The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 7, 1902, Page 9

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 7, 1902. OUTLAW TRACY, MORTALLY WOUNDED AND HUNTED TO COVER IN A WHEAT FIELD, TAKES HIS OWN LIFE Five Creston Citizens Bring Chase to Tragic End. Fugitive 'akes Last Stand on the Eddy Ranch. 2 Ca 3 ~ i | ZZARRY TKACY LT e O A S 727 % A E, Aug. 6—Harry Tracy wotorious outlaw, whose esca- rt, the cou eriffs’ poss the ownership of his body. Seattle, who came up the long and of For the occu- , out in the Lake miles from the little the Central Wash- five determined ing of his pres- and revolvers kn their without flinching. upon his flank GRAFE-NUTS. CANUCK WISDOM. Enew How to Select Food. y Canadian takes pleas »ut food and How he got e right kind of food and e says: “In November, 189, I began to feel bad every day and gradually got worse. I did not lose my appetite. On the contrary, after having a good meal I felt better, but after being at work perhaps 1 hour or so I would have terrible pains all s body. I lost considerable time from my work, sometimes a few hours and sometimes two or three days. “Finally I went to the Winnipeg Hos- pital for a thorough examination, and was told it was ‘simply indigestion.” Cer- tainly it was ‘simply indigestion,’ but I never had anything make me feel worse. I can sympathize with any one who has ‘simply indigestion.’ “Well, I dragged through the winter in about the same condition, and got a little better in the summer, but in October, 1900, the same old pains came back, and I con- wgjuded I must change my diet if I ex- pected to get any comfort, so I quit drinking tea and went on Postum Food Coffee and Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food. “I ordered ti e articles from the grocer and expected to have them for sup- per, I had felt so bad that day. Of course, the grocer was late in delivering them, so I laid on the couch until they came and ate supper about 7 p. m. After sup- per I did what I had not done for weeks before—I walked into the sitting-room, lighted my pipe and read the evening paper, and forgot I ever felt bad. “] wondered if the old pain would come back, but it never did, and right from the first I improved. I have since worked constantly and hard and have not laid offt once on account of ill health, and have not once suffered from indigestion since that first meal of Grape-Nuts and Pos- tum. “This letter is the straight truth. It may be long, but I don’t see how I could tell my experience in less space.” Name given by Postum Co., Battle Creek, Mich. A booklet of excellent recipes in each package of Grape-Nuts. over |as the deerhound hangs to the hunted deer. 4 the out- | then found cover beh for a while it looked like 2 sicge. Then | Tr. 8i, ghting the men and securing his rifie, v sought cover behind a hay stack, eral rifle bullets. The po: nd a large rock and cy broke for a edge of a smal wheat fleld. OUTLAW FALLS WOUNDED. This dash was his undoing, for just as he rifle tage | he | esca During the scene light they found the outlaw’s bod: me to the rock he fell forward, a e bullet having broken his leg. He nged into the wheat and his bloody 1 there shows the savage determina- of the man. 1ands and knees in order to reach a spot at would command the posse and enable | him to pour a rifle fire upon it. But once hé able to fire from this van- point. Weakened by loss of blood, tried to stanch his wound, failed, and with his revolver sent a bullet through his | brain. B; pos Tracy’'s wound | lence was intended to lure them in a dead. 1 tho this time , unaware of the seriousness of and fearing that his si- ambush, posted itself to prevent hi ape and patiently waited for the dawn. night others came tpon the joined in the cordon. At day- o member of the posse was wounded, ugh all of them had narrow escapes, | When they were firing from the cover of the rock they had to lift their heads above the cover and every time this was boulder lying on | After recelving the | ound he crawled seventy-five yards on | dusk had fallen and (hP\ History of the ' Remarkable Desperado"s Career One Long Record of llurder, Robbery and Treachery. His_Victims During the Past Sixty Days! , Number Seven, Including Tlerrill, His Former 1 T S REMARKABLE CRIMINAL WHOSE MURDEROUS CAREER CAME TO AN END IN A WHEAT FIBLD NEAR CRESTON, WASH. done Tracy’s rifle rang out and a bullet chipped the rock. START OF THE POSSE. The party to which belonds the credit for ridding the country of Tracy ton: A. Straub, deputy shert: Dr. B. C. Lanter; Maurice Smith, attorney; J. J. Morrison, railway section foreman, and | Frank Lillengren. These men went out from Crestor’ yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock, They were working on the in- | formation of” young Goldfinch, who had been foreibly made the companion of the | Oregon conviet for more than twenty-four | hours at the Eddy ranch. Proceeding for about eleven miles the rty made all possible haste in r the ranch of L. B. Eddy, on The country is full of rock party took all precautions to ambushes. When ‘within a few hundreds yards of the farm they saw Farmer Eddy mowing in one of his fields. Wrtile engaging him in conversation they saw a man issuing from the barn door. “Is that Tracy?’ asked one of the party. “It ‘'surely is,” replied Eddy. The men separated, Lanter and Smith accompanying in the direction of the barn, le the other two men swung | around to cut off any break for liberty in another direction. The two man-hunt- ers went to a slight eminence behind the barn, from which they could watch every- thing that went on, and the farmer con- tinuea up to the door. BEGINS HIS LAST BATTLE. Tracy came from the barn again and | began helping his host in unhitching the horses. He carried no rifle, although he had his revolvers in place. The fugitive saw the men carrying rifles, and turning was | | made up of the following citizefls of Cres- | sharply to Farmer Eddy asked: “Who are those men?” “I don't see any men,” said Eddy. Tracy pointed out the two men on the hill walting to be sure of their man be- fore they began shooting. Eddy informed his companion who the men were, and the outlaw made a leap for the barn door. The officers, stepping a little closer, com- manded: “Hold up your hands!” The outlaw jumped behind Eddy and placed first the man and then his horse between himself and the officers. He com- manded the farmer to lead his horse to the barn, where, remaining under cover, he moved toward shelter. When near the stable he broke and dashed inside. He quickly reappeared, rifle in hand, and started on a dead run down the valley Turning on the two men the desperado fired two shots, but without his usual | luck, neither bullet taking effect. With- out waiting for further fighting Tracy took to his heels down the valley leading south from the barn, heading for the brush. The man-hunters were off in pursuit, firing as rapidly as possible. Coming to a rock he dodged behind it and resting his gun on the rock began a fusillade. Eight shots in all were fired by the outlaw, not one hitting its mark. Seeing that he was not_succeeding, he left the position and made a dash for a wheat field not far distant. Just as he was entering the field a bullet struck him in the leg, and falling head foremost he crawled into the field on his hands and knees. By the time Tracy disappeared in the wheat field it was getting dark. The pur- suers did not dare to proceed, as they did not know where their man was. After holding a consultation they decided to surround the place and wait for daylight | going on around them, an entrance was | ing both bones. The second took effect in — to come to their assistance. In the meantime Sheriff Gardner, with Merchant Policemen Stuaffer and Gemm- rim of Spokane, Jack O'Farrell of Daven- port, and other reinforcements had ar- rived on the scene and gone into camp around the fleld. Shortly after Fracy’'s diszppearance into the field the watchers heard a shot, which sounded as though coming from about the spot to which he had crawled. No investigation was made, however, until this morning, but that shot is supposed to have been the one that sent the notorious desperado into eternity. Early this morning, as soon as it was possible for the hunters to see everything made into the wheat field. In a few min- utes the party came upon the body of Harry Tracy, lying amid the grain, with is face turned toward the sky. His left d, thrown over his head, held a d45- aliber Colt revolver, which had evident- | Iy inflicted the death wound. The thumb | of his hand was on the trigger of the | weapen. His right hand, thrown across | | | the lower part of his body, firmly grasped | the barrel of the famous 30-30 Winches- ter. The body was cold when found, indicat- ing that the shot heard by the guards about 8 o'clock last evening was the one that ended the desperado’s life. Tracy had been hit twice by bullets from the posse. The first bullet, it is believed, struck his right leg just half- way between the knee and ankle, break- the back of the same leg, about midway between the hip and knee. It caused only | a flesh wound, however, the Lullet lodg- | THREE GUARDS ARE KILLED. Confederate. ARRY TRACY, or Harry Garr, as he then called himself, made his entry “of record” as a erim- inal in 1891 at Dillon, Mont., where he was arrested by Sher- #ff A. Rose for stealing a keg of beer. He gave his age as 19 years and his parents’ residence as Missourl. Of his | history from the time he left Missouri to that of his arrest at Dillon nothing is definitely known except that it was so shady that he would not talk of it. Tracy’s early training was evidently not of the best. He remarked to Sheriff Rose on learning that that official had corresponded with his father on the sub- ject of his being in jail: “Well, I don't care a ‘cuss.’ The old man stole hogs back in Missourl.” On his release from the Dillon jall Garr, as he was then known, disappeared, an for _several years no one who knew him at Dillon heard anything of him. In 1897, in the photograph sent out by the au- thorities of Harry Tracy, an escaped con- viet from the Utah penitentiary, Sheriff Rose recognized his former prisoner, Har- Ty Garr. It seems that Tracy, withone Laut, had committed several robberies in_the | spring of 1897 In Cache County, al hey were arrested and ‘sent up” for eight years. Tracy by a ruse disarmed the guard while at work outside the prison walls and with Laut and four oth- ers made his escape. He and Laut suc- ceeded in reaching a gang of robbers who held forth near the Colorado-Utah-Wyo- ming border, under the leadership of George Curry. ROBS TRAIN AND BANEK. With Curry, Tracy was probably con- cerned in the Wilcox train robbery, and certainly in the robbery of the bank at Belle Fourche and of the postoffice at Big Piney, in the same year. Tracy was known as a member of both the “Robbers’ Roost” and the ‘‘Hole-in- the-Wall” gangs of robbers. After the murder of a man named William Shields in Wyoming by P. Johnstone, one of the latter gang. Tracy, Laut and Jack Ben- nett fled to Browns Park, Colorado, where | \they committed numerous crimes, includ- ing the killing of a ranchman named Hoy | or Hoge. This was believed to have been done by Tracy, though Johnstone is now serving a life sentence at Canyon City for the crime. Being pursued by a posse of citizens, Bennett and Johnstone were cap- tured and the former was at once lynched. Tracy, after killing Deputy | Sheriff Day, made his escape with Laut for the time, but both were captured | some days later and jailed at Aspen, Colo. | They were about to be extradited to Utah when, on the night of June 22, 1897, they nearly murdered Jailer Jones and made their escape. Laut has never been heard from since. Tracy made his way to Oregon, where Merrill, who had been a | member of one of his “gangs,” lived. He took up his quarters with the latter, who lived In Portland with his mother, a brother and a stepsister. Aoy d I® eSl) So———=—orEr jsoSig TRACY’S OREGON RECORD. The Oregon career of Harry Tracy | opened in the winter of 1898 and 1899, when, with his companion, David Merrill, he terrorized Portland with a series of dar- | ing highway robberies and burglaries. On | February 6, 1899, he was arrested by De- | tective Weiner after an exchange of shots. Tracy attempted to make his escape by | capturing the engine of a Southern Pacific | train. Clapping a ‘revolver to the head | of the engineer, he ordered him to make | full speed. A rallroad man who had wit- nessed Tracy’'s flight, mounted the train and applied the emergency brake. Tracy fled from the train and was pursued by the detective and a crowd. He was shot in the head by a boy, Albert Way, and was taken by policemen. Merrill had been previously captured. Tracy was placed in the County Jail. On March 21, 1899, when he was about to be taken upstairs to the courtroom for trial, he drew a revolver on Jailer Ned Dougherty. Dougherty dropped to his knees and called out: “It will do you no good to Kkill me, Harry. 1 won’t open the doors anyway.” Some conversation followed and Dough- erty suddenly ran to a place of shelter and called to Deputy Sheriff Jordan to fire. Jordan sent a ball whistling past Tracy’s head. Tracy fired in return, and, as he ran around a corner of the steel cage dropped his pistol. Then he surrendered. He was given a twenty-year term in the Salem Penitentiary and Merrill got thir- teen years. The jail break at Salem occurred on June 9, 1902. At 7 o'clock in the morning, after marching to the stove foundry with the other prisoners, Tracy and Mcrrill snatched up rifles smuggled in by friends and concealed in the foundry and com= menced their murderous work. Guard Frank B. Ferrell was shot in the foundry. With a shot at 150 yards Tracy | brought down Guard S. B. Jonies, who was on the north wall. Before leaving the | foundry Merrill wounded Prisoner Frank | Ingra who accidentally got in his | way while he was obtaining a ladder to scale the walls. Ingraham’s leg was am- putated and public_sympathy resulted in his pardon by the Gevernor. After scaling the wall Tracy and Mer- rill wounded and captured Guard B. Tiffany, who had pursued them. U him as a_shield, they made their way a few hundred yar shot was fired from the penitentiary, and Tracy in reply deliberately murdered Guard Tiffany by shooting him before the eyes of the powerless prison afficers. Returning to Salem the same night, the convicts held up J. W. Roberts and robbed him of his clothing and also stole | a team of horses. On July 10 they held | up two members of a posse near Gervals | and stole a horse and buggy and a rifle. | The posse gontinued in pursuit until a Continued on Page Ten. Continued on Page Ten. spes8ud LT = LAUNDRY FACTS. Why a woman will worry and fret over washday is a mystery to all who have tried the United States Laundry. We ac- tually do