Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1902-08-02
Has -Four Guns and Two Hundred
Rounds of Ammunition,
WANTS TO HOLD UP A BANK
p,omIsed 10 Give Five Thousand
Dollars TO Parties Who Helped HIN
10 Escape from Peniteptisry'

spokane, Wash, Aug. 1.-Harry Ira
30 the fugitive desperate, is now In
eastern Washington, Unwounded, In
good health, armed with four guns ana
o00 rounds Of ammunition, provisioned
for five days and equipped with two
horses. Tracy crossed the Columbia
river at o'clock yesterday morning
and is now supposed TO be headed to-
ward the Idaho line
Tracy declares that he wants to hold
nm bank or rob an express car He
saws that he has promised to give the
eum Of 5000 within one year TO the
parIes who helped him escape from the
oregon penitentiary He Is making
his way to the "Hole-ln-t he-Wall," in
wyoming When there he declares he
will be a thief among thieves" and
thinks he win be safe,
Tracy spent Wednesday at ranch
Of W. a, Sanders, six miles below
Wenachee on the Columbia river. He
crossed the Columbia Thursday
morning at o'clock at ferry Is miles
below Nenatchee. The reason the out
lawWas not reported sooner by Sanders
was that he threatened that 1T he got
into any trouble he would return and
get even with the people who reported
ON him, II that was the last thing he
did on earth, y
About 10 o'clock Wednesday morning
& rider leading one pack horse app
preached the ranch OF W. A. Sanders
and introduced himself as Harry Tracy,
the escaped convict.
The outlaw announced that he would
stay all day and that he would not
harm them If they did not do any fun
ny business. He ate two meals at the
ranch. Tracy inquired about the bank
at Wenatchee and wanted one OF the
men 10 help him rob it, but the latter
begged OIL The outlaw denied that he
had been wounded and declared he had
gaind 10 OF 20 pounds since escaping
from the penitentiary, He left after
dark, having exchanged his two horses
for two fresh ones,
At II p. m, he appeared at the ferry
about Is miles below Wenachee and
not tell his name. The ferryman re-
fused to cross In the night 20 Tracy
hung around the vicinity until daylight
Thursday morning. He then reused the
feryman. After crossing the river he
said he had no money and could not
pay for the ferry lie rode away and
has not been seen since.
Two or three small posses are re-
ported to have started out from Big
Bend towns to seek him When at
Sanders house Tracy was dressed I'm
black coat and shirt blue oyeralls.
miners shoes and SLOUGH hat lie
carried extra ammunition in q bag.
VISIT AT SANDERS.
Wateryile Wash, Aug. 1.-George
McOann has just arrived with a report
that at o'clock this morning, about
fifteen miles west of COulee City, he
passed a man answering Tracy's de- |
scrlpton He had the horses supposed |
TO have been taken near Wenatchee,
Deputy Sheriff Friel and city Mar |
shall Deyers left last night to inter-
cept Tracy at Moses Lake, the only |
route that could be taken II he is head |
ed for the mountains.
a newspaper correspondent went out |
70 the ranch of W. A. Sanders this |
morning where Tracy passed the great
er part OF Wednesday Mrs Sanders |
talked freely Of her experience with |
the outlaw After announcing himself |
Tracy said; 81 will be all right so |
long as you don't try 20 give me away. |
u you do | warn you that II will be |
all off with you"
About that time" said Mrs. SAN
ders my son-in-law came In from the
fields and introduced him to the es-
capped convict, but McEldewney did not
think ! was IN earnest and invited |
Tracy TO have dinner, but Tracy |
Informed him that he was really the
outlaw and made us understand that
he did not want any foOllng. He came
IN to dinner taking his Winchester,
and sat It down in the corner. Mrs.
McEIdowney had set him a plate with
his back to the door, but he changed
his position, saying iokingly that he
preferred 10 face things.
After dinner we all went out on the
porch and Tracy took his Winchester
into the front room and set II down
with the remark that It was empty.
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leg The holster was made OF old boot
tops He carried beside 80 Colt
concealed In his bosom.
asked him how many men he had
Isaly Killed since his escape He re-
p.fQ mat there were only three. Some
Ul lhe men they say / killed when IN
nose tight places near Seattle were
hHel by their own men,
IN reply to a question as to how he
go' over here he said: 4 walked and
,la"led through TO the summit where
=, Het an Old prospector who gave me J
thal buckskin horse Then | came |
across a sheep camp near Ellensburg
ana stole those other two pack horses,
bacon"
y, lracy had concluded TO take Nc
,GlloWney with him. but the tears ~
~, McEllowney caused him 10 change
''ls inlnd, He said: &c., IL, Sam, your |
Hue WIN cry all night. won't she? |
,iS,. a heart left yet and viii not take
tracy wore a black coat somewhat
G,yIh pair OF blue overalls. a black |
snul with white stripes and a black
s'ouch hat He had grown a short, thin
mustache.
laying for Italian Anarchists,