Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1902-07-21
TRACY HAD GONE
SHERIFF CUDIHEE'S PLANS END.
ED IN FAILURE.
After Waiting Till Daylight for Out-
laws to Emerge From Lonely
Shanty. Deputies Advanced TO
the Attack. But Found the Hut
Was Vacant.

kaNenSUale, july lS.-Ine chase lOl
Tracy is off for the present. Many
small bits OF evidence lead to the belief
that the convict is making his way over
the Natchez trail. Others believe that
Tracy is still in this wilderness part OF
King county. Rumor had him badly
wounded and in great distress. Care
fnl investigation makes it doubtful if he
was wounded at all in the fight at Gov
ington. The bullet that he complained
OF was one he received in fight in
Oregon some years ago and which some
times gives him great pain.
OF all places of retreat none is per-
haps SO nearly impenetrable as this
Sawyer lake region. 1t is a mass of
tangled underground which deties even
trained woodsman.
Ravensdale, July lS.-Sheriff Cudi-
hee, with six guards, waited until 10
O'Clock a. M, for Tracy or either of his
companions to come from the cabin in
which they were supposed to be secret
ed. Growing impatient, the sheriff
ordered an attack upon the place. and
the guards closed in, firing as they add
vanced.
Not sound came from the cabin and
when Cudihee, followed closely by In
dian Jack Williams, cautiously pushed
in the door, they found the place
empty. There were evidences that the
house had been inhabited very recently.
and it is now believed that the outlaw
and his desperate companions crept,
one by one. from their place OF i'm
prisonment during the darkness of the
mornings early hours.
Sheriff Cudihee was dumb founded.
and hurriedly called a consultation of
his men, and il was decided to scour
the woods about Sawyer lake. in the
hope of gaining a clue to the direction
the three men had taken.
The pursuers have worked all along
with the theory that the convict was
wounded. and it is believed that he
cannot get far away.
A boat has been reported missing on
Lake Sawyer, not far from the cabin,
and it is almost certain that the desper-
ADDE'S took that means OF escape.
Seattle, July HILARY Tracy, the
escaped convict, desperate, murderer
and outlaw, has been found, and his
death may be reported at any moment.
Sheriff Cudihee, through police
methods, has found the desperate in
a lonely cabin on Sawyer lake, three
quarters Of a mile from the junction OF
the Northern Pacific Palmer cutoff and
the Columbia & Puget Sound road,
which is two miles west of Ravensdale,
or Leary. With two confederates-
Fred Floyd and an ex-convict named
Simmons-Tracy is at bay in the cabin,
although he is thought to have no idea
that he is surrounded
Seattle, July 17.-Tracy has made
another of his famous doubles and got
back near the line OF the Northern
Pacific. He made a bluff at crossing
the Natchez Pass trail, travelled it up
several miles. and then swung north
from Fuller's ranch over a bride path
This would land him back in the
White river valley, about two miles
from Enumclaw.
Tracy's trail up the Natchez pass road
to Fuller's ranch has been followed.
To that point the outlaw has been seen
and positively identified. Here he
turned to gain Enumclaw, after having
made circle of Is mills and completely
bewildered his pursuers.
Wichita, Kan, July II. -Geroni-
mo, the noted Apache Indian chief,
now living near Lawton, Okla, says he
will undertake the capture OF Convict
Tracy, who has been having sport with
the officers of Washington and Oregon
for several weeks, provided the war de.
partment will permit.
A request for permission to leave his
reservation has been forwarded to Wash
ington. Geronimo offers to 60 west on
his own account to pursue the bandit.
The chief led several hundred Indians
in an escape from General Miles in
Arizona abOut Is wears 400 His can.