H- Harry Tracy Capture

Harry Tracy was an outlaw in the Old West. His real name was Harry Severns. He is said to have run with Butch Cassidy and the Hole in the Wall Gang, and by the time he'd reached adulthood he was actively taking part in acts of robbery, theft and then murder. On March 1, 1898 Tracy and 3 accomplices engaged in a gunfight at Brown's Park Colorado in which posseman Valentine S. Hoy was killed. Tracy and an accomplice of the Brown's Creek gunfight were captured but escaped in June 1898 from the Aspen Colorado Jail In late 1901, Tracy was captured, convicted, and incarcerated at the Oregon State Penitentiary.

 Crutchfield, James A. It Happened in Washington. Guilford, CT: Globe Pequot, 1999. Print.