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Salem, Oregon, June 9th, 1902.

Two desperate prisoners, Harry Tracy, sentenced to 20 years, and David Merrill, a 13-year man,

serving sentences for assault and robbery from Multnomah County, made an outbreak from the

penitentiary this morning, after killing three guards, Frank Farrell Shop Guard, and

S.R. Jones and B.R. Tiffany, fence guards.

The prisoners had just marched into the foundry for work at 7 a.m. when Tracy suddenly appeared,

armed with a rifle, shot guard Farrell, killing him almost instantly. Ingram, a life prisoner, attempted to take

the rifle from Tracy when Meryl shot Ingram through the leg, shattering it. Other prisoners were

forced at the point of a pistol to take a ladder to the wall when the two armed men escaped.

Getting outside, they shot Guard Jones dead at a distance of 150 yards.

Guard Tiffany, after being wounded, jumped off the fence and followed the two men

and was shooting at them when they killed him.

The prisoners then escaped into the woods. A posse of 40 men is out after the prisoners

and have them located in the woods halfway between Salem and the Reform School. The men are

desperate and a battle is expected. The prisoners are armed

with two rifles and two revolvers. The arms are believed to have been thrown over the stockade

Sunday night by friends among excursionists who came from Portland. Ingram, the wounded prisoner, was sentenced from

Lynn County for killing his brother in 1891. Harry Tracy was arrested in Portland on the evening

of February 6, 1899 after an exciting battle with Detective David Wiener.

Tracy, who was wanted for burglary, was walking along the street when Detective Wiener met him.

The two walked along the street together, and when they reached the corner of 4th and Market Streets,

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