Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1903-04-24
Fierce FIGHT WITH OUTLAWS
JAMES M'KINNEY, AN OUTLAW
WAS KILLED.
Bakersfield, Cal, Was the Scene Last
Sunday of Terrible conflict--out-
law Took Refuge in Chinese Joss
House-After the Battle 1t Was
Fired and Men Smoked Out.

Bakersfield, CAL, April 20.-James
Mckinney, the outlaw, was shot and
killed here Sunday. Deputy Sheriff
Tibbetts was also killed and Constable
Packard was wounded.
Sheriffs Kelly of Kern, Collins of Tu-
lare and Lovin of Arizona, with o.
ficers Will and Burt Tibbetts, Gus Tow
err and City Marshall Packard, sur
rounded Mckinney shortly before IL
o'clock in the morning in house in
the center of town. Will Tibbetts and
Packard approached Mckinney in the
house and ordered him to surrender.
Mckinney answered by shooting VIII
Tibbetts dead shortly after; Packard
was shot through the neck and shout
ders and dangerously wounded. 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 the Chinese joss house on L street
The house was a regular fort. In the
place with Mckinney was HUI Hulse,
desperate. Mckinney had sawed
off shotgun in his hand, while Hulse
used pistol Hulse would not obey
the order to come out of the barricaded
house and the fire department was or
dered to the scene. Hulse gave up. He
was tahen to the county jail An i'm
mense mob surrounded the Jail and
tried to take him from the officers.
Another accomplice of Mckinney
would not surrender like Hulse. At
4:05 p. m. the building was set on fire
and in Is minutes the man was smok-
ed out and taken to jail.
Accused of Murder.
Mckinney was accused of having
committed several murders. He was
native of California and was first
sent to the penitentiary from Tulare
for assault to murder, and after his
release went to Randsburg, where he
figured in some further shooting trou-
BILE. He escaped trial, coming to
Bakersfield soon afterward, where, IN
the latter part of 1900, he shot and
killed Tom Sears, gambler, the re-
suit of dispute over game of cards.
No one saw the fight and Mckinney
was acquitted on trial.
Last July in Portersville he killed
Billy Lynn and wounded Constable
John Willis and another man in
drunken row. He made a sensational
escape from capture and for several
months wandered practically unmo-
Tested around the country A few
weeks ago Sheriff Collins located the
outlaw at Hermosillo, Mexico, and an
application for his extradition was
made, but the Mexican authorities re-
leased him before the arrival of the
papers and he disappeared again for
parts unknown. Nothing more was
heard of him until April 5, when news
came from Kingman, Ariz., that Nc
Kinney had murdered Charles Blakey,
known as the Cowboy Pianist" and
Roy Winchester, young miner, on the
trail. Nothing definite is known of the
cause of the murders, but it is thought
Mckinney took the men for officers
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 Bak-
ersfield, where two brothers live.
Packard May Recover.
News received from City Marshal
Packard's bedside indicates that he
most likely will recover.
A bone was removed from his left
arm, the second finger on his left hand |
and the buckshot was re-
moved from his throat. He is rest
ing comfortably.