Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07

Half way between Cedar river and Bur-
rough's boat house the dogs ran into
cayenne pepper sprinkled In the outlaws
footsteps -...-... ..... d.
Their nostrils were filled with the fiery
substance and fully ten minutes were lost
In relieving the dogs so that they could
again use their powers Of smell.
Pressed to desperation. Tracy here made
a circuit. headed due north and plunged
into the outskirts of the lake, where he
finally succeeded In casting the scent IL
was then dark. and the guard returned
to Renton with the dogs.
In the back yard at the Gerald place
was Anderson, whom Tracy had kept
prisoner from the time he left Port Madi-
son, gagged and tied to a tree. The des-
perado had tethered the man while the
posse was in full view OF the house.
Anderson's Story Of Monday.
Anderson tells the following story of his
experience:
I'VE left Port Madison Saturday night
at o'clock. We went to West Seattle. ar
irving at daylight. I pulled the boat Ira
cy holding a gun over me all the way We
landed south Of the West Seattle elevator,
under a trestle. and went directly into the
woods. We spent Sunday in the woods at
West Seattle.
when Il got dark we came across the
bay I'm our boat and landed at the saw
the railroad track TO the left shortly be-
fore we reached Black river. We crossed
a large hay field and went into the woods.
This was Monday morning.
when we got into the timber we cooked
breakfast. We then rested until after
noon. At three o'clock we started through
the timber toward Renton Just before
we reached the railroad bridge over the
Black river we met four men and Tracy
said: Hello. FredV and Jumped down the
bank TO where the men were standing.
Tracy talked TO the men for a few min
utes.
After the talk was finished Tracy left
one Of the men 70 watch me. He and the
three others. after blihdfolding me- went
Of and stayed about an hour. When they
returned they brought a bottle Of whisky.
Then we started out. Tracy forced me to
walk In front and he followed behind. ac-
companied by the four men we met ON the
bridge.
I'VE arrived at Renton about eleven
o'clock and walked mp the railroad track
through the town. Here Tracy tied me
up. and he. accompanied by the four
strange men. left me. They returned at
daylight Tuesday morning and We went
further back into the brush and cooked
breakfast.
after breakfast Tracy told me ne would
60 away for a while, but would come back
IN an hour. When he returned he brought
little boy from Gerald's house, and we
walked down to the Gerald place togeth-
er.
we were IN the house about three
hours when Tracy took me out into the
brush. Al the river bank he said. lie
down After looking W and down the
river Tracy tied me up and cautioned
me to keep still lay in this position
until called to by Mrs. Gerald. when
hobbled out OF the brush into the back
yard. where this gentleman Indicating
reporter) united the leather straps
which held me-"
Rested on Wednesday.
On Wednesday. II was learned the day
after while bloodhOunds and a posse were
following what were supposed to be Ira
cy's tracks around Green Lake, north Of
Seattle. he was boldly operating at Kent.
seventeen miles south OF Seattle.
Tracy doubled back from Seattle and
passed Wednesday at Z. NJ. Johnson's
farm house near Kent.
He awed the family into submission and
compelled Johnson 10 60 to Tacoma and
purchase him a revolver and a hundred
cartridges.
Not only did Tracy force johnson TO buy
the revolver. but he made him borrow the
necessary money in Kent
johnson went to Tacoma and purchased
the weapon without giving any kind OF a
warning 70 the authorities. He was badly
frightened.
When Tracy left the johnson place he
also took a horse and provisions for a
week.
Fight on Thursday.
On Thursday night Tracy performed the
marvellous again and slipped through a
Gordon OF guards at the mouth of Sluice
Creek. fought battle with the deputies
and fed through the timber In the
fighting no one was hurt though when the
outlaw fired twice at T. F. Grove ne was
so close that the deputy was burned by
the powder.
When darkness fell Tracy was thought
TO be securely penned on the point of the
western blum, where he had been con-
ceaied all afternoon. Though the guards
were stationed thickly. one being posted
every fifty feet. he successfully eludec
them and Travelled up the roadbed Of the
Palmer cutoff toward Covington, five
miles distant.
At a quarter TO twelve o'clock Thursday
night Tracy arrived at a sawmill plant a
mile from this place. Deputy Sheriffs ].
c. Bunce, Fred Bunce, Calvin and Grove
had been sent TO guard this point Depu-
ty Grove and the Bunces, father and son,
had posted themselves on the railroad
near the saw mill at the entrance of a
big cut near a rise OF ground, the Bunces
being on the outer guard line.
They were hardly settled when they
heard footsteps. and Tracy soon put in an