Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1903 — TRACY KILLS HIMSELF. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TRACY KILLS HIMSELF.

Outlaw, Surrounded by Posse, Ends His Life Near Fellowes, Wash. Harry Tracy, the bandit, shot himself and died almost instantly in a wheat field near Fellowes, Wash. He was surround-

ed by a posse which had been successfully held at bay for hours. Armed men from miles around were on the outlaw’s trail. The exchange of shots between the bandit and his pursuers was at bug range. None dared approach within reach of Tracy’s deadly weapons, and he was not wounded in

this his last battle. The members of Sheriff Gardner’s posse also escaped without injury. Reports received at Creston, Wash., Tuesday night stated that Tracy was fljprrounded in a swamp near the Eddy fatm, eleven miles southeast of the town. Jack McGintfls brought the news and sought re-enforcements. Shortly before midnight McGinnis left Davenport, Wash., with twenty-five heavily armed men in a wagon. Before they arrived Tracy had left the shelter of she swamp and taken to the open country. It is thought he expected to overawe his enemies and repeat the remarkable successes that marked his career. He had been hard pressed for many hours and the theory is that he found his strength leaving him. Disdaining to fall by any but his own hand, the worst,“bad man” that ever killed his man in the “wild West" shot himself and prevented the distinction of being Tracy’s slayer from falling to one of his pursuers.

HARRY TRACY.