The Seattle Star Newspaper, July 4, 1902, Page 1

Pay Only One Cent Demand Your Charge you.4, NO. 11 TRACY, HAD NOT BE + yewterday af battle between @| ing poss arteen other d up to 1:80 aging all news atest hews con @ after the « Three Killed and One Wounded Is the Result of Yesterday's Battle: The Star wae the fir th Seattle to putthe news be the public ternoon of the T nvict Ballard and into the is throngh dense woods where he now supposed to be. Reporter of the Star, Narrowly Escapes Death at the Hands of "ise. cp the Desperado--The Latter Now \> riya oy to Ba Near Woodland *::"ss:nitios mien r reported the wounded man now lies, it was ascertained that Neil Raw ley is the correct name, Rawley is a coal miner, whose residence is at Fremont. He has two small children and an invalid wife Sheriff Cudihee arrived back from his yesterday’s man-hunt lat 1:30 o'clock this morning. | Fle showed signs of severe trav a (el in his pursuit of the murderer —_——— @ (Sheriff Cudihee complains that DEAD. there were too many men in the hunt last night. He says that jin the daytime a great number lof men a great number of men © | can be handled, but at night one ® \hardly knows a member of the ® | posse from the convict. Frank Raymond, city detective, of Everett. Neil Rawiley, game warden at Fremont. Enoch E. Breece, police officer, of Seattle. Frank Ferrell, guard st Oregon State penitentiary. S. R. Jones, guard at Or zon State penitentiary. B. F. Tiffany, guard a: Oregon State penitentiary, § | The sheriff will proceed per- WOUNDED. @ |sonally to mae in gent i Hi. Williams, deputy sheriff of . a selected party of men and will) halos wha haste, protebty fatal. ban sseaiansandi [probably picket the "Great . ™ Northern track an county} Rec ee tae Pisenet, tt Oregon State penitentiary: © | cad as far as Shilshole bay. is the ing. | One: posse: ander - Marshadl William Morris, member of posse, mistaken for one @ punt is already scouring the of the fugitives and seriously wounded by another mem- @ |woods adjacent to . Meadow ber of the posse near Vancouver, Wash. point; another, under Officer Ledger of Ballard, is back on IB tise county road that ekirts Shil- ishole bay. The sheriff's office has beenjone shoe off. When he saw that! Deputy Sheriff Quilter, by d with rumors concern- he was observed he jumped|the direction of Under Sheriff | ing the whereabouts of Convict|suddenly to his feet and disap-| Corcoran, is heading a large Tracy since early this morning.|peared down a slight incline in-/body of men who are beating) Many have proved utterly false.|to the thick undergrowth. It the woods between the Great! Sheriff Cudihee has now as-lis now believed that the mur- Northern railway tracks and | €ertained beyond any reason-iderer cannot long elude his pur-\the county road in that section j 7] doubt that Tracy, after he/suers. between Ballard and Meadow committed the double mur-| | point. % oe ‘der at the Van Hesne house last! | Companies B and D, First in-| secreted himself in| Word was received at the sher-/fantry, N. G. W., that were as-| id park, and very carly if’s office that Tracy had been|sembled in the Armory at 1 this morning, probably 2 o'clock |scen fiatless at Fourth avenue/o ‘clock this morning, by order} drove with the rig he had: stol-|and Broadway, Ballard, at that|of Adjutant General Drain, are] i, north to a point above Bal-jhour. He was walking rapidly |still awaiting instructions to toward thé Great Northern rail-|proceed in pursuit of Tracy. It) he abandoned the rig,| Way tracks. 4rom this point it|is understood now that they will) was found tied in a clump | is believed he took to the woods; be dispatched to the territory of not far from where)to the left of the road. |north of Ballard, some time dur-| the boy reported to have| Once in the dense timber of|ing this morning. this|that vicinity that reaches north! es Beccss eness Lad | At 4:10 o'clock this morning seen before 4 o'clock it Infant: | Tt was believed for|beyond Edmunds, it is believed! pegloene N. Ge We nn Several hours that the murder-|that it will be almost impossible Seattle, July 3, 1902. | 08 convict had taken to thejto dislodge him without great! pield O: re north toward )trouble and search. | is, but it is now almost; Deputy Sheriff Corcoran at 10 Certain that he doubled back on|minutes after 4 o'clock this tracks to Woodland park,|morning, received a telephone the vicinity of his last night’s|mesaage from Deputy Marshal bloody deed, Ledger of Ballard, that a young nition per man, there to await 11:30 o'clock this morn-|boy, 16 years of age, Owenjfurther orders. Col. Geo. B.