The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1902-08-15
TRACY, THE OUTLAW, DEAD
Kills Himself to Prevent Capture by
Posse, Which Had Him Cor
nered in Wheat Field.
Ions, THRILLING CHASE ENDED At LAST
Desperate Rifle Duel mt Long Range
Occurs Before the Fugitive KILLS
Himself-Story of His Escape from
the Penitentiary and His Many
Fcuts of Daring.

Spokane, Wash, Aug. 7.-Harry
Tracy, escaped felon, multi-murderer
and terror of Washington and Oregon,
is dead at last, slain by his own hand.
True to the daredevil egotism of his
spectacular career, he disdained cap
ture or death at any hands but his own
and died a suicide, facing great odds
and coolly giving battle till his ebbing
blood made further escape or resist
ancc impossible.
Tracy was hunted down by posse
of Creston citizens. He was surround
ed in a wheat field near Fellows, sta
ton on the Washington Central rail-
road so miles west of Spokane. He had
engaged in a running fight with his
pursuers, but while his hitherto I'M
erring rifle had failed to find victim
among them, two of their shots had
wounded him in the right leg, one bull
let severing an artery.
Tries to Stnneh Wound.
Hiding in the wheat field, he had
tried in vain to stanch the flow of life
blood. Baffied in his surgery and i'll
his murderous enmity to his hunters,
he put his revolver to his head and
sent a bullet into his brain. Soon after
daylight Wednesday morning his body
was found. Thus closed the career of
probably the most spectacular des-
perado and outlaw ever known in the
far west.
Body Found in Grain Field.
AT dawn Sheriff Gardner's posse
found Tracy's body lying face upward
amid the grain. In his left hand he
held a revolver, and the shattered con-
dition of his forehead left no doubt
that he was his own slayer. He had
buckled strap around his leg in ar
effort to stop the blood that gushed
from the Tribal artery when it had been
cut by bullet. The body was taken
directly to Davenport by the sheriff.
story of Trncy's Daring.
Harry Tracy escaped from the Oregon
state penitentiary at Salem on June 8, in
company with David Merrill. after killing
four men, Frank w. Terrell, G. r. T. Jones
and b. F. Tiffany, guards. and Frank
1ngraham, a convict who tried to prevent
his flight. On June IS Tracy killed Merrill
near Napavine, Wash, shooting him from
behind, and leaving his body in the forest,
where it was found on July Is. On July 8,
near Seattle. in fight with a posse, Tracy
shot and killed Charles Raymond. a dep
uty sheriff; E. E. Breese. policeman, and
MORALLY wounded Neil Rawley, who died
on the following day. and wounded Carl
Anderson and Louie Zafrite, newspaper re-
porters.
Tracy committed many feats of daring
during his flight, in the course of which he
eluded various posses when apparently sur
rounded, and held up numerous farmers,
whom he forced TO furnish food and cloth
ing, and by threats of numbering their fam
lilies 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, including Capt. Clark. of a
large gasoline launch, to embark with him
on Puget sound and pilot him up stream
for ten hours
In 1887 Tracy murdered Valentine Hoge.
Colorado cattleman, and William Strong,
boy. in the same state. total reward of
$500 was offered for his arrest. Gov. Nc
Bride OF ashington. offering $500 for his
capture, dead alive. The state of Ore
gon offered $500 and a brother of one of
the guards killed at the penitentiary Of
fered 500