The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-08-02
TRACY SAYS HE
NEEDS MONEY
Convict Headed Toward the
"Hole-in.the Wal"
ONLY KILLED THREE MEN
SEVERAL SMALL POSSES START
IN PURSUIT OF FUGITIVE.

2 PoKANE, Wash, Aug. 1.-Harrv
y Tracy, the fugitive desperate. is
now in eastern Washington, IN
wounded in good health. armed with
four guns and 200 rounds of ammuni-
tloL, proV1sioned for five days and
| equipped with two horses. Tracy
! crossed the Columbia river at = io'cIocI,
yesterday morning and is now sun
posed TO be headed toward the Idaho
line.
Tracy declares that he wants TO hold
up bank or rob an express car. He
says that he has promised TO give the
sum or $1,000, within one year, to the
| parties who helped him escape from
the Oregon penitentiary. he is making
MS way to the 'HOIe-in-the- Wall in
| Wyoming. When there he declares he
will be thief among thieves" and
| thinks he will be safe
Tracy spent Wednesday at a ranch
of W. A Sanders, six miles belo,,
Wenachee on the Columbia river. He
crossed the Columbia Thursday morn
ing AT o'clock at a ferry eighteen
miles below Wenachee.
The reason the outlaw was not re-
ported sooner by Sanders was that he
threatened that If he got into any
trouble he would return and get even
with the people who reported on him.
if that was the last thing he did on
earth"
Makes Himself Known.
About l o'clock Wednesday morning
| rider leading one pack horse ap-
preached the ranch Of W. A. Sanders
He said:
DO you know who I amp"
Sanders replied No"
7 am Harry Tracy, the escaped con-
vict''
The outlaw announced that he would
stay all day and that he would not
harm them if they did not do any funny
business He ate two meals at the
ranch Tracy inquired about the bank
| at Wenachee and wanted one of the
men TO help him rob it, but the latter
| begged off
The outlaw denied that ne had been
| wounded and declared he had ssained
I fifteen or twenty pounds since 6scap-
| ing from the penitentiary. He left
after dark, having exchanged his two
| horses for two fresh ones.
At IL p. IN. he appeared at the ferry
about eighteen miles below Wenachee
| and wanted 30 cross the Columbia He
I did not tell his name. The ferry man
/ refused TO cross in the night, so Tracy
! hung around the vicinity until daylight
! Thursday morning
! He then reused the ferryman. After
/ crossing the river he said he had no
money and could not pay for the ferry.
He rode away and has not been seen
since.
! Two or three small posses are re-
! ported to have started out from Big
Bend towns to seek him When at
Sanders house Tracy was dressed in
black coat and shirt, blue overalls,
miners shoes and a SLOUGH hat. He
| carried extra ammunition in a bag.
Says He Saw Tracy.
George Mccain has just afived
with a report that at 9 o'clock this
morning about fifteen miles west of
| Coulee City. he passed man answer
] ing Tracy's description. He had the
horses supposed TO have been taken
! near Wenachee.
| Deputy Sheriff Friel and City Mar
shall Deyers left last night to intercept
Tracy at Moses lake, the only route
/ that could be taken if he is headed for
| the mountains.
Deputy Sheriff Sedgwick of Coulee
! City has been following the clue re-
I ported by Mccain. Tracy crossed the
/ Columbia at O'Clock Thursday morn
I ing and could easily have covered the
I distance between the ferry and the
I point where Mccain met the man an
! swering his description.
A Wenachee special SAYS:
The special correspondent of the
( Spokesman-Re went out to the
ranch of ". A. Sanders this morning,
/ where Tracy passed the greater part Of
( Wednesday. Mrs. Sanders talked freely
of her experience with the outlaw After
I announcing himself Tracy said: You
! viii be all right so long as you do not
! try 10 give me away. If you do warn
/ you that it viii be all off with you
About that time" said Mrs Sanders.
] my son-in-law came in from the
! fields and I introduced him as the es-
I ca ped convict, but McEldowney did 4Ot
think 1 was in earnest and invited
! Tracy in TO have dinner. but Tracy in
formed him that he was really the out
/ law and made US understand that he
did not want any fooIing-
Asks to Face the Door.
! He came in TO dinner. taking his
| Winchester and setting it down in the
corner. Mrs. McEldowney had fixed a
plate for him with his back to the door.
! but he changed his position, saying
| jokingly that he preferred 10 face
things.
After dinner we all went out on the
porch and Tracy took his Winchester
| into the front room and set il down
with the remark that il was empty
He had a big 40 Colt strapped to his
leg The holster was made Of old boot
| tops He carried beside a 50 Colt con-
cealed in his BOSOM
Il asked him how many men he had
really killed since his escape. He re-
piled that there were only three Some
of the men they say / killed when in
those tight places near Seattle were
killed by their own men,
In reply to a question as to how he
got here he said:
st walked and crawled through to the
summit, where 1 met an old prospectOr
who gave me that bUckskin horse
Then I came across a sheep camp near
Ellenburg and stole those other two
pack horses, the Winchester AND some
-four and bacon
Tracy had concluded TO take McBl-
doWney with him, but the tears OF MIS-
| McEIdowEey caused him to change his
mind He said: g. it, Sam, your
wife will cry all night. won't she?
have a heart left yet and viii not take
| you along.
Tracy wore q black coat, somewhat
/ worn. a pair of blue overalls, black
shirt with white stripes and olack
slouch hat He had grown short
| thin moustache-