The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-04-24
BATTLE WITH
DESPERATE OUTLAWS
Two Officers and a Desperate
Are Killed in Fight at
Bakersfield, Cal.
MUCH WANTED Man
James Mckinney Had Many Murdeu
to His Credit in the Southwest
B%esieged in a Fortified Chi
nese Joss House.

SSMS Bakersfield, Cal, April ELAINE.
Mckinney, the outlaw, was shot and
here Saturday afternoon. Deputy
Tibbets was also killed. and
constable Packard was fatally shot.
sS@A Sherifrs Kelly OF kerns, Collins of Tu-
hare and Leovin OF Arizona, with OIL
sHsyScers VIII and Eurt Tibbetts, Guards
and City Marshal Packard, sur
Grounded Mckinney shortly before II
SEsSD'clock Saturday morning in q CHINESE
s%sNllouse. Will Tibbetts and Packard ap-
}SSAp preached Mckinney in the house and
hifn to surrender. Mckinney
Unanswered by shooting. Will Tibbetts
sN#was shot through the stomach and died
shortly after; Packard was shot
sssast Through the neck and shoulder and
wounded. Burt Tibbetts,
brother OF the dead deputy sheriff,
shot Mckinney through the mouth and
sNNsl1eck, killing him.
SsM Mckinney had been in Bakersfield
1.-TWO days, and was harbored by friends
a@@in a Chinese joss house. The house was
regular tort. In the place with Nc
mckinney WAS Hut Hulse, a desperate.
AgAiclsinney had a sawed Off shotgun in
his hand. while Hulse used a pistol.
would not obey the order to come
of the barricaded house. and the
@@dire department was ordered to the
Huise gave UP. He was taken
he county Jail. An immense mob
sssMSsurrounded the Jail n tried to tax
ssalim from the officers.
s#A Another accomplice of Mckinney was
to be in the house where the
a~Hpoattle took place, but he would not sur
vaender like Hulse.
VI Al a.h0 n'rlonly tha h,il1ipo y,oS cot
5Xson fire n in fifteen minutes the man
s@Na"as smoked out and taken to Jail.
a@ Had Bad Shooting Record.
#@ Mckinney was accused OF having
NMcOmmitted several murders. He was a
LAXATIVE of California, and was first sent
the penitentiary from TuiaTe county
flor assault to murder, and after his re-
Tease went to R~andsbulg, Cal, where
ssAle figured in some further shooting
g9t rouble He escaped trial, coming to
SSsg3akerstield soon afterwards, where in
he latter part of 1900, he shot and
Tom Sears, a gambler. as the re-
OF a dispute over q game of cards.
one saw the fight INC Mckinney
sM@%as acquitted.
ssS Last july in Portersield he killed
sssSSssiiiy Lynn II wounded Constable
ohm Willis and another man in a
row. lie made Il sensational
ESCAPE from capture, n for several
months wandered practically unmolcst-
sS@sed around the country. A few weeks
&c Sheriff Collins located him at Her
,sss4losillp, Mex. and an application for
his extradition was made The Mexican
uthorities, however, had released him
ssssbefore the arrival of the papers, and he
lisa again for parts unknown.
more was heard of him until
s#@A pril B, when news came from King
Ssslnan. Ariz., h a Mckinney had muir
sSSGered Charles Blakey, known as the
Cowboy Pianist" and Roy Winchester,
young miner. Nothing definite is
s#sNsknown Of the cause of the murder, but
sasSAt is thought nat Mckinney took the
8nlen for officers. Since that time the
ea.ch for him has been ~unreLnitting
sSsGltil the sensational ending yesterday.