The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-04-29
WILL NEVER BE
TAKEN ALIVE
Another Tracy at Large in Ore
gOn, Fighting Desperately
10 Escape Justice.
SHOOTS DOWN OFFICERS
POSSES ON TRAIL OF FRANK
SMITH.

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Woodburn, Ore, April 28.-The b
countryside about WOOdburn is =
being patrOled tonight, a man be- y
ing stationed at nearly every farm =
house for miles around, in the eff =
fort to apprehend the man who =
y shot Sheriff Shaver and Captain y
Henderson today, and who it is
= believed. is Frank Smith, an es- y
capped prisoner from the Portland =
= Jail. =
Sheriff Culver has given up hope y
= Of cOrraling the man, and now =
= trusts to his being compelled by y
munger to make himself known at y
one of the houses within the
patrolled area. The man has not =
been seen since his disappearance =
after the encounter with ShaVer's =
posse early this morning
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WOodburn. Ore, April 2S.-The slayer
of Policeman HanIOn of Oregon City
early today laid Two two of the pOSse
which is pursuing him. one of his vic
TINS, Captain O. d. Henderson, hav-
ing died since from the effects of his
wound. and the other, Sheriff J. S
Shaver Of Clackamas county. lies NOR
talIY injured at a Salem hospital. where
both the men We're taken on a SDecial
train Immediately after the shooting.
This man, whom the Portland detec-
tIVeS declare to be identical with
FRANK Smith, who escaped from the
Portland jail. where he was confined
on charge of having robbed the
poStofhce at TrOutdale, Sunday last
eluded his pursuers this morning be-
fore daylight, and escaped from the
nursery in which he took refuge after
shooting Henderson and Shaver, taking
refuge in the woods which skirt Wood
burn Here is where he is supposed
10 be at present.
Where Tracy Hid.
These same woods are where the no.
torious penitentiary escapes, Tracy and
Merrill. eIuded their pIIrsuers \ few
years ago. and whence they disap-
pcared, to reappear some DAYS later
on the Washington shore of tho Co.
iumbia river. In more than this re-
spect does this man. if IL be Smith.
resemble Tracy. Like the latter. he
has met all opposition with immediate
shooting, and has been even more
deadly than Tracy. so far as pre-
Cision goes. il being stated that he
has felled a man with each shot which
he has fired.
Ran Into the Officers.
The posse which has been pursuing
Smith for three days surrounded him
in the outskirts of WOODBURY. in
clumD of bushes, about dusk last
night, but owing to darkness it was
decided to wait until daylight before
attempting to secure the man. Short
" after l o'clock Smith made a sud
den dash from the bushes and gained
the railroad, where he ran almost head
long into a part of the posse. con-
sisting Of Captain Henderson Sheriff
shaver, Sheriff Culver of Marion and
two or three others
henderson commanded Smith 10
throw up his hands. and Smith
responded by opening fire with a re-
NolVer at a distance of six feet Hen
derson fell a almost the first shot with
a severe wound in the groin. and Shaw
er moment later went down with
what is believed to be a fatal wound
in the stomach.
Darted Into Nursery.
Before the others realized what had
happened, Smith darLed into a nursery
close to the track. The remainder OF
the posse hurriedly surrounded this
place, whore il is believed Smith still is.
The news of the shooting spread with
remarkable rapidity and within half
an hour large portion of the male
population of WOodburn had arrived
in the vicinity of the nursery.
Assistance from Portland was tele
phoned for and number of detec-
ttves and deputy sheriffs left that CITY
on special train, which reached here
about O'Clock. and Joined the Wood
burn posse.
Sheriff Shaver, who fred two shots
himself been shot, declared over and
over again that one of his bulIets
reached its mark.