Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1902-10-22

ports Of the escape and flight, and as
he held Merrill to be the inferior,
they had come to words and agreed
to fight. They were to walk, back to
back, a certain number of PAGES and
then turn and fire, but Tracy, fearing
treachery on Merrill's part, stopped
short Of the agreed number of steps,
and, turning, deliberately shot the 9th
er in the back.
At Olympia Tracy visited fishing
camp in the neighborhood and held up
the camp, making five men prisoners
and pressing into his service a naph-
tina launch which lay at anchor there,
leaving two of his prisoners tied up
on the shore while the others we're
compelled to man the launch and take
him out toward Tacoma. The launch
crew gave the alarm as soon as he
departed, and Tracy within a few
hours was trailed to a clump of tim.
Der.
The sheriff of the county. Edward
Cudihee, noted man-hunter, was alb
sent, but his chief deputy, Jack" Will
liams, took up the pursuit. and with
E. 0osse surrounded Tracy's retreat,
only to have the outlaw slip through
his fingers, after having added one
more murder to the list by the killing
of Detective Frank Raymond and
wounding Williams himself.
When Tracy renewed his flight
tloodhounds again were put on his
track, but the crafty outlaw had pro.
vided himself with red pepper, and
this he strewed over the ground as
he passed, with the result that the
dogs had their noses filled with pep
per and were thrown off the scent.
until Tracy had time to get to water,
where he obliterated his trail effec.
tually.
Cudihee took up the hunt when he
learned of the disastrous defeat Of his
deputies, and promptly with the return
of the Sheriff, Gov. Mcbride of Wash.
ington ordered out the Washington
National Guard and set 200 soldiers
on the chase in addition to the numer.
GUS bands of county and state officers
who already were hot on the murder
er's heels.
The story of the pursuit of the out.
law after this is long and exciting
one only a few incidents can be Civ.
en- here. Tracy was run to earth on
July 10 in q thicket near Covington
on Green river, but when the pursuers
were sure they had him he burst
through the lines, and after two in
terchanges of shots slipped away, leav
ing one wounded deputy behind him
The trail then was lost for two
days, and when picked up called for
another outing for the bloodhounds
and Indian trackers, but with the
same results. Then Tracy was lost
for four days, till an old-time criminal
seeking a share in the reward in
formed the shrriff's officers that Tracy
had submitted TO "a surgical operation
performed by one of his companions
with razor, but the nature of the
wound that was so treated was not
known. There was long break in
the hunt thereafter, and 1t was but q
few days ago that he was heard from
moving toward the point in eastern
Washington where he was run down
at last.
Tracy's real name or at least the
name of his father, is said to have
been Carr. AS boy of IL years in
1890 he was arrested in Dillon, Mon"
where he spent his boyhood for steal
ing lleg of beer, and his record ever
since has been criminal In 1897 he
appeared in Cache county, Utah, in
company with robbcr named Dave
Liant, and the two together commit
ted many thefts, the burglary of
store in Cache county finally causing
the arrest OF both and their conviction
and sentence to the Utah penitentiary
for terms of eight yeal
Tracy escaped by t. & a revolver
away from a gtard and marching the
guard out of the lines Of the prison
work before he released him. He next
was connected with two notorious
bands OF young robbers in Colorado.
In a fight between officers and the
Robbers Roost gang, headed by
George Curry. Tracy and companion
shot and killed deputy sheriff named