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Show EXCITING CHASE OF PRISdNEl Hunt for Tracy Recalls Another Episode in Career of Sheriff Co ... hee, Under Similar Circumstances and in Same Locality. "HP Tho hunt for Tracy Is not the first search for an outlaw In which Sheriff rudihee has participated. sail Leslie Brown of Seattle, who stopped In Silt Lake sesterday on his way to Denver It wns he who arrested Tom Blanck In the fall of dl when he was on tiie Seattle detective foice Blanck attempted to hold up Bills Codrlck s saloon and shot the bartender, who teslsted him. Although Al-though there weio eight men In the pljce Blanck coolly walked through a side door and .lis .pp. ared Two diss later the eievator bos in the Coleman block told a policeman that the thought lltanck wus rooming In his mother s lodging house In Cudlhee und Sam Corbett a fellow ortl-cer. ortl-cer. wire detilled to mnko the arrest Corbett remained on guard outside the bouse while Cudlhee entered and naked for the new lodger Ho wan shown to the room nnd on entering said to Blanck. I guess sou re tin man I m utter' "Blunck. who was sluing on n chair near tho htad of his bed urose, easing, Will, 1 i,uess not it the ssmo tlmo drawing his gun .' I'lihee, whose n.rve Is not surpass. d hs that of any man llv-Ing, llv-Ing, dived under the gun grabbed Illanck. around the wnlst anl threw him on the) tied Then followed a most desperite tight for pnwieMioii of Blanck a gun, tlnally terminated hy the entranco of enr-lett, enr-lett, who drew his own gun nnd pounded Ulauck Into subjection At the tollce ataiinn Blanck ndinltted ho had killed tho bnrlender, nnl said that ns he was guilts ho did not want nns trltl but wanted to lie executed ns soon ns possible Aftr being arraigned he was sent lo the cunts J ill awaiting trUI nnd lonilmd In the cngc. n structure of steel Inrs having a vestibule entrunce, with .niter and Inner doors a corridor through thn center, with ii-IIh oh each side, anl a small opening HiioiikIi which articles coul 1 ho pissed to the prisoners Blanck soon won tho sool will of his f; How rlsoners nnd was elected Judge of the kangaroo toutt One Sunday evening shortly ofier Blanck s Incarceration In the i ate, while Jtrrv the night Jailer, was mukinj ii round of Inspection about Ii oiloik, Blanck thrust u gun through the opening In the tront of Iho cage and com-maniled com-maniled Jcrn to throw up hla hands lhe J iller obesed nnd th. n at lllnnck s order, iicktd up close in ih ntcnlng. allowing lllnnck to reirh out and draw Jerrs a gun from his belt and place a running noose around his arm und ns Blanck ptld out the rope Jerrv walked to iho vesilhule, unlocked the outer and Inner doors ami .ntered lhe cnte where he was promplls boun nnd gntM 1 by Blanck ' ..?' !n8.u? '!!! hl" companions who wanted their lllwrts to go with him. Hlinelf left th- Jail with eight loinpin-loiis. loinpin-loiis. leaving belilnl him lhe Bun with which h. had hel 1 up ih. Jailer and which he had Ingen ousls fashioned from a p ice of broomsihk and blackened with lamp-rn'tAi'M?1?!1.'"' lamp-rn'tAi'M?1?!1.'"' ,,.,l"m nr lh" fooklng tins S.Mlch "" Prisoners food wns hiinded Into th. crtge whil the cjrtrl Igea were KSt..rt"1 l'" "n'"11 '"m a tobacco r.cn? .,.,.h0 ''tn"' Prisoners went dl-fhS dl-fhS '...." ."'.? "" "'"Hon "nd reporled ,irreJr,lr"leryl ".I" oU"r voluntarily surrer.lerrd and the test excenllng f'f.w renrr,ed' within nP few ear if nN.fl," ClC"-1! " th? "'H11' "' ''Is OS. earn unnck was turned bark near Orillla tie ,ali?rP",d",i,,,y .""!" nil "lit-Li.i-1, i f T" hl" hreakfast on foud n. i? liininnnk.h'Ir"n ""'"e school children n r iienlou the Mieno of liacv s lecent .iperatlons Bherllf Vandevenler promptly burtwh.ri0h;,v0n,,;f '?'" """nrilenfon nut when thes cume together at tho cen- md '.' inn kl .'!k" "L" ?vcr"elus o -rrat" had rllpp.d throuuh lb. lima ". i.mT!.",in.1 .',a '"' lcU'''' irlbite on lhe llnuvl"!,"kcnl?l."lf S, ohnoll,nur 2 ' iro'Sn'. hn'aii? M.?, TImiiS prls.ner lhe vhV.Unto"? Wflir VanTl" venter and his deputies vv?s not r?s.l 1 ianck 'r,'A ',"" "!! f'fther trie "of a rancher a , .lr "a"",1 "b ttl" rtl"ner nt !.5."fiV YeTe'rlne1,,0 .R"."!'.!? riiev nnn met him nwlnglng nround n hlssl's "he !,V",k "" PulT'lown I'pvrr ?ir.ock,,:.:",a,!rs,,r'ou ni lit jour hands 'ij B no attention tHhilr r;;,rfe?t""7he,n?wt'n" ,T s'-V U-.'isr'w'nul Ra"fheir.tolyorbohy Imein' and quick as a flssh shot ent the deputies through the left irm t was held Just oer tho hrt V emrtjlng his reoler st tn dfp." ( without doing them further dimiji though recehlng two bullets from t guns, he sprang Into the buthti n the trick, hut soon seeing thit (jr defanse was useless, he came out hands aboe his head, sajlnr I I you ve got me at last,' and nuihottl In his tracks lUanclc was aa quirk as a flfili i his pun and a dead shot, all of hla net hating been shot through the heart r poor marksmanship in hit last encow I wns attributed to his rhjelcsl coni. for the mil rains had set In thtnlf his escape und drenched by the pttT downpour, chilled by the damp w penetrntes the very honei. he Mir traded pneumonia and could notpr: hao survived another twenty (onrbf-i |