The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-17
TRAIL OF TRACY.
LATEST OF THE MAN HUNT NOW
IN PROGRESS.
Clue After Clue Run Down But the
Desperate Is Still at Large.
Dogs, Deputies and Volunteers
Outwitted Time and Again by
the Fleeing Convict.

Seattle, July 14.-Harry Tracy held
up the Pautot family, near Black Dia-
mond, and compelled the aged wife to
cook meal for him. While in the
house posse of deputies passed with n
few feet of the window where Tracy
stood watching them, but they did not
stop to inquire as to Tracy's where
abouts, so the famous outlaw continued
his meal. He seems to have been IN
severe physical pain, and it was
thought that he was wounded in the
hip by buckshot in the skirmish with
the Bunces. One of his legs was badly
swollen from rheumatism and he was
in a deplorable condition. The old
careless, jaunty manner had disappear
ed, and peevish, complaining attitude
replaced the bantering one he has here
tofore assumed.
He is supposed to be in the vicinity
of Enumclaw with the usual crowd in
pursuit.
Seattle, July 12.-Each morning
brings crop of hopeful rumors from
the chase after Harry Tracy, and each
evening brings the same old story of
evasion by the convict Desperate.
Bloodhounds, deputies and volunteers
are led hither and thither by this
phantom desperate, and baffled and
chagrined, can only fret and fume at
the fruitlessness of their efforts.
Yesterday Tracy was driven into the
Ginter swamp southeast of Black Dia-
mond, and the chase ended for the day
Previous to this Tracy encountered three
deputies on the railroad near Covington
and was shot at eight times at close
range with buckshot charges. Tracy
fired twice, but no one was injured and
Tracy again escaped to the brush.
Seattle, July IL. The most i'm
portant move made by Harry Tracy
since his escape was the holding mp of
the f. NJ. Johnson family, two miles
south of Kent, and compelling Johnson
to go to Tacoma and procure Colts As
With plenty of cartridges. 1t is believ-
ed that Tracy's object in getting the re-
volver is that he may enter a city and
ply his perilous trade of robbery with
out attracting the attention he would
with rifle. He would thus be enabled
to secure enough money to quietly slip
out of the state without leaving trail
blazoned with murder and robbery.
Seattle, July 10.-Wild and unsub-
stantial rumors of the ubiquitous
Tracy's whereabouts were run to earth,
and proved as usual heretofore, to be
valueless. Since leaving the Gerrells'
home Tracy has not been definitely To-
Gated, though the usual number of men
have been on the lookout for him.
Seattle, July 9.-Yesterday Harry
Tracy was surrounded at the home of
man named Gerrills, short distance
from Renton. Tracy sat on bench, So
yards from the nearest of his pursuers,
and chatted with three women of the
house. The posse was soon reinforced
and Tracy became aware of their pres
ence.
With scornful indifference the outlaw
calmly walked away, not shot being
fired at him, and no effort being made
to take him. The pursuit. if such it
could be called, was resumed as soon as
Tracy had safely disappeared into the
brush, bloodhounds being utilized, but
to no purpose in the end.