The San Juan islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1898-1914, 1902-07-10
A CRIMSON TRAIL
MARKS THE PROGRESS OF MUIR
DERER HARRY TRACY.
Three Men Dead and One Seriously
Wounded Tell the Tale of Battlss
With the Desperate Man in the
Vicinity of Seattle---Successful
Evades Posse.

Seattle, July Hunted by DlOOO-
hounds and horsemen and pedestrians
until it seemed impossible for him to
escape, Convict Tracy held up family
at Port Madison, secured food and cloth
ing, and then took to boat and trans
ferred the scene of action from land to
the Sound. Although launches, tugs,
cutters and row boats are in search of
the desperate man, no further trace of
him has yet been found.
Seattle, July 3.-Harry Tracy, the
Oregon convict who has successfully
eluded numerous posses since his es-
cape from prison, is either in Seattle
or the immediate vicinity. With char
acteristic daring he took possession of
gasoline launch belonging to Seattle
man at South Bay, near Olympia, forced
four men who had the craft in charge
to navigate it to Meadow Point, some
two miles north of Ballard, where
Tracy disembarked, and his shanghaied
crew came on to Seattle to tell the story
of their thrilling experience with the
convict.
Before making the trip in the launch
Tracy had provided himself with food
and clothing at the expense of a man
living near Olympia, and among his
other feats forced six men to line up
against a wall, while he bound two and
took the remaining four to assist him
in reaching Seattle.
Tracy told the men he had killed
h,
that story is not credited.
Seattle, July 5.-The trail of Tracy,
the Oregon convict, who by murder and
violence forced his way out of the Salem
penitentiary, is still marked by blood
OF victims of his lust for liberty One
day in the vicinity of Seattle brings
the horrifying record of three men dead,
one perhaps fatally wounded and others
SCARED by the deadly missiles from the
desperado's rifle.
The last seen of Tracy was when he
plunged, in darkness and drizzling rain,
through the dense underground that
marks the southern border of Woodland
Park.
Tracys latest victims are:
Killed-Deputy Sheriff Charles Ray
mond, of Everett; Policeman Z. L.
Breese, of Fremont.
Wounded-Neil Rawley, of Fremont,
since died; Deputy Sheriff j. H. Will
Jams, of Seattle, seriously.
Near Bothell Tracy was encountered
by posse, and the fight took place in
which Raymond was killed and Will
liams wounded. Tracy slipped away
into the underbrush after scattering the
posse and easily escaped.
| At Woodland Park Tracy secured
change of clothes, and upon emerging
from the house where he obtained the
clothing he encountered Officer Breese
and Neil Rawley. Tracy at once shot
Rawley and made good his escape. An
hour afterwards Breese and posse met
Tracy within a block of the first bat
tleground. Shots were exchanged and
Breeze was killed Tracy again eluded
the posse.
On roads keenly watched by men
with Winchester rifles in ambush and
on patrol. Tracy has eluded pursuit.
AT 2:30 this morning absolutely no
trace of his approximate whereabouts
could be found. Even the usual rumors
OF suspected characters failed to reach
the sheriff's office after an early hour
in the evening. Sheriff Cudihee, who
spent the night at Bothell, declared
that he had no idea of the convicts loca-
ton. Indicative of how far the search
ers are at sea in their speculation,
roads are guarded eight miles south of
the city. The Gordon thrown out along
the line of the county road north ex-
tends through the town of Bothell,
eighteen miles to the northward.
Neil Rawley, who was shot in the
melee at Fremont Thursday night
when policeman Breeze was killed is
dead. A startling fact was developed
after death. The leaden pellet that
ended Rawley's life was shot from a re-
volver. 1t had been generally accepted
that the miner was killed by the ball
from cartridge fired from Tracy's
| Winchester rife. 1t is now surmised
that Rawley was killed by shot fired
by one of his own party. AS the re-
volver used by j /. Knight, one of the
party, is OF the same caliber as that of
the ball found in Rawley's body, it is
thought that he may have missed his
aim when shooting at Tracy. As far as
could be learned the desperate outlaw
killed no more of his pursuers after the
collision at Fremont Thursday night.
The only report of anything like bat
tie with the convict is that of the en-
counter with a strange man north of
Ballard. A member OF the posse took