The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-08-07

| gon Penitentiary at Salem They were put
| to work in the stove foundry. They were
/ allowed to be together. and doubtless
planned their escape days before it tram
| spired- Each secured a Winchester rife.
! but how is a problem yet unsoIved
On the morning of June of this year the
| foundry squad had just started to work,
| under Guard Frank B. Farrell. when Ira
cy's rife rang out and Farrell dropped dead
The factory is near the wall of the prison
and thirty feet inside of the wall Is the
dead line. Guards patrol the top OF the
wall. with orders to shoot to kill at any
man who crosses the line. Tracy and Mer-
rill rushed into the open and opened fire on
WALKS INTO SEATTLE
WITH HIS CAPTIVE.
Tracy walked with Scott into Seattle. then
told him that he could go back to the
launch Scott turned back until out of the
outlaws sight, then made for the Chief of
Police and reported his experiences.
Then commenced Sheriff Cuddihee's chase
of the outlaw. This Sheriff is known In
the Northwest as one of the most success
full hunters OF the desperate criminal class
which exists there. He promised TO take
Tracy dead or alive" though ne evidently
did not grasp the difficulty of the under
taking at first, or he would not have been
so confident.
On July two pitched battles took place
between Tracy and his pursuers. Four were
killed and two were wounded. and Tracy
did not figure in the casualty list.
Five men in the afternoon discovered that
Tracy was in hiding near Bothen, suburb OF
Seattle. Deputy SherifTs Jack Williams.
Charles Raymond. ]. L. Nelson. Louis Sc
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mond and Williams were killed and Sehrt
and Anderson slightly wounded.
That night he was surrounded in the resi-
dence Of Mrs. Van Horn in Woodland Park,
which is nearer Seattle than Botheil. E. E
Breeze. a city policeman. and Neil Rawley,
coal miner. offered to assist Sheriff Cudi-
hee. Tracy, coming from the house, ap-
preached the spot where two men were
stationed.
Tne coTEict saw them. and with q quick
ness which was phenomenal and character
istic of him. he fired twice. One bullet
struck Breeze. the other hit Rawley, and
both bullets inflicted fatal wounds.
These were the last men killed by him.
but 1t was by no means his last hair
breadth escape. Trap after trap was set
for him. and yet he continued to elude the
officers of the law. The rewards offered
for his capture were increased, and the
ardor OF the pursuit increased in like pro-
portion. Word of his doiEgs in certain To-
calities would reach Seattle, and posses
would be rushed to the spot by special
train. The cost of the chase to the State
mounted up to more than the reward, still
Tracy remained at large
OVERAWEs
MEN HE CAPTURES.
His habit was 10 overawe, literally take
captive, some farmer, and make him do his
bidding In every particular. One man he
told TO go to a nearby town and buy revol- |
vers and food.
IF you are not back here by this aft
ernoon with those things I'll kill your wife
and children" he told the man
It was then early morning. The man |
made the trip and returned without giving |
the alarm.
Another farmer, whose name was Ander- |
son, he took prisoner. and kept several |
days When he desired to sleep. he would |
bind Anderson to a tree, and lie down An |
derson asserted that the outlaw slept like |
4 top.
He approached another farm with the in |
tention of demanding food. Before doing !
so, he tied Anderson up SO that he would |
not be In the way. posse oescenueu Oh
him while he was in this farmhouse, and /
he was forced to retreat suddenly. But be- /
fore leaving he sung out:
I've left a fellow named Anderson tied
to a tree down there in the hollow"
But for this, Anderson might have died Of
starvation.
BY the latter part of July the belief that !
Tracy would not be captured had become
general, and the number OF men In the /
chase diminished. This fact facilitated the |
of the few trained police Of |
fcers who remained ION the trail"