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He Weakened When the Fire Depart.
ment Arrived, and a Third Man
Was Routed with Fire.
MOB ASSAULTED THE JAIL
BUT WAS NOT ABLE TO SECURE ONE
OF THE PRISONERS.
Supposed RObber Shot Near Edwards
vflle-IllinOfs Farmers Pursued
Two Men and wounded One.

BAKERSFIELD, Cal, April 19.-James
Mckinney. the outlaw, was shot and killed
here to-day. Deputy Sheriff Tibbetts was
also killed, and Constable Packard was
fatally shot.
Sheriffs Kelly, of Kern, Collins, Of Tulare,
and Leovin, of Arizona, with officers Will
and Burt Tibbetts. Gus Tower and City
Marshal Packard, surrounded Mckinney
shortly before IL o'clock this morning In a
Chinese house. Will Tibbetts and Packard
approached Mckinney in the house and or
dered him to surrender. Mckinney an
swered by shooting. Will Tibbetts was
shot through the stomach and died soon
afterward; Packard was shot through the
neck and shoulders and dangerously wound
ed. Burt Tibbetts. brother OF the dead
deputy sheriff, shot Mckinney through the
mouth and neck. killing him.
Mckinney had been in Bakersfield two
days, and was harbored by friends In a
Chinese josshouse. The house was a regu-
lar fort. In the place with Mckinney was
HUI Hulz, desperado Mckinney had a
sawed-off shotgun in his hand. while Hulz
used pistol. Hulz would not obey the or
der to come out OK the barricaded house,
and the fire department was ordered to the
scene. Hulz gave up. He was taken to the
county Jail. An immense mob surrounded
the jail and tried to take him from the
officers
Another accomplice of Mckinney was
known to be in the house where the battle
took place, but he would not surrender like
Hulz. At 4:5O p. m. the building was set on
fire, and in fifteen minutes the man was
smoked out and taken to JAIL
Mckinney was accused of having COM
mitted several murders. He was a native
of California and was first sent to the
penitentiary from Tulare county for as
sault to murder, and after his release went
to Randsburg, Cal, where he figured in
some further shooting trouble. He escaped
trial, coming to Bakersfield soon after
ward and In the latter part Of 1900 he shot
and killed Tom Sears, a gambler, as the
result of a dispute over game of cards
No one saw the fight and Mckinney was
acquitted.
Last July, in Porterville, he killed Billy
Lynn and wounded Constable John Willis
and another man In a drunken row. He
made a sensational escape from capture
and for several months wandered prac-
tically unmolested around the country. A
few weeks ago Sheriff Collins located. him
at Hssm0sio Her MeHss and ad an application
can authorities, however, had released him
before the arrival of the papers and he
disappeared again., Nothing more was
heard of him until April 5, when news
came from Kingman, Ariz, that McKin-
ney had murdered Charles Blakey, known
as "the cowboy pianist" and Roy Win
chester, a young miner. Nothing definite
is known Of the cause of murder, but it is
thought Mckinney took the men for off,
GERS and lay in wait for them on the trail
After the shooting the murderer went to
a ranch and compelled the rancher to shoe
two horses for him and then rode away
Posses started in pursuit of Mckinney, but
he eluded them and succeeded in reaching
Bakersfield, where his two brothers live