Daily Kennebec journal., 1902-07-10
CLOSE ON TRAIL.
1000 Men With BIoodhOunds
After Outlaw Tracy.
With Wonderful Goodness He Makes
Another Daring Escape.
hind Him.

Seattle, Wash, July 9.-Harry Tracy,
the fugitive Oregon convict, who has
killed six men and wounded several
others since June 9, is being hOtly pur-
sued by men and dogs in the country
southeast of Seattle and will probably
be slain or captured within a few hours.
His purSuers, who have with them two
fine bloodhounds, are only short dis
tance behind him.
Tracy made another extraordinary
escape from one of the posses after him,
Tuesday afternoon. Word was re-
ceived at the sheriffs office that Tracy
had been at the house of Mrs. Gerald at
Renton for five hours. Fifty armed
men at once hastcned to the scene.
When they reached the place they
scattered and took positions so they
could watch the house to the best ad-
vantage. The peculiar actions of Mrs.
Gerald convinced them that Tracy was
still in the house.
On the arrival of Sheriff Cudihee the
posse closed in on the house, only to
learn that Tracy had given them the
slip. He had left the house by a rear
door 10 minutes previously, while the
posse We're taking up positions to
in some of the bushes, and then quietly
slipped away through the woods to-
ward Palmer. The wonderful GOODNESS
and daring of the convict was never
more fully exemplificd than in this in
stance.
In the back yard of the Gerald home,
Anderson, the man whom Tracy had
kept a prisoner from the time he left
Port Madison, was found tied to a tree.
Tracy had tied Anderson while the
posse WAS in full view of the house.
The bloodhounds We're let loose on his
ira i and are reported to be only n few
minutes behind him. Fully 1000 armed
men are now engaged in the pursuit,
including a posse which has taken the
train for Palmer to intercept Tracy in
his flight toward Cedar Mountain.
News was received at the sheriff $
office. today, that Harry Tracy was at
Rancher Gerald'S house, below Renton,
on the Cedar Mountain road. A little
after o'clock. the 11-year-old son of
Rancher Gerald arrived at the sheriff s
uffice with a gold and n silver watch,
saying that Tracy had arrived at his
fathers house at 1870 o'clock Tuesday
morning, and after eating a hearty
meal, had sent him to neighbOr'S :
house with the two watches with in
StructiOnS to try to sell them. Tracy
said if he "were given away" he would
kill the whole family, the boy included.
The boy, knowing that it was Tracy.
concluded to bring the watches to the
sheriffs office, hoping that the dcsper-
ado would remain there until search
ing party could arrive. The watches
answer The description of those stolen
from the Johnsons. Young Gerald de
scribed Tracy accurately, and the Off
GERS think he is trying to make the
Palmer cutoff by the Cedar Mountain
road.
JohnSon's white boat used by Tracy
in his escape from Port Madison, has
been found on the mud flats in South
Seattle. The first posse took a trolley
car for RentOn. At that place q loco
motive is in readiness to convey the
man hunters a mile and q half up the
Columbia d Puget Sound railroad to
the immediate neghborhood of the
Gerald house. The second posse start
ed for Renton an hour later with blood
hounds. Sheriff Cudihee with several
deputies left for Renton. Tuesday al
ternoon.