Goldsboro weekly argus. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1885-1909, 1902-08-14
HARRY TRACY.
The Notorious Outlaw Puts an End
to HIS Wild Career With a
Pistol Ball.
Pistol Ball.

to HIS Wild Career With a
Pistol Ball.
Spokane, Wash, Aug. 6.-Harry
Tracy, the notorious outlaw, who
with David Merrill, escaped from
the Oregon p~enitentiary at Salem
June 9, after killing three prison
guards, killed himself early this
morning after being wounded by
the rifle of one of a posse in pursuit.
Tracy was surrounded in a wheat
field near FalloWes; a station on the
Washington Central railroad about
fifty miles west of Spokane. Last
night word was sent back to Daven-
port, the county seat, and a large
number of armed men hurried to the
scene.
The posse under sheriff Gardner
opened fire on the outlaw, and one
bullet pierced his right leg between
the knee and thigh. About twenty
minutes after being wounded he
shot himself with one of his revolt
vers, and his body was found this
morning after daybreak. The re-
volver with which he killed himself
was grasped tightly in his right
hand.
Harry Tracy escaped from the
Oregon state prison June 8, after kill
ing Frank w. Ferre!l, G. R.T.Jones
and B. T. Tiffany guards, and Frank
Ingraham, a convict who tried to
prevent his fight. On June % Tracy
killed Merrill near NapavInt, Wash
ington, shooting from behind and
leaving his body in the forest where
it was found July Is. On July 3near
Seattle, in a fight with a posse, Tracy
shot and killed Charles Raymond, q
deputy sheriff, E. e. Bres5e, d po-
liceman, and MORALLY wounded
Neil Rawley, WAC died the follow
ing day, and wounded Carl Ander-
son and Louis Zafrite, newspaper re-
porters.
Tracy committed many feats of
daring during hisfight, inthe ours
of which he eluded various posses
when apparently surrounded and
held up numerous farmers whom he
forced to furnish food and clothing
and by threats Of numbering their
families compelled them to cover up
his tracks.
Tracy was hunteddown by a posse
of Creston citizens, and being sur-
rounded, he engaged in a running
battle with his pursuers. His leg
was broken by a bullet and an artery
bled profusely. He crept into a
wheat field and tried to tie up the
artery. Becoming desperate he put
his revolver to his head and fired a
bullet into his brain.
At daylight this morning his body
was found, already cold. No sherifs
were ear when the battle was in
progress, and private citizens of
Creston Will get the reward.
6IIldpS Ills SI0dGCSG SuOW VI Udr-
ing was displayed July 2 at South
Bay, a Olympia, when he held
up six men and forced four, includ-
ing Captain Clark of a large gasoline
launch, to embark him on Puget
sound and pilot him up stream for
ten hours.
In 1897 Tracy murdered Valentine
Hoge, a Colorado cattIeman, and
William Strong, a boy, in the same
state. A total reward of So, 600 was
offered for his arrest, Geo. A. Nc
Bride Of Washington, offering So, 500
for his capture dead Or alive. The
state of Oregon offered $1,000 and a
brother of one of the guards killed
at the penitentiary offered 800.
The reward for Merri1Ps capture,
amounting to 81, 800, has been claim
ed by Mrs. Waggoner, the berry
picker, and her son, vino found the
body neal their home. .