The daily journal. (Salem, Or.) 1899-1903, 1902-08-09
TRACY'S
BODY
BURIED
Remains Positively Identified
at the Prison
Payment of Reward Is Con.
tested

The body of Harry Tracy arrived in
Salem on the belated overland train
this morning from Davenport, Wash
lngton. The casket and its contents
we're conveyed direct to the peniten-
tiary, where the box was opened for
the first time since leaving Davenport.
The body was positively identified as
that of Tracy by Superintendent Lee,
Warden J. T. James, Turnkey Jay Nc
Cormick and Shop Guards John Staple
ton and Albert Steiner The remains
were not viewed by to exceed 80 per.
sons, including the prison officials, in
addition to probably 100 of the trusty
and other of the convicts.
The body was dressed in a plain
burial robe, and encased in a plain.
zinc-lined box. The man was not the
bad and desperate looking man that
the pictures printed of him would in
dicate While he had the prominent
cheek bones and square, determined
chin that was credited to him In the
published pictures, still his features
were not bad The body, having been
embalmed, was in a splendid state of
preservation, and not difficult to iden.
tify. The gunshot wound above the
right eye from the revolver with which
the convict took his life, produced an
ugly wound. With the exception of
two rife wounds in the right leg, one
above and the other below the right
onee, the man had received no gun
shot wounds There were found no
buckshot in the back, as was supposed
He had never been shot prior to his
last combat.
The body was accompanied by Con-
stable G. A. Straub, DR.. e. G. Lanter
and Attorney Maurice Smith, all Of
Creston. Washington, and members Of
the posse that found the body of the
murderous convict.
In speaking with a Journal Repre-.
sentative, Attorney Smith said There
are just FIVE of us that are entitled to
the reward. They are the three who
have accompanied the remains to Sa-
lem. Joe Morrison, the section fore
man and Frank Lilliengreen. We are
the only ones who did any of the shoot.
fnU aud CLAIM, tha antfra ra,uord -
Asked concerning young GoldhDch
and the part he took in locating Ira
cy, Mr.. Smith claimed that the mem
bers of the posse had not depended up
on the young man TO any extent, since
he had refused to accompany them. in
the search. When asked Mr.. Smith
declined to say in what way the posse
might reward Goldhnch, II at all.
The casket was allowed to remain
at the penitentiary but short time
when II was taken TO the burying
grounds near the main building, where
the body was Inferred beside that Of
Merrill, the associate In crime Of the
deceased.
The Washington men who accom-
panied the remains 10 Salem also
brought the famous 1890 rifle with
which Tracy is supposed to have done
his murdeTous work, but II Is not a
certainty that II is the identical weap-
on. The Washington men were anx-
ious to retain the firearm as a souy-
enir, but the officials of the peniten-
tiary made an urgent request for the
possession OF the rife, waiying all
claims and desire to become possessed
OF the reyolvers that the convict car
ried.
The Washington men finally sur
rendered Tracys rife to the Oregon
prison authorities. and It Is proposed
TO turn the gun over to the governor,
who will keep il in his department at
the state house. The two reyolvers
with which the desperate was equip
ped will remain the property Of the
Washington parties who found them.
The Reward Is Contested.
The members OF the Washington
posse returned home this afternoon
without the reward OF $500 offered
by this state for the capture and re
turn OF Tracy's body. sherin Gardner,
Of Lincoln county, Washington, today
telegraphed Governor Geer, and
claimed a part OF the reward, for the
reason that he was on the scene be
fore the night was over For this rea.
son no further settlement was had with
the men who delivered the body, and
further negotiations will be deferred
until the controversy over the reward
can be seftlod