| "ing, reports from deputies sta- Baker, had just reported to him Lamping will command this| near Woodland park,|that Tracy was seen at Fourth! detachment of the regirnent. confirm the belief that he is inavenue and Broadway, almost) By order of Commander-| hiding there. If this provesirimning toward the Great/in-Chief, true, Sheriff Cudihee says that! Northern railroad tracks | he will have bia man dead .or! The Baker boy was coming Alive before nightfall |from his home near the vicinity | Sheriff Zimmerman of Sno-|where he saw Tracy, and pos ish county, started from itively identified him as the con Everett at daybreak this.morn-|vict. He had. known Tracy ing and has worked down as far|while the latter boarded ‘at a as Edmunds, thoroughly house in Tacoma, next to the Searching the road over which! Baker boys’ home, when he liv-| passed. ed there | Sheriff Cudihee intended as! After the report was made to; | farly as 8 o'clock this morning! Ledger, thte officer telephoned! 10 personally command a posse|the information to Sheriff Cor-| By Karl M. Anderson. | and work north from Ballard|coran, ordered certain! until he met Sheriff Zimmer-|members of the posse that had Man. But the almost certain remained on picket duty in Bal-| feature of Tracy's return move-|lard all night, to proceed at Ments caused Sheriff Cudihee to,once on the marderer’s trail. irder No. 1. Companies B and D rst Inf. Regt. N. G. W., will immediate-| ly assemble at the Armory in| heavy marching order, equip-| d with 40 rounds of ammu- | JAMES A. DRAIN Adjutant General hibird (Of the Star's Repotorial Staff.) At 9:30 o'clock yesterday morning I left the sheriff's office in the King county courthouse | ‘ change his plans and at 11:45 to-| Marshal Hunt has also taken|with Deputy Sheriffs Jack Wil-| : day, with a posse of a dozen|up the trail with a dozen men.jliams, L. Nelson and Louie B fitked men, started for Wood-| | Where Tracy slept last night|Sefrit,, of the | Times staff 2 land park, where he will take|is not known, the last heard of|We took a Madison street car 4 charge of at least 200 searchers|him was at Woodland park,/to Lake Washington, and who are surrounding the place| where he was seen shortly after crossed to Kirkland on the ferry Where the convict is supposed to|the killing at the Van Horne|From Kirkland we were driven| Abe in hiding. residence by way of Juanita to Derby, a} 12:00 Noon.—-The wildest ex-| At that place he had lost his!little station on the S. & I,| branch of the Northern Pacific E er boy early this morning at/railroad, about three miles cast Pracy killed Policeman Breese| Ballard, he was bare-headed. |of Bothell. At this point we left and Neil Rawley last night It is believed that he hid in|the buggy and walked down the It is said that Tracy was seen|the ravine above Woodland|track in the direction of Wood- afew moments before noon, sit park until possibly 3 o'clock this|inville junction, ting in a clump of bushes with| morning, when he made his way Citement prevails in the vicinity hat, and when seen by the Bak of the Van Horne house, where UP TO NOON |who he was It had been reported to the that it was Tracy he | | ILLED EN K sheriff's office been seen coming towards Bothell on the railroad track Ho was seen near Ravenna by John Freeman; a brother of City Detective Mark Freeman, at 6:30 o'clock yesterday morning It was our idea to head him off before he could either Woodinville or Derby. We did head him off before he reached Bothell We knew that there was a posse behind him, and that he would have to travel our way in getting away from that that Tracy hadjand so got off the train at Pon tiac and worked up toward] Bothell, At Pontiac Cudihee) saw Deputy Sheriffs Fred Be ner, Fred Snyder and Cl {From them pe got the “lay the land,” and started for Both ell. Brewer and Raymond left him and came ahead to the shack near Wayne, where our| party of four met them, It was} generally supposed by all of us| a Brewer, that Tracy was on the side hill between where} | we were searching, and Bothell armed party Tt was raining) Brewer, however, was confident Steadily, and we were satisfied|that Tracy was somewhere in that the murderer would not/the