The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1902-07-12
HE ESCAPES UNHURT
OREGON CONVICT FIGHTS SEW.
ERAL BATTLES WITH POSSE
BUT GETS AWAY.
Kills Deputy Sheriff Raymond Of sno.
homish County, WASH, and Police.
man Breese Of Seattle and Fatally
Wounds Two Other Pursuers-Gov:
ernor Mcbride Orders State Troops
to Assist in Running Him Down.
to Assist in Running Him Down.

ernor Mcbride Orders State Troops
to Assist in Running Him Down.
Seattle, Wash, July 5.-Convict
Harry Tracy has just passed red let
ter day in his erratic career. He
killed Policeman E. E. Breese and fa-
tally wounded Neil Rawley in the city
limits after having murdered Deputy
Sheriff Charles Raymond of Snohom.
ish county and probably fatally wound
ed Deputy Sheriff John Williams Of
King county. In his hopeless fight for
safety, with no consideration for hu-
man life. Tracy has covered probably
sixty miles. He was first encountered
by Seattle posse near Bothell at $3.50
o'clock in the afternoon. Evidently
the convict caught signt of his pur-
suers before they saw him. He had
taken commanding position in
clump of huge frs and opened fire be-
fore he was discovered. He fired five
shots in all. Raymond was instantly
killed by one of the Winchester rife
balls. Another struck the raised rifle
held by Williams, splitting it in four
parts, and entered the deputy's breast.
He will live, it is believed 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 s2,500. This, with
other rewards offered by the relatives
of the victims of Tracys rifle, brings
the rewards offered to total of $500.
The governor, further than offering
the reward, has ordered Adjutant Cen
eral Drain to send two troops of the
state militia to aid the posses, the
members of which are securing all the
northern suburban territory of Seat
tie. Sheriff Cudihee returned to the
large number of deputies, who will be
relieved in the morning by the state
militia men.
Desperate Prisoner Located.
Shortly after 8 o'clock in the even
ing Tracy was located in the home of
Mrs. R. H. Van Horn, at the south
west corner of Woodland park. The
news was conveyed to Fremont by
butchers boy, who broke the intelli-
gence just as Sheriff Cudihee drove
into the suburb from Bothell. The
house was quickly surrounded, but
Tracy again exemplified his unprece-
dented luck and iron nerve by deliber-
ately fighting his way through the
guards, killing Policeman E. E. Breese
and mortally wounding Guard Neil
Rawley, and disappeared into the
brush towards Ravenna 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 whose lives would have
been imperilled had the sheriff opened
fire with his rifle.
AS soon as the last skirmish was
over and the body of the dead police.
man, together 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 summoned all the assistance
available and began strategic move
ments in order to surround the fleeing
murderer. Tracy went in an easterly
direction toward Ravenna and once
| we'll within the shadow of the under
brush and lumber which skirts Wood
land park no human eye could pene.
trate its gloom.
Seattle. Wash. July 9.-Harry
Tracey, the fugitive Oregon convict.
who has killed six men and wounded
several others since June 9, is being
hotly pursued by men and dogs in the
country southeast of Seattle and prob.
ably will be slain or captured within a
few hours. His pursuers, who have