Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1902-07-22

mysteriously supplied EARLY in the morn
ing of June 8 last he and David Merrill,
another convict. escaped from the peni-
Tertiary after killing three guards and
fatally wounding another convict, who
died the next day. Posses were organ
lied to pursue the escaped felons, but
they got out of the city. The next morn
ing. however, they returned to Salem
and robbed j. w. ROBERTS and another
man of clothing. Then they fled again.
Their trail was marked by reports of
stolen horses and farmers whom they
held up.
The Governor of 0eegon ordered out
the militia and bands iof deputy sheriffs
and posses ~ere sent out in all direc-
tons. Tracy and Merrill saw one of
these bands, lay in ambush for the dep
uties, fired at them and escaped. Later
they broke through q Gordon of go ni-
litia, who had surrounded them in dense
woods. They kept on stealing horses TO
ride, pressing forward until the beasts
were worn out Finally the fugitives
reached the Columbia river. Over this
they escaped by forcing G. Sutherland
at the muzzles of their reyolvers to ferry
them across. They landed near Van
couver barracks.
On June II the men shot and wounded
Deputy Sheriff Bert Btescher in hight
at Salmon creek, stole more horses and
rode away. They robbed house near
Lacetner and another near kelso, Wash.
July ] Tracy was seen at Tennino,
thirty miles from Tacoma. He was then
riding alone The next day he arrived at
South Bay and held M six men. Later
he forced Capt. Clark and his crew Of
four men to convey him in a gasoline
launch over Puget Sound to Meadow
Point, north of Seattle. The captain
says that Tracy had teld him while on
his boat that he had killed Merrill.
On July 3 a party of pursuing officers
under the leadership Of Deputy Sheriff
Charles Raymond of Snohomish County,
and Deputy Sheriff john Williams Of
King County, located the desperate Mt
Bothell, twenty miles north of Seattle
and on the line of the Northern Pacihc
Railroad. Tracy had taken a command
ing position in q clump of frs and bad
probably seen the posse before he himself
had been observed. There was no parley-
ing on either side. The posse, strong in
numbers and perhaps somewhat encour-
aged by reward. aggregatiag $1,000, for
Tracy's capture. prepared to surround the
outlaws hiding place. Tracy, hghting
for freedom and life, was determined not
to be taken and with his truaty rifle open
ed fire on his pursuers. de fired fye
shots in all and these were sufficient to
insure, for the time, his escape. At one
of the discharges Raymond was shot and
fell to the ground dead. Another bullet
struck the rifle barrel of Williams, splin-
tering it and burying itself in the dep
utys chest. Williams fell to the ground
badly wounded Before the other mem
bers of the posse could recover their wits
the outlaw escaped.
The evening of the same day saw
Tracy at the home of a Mrs. Van Horn
in Woodlawn Park, SUBURB Of Seattle.
The outlaws presence was secretly made
known by Mrs. Van Horn to a butchers
boy. who spread the alarm. TO surround
the house was a matter Of only brief
time. and then the officers felt sure that
their quarry could not escape them. Tracy
opened fire on the officers. instantly kill
ing Policeman Il. f. Breeze and fatally
wounding Neil Rawley, another Of his
would-be captors. He than coerced two
men to act as shields and pnder their pro-
lection he made his way OFT of the range
of FIRE and disappeared in the woods and
the darkness.
The Tragedies thoroughly aroused the
authorities and Gov. Mcbride ordered out
two troops of the State militia TO coop
crate with the civil power in running
down the desperate. Scores Of men were
sworn in as deputies and a systematic
search for Tracy began.