Arizona republican., 1903-04-20
IT COST TWO LIVES
To Bring the Outlaw to the End of His
Bloody Career.

Bakersfield, Cal. April 19.-The long
and exciting pursuit Of James McKin-
ney. outlaw, from Kingman, Arizona,
ended in a battle with the officers OF
law within a few blocks of the business
center OF this town today, two men be
ing killed and one fatally wounded.
The killed:
JAMES M'KINNEY. outlaw.
WILLIAM e TIBET. deputy
sheriff.
Fatally wounded:
THOMAS X. PACKARD, city mar
shal.
The battle took place in q large two
story brick building on the outskirts OF
Chinatown, used by the Chinese mems
bers of the Sui Ong Tong lodging
house as an opium den and joss house
Here Mckinney kept secret for two or
three days. He had a companion, Al
Hulse, an ex-convict, who being
member OF the Chinese secret society
was enabled to enlist the aid and SYM
p2thy of the Orientals in harboring the
outlaw.
Shortly before II o'clock this morn
ing Sheriffs Kelley of Kern, Collins OF
Tulare and Lovin of Arizona, with Off
GERS Will and Burt Tibbets, Guy Tower
and City Marshal Packard surrounded
the house in which Mckinney was
known TO be in hiding. Will Tibbets
and Packard approached and ordered
the outlaw to surrender. Mckinney
answered by shooting. Will Tibbets
was shot through the stomach and died
shortly after; Packard was shot
through the neck and shoulders ana
dangerously wounded. Burt Tibbets,
brother of the dead deputy sheriff, shot
Mckinney through the mouth and neck,
killing him
The house was a regular fort. In the
place with Mckinney was Al Hulse, d
desperate. Mckinney had a sawed off
shotgun in his hand, while Hulse used
pistol Hulse would not obey tno
order to come out of the barricaded
house, and the fire department was or
dered to the scene. Hulse then sur
rendered. He was taken to the county
Jail.
Another accomplice of Mckinney was
known to be in the house where the
render. The building was set on fire.
and in fifteen minutes the man who re-
fused to give his name was smoked cut
and taken to Jail. The feeling runs
very high against Hulse, the evidence
tending to show that he is the man
whose bullet killed Deputy Sheriff Tib-
bets The murdered officer was a popu-
lar man and there is considerable talk
tonight of lynching.
Mckinney is accused of having COM
mitted several murders. He was a ma
tive of California and was first sent t.
the penitentiary from Tulare county
for assault to murder, and after his re-
lease went to Rardsburg, Cal, where
he figured in some further shooting
trouble. He escaped trial, coming to
bakersfield soon afterwards, where In
the latter part of 1900 he shot ana
killed Tom Sayers. a gambler, as the
result of dispute over a game OF
cards. No one saw the fight and Nc
Kinney was acquitted
Last July in Porterville he killed
Billy Lynn, wounded Consta BILE John
/ Willis and another man in a drunken
row lie made a sensational escape
from capture. and for several months
wandered practically unmolesteG
around the country. \ few weeks ago
Sheriff Collins located the outlaw at
Hermosillo, Mexico, and an application
for his extradition was made The
Mexican authorities had released him
f. before the arrival of papers, and he
disappeared again for parts unknown.
Nothing more was heard of him until
April 9Th, when news came from King
man, Ariz., that Mckinney had mur-
dered Charles Blakey, known as the
Cowboy Pianist" and Roy Winches-
ter. a young miner. Nothing definite
is known of the cause of the murder,
but it is thought that 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 COM
PEELED the rancher to shoe two horses
! for him and then rode away. Posses
started in pursuit of Mckinney, but he