, and then jumped onto an engine
with his revolver to the head of the
engineer. He ordered the engineer
to go ahead at full speed. The con.
daetor stopped the train. however,
and seeing that his plan had been
frustrated, Tracy jumped from the
engine and started to run. Half a !
cozen shots were fred at the fugitive, |
enc Of which took effect behind his
ear and he was captured. A month |
afierward, while being taken from |
Jail TO the court room, he exchanged |
several shots with the jailer, but was |