The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1903-04-23
OUTLAW IS KILLED
POSSE OF OFFICERS suRRouN,
HIM IN A CHINESE JOSS
HOUSE.
OPENS FIRE ON THE OffCfps
ONE IS KILLED AND ANoruro
RECEIVES FATAL
Va. WOUNDS.
HIS LONG RECORD or MuRDFps
FIRE AND WATER REsoRTeo To
TO DRIVE OUT TWO OTHER
OUTLAWS.
Pens FIRE ON THE OFFICERS
HIS LONG RECORD or MuRDTps

Bakersfield, Cal, April 21.-Jo,r.,
Mckinney, the outlaw, was shot ANA
killed here yesterday. Deputy sheriff
Tibbits was also killed and Constahla
Packard was fatally shot.
Sheriffs A. Kelly of Kern, Collins q,
Tulare and Levin of Arizona with M
ficers Will and Burt Tibblts. Gus Tov
er and City Marshal Packard ON,
rounded Mckinney shortly before :,
O'Clock yesterday morning in a chi.
nese house. VIII Tibbits and psr..
ard approached Mckinney in Il
house and ordered him u surrenje
Mckinney answered by shooting WI
Tibbits was shot through the stomach
and died shortly after; Packard was
shot through the neck and shoulders
and dangerously wounded. Bert TN.
bits, a 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 joss house. The house
was
A Regular Fort.
In the place with Mckinney was
HUI Hulse, a desperate. Mckinney
had a sawed-off shotgun in his hand
while Hulse used a pistol. Huse
would not obey the order to come out
OF the barricaded house and the fire
department was ordered 70 the scene
Hulse gave up. He was taken 10 tho
county Jail. An immense mob sur
rounded the Jail and tried to take him
from the officers.
Another accomplice of Mckinney
was shown to have been in the house
when the battle took place, but he
would not surrender like Hulse. AL
o'clock the building was set on fire
and In fifteen minutes the man was
smoked out and taken to Jail
Mckinney was accused Of having
committed several murders He was
native of California and was first
sent TO the penitentiary from Tulae
county for assault to murder, and A.
ter his release went to RandsbuE
Cal, where he figured in some further
shooting trouble. In the latter part Of
1900 he shot and killed Tom Sears, a
gambler at Bakersfield as the result Of
dispute
Over a Game Of CARDS.
No one saw the fight and Mckinney
was acquitted. Last July in Porter
field he killed Billy Lynn and wound
ed Constable John Willis and another
man in a drunken row. He made q
sensational escape and for several
months wandered practically uame
Tested around the country. A few
weeks ago Sheriff Collins located hin
at Hermosillo, Mex, and an apphca'
ton for his extradition was made
The Mexican authorities, however
had released him before the arrival q
the papers and he disappeared AGAIN
for parts unknown Nothing more
was heard of him until April ., When
news came from Kingman, Ariz,, ths1
Mckinney had murdered Charles
Blakely, known as the cowboy Pian-
list, and Roy Winchester, a yoHAs
miner Nothing definite Is known
the cause of the murder. After tns
shooting the murderer went to a rancl
and compelled the rancher to shoe IVY
horses for him and then rode away,
A posse started in pursuit OF NV
Kinney but he eluded them and sa'
ceeded in reaching Bakersfield, Whe'0