The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 9, 1921, Page 8

HERE’S MORE ABOUT HARRY TRACY “der, headed for tured and sent (o KILLS FOUR ME _ AS HE ESCAPES > On June 9, 1902, he esea /& pal, Dave Merrill, he brok the prison, killing four men, Prank W. Farrell, G. K. T. Jones and B. F, Tiffany, euards, and Frank Ingra ham, a convict He and Merril! made their way to ) Portland, crossed the Columbia, . thru Tenino and near Che Here Tracy shot Merrill to Meath, as his pal led the way thru the woods towards Olympia. | Tracy continued alone. Armed with UH) 30-30 Winchester, he lined up six f pear Olympia, bound two of ‘cally marched the other four to a Moat and forced them to bring ee to Seattle. ‘He landed at Meadow Point north ‘ef Ballard on the night of July 2 ‘@bandoned the launch and the next ‘Gay was traced to a point near Wood- Anville by Sheriff Cudihee's posse. From ambush Tracy's rifle crack ‘ea and killed $=Deputy Sheriff Raymond of Everett . E. Breese of Fremont. Rawiey of Fremont and Deputy J. A. Williams of Seatue seriously wounded TRACY DISAPPEAR D UNDERBRUSH Frank Brewer, still a King county 4 yy, was beside Williams when Jatter fell and saw Tracy disap- "pear, running like a deer, into the Oregon, Was cap prison. With from Tracy next appeared on Rain- D island, where ‘he had com- a Jap to row him. He ced a farmer to row him back, disappeared again with depu- and dogs at his heels, but un to catch up with him. |” For days he eluded them. Mean- there was scarcely a hamlet Western Washington where there not somebody who had “seen y." Sheriff Cudthee followed “hot clues” for a time, then the chase. 7 On August 1 he was reported s at Wenatchee. The following 2 he he crossed the Columbia, endit Spokane. “He passed Coulee City, August 3, on August 4 was seen making Way towards Davenport. Then a again. | Pomses were beating the brush wheatfields, while Tracy took on the Eddy ranch near where he remained three He rode in on a horse and followed by a packhorse laden 800 rounds of 30-30 ammuni- and provisions, ¥ three days he helped around farm, especially with the chores @mall iad. This lag proved his n ‘Tracy wasn't looking, the Bey got to a telephone and gave to ‘world the news that the murder- tl ‘was on the Eddy farm. AtT o'clock on the morning of Au- & posse including C. C. & deputy sheriff; Dr. E. D. + Attorney Maurice Smith, J. and Frank Lilligren, all surprised Tracy in the Outlaw leaped behind Farmer + and, with the latter as a eee wanes tire gone. They saw Beading fork whesttwia posse made for a hillside and ‘SHOOTS DOWN 3 POLICEMEN HIBBING, Minn,, Sépt. 9.—Posses made up of hundreds of armed real ts of Hibbing and vicinity today | scoured the surrounding country for John Webb who shot and killed three { police officers, Webb escaped after killing Chief of Police Daniel Hays, Chief of De teotives Gene Ca: Traffic Officer William Cohe The officers attempted Webb at Nelson, Minn, on a statutory charge. The police ‘officers were killed a they entered Webb's home, Webb | fired from behind a pile of furniture where he barricaded himself. The againat Webb were made by his 18-year-old son, on state ments made by a sister, 13 years old, regarding her father's alleged mis. | conduct More than 1,000 men joined in the }wearch, They were instructed to shoot to kill Webb is a widower with six chit dren, He was said to have acted | strangely lately and last night ter roriged his family, The children spent the night in the woods. to arrest near here, charges Mayor's Committee Will Help Jobless A committee to investigate and suggest remedies for the unemploy- ment situation in Seattle is to be ap: pointed by Mayor Hugh M, Caldwell, according to announcement. Esti. mates recently furnished the mayor indicate between 5,000 and 7,000 job less persons in the ‘ctly. | Boy Gives Life to Save Young Friend ALTON, Png. sept. %—While | boys of Sir William Treloar's Home | for Cripples were bathing at Hay- ling, 1.yearold Alec Innes shouted for help. Arthur Campbell, a 15- year-old cripple, went to Innes’ ree cue, but was drowned. A spectator eaved Innes. | dropped behind sheltering rocks, opening fire on the spot near the, jcenter of the field, where they saw the grain waving and knew Tracy was. POUR WITHERING FIRE INTO WHEATFIELD He returned the fire, but they had | him at q disadvantoge, A long-range battle followed. The posse literally mowed the wheat with their Win | chester bullets, ‘Tracy's flattened against the rocks on the hillside. | “Suddenly he ceased firing. The | posse waited. Then one shot rang jout. Tracy had shot himself thru the head with his revolver, Trapped, he had been shot thru the leg. He wag bleeding to death |when he ended his life, He died with jhis boots on. } ers. Both were great woodsmen, of the Wild Bill type. But they when Gi resourceful, daring, clever, not a killer, may be the super-fugitive, the exception that . Proves the rule. His quick-wit- ted cunning may lead hin out of danger. But that is far from SENT TO YOUR HOME FREE TRIAL! 