Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-08-07
TRACY, NOTED OUTLAW,
HELDAT BAY, COMMITS SUICIDE

certain line and then turn around ana
fire. In the duel. Tracy said. he killed
Merrill.
When Clark told his story posses start
ed in all directions to catch Tracy, and on
the first day of this renewed search, July
g. Tracy ambushed one of the posses.
killed Deputy Sheriff Charles Raymond
of Snohomish county. perhaps mortally
wounded Deputy Sheriff sack" Williams
of Seattle, and then escaped after a duel
with two newspaper men.
For the first time since he escaped from
the Salem penitentiary he became face to
face with the pursuers but with deadly
results for the latter.
This battle was short and decisive. Ira
cy escaped unhurt. His pursuers wero
Deputy Sheriffs Raymond. Williams IL. L.
Nelson, Carl Anderson and Louis b. Sc
frit. They walked down the railroad track
toward Woodenville, where they met a
man whom they mistooiS for the criminal,
and held him up.
They then went on down the track to-
ward Seattle from this place until they
were a quarter of a mile west of Wayne.
They met Deputy Sheriff Brewster and re-
ported back TO Bothel. They heard that
Tracy had been seen near Wayne.
They doubled back on their tracks from
Bothel and entered canoe on the west
side Of Wayne.
Here the party decided to make a search
as 1t was an ideal hiding place. Sefrit
noticed a path running down to cabin
near the railroad track Tt bore the fresh
imprint of a mans foot.
This is our place." said Raymond, and
stepped forward to lead the posse to the
cabin. Nelson and Brewer were on the
east side of the cabinl Raymond, Sefrit
a Anderson on the west.
The men marched toward the cabin with
their rifles and revolvere ready for action.
The rain was falling almost In torrents
Suddenly from a stump about thirty feet
away Tracy's face and neck shot into
view. At the same moment he flung his
winchester rifle into position across the
stump. The report came almost slmuita-
neously with the appearance.
He nred point blank AT Anderson, the
bullet grazing his face. Anderson tumbled
healdong into a ditch partly stunned. The
cold water into which he fell revived him,
and he was on his feet in an instant.
AS he rose Tracy again fred twice. ana
RAYMOND, who had just crouched TO SHOOT,
reeled backward and against Anderson ana
dropped to the ground stone dead. AS
Raymond reeled back Sefrit fired at Tracy
and the convict turneds HIS attention TO
him. Sefrit fell to the tground and fred
again at the convict.
Tracy again shot savagely in quick
succession at his assailant. Anderson
meantime had plunged through the brush
to flank the convict He met Nelson ana
Brewer. M
Before they could move q step Tracy
fred three times. and second later WIZ
Jams crawled out Of TIE brush on MS
hands and knees into the opening around
the cabin, showing severe wounds. he
was shot three times under the heart:
and even he appeared to view lurched
to one side and stretched out unconscious.
AS Williams collapsed Tracy disappear
ed. The whole adventure had hardly ta-
ken more than two or three. minutes. Ray
naond lay dead, still clutching his revolt
YER williams had his gun still nrnly
grasped in his hand.
The smoke from the battle had not
drifted from the scene before the survivors
were working over the dead and wounded.
Tracy fed through the forest. The pur-
suers had no chance to follow him.
After the battle the convict held up a
farmer. Informed him that he was dep
uty sheriff on the trail Of Tracy and I'M
pressed the farmer into his service. They
took the road to Ravenna, it being the
convicts intention to proceed straight
down to Seattle. wi
Kills Two More Men.
That same evening Tracy was located in
the home of Mrs. r. H. Van Horn at the
southwest corner of Woodlawn Park, in
Fremont. The news was conveyed to Ere
mont by a butchers boy, who broke the
intelligence just as Sheriff Cudihee drove
into the suburb from Bothel
The house was quickly surrounded put
Tracy again exemplified his unprecedented
luck and iron nerve by deliberately fight
ing his way through the guards, killing r.
E. Breeze, a deputy, and Neil Rawley,
game warden, and disappearing INTO the
brush toward Ravenna park.
Sheriff Cudihee twice had bead upon
the desperate, but was unable to hre Tor
cob 1as
precaution to walk between two impressed
men whose lives would have been imper-
lied had the sheriff opened fire.
It was 8 o'clock at night when de-
livery boy went to Fremont from this city
to deliver some groceries at the home OF
Mrs Van Horn, which is two story
house situated on the Richmond Beach
road
He was met at the door by Mrs. Van
Horn who cautioned MIN TO keep quiet.
She Historically whispered in his ear that
Tracy was at that moment eating his
dinner in a room adjoining the kitchen.
The boy tore from the premises post haste,
soon gave the alarm and the posse sur
rounded the house as quickly as possible.
What followed was best told in the
words of j. J. Knight, an insurance man,
who participated in the thrilling encounter
which Immediately followed.
Story of Participant.
Eve got the boy to direct us to the
house." said he, land stationed ourselves
around It, l was hiding within six feet
of Tracy's team. Tracy and two men
came out, the desperate walking between
the two. They approached the horses
from the side opposite where l was con-
cealed and passed within six feet of where
L was crouching.
at had grown dark. so that it was only
a matter Of conjecture as to the exact
position occupied by the three men.
Breeze arose and called out Drop that
gun, Tracy just as the middle man pass
ed around where lay concealed.
mo sooner had the words left his lips
than two shcts rang out in quick success
sion and by the flash of the last one I saw
Breeze reel and fall to the ground. 1 did
not know at that time that one of the bull
let's had also found a target in Rawley,
who I could see by the flash had stood
within a few feet of Breeze. am certain
that Breeze also fired before he fell to
the ground. Here l arose from my place
of concealment and fired two shots at the
retIeating murderer"
1t appears that Sheriff Cudihee saw
Tracy and his companions from the mo-
ment they left the house until the duel
between Breeze and Tracy occurred. He
was helpless to act, however, for the
desperate was constantly moving and
kept in a position where to have opened
fire from Cudihee's position would have
placed the lives of two innocent men in
imminent peril. AS Breeze fell to the
ground Cudihee Jumped a fence, behind