Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1902-07-10
CONNCI'S DARING
FUGITIVE OREGON DESPERATE
AGAIN ELUDEs HIS
PURsUERs.
WONDERFUL DISPLAY OF NtRVt
FORCES ASSISTANCE FROM THOSE
HE COMES IN CONTACT
WITH.
WONDERFUL DISPLAY OF NERVE
OFFICERS ARE IN HOT PURSUIT
WILL PROBABLY DISAPPEAR INTO
WILD FORESTS OF WASH
INGTON.

Seattle, Wash, July 8. - Harry
Tracey, the Oregon convict, has again
eluded his pursuers after a display of
great daring. His last act was to i'm
press q farm hand into debarking on
the sound in a row boat Saturday and
at noon yesterday Sheriff Cuolhee
chartered the tug Sea Lion, and, with
a posse, started in pursuit.
According to information received at
the sheriff's office here Tracey slept in
a graveyard on the outskirts of Seattle
after his battle Thursday night with
Seattle officers. On Friday morning he
proceeded to the ranch of a man named
Fisher, secured food and slept AMI
rested in the woods all that day and
night. Early Saturday morning he ap-
peared at Meadow Point, on the water
front, three miles north Of Seattle, his
original point of landing. There he
Compelled n Japanese
fisher boy to row him to Madison
Point, twelve miles across and down
the sound from Seattle. He dismissed
the boy, declaring that the latter would
be killed by Tracey's pal If he told Of
the trip. They landed near the home
Of Rancher Johnson and Tracey
watched the house for an hour to make
sure Of the number of men there. Find
ing but two, he entered and announced
that he intended to kill every one on
the ranch and take charge of the place
for a few days. He added:
But. after seeing your pretty little
girl, I will kill no one If you all mind
me. 1 will be here all day"
The family prepared breakfast for
Tracey ard put one plate on a table
against the wall.
This is not right" declared the o
Wet; put the table in the middle of
the room and all sit down with me-"
which was DONE.
CooIly Reads the Papers.
Tracey then read Friday evenings
papers, and after learning how Mrs.
Van Horn had betrayed his presence in
her house to the butcher boy, said he
had been careless in not keeping every
one in that house constantly under his
eye. y
my carelessness in this respect made
1t necessary to kill two officers" he
said.
He forced the Johnsons to give him
a bundle of clothing and hats and six
days supplies of food, cooked for him,
put on Johnson's suit of Sunday black
and had the food, clothes and blankets
pade into bundles.
At s o'clock he bound and tightly
gagged the Johnson family, made their
hired mar help him carry the bundles
TO Johnson's row boat, put Anderson,
the hired man, in the boat at the oars
and started down the sound.
Notified tbe sheriff.
Mrs. Johnson released herself and the
others two hours later and notified
Deputy Sheriff Mckay, who lives at
Madison Point. Mckay secured a boat
and sen word to Seattle yesterday
morning.
Sheriff Cudihee was summoned from
Bothell and at 1890 o'clock, with sew
eral men, started down the sound III
the Sea Lion, an electric tug boat, look
ing for the desperate and farm hand.
However, as Tracey had fifteen hours
start 1t is believed he will make good
his escape. The s%upposition is that he
would row all night, probably kill An
derson, sink the boat and disappear
into the wild forests of Northern Wash
lngton, where he may live many days
on his supply Of food.