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Ellie? 14:21 Third “Seattle's Musical Ave. Headquarters” | HERE’S MORE ABOUT PRISON PAL STARTS ON PAGE ONE ed [Jury had made him go wre He said he had an X-ray examination made and he spoke of sending for the plates to prove that the injury was the cause of his downfall "One while he at get treatment for aching tooth, he asked me about the technique of such an operation {he spoke of having performed on bis head. I showed bim how ;wWas done, He thought ut awhile and then said: ‘I gue try something else If I won't. be on an operating table.’ | TAKE CLOTHES AWAY, BUT HE KEEPS MONEY “Gardner was one of the cleverest men I ever knew. Why, when he was brought to the prison his clothes were taken away from him and he was given a bath, Within an bour he had given another prisoner from $10 to $15 and the prisoner had got ten into trouble with It, How did Gardner keep the money out on the guards when they searched bim? I don't know, But he did tt “He could have had money sent to him while he was in. It might have been arranged thru one of the guards, He might have had one of the guards mail a letter for him and receive the answer with the money I wouldn't blame a guard for doing it, either, for they only get $70 a month and they have families’ to support “@ardher never talked of mak- ing « break. He was too smart for that, He acted as if he were perfectly satisfied. When he first came to the prison he made the guards like him by ‘hand- shaking’ his way like a gentle man. The other prisoners didn’t Wke that at first, but Gardner was playing a game, and it looks as if he got away with it, for the time being at, least, “He used to like to talk about his |daye in the boxing ring. You know, he fought Ed Hagen, the former 8¢ attle policeman, who is now doing time for bootlegging. Hagen is over at MeNell, too, but he'll stay thera He inn’t like Gardner at all. “I believe that Garner pulled this break just because he loves pub- licity. As soon as the nolse quiets down, he'll do something else to stir up more publicity. He likes it He rejoices in it. | WERE CARELESS | ABOUT GARDNER “Just to show you how careless they were in guarding Roy, they let him go down and put on a baseball uniform the day after he arrived at the prison. There was only one | euard 25 men known the lay of the land then, he could have faded without anybody knowing about it fer an hour. And day to the an was | hospital ing. But Gardner wasn't go then, I guess. When he got ready, he went. He's gone, too. I'll bet my last cent that Muloney will never catch him. “Gardner isn’t a cruel man. He tent @ murderer in any segee of the word. He never has hart any- body and he never will, Hoe tan't that kind. Hoe is just a daring man gone wrong. He is big and strong—powerfully built, Me is the athletic type of a man. “Why did he pick Impyn and Bogart to make the break with him? “Because he was smart, that's all. It just shows how bright he was He picked the only two men in the Prison that the guards wouldn't hesitate to kill, The guards liked to shoot those two fellows. “They were degenerates. Neither one had the mentality of a boy of 14. Nobody had any use for them. The story that the other prisoners beat them up isn't true, however, PLAYED TRICKY GAME ON GUARDS “If Gardner had it framed with the guards, he played a tricky game ready to by taking along the two fellows the! guards would shoot down.” “What would you do if you met Gardner on the street?” Number 3364 was asked. He grinned and re- fused to answer. “Tl say that tf ft wasn't for Deputy Warden Jonsen, there wouldn't be a prisoner on the isl and, They'd all get away from Maloney. He doesn't know the first thing about his job. He has to go to Jensen for everything. Jensen ts @ good, straight man, who will do what he says he will do.” HERE’S MORE ABOUT ADVENTURER STARTS ON PAGE ONE have accompanied Gardner, had he not told them that the prison guards would not try to hit them Impyn and Bogart, who were sen- tenced to life imprisonment for a [dastardly attack upon a nurse negr |Camp Lewis last summer, were both proven to be morons. They were natives of