vicinity of the shack close travel in the brush for any|by. length of time. We felt cx “LT believe our man is there, fident that we would meet Tracy! boys,” he said. “It is an ideal either on the railroad track or| hiding place.” near the county highway. It was thereupon decided to We left Derby at noon, and}take @ look around the place, Started toward Woodinville,}and this we did, Williams, Nel- along the track. We could find|/son and Brewer were to go in 1 trace of the escaped convict,|by the east side, and ay- but were sure that he was ahead| mond, Sefrit and myself were of us. When about a mile west|to us the west side. Sefrit of Derby we saw a man coming| was already down there, and toward uson the track. Hecar-|Raymond and myself walked tied a large package and a small-jdown toward him. When we r k.| Star of the battle. We put Wil ns to bed and some ladies at hotel did all they could to jalleviate his sufferings, Dr Lytle of Bothell arrived from Seattle on the evening train and him in the carriage He b lieved his wound fatal and want ed me to get him to Seattle b fore he died I took him to the hotel, and notified the sheriff's office at Se attle, and the ttle Daily attended Williams. When I brought Williams in, John Rogers took my team and went to the scene of the battle to get the others who had been shot, As soon as possible I pros cured another horse from a farmer and started again for the place where we saw Tracy. As I left Bothell a rancher on a sorrel mare followed me. He {| was some distance behind, and] I paid little attention to him A few hundreds yards east of the shack where the battle was fought, I met Mr. Rogers com- ng to Bothell with Raymond's body. The dead man was seat- ed upright in the buggy, but his body was cold. He had been killed instantly While I was Standing there another buggy drove up with two men in it One of them I immediately ree ognized as Percy Vincent, the| an who had left Bothell after me on horseback, Tracy had escaped from Dep- uties Brewer and Nelson, who were guarding the shack, and| had held up Vincent and taken| his horse. Vincent was made to dismount and lay down in the grass, while Tracy got on the animal and rode off. This 1) afterwards told Nelson and) Brewer, and they ceased their vigil at the shack. Ve met Sheriff Cudihee about this time, and he joined in the search. The sheriff placed pick- ets on all the roads, but Tracy er one. ‘His coat was gray and| got to Sefrit, we saw there were his trousers black. His descrip-jfresh tracks leading to the tion fitted that of Tracy, Willhouse, but there were also} liams hid im a clump of brush] tracks on the other side, so we! ‘on one side of the track, while) did not put very much signific- Nelson, Sefrit and myself in| ance to them. ambush on the other. If the} At this time the three of us— in had proved to be Tracy,)Raymend, Sefrit and * myself, the hunt would have been over,| were fully 150 feet from Nélson, because weall had a bead on the! Williams and Brewer. In our fellow. When he came nedr us} » Sefrit walked on the right he was halted, and at once we mond was on the left, and | saw that We wis not the con the middle. We were about “en He tugged out to be Axel 10 feet apart. The railroad track *eterson, a famcher living in the ig cut through considerably at neighborhood, . .. {this place, + a bank abeut We reached = Woodinville|three feet high is formed. W. shortly aftert o'clock. There | climbed up on this and started: we were told: that Ed. Cudihee,| down the hill toward the shadk. the sheriff, Was at Bothell, or} Suddenly the head and near there. He had passed us! shoulders of the hunted human ‘on the tr ‘a from Issaquah. Welbeing appeared behind a stump procured a hand-car and pro-| directly in front of us. He was. ceeded slowly down the track|p, qeard and worn looking, and! to Bothell. There we met Dep-|}, k's growth of Ee d. uty Sheriff Frank P. Brewer of| fust we the oe aay Snohomish county, and City Detective Ch: Raymond of Just at the moment his body appeared he threw his rifle over’ + he sti . WI t Everett. They had driven down en” one all ey hoo riffes to Bothell from Everett during] in sition. I believe that the morning, and had searched); fired at the same mo- the road well. Both men were|ment as did the escaped sure that Tracy had not gone/conyict. Thefe was an ex- north on the Snohomish county plosion af my gun, a blinding road. flash, and