Show TRACYS TRACY'S BOLD BOLI DASH IASH HAS NO PARALLEL I IN POLICE HISTORY Harry Tracy escaped escape 1 from the Oregon State penitentiary at Salem on June In company with David Merrill 1 after killing four our men Frank W W. i Ferrell Ferreii O. O Hi lt T. T 1 Jones and B. B F. F Tiffany guards an and 1 Frank Ingraham a convict con who tried ll to prevent his SlIght flight On June Trac Tracy killed Merrill lerr near Napavine lne Wash ash shooting him from behind and arid leaving hl his bod body In the forest forest for for- or- or est cst where hero It was found on July On July 3rd near Seattle In a fight with a n pos posse e. e Tracy shot and I killed Charles Harmond a n. deputy sheriff E E. E E. Breeze a n policeman and mortally wounded 1 Nell Neil ell who died on tho the following lay day an and 1 wounded Carl Anderson Anderson An An- derson and Louis newspaper re e c- c porters Many Feats Feats' of Daring Trac Tracy committed many feats of or daring daring dar dar- ing ing- during his flight In the tho course of ot which he eluded various lo posses rosses seS when apparently surrounded and held up numerous farmers whom he forced to turn furnish Ish food and nd clothing and by threats of oC mur murdering their families compelled them to cover up his tracks Perhaps his greatest show sho shoot of ot daring was as displayed on Jul July 2nd at South Ba Bay near Ol Olympia when he held heM up six men and forced four tour Including Capt Clark o of a n large se gasoline launch to embark with him on Puget Sound and vand pilot him up stream for or ten hours In Tracy mur murdered Valentino ValentIne liege HORO a Colorado cattleman and William Wil Vil liam Strong aboy bo In the same me State A total reward of or GOO was offered for or his arrest t. t IGo Go McBride of ot Washington Washing Washing- ton offering O for Jor his capture dead or alive The Tho State of oC Oregon offered and a of ot on one on- of th the guards killed at the j jl penitentiary offered 1 The rewards for Merrills Merrill's capture amounted to 1500 which has been claimed by Mrs Waggoner the berry berry- picker and her son who found the body near their home A P Fate Pate The determination to kill him on sight was a result particularly of oC the fate of oC Policeman Dreese In Seattle Breese Dreese was an absolutely fearless man and got ancl-got pot got the drop on tho the fugitive during the fight at nt Woodland park while Tracy was running for or the woo woods Throw down your our rifle Trac Tracy called calle 1 Breese e Tracys Tracy's answer was a n shot that killed the policeman and so swift was the convict let that he put another bullet Into Dreese before the dead man ha had 1 fallen And he did this while Breese thought he held him safe under hi hl gun Tracys Tracy's Criminal Career Tracy has been a frontier criminal ever since he reached reache 1 manhood lie He was a member of ot the Powder Springs gang g In Colorado as fierce a body of or cattle rustlers and border thieves as ns ever the country knew He Is wanted In Colora Colorado for Cor murder robbery robber and horse This is his fourth es escape escape escape es- es cape from rom Jail He Is a n man of or phenomenal strength as well ell as being a dead shot and a marvelously marvelously mar- mar quick man with firearms One of or the stories that has ban been told of t f him Is that he could throw an nn ordinary quart can In the lie air and put three bullets bullets bullets bul bul- lets through It before It reached the tho ground 1 Ho lie shoots from the hip apparently ap apparently apparently ap- ap as surel surely as ns another man could coul 1 from rom the shoulder It was was' this skill that enabled him to kill for far or had he attempted to raise his rifle to his hl shoulder the policeman would certainly have killed him His Cold Tracys Tracy's wonderful success In standIng standIng stand- stand Ing lag off orr the men who vho hunted him Is due to his col cold 1 Ho lie never showed the least sign of or excitement e oven even cn when he was the thC target for tor half a dozen men an and 1 the bullets were whistling whiz whis hag all 1111 around him After the fight at he calmly rode back toward Seattle and arid entered a n. anous hous hous- housand am and sat down to dinner When he ho was wa discovered he stepped out and walked d down the roa road 1 parting the men who ar alpe-ar appeared In his path b by a motion of ot his rifle and ancI this In a n ely comparatively populous section This walk led le-d him to tolie the lie second tiGht light Sheriff al almost almost al- al most had him but the cJe desperado full tull of re resource snatched 1 two unarmed 1 citizens citi zens zes t and held thorn as a Il shield 1 between him and the th Sheriff Sherif Ills great strength made it possible for him to fairly C carry his two human bucklers to the edge of or orthe the tho wood where he dropped them and his killing The fight for tor liberty of oC the desperado will vIll go down clown In criminal the most daring on record It is without a n. parallel id |