The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-07-04
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y EATTLE, Wash, July IA special
y TO the Post-Intelligencer from
BotheH says:
Tracy, the escaped Oregon convict,
this afternoon ambuscaded one of the
posses and killed Deputy Sheriff Ray
mond Of Snohomish county, perhaps
moftally wounded Deputy Sheriff Jack
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 came
face to. face with his pursuers, but
with deadly results for the latter.
After the battle, the convict held up
a farmer named Louis Johnson. He
informed him that he was a deputy
sheriff on the trail of Tracy and inn
pressed the farmer into his service.
They took the road for Ravenna, it be-
ing the eonvict's intention TO proceed
straight down 10 Seattle.
The battle this afternoon was short
and decisive. Tracy escaped unfurt
his pursuers- were Deputy Sheriff Ray
mond. Deputy Sheriff Jack Williams.
Deputy Sheriff L. J. Nelson. Karl An
derson and Louie B.. Sefrit. They
walked down the railroad track toward
WOodenville, where they met a man
whom they mistook for the criminal
and held him up. Then they went on
down the track toward Seattle from
this place until they were a quarter of
mile west of Wayne. They met Deputy
Sheriff Bremen and reported back to
Botheli. They heard that Tracy had
been seen near Wayne. They doubled
back on their tracks from Bothell and
entered a canoe on the west side of
Wayne. Here the party decided to
make a search as il was an ideal hid
ing place Sefrit noticed a path run
ming down to a cabin near the railroad
track. It bore the fresh imprint OF a
mans foot.
Details of the Fight.
This is our place" said Raymond.
and stepped forward to lead the posse
20 the cabin. Nelson and Brewer We're
on the east side of the cabin: Ray
mond, Sefrit and Anderson on the west.
The men marched toward the cabin
With their rifles and revolvers ready
for action. Tie rain was falling al
most in torrents. Suddenly. from a
stump about thirty feet distant, Ira
cy's face and neck shot into view, and
al the same time he flung his 5000
Winchester into position across the
'NAAtit- j liz fEpOEl Cdlne ALMOST SJIlluA-
taneously with his appearance. He had
bred point-blank at Anderson. the bull
et grazing his face. Anderson tum-
hled headlong 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
nre7 twice. and Raymond. who had
Just crouChed to shoot, Teeled backward
and against Anderson, and dropped to
the ground stone dead.
As Raymond reeled back. Sefrit fired
al Tracy, and the convict turned his at
iention TO him. Sefrit fell to the ground
and fired again at the convict. Tracy
twice shot savagely in quick succession
at his assailant.
Anderson. in the meantime, had
plunged through the brush to flank
me convict. He met Nelson and
brewer. Before they could move a
step Tracy fired three times and a
second later Williams crawled out of
me brush on his hands and knees into
tne opening around the cabin. with
olqod apparently streaming from every
pore He was shot three times under
tle heart. and even as he appeared to
view. lurched to one side and stretched
OUT unconscious.
Tracy Disappears.
As Williams collapsed Tracy disap
ledred- The whole adventure had
Naraly taken more than two or three