I wag knocked from At Bothell we found that Con-/|the bank into the ditch by the stable Rogers of that place had! side of the railroad track. The left early in the morning with bullet, in a considerably upward posse of eight men, to search| course, had just nipped my face for the murderer, There was aland took the skin off in front of chance that the posse had miss-ithe right ear, near the cheek- ed Tracy, and we took that!bone. The concussion of the chance. Raymond and Brewer|bullet knocked me to the ground started by the wagon road in|and I rolled into the ditch. their carriage down the slough,| Just after [ fell, there were while we—Nelson, Williams,|two more shots, and Charlie Sefrit ana myself, walked down| Raymond, the Everett city de- the railroad track. We went|tective, fell into the diteh dead. over the ground slowly and/He lay motionless at my side searched ¢ lly for any sign| in fal ing he struck me, I had! or clue of Trac For a long| now revived, and just as I tried time we were unsuccessful jto get up, there were several Just after we passed Wayne more shots, and Louis Sefrit fell, station we came to a little cabin |as I supposed, dead. His hands} surrounded by a heavy under-|were spread owt and his face| growth of small bushes. Stumps|was in the mud. He had fired were numerous in the large|a couple of shots at the murder- yard, At this place the railroad|er Tracy from his revolver dur- track lay within $0 feet of Squak|ing the fight slough. The bank from the| After the first shooting, Tracy} track to the slough was very|had gone behind the house steep. On this incline the cabin|along the slough, to the side was built. Apparently it had|where Williams, Nelson and] been unoccupied for years. Wil-| Brewer were concealed. I duck- liams, Nelson, Sefrit and myselfjed along the bank to where the were just starting to enter thejother deputies were, and got cabin when Brewer and Ray-|under cover of a stump near mond came along from the di-|Nelson. Brewer and Williams rection of Pontiac, in the car-|were below us somewhere near- riage. They motioned to us toler the cabin ¢ ¢ to them, and three of us} Suddenly there were three} walked over to their carriage.|shots in tapid succession.| Sefrit had a “hold-over” from his noon lunch, and this he was eating while seated on the rail- road track near the west en- trance to the cabin Smoke was seen coming out of} a clump of bushes, and to that place T started with Brewer. Before we got there Williams ame out of the brush, His Brewer and Raymond had|right hand was covered with heen down near Pontiac and had|blood and his face was ashen. They heard from the posse ; been A hole in his overcoat just be told us that Tracy had low his heart showed whers the seen by Ed. Cudihee and was|murderer had shot him. Brew. probably now in the neighbor-|er and myself helped the wound hood where we were. Theled deputy to the highway, and sheriff, when he passed through | there he rested until T ran down Wayne and Bothell on his way|the road to where the horses to Seattle, saw the convict|were tied. I got the carriage |hospital had escaped. At 7:30 o'clock} Tracy was on the road near Me Master’s mill. He told Louie| Johnson, a farmer living near there, and whom he met on the} road with a team and lumber,| that he was a deputy sheriff en| route to Seattle for more men.) Johnson drove toward Seattle, story, went in purs It wag after, the special train consisting of an en coach, arrived. V several palivenive and Dr. Car- roll of ttle. Mrs. Williams and Father Matthew Bratt of Providence hospital were also ‘on the train, As quickly as pos- ‘c m Seartie, e and one h ie i sible Williams, the wounc¢ and at the order of Under Sheriff Corcoran, the deputies all came to Seattle on the spee ial. 1 sent to Seattle on the regular evening train. The special arrived in Seattle at 11:35 o'clock, and Williams was at once taken to Providence When we arrived ere we heard the first news of the shooting at Fremont. VAN HORN TRAGEDY Tracy left Johnson and his n just north of Ravenna deputy, was placed on the train} ¢ body of Raymond was| oo ea could {had it ly se Tracy He is supposed to have plunged into the woods and then disap peared. A large posse of men from Seattle guarded the r und the place. Shor 8 o'clock last evenir was located in the he R. H. Van Horn, near the se west corner of Woodland park A buteher boy brought the