Holland, of low mentality | and were generally shunned by all the prisoners. It was these two men, outcasts jamong outcasts, whom the clever Gardner took into his confidence. They were gullible to his soft talk about the prison guards not going to shoot to kill | If Gardner actually planned all this, with the idea that his two com panions would be shot down and he would escape unscathed from the bullet fire, it is the first time in his criminal career that he has done anything culpable in causing anoth-; | er's death, When the elusive criminal jeaptured in Centralia jago, he readily gave the newspapermen. |them he said “Just say for me, so the people will know, that I played square, 1 never hurt a man in my life and I never will. {HAS BROKEN was ten weeks interviews to! And to all of HIS WORD FOR FIRST TIME The prison officials think that Gardner has broken his word—that he actually planned the escape and |used the two former soldiers solely | a8 @ protection from the bullets. If Gardner is alive and unwound: ed, he is probably enjoying the hunt | that is being made for him If on the island in the under.! brush, he is, no doubt, missing a lot of fun, for Roy will not be getting |the daily newspapers and he dearly loves to read about his escapades, A few weeks pefore his escape at | | Why, if he had! there wouldn't have been any «hoot-| THE SEATTI HERE’S MORE ABOUT GARDNER STARTS OF PAGE ONE newspaper yesterday told his story "Gardner: ian't on that island,” wal He had plenty of tin away, Gardner will right, but it won't be by the guards. He with pull something got his name in the papers, for he That will prove afterngon and he to met turned up all | prison hungry for publicity his undoing | nt fellow in a good friend of the | y were all afraid of him, at they knew he waa the ele ext man they had ever han died. He had it on them SAYS GARDNE NIUS otive MeMurray ¢ Gardner ts a gentus, the bandit always the same methods {n eseaping. Me insists that Gardner has not left the island, but predicts he will make a break elther tonight or tomorrow night. The pris on uthorities that the loot st n by Gardner in one of nis mall rob Beries has never been recove ‘They believe it is Gardner's intenti now to attempt to recover it According to McMurray, Gardner exeaped from a prison in Hermonitio, Mexico, ing1910, and lived for 10 days on berries and stolen chickens. The searchers failed to find him. Later he made good hin escape from the country, Three launches, manned by heav fy armed guards, patrolled the chan [nel between the inland and the main- land all last night. Footprints found shore of the Island m y not |have been made by They were the imprints of a number eight jshoe, but several of the guards and |mome of the newspaper men have shoes of that size and they may |have left the marks which the |guards thought yesterday were made by the escaped bandit | Officers who believe that Gartner has fied from the island pointed out that tho at least two residents of the island have seen a dark form prow! ing around at night, no one has ever seen Gardner at close quarters since his escape. RANCHER FIRES AT PROWLER Roy Gardner was reported attempt: | ing to steal food from a ranchers house at 11 o'clock last night, Ward en Maloney of the MeNeil federal | prison announced today. | The supposed fugitive came upon the farmer's back porch, it was said but fled when he heard the owner j moving about the house. The rancher fired several shots tn the darkness, but without effect The farm house visited ts situated near the center of the tnlan | “Gardner was a pleas prison, and guards, Th however mile clares that but asserts that uses on the went | McNetl island he sold a story of his | life to @ San Francisco newspaper, | and it was printed in serial form. — | Following his capture last June, after his escape from a speeding | train while en route to the federal ‘prison, the bandit suid: | “The only thing that I regret about | ‘this whole affair i» that I would | liked to have kept it up, for al couple of months Instead of a few | days. 1 was having « lot of fun.” That probably sums up Gard ner. It appears that the cheer. ful, 198-pound fellow is not just a criminal at heart, He is mpre on the type of an adventurer in the truest meaning of the word. He likes to do “stunts” that will make the whole country sit up and listen. He wants to be in the limelight and he likes to have his name glisten forth in the banner lines of the newspapers. When he left Deputy U. 8. Mar. shal Thos. Muthall and D. W. Rinckel so suddenty near Castle Rock last June, bis parting shot war “IN pull a big job this time that will have the whole country guess ing. EXPECT HIM TO STAGE ANOTHER TRAIN ROBBERY Many persons who have followed Gardner in all his daring robberies and escapes, declare that they would not be at all surprised if the bandit | would stage another train robbery shortly. These same followers of Gardner are convinced that he is not on the island. They have-held that opinion for days, despite the fact that War den Maloney has been certain that he had him hemmed within the 12 square milea of McNett A glance at the bandit’s criminal record shows that he much rather prefers to be alone when officers are on his trail. When he escaped at East Portland, Ore., on June 7, 1920, Tom Wing. Chinese prisoner with him, But Gardner soon quit the Oriental Norris Pyron, who at Castle Rock with the bandit on his second dash for liberty, also was soon left by Gardner after giving him $5 with which to purchase food. The accurate markamanship of the} prison guards at McNeil robbed him lof company in the third escape, but the fact that he ts alone probably does not disturb the adventurer. Going on the supposition that Gardner left the island on the ‘night of his escape or the night following, | swimming across Pitt Passage to the nland, followers of the clare that the convict would natur. ally head for Canada Immediately after his eacape in Fast Portland 15 months ago, he fled to Canada, He planned to crows the international line in last June it is believed, for he bragged to the officers as he locked them in the stateroom of the sleeping car that he would over the line all right a escaped hase de.! “get | this time.” HAS HE ADOPTED CLEVER DISGUISE? | If the bandit has made the main land, he probably has adopted a clev- | er disguise. | At one time he masqueraded as a) negro in holding up a train At Cen. | tralia last summer he bandaged his | |face and registered at a hotel under the name of “A, J. Wright,” saying | t his face had been burned in a asoline explosion There is one other theory that has not yet been exploded—that held by Dr, Charles Jento, the prison physician, Jento thinks it highly possible that Gardner may have died from a bullet wound inflicted by a guard's riffle. “He is just the sort of fellow,” said Jento, “who would crawl into the bashes with a severe wound to die like a dog, rather than to call for assistance.” JE FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 1921. 2 KILLED WHEN CAR OVERTURNS Man and Wife Pinned Un- derneath tis the Flavor Flavor is to coffee what happiness is to life. » The more happiness the better life, the more flavor the better coffee Harry 1. Bowerman, 58, his wife, Mrs. Lacy Bowerman, of Snoqualmte, were almost in stantly Killed at 7:20 p.m. Thurs day when their automobile skid ded and overturned the Meadowbrook bridge at Snoqual river. The third occupant of the ear Mrs, Cora Turkington. U11 82 ave, N., escaped aninjured, The aceident ceeurred while Bow erman waa driving on a detour from the Sunset highway. In attempting to make @ sharp curve, the car skid ded and overturned, pinning all three beneath it Mr, and Mrs, Bowerman were riding in the front and were crushed beneath the ear, Mrs Turkington miraculously escaped Howerman Waa returning to Beat tie from Snoqualmie, bringing Mre Turkington to be one of thelr em ployes, Mrs, Turkington said Bow erman was driving at high speed The wreck waa dincovered by Lyle Norman of Snoqtalmie F Nor man worked several minutes trying to reseu the victims, but found it impossible, He drove into Snoqual mie and returned with help. Howerman was found to be dedd beneath the car and Mrs, Bowerman died shortly after the rescue, Mr, and Mrs. Bowerman had no children and no relatives have been found The bodies were taken to Snoqual mie and near nd Mexico Opens Free | School of Medicine ~~ {ttrut't tone te|Whem You Think of Advertising Think of The Star m The Union Tailors, after being | in business in Seattle for 15 years, 9 years in present location, are now FORCED TO VACATE Present great stock of woolens must be quickly sold. Business will be con- tinued in a_ smaller Seattle Store. it You Are Not Satisfied Your Money Will Be LOOK—READ—ACT QUICKLY Men’s Suits Overcoats °27.350 ‘Re- hunted MADE TO Were the wes at Which These roe Formerly 940, $45, $50, $55, $60 SALE STARTS SATURDAY, 9 A. M. Store was closed all day Friday. The price on every yard of suiting and coating in our immense stock was ruthlessly cut. You will find a great assortment of the finer grades of woolens await- ing you. 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