the work cheaper and better than it can be done at home. A postal card or a telephone call and our service is yours to command. No saw edges. UNITED STATES LAUNDRY Office 1004 Market Street, Near Powell, Telephone—South 420. Oakland Office—54 San Pablo Ave, 2 ¥ (4 2 i OUTLAW TRACY’'S SPECTACULAR ESCAPE, FLIGHT AND TRAGIC DEATH- OFFICERS OF THE LAW HE KILLED. GUARD FRANK B. FERRELL. GUARD S. R. T. JONES. DEPUTY SHERIFF RAYM POLICEMAN E. E. BRFEZ. GUARD B. F. TIFFANY. NEIL RAWLEY. OFFICERS OF THE LAW AND OTHERS HE WOUNDED., £l DEPUTY SHERIFF JACK WILLIAMS. CARL ANDERSON. | ¥ e ll'l‘Ol: THTE CRIMINAL TRAVERSED TWO STATES, ELUDING HUNDREDS OF PURSUERS. | une onviets Harry Tracy and David Merrill July 1—Conviets seen on Northern Pacific at Te- his pursuers, returning to West Seattle shore. | escaped from the Salem Penitentiary at 7 a. m., Killing | nino, about thirty-nine miles from Tacoma. Harry July 7—Tracy S8 Sudcrson spend the day In the || three guards. Tracy leaves Merrill, saying later that he had killed woods at West Seattle. In evening they go to South | June 10—Returned in darkness of early morning | him in a duel. Riding one horse he had stolen, until | Seattle and them walk toward Black River. Both men | to Salem, held up J. W. Roberts, whom they stripped of it was disabled, he stole another and passed through travel toward Renton. | his clothes, stole a team of horses and made their way | Olympla. July S—Arrival at Renton. Posse surrounds house to Portland. Near Gervais they held up two members July 2—Tragy held up six men at South Bay, near harboring Tracy. Outlaw ties Anderson to tree and of the posse in pursuit and took a horse and buggy. Olympia, and forced four, including Captain Olark, of | then escapes. June 11l—Laid a irap for posse and fired on pur- a large gasoline launch, to embark with him on Puget July 9—Tracy visits E. M. Johnson’s home at Kent, suers from ambush near Gerval Sound. He lands at night at Seattle and starts mnorth and compels Johnson to go to Tacoma and purchase re- June 12—Broke through cordon of 250 militiamen to Canada. volver and ammaunition. Leaves Johnson house at night. in the night and made their escape. July 3—At 2:40 in the afternoon he encounters the July 10—Outlaw reported in Auburn. Posse sur- June 14—Stole two horses near Oregon City and | advance guard of the Seattle posse at Bothell, six miles | rounds his supposed hiding place. . rode through suburbs of Portland. from Seattle. As a result of the battle Deputy Sheriff July 11—Tracy exchanges shots with posse mnear ' June 15—In the wmorning reached Columbia River | Charles Raymond of Snohomish County is dead, Dep- | Covington and is wounded in leg. Takes refuge I and forced George Sunderland and Walter Burlingame | uty Sheriff Jnck Willinms of Seattle is seriously if | swamp. to ferry them across, landing five miles above Van- | not fatally wounded, Carl Andersom, newspaper re- July 13—Hounds drive outlaw into swamp near couver. porter, is wounded by bullet grazing his face. Return- | Buckley. Pursuers later exchangs shots with him near June 17—Next heard from at Salmon Creek, where | # toward Seatte in the suburbs of the ecity he | Enumeclaw. they exchanged shots with the posse, and at Ridgefield, killed Policeman E. E. Breez and seriously and prob- July 15—Body of Merrill found in woods near Napa- swhere they stole two horses and continued their flight. bly fatally wounded Neil Rawley. vine. June 23—Convicts robbed house of Pat MoGuire, July 4—Tracy eludes more than a thousand pur- July 17—Plot hatched by Traey's friends throws near Lacenter, while owner was at church, taking | suers. g posses off trail and outlaw escapes into safer district. clothing and $20 in cash. July G—He visits the home of John Johnson at July 23—Tracy visits logzers’ camp near Kenasket. June 25—Stole breakfast near Kelso, Wash. Port Madison, binds and gags the family, and, taking July 30-—Spends day at ranch near Wenatchee. East- June 26—Stole two horses, but on meeting owner the hired man with him, steals Johnson’s boat and | erm Washington posses take trail. dismounted and gave them back. starts on a voyage on the Sound. R e e e June 20—Passed strong posse guarding roads mear July 6—Two Government vessels and thousands of e e a¢ Eddy xapiiy siipsked by Chehalis during the night. men in -pursuit, but without success. Tracy doubles on | cover. Hides in a wheat field and there commits suicide, —_ - - e — Has an entirely ~Jnew invention in Glasses for seeing both near and far. INSPECTION SOLICITED. J 4 K 642 "MARKETST bE-BALL SKEINVIGORATOR, Stops all losses in 24 hours. FY¥ bundred reward for any case QELS cannot cure. This secret re edy cures Emissions, Impotency, ‘Varicocele, Gonorrhoea, Gleet, FOR 7 Strictures, Drains, Lost' Man- Lol ROI hood and all other wasting ef- fects of self-abuse or excesses. b £ Sent sealed, $2 bottle; 3 bottles, $5; guaranteed to cure any case. 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