news to Sheriff “Cudihee just he arrived in Fremont Bothell. The boy had deliver. ed some meat to Mrs. Van Horn at the moment when ‘Tracy was cating dinner in the kitchen, the desperado’s presence the young fellow. immedi notified the sheriff. he Cudihee, accompanied by eof Mrs. nd standing near the railroad track,|and helped Jack Williams into but at the time did not know|it. With all possible speed I Later he realized|drove to Bothell. Williams had scen,|sank rapidly, and I had to hold lice Officer FE. E. Breese, Neil Rawley, a coal miner, and J. I ath=/ at the men, Knight, an insurance man, went to the Van Horn house. ‘Cudi- oner, Seattle and Vicinity ADAMS & BLANCHARD, 719 Second Ave. Adams & Bom Marche dio Tolephons Main 68: out of have had a clear shot at Tracy |strategy the house between, little behind two men whom he jhad pressed into service. It was dark, and the guards dropped Knight and Cudihee arose from|time to take a couple of shots WEATHER FORECAST ‘Tonight and Saturday, Hinckley Bloc‘ a summer's wear. sizes from 3 to7 years, $2.50, Blanchard IF YOU’VE CLOTHE And want to test qualities, suppose you try one of tho: piece Cheviot Suits for the this Three-piece HE Only Paper tn Seattle That Dares to Print the News # # SA MONTH LOOK HERE _ ne and one acre of fruit trees and 25 C I ve nd bring in yearly; Kent is the Aquarters of the Seattle-Tacos ma lectric line; Property of on sidewalk within 7 minutes walk of property here will increase Sm. OWNER MUST SELL Leaving town and wishes to 4 ot 7-room house, with all modern improvements, excellent neighbor- hood, close to street car line, om ‘Twenty-first avenue, AGOOD SITE ments or lodging house om avenue, between Pike ang Pine, lot 60x120. HERBERT S. UPPER 12: end 13 Scheurerman block, First Avenue and Cherry Street For apart Fou store's money boys. They're strongly madein every way, the color won't show the dirt easily, and the goods will stand Cheviots, in 719 Second Ave. Hinckley Block Store Closed All Day Today Opens Saturday morning as usual with great many bargains. 1ai3 hee placed himself in a position that he could see any one who left the house. were placed around the house in a semi-circular form. hee was in a position that The other men Cudi- he see anybody who came the house. He would not been for the latter's The guards had hard- reted themselves, when appeared. He walked out and a were aid to shoot, for fear of |hitting one of Tracy’s compan- lions Suddenly Breese stood up and called: “Drop that gun,| Tracy.” Lik flash two shots rang out from ‘Tracy's rifle Breese reeled and fell dead, Rawley, who was near him, also wounded, in mortally murderer, who was now running toward the woods. Sheriff Cudihee saw Tracy and his companions from the She told the boy of|moment they | jhe was powerless to act, for fear of killing one y left the house, but of the innocent When the skirmish was over, the body of Officer Breese was put in an express wagon and taken to Fremont, where it was given in charge of the cor- Rawley was removed to LARGEST STOVE HOUSE IN THE WORTHWEST. commcr | RACY caeo At our place this morning and procured a bottle of our famous Marquette Rye and « bottle of Pabst Beer. He ¢tated that they were the whole secret of his being able to e@void capture. J. J. HAGGERTY, cond Avenue For Your ice Cream we have Lady Fingers, Macaroons, Kisses and all kinds Fancy Cakes the Seattle General hospital in | an ambulance. institution this morning. NEBI In apite of thousands of people were assembled | }at Moray laying of the keel of the battleship Nebraska. | The shed where the keel was laid) was deco blue bunting. lay in an inclosure and was hoist Th: to its pla driving « Savage and Gov, McBride was view of The o'clock t of # sal to the whieh a presented party, co and theli cers and guests, muse and trott adopted Saratoga this morning. 2 years. aged of Hube) Sole Avenu: 8, Phone Main 565 exercises proper began at 9) yards Ww were escorted to the shed, | where the crowd had assembled y YORK ms Men's All Wool Suits, in eee tweeds, worsteds and cas- imeres, regular $10.00, $12.50 and $16.00 Suits; spectal for | Sawrday $7.50 Lion clothing ~— MAURICE GERBER .. 220-222 Fist Ave. South R I. SHANNON GROCERY CO, Incorporated. ae emaders 4 ~ 5 ‘Phone, Main SPECIAL PIE FRUIT—GALLON CANS Pears Distributer, 109 Second W. B. HUTCHINSON (0. 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