The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-04

| minutes. Raymond lay dead. still
elutching his revolver. Williams had
hands.
The smoke from the battle had not
| drifted from the scene before the sur
vivors were working over the dead and
| wounded Anderson carried Williams
t up the railroad track TO a place where
! both he and Raymond had tied a horse
/ and rig. He took the wounded man to
the hotel at Bothel. After leaving the
stump, Tracy fed through the forest
like hunted animal.
i The pursuers had no chance 70 follow
hlm. Deep underbrush grows between
| the trees, with here and there a COW
| path winding in and out. He went
along one of these until ne struck the
| road which follows almost the same
route as the railroad from Bothell to
Ravenna. He walked toward the latter
1 place and came upon Johnson, the
farmer who was travelling in his wagon
I towards his home north Of this pace
Track stepped up to johnson and said.
i am a deputy sheriff and one of the
men ON Tracys track. 1 must go to
seattle at once and need your wagon.
! You will drive me toward the city as
quickly as possible. There is no time
for delay"
He spoke quickly. bur without the
last trace of excitement. He hardly
gave the farmer time to answer before
| he had sprung to the seat at his side
and ordered Johnson to drive on. The
| last heard of them, they were going
rapidly toward Seattle. Perry Vincent,
another farmer. who also was driving
! along the road, saw them. He learned
the facts in the case from Johnson as
! they PASSED each other.
Tracy was still dressed in the salt
and pepper cutaway coat and a vest
4 L.
Point, near Olympia. He wore a broad
| brimmed felt hat with the brim turned
down and pulled down over mis- face.
His face was pale and thin and he
seemed wearied. His face showed that
he has no intentions of giving up his
attempt at escape. The same cunning
and obStinacy were noticed as by the
men on the gasoline launch. according
to the descriptions of his pursuers, and
were, if anything, more pronounced
than ever. Anderson took Williams
back TO the hotel at Bothell and there
he was attended by DIR. Lytle of Both
ell. Raymonds body was taken to
Seattle by train.
Officers Were Ambushed.
''The fight occurred at about 3:15 in
the afternoon" said Anderson, one of
the survivors, and it was over in an
incredibly short time. We were pre-
pared TO meet Tracy, and while his
appearance was rather sudden, we got
into action with our guns at once. His
head and neck had hardly shot into
view before he fired. We were caught
in an ambush. and while Tracy was
practically under cover, we were ex-
posed almost entirely to his view. The
rain was falling so heavily that we
were somewhat hampered in keeping
lookout We were surrounded by drip
ping branches. He had the advantage.
He was able TO watch us approach,
while we had TO move toward him,
not knowing whether he was TO the
right or left
Not a syllable was uttered from the
time we started along the path until
we went TO williams assistance. VIII
liams was about 100 feet away and sep
arated from our crowd when the light
opened. He was still some distance
away when Tracy saw him and turned
his Winchester on him."
Sefrit was reported dead at Bothel,
but he escaped almost wdhout
scratch. Almost as soon as the report
of the battle reached Bothen, Sherin
CuuInee had his men in pursuit OF the
Oregon criminal
The posse which left Seattle on
special train at 1880 o'clock this even