Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1903-04-25
FATAL BATTLE WITH
DESPERATE OUTLAWS
Two Officers and a Desperate
Are Killed in Fight at
Bakersfield, CAL
A MUCH WANTED NAV
James Mckinney Had Many Murder,
to His Credit in the Southwest
Besiesed in a Fortified Chi
nese Joss House.

Bakersfield, Cal, April 21.-Jamea
Mckinney, the outlaw, IA shot and
killed here Saturday afternoon. Deputy
Sheriff Tibbets was also killed. n
Constable Packard was fatally shot.
Sheriffs Kelly of Kerns, Collins of Tu-
lare and Leovin of Arizona, with OFF,
GERS viii and Burt Tibbetts. Guards
Tower and City Marshal Packard, sur
rounded Mckinney shortly before IL
o'clock Saturday morning in a Chinese
house. viii Tibbetts and Packard APP
preached Mckinney in the house and
ordered him to surrender. Mckinney
answered by shooting. Will Tibbetts
was shot through the stomach and died
shortly after; Packard was shot
through the neck and shoulder n
dangerously wounded. Burt Tibbetts,
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 rouse was
n regular fort. In the place with Nc
Kinney was Hut Hulse, n desperado.
Mckinney had a sawed off shotgun in
AAio MANU. "llllS liz uStu IL plSlOl.
Hulse would not obey the order to come
out of the barricaded house. and the
fire department. was ordered to the
scene. Hulse gave up. He was taken
to the county Jail. An immense mob
surrounded the jail and tried to take
him from the officers.
Another accomplish of Mckinney was
known to be in the house where the
battle took place, but he would not sur
render like Hulse.
At 1850 o'clock the building was set
on fire and in fifteen minutes the man
was smoked out and taken to Jail.
Had Bad Shooting Record.
Mckinney was accused of having
committed several murders. He was a
native Of California, and was first sent
to the penitentiary from Tulare county
for assault to murder, and after his re-
lease went to RandsbuIg, 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 hot and
killed Tom Sears, a gambler, as the re-
suit of a dispute over a game of cards.
No one saw the fight and Mckinney
was acquitted.
Last July in Portersfeld he killed
Billy Lynn and wounded Constable
John Willis n another man in a
drunken row. He made a sensational
escape from capture, and for several
months wandered practically unmolest-
ed around the country. a few weeks
ago Sheriff Collins located him at Her
mosillo, Mex, n an application for
his eXtradition was made. The Mexican
authorities, however, had released him
before the arrival of the papers, n he
disappeared again for parts unknown.
Nothing more was heard of him until
April 5, when news came from King
man, AriZ., that Mckinney had MUIR
dered Charles Blakey, known as the
Cowboy Pianist" and Roy Winchester,
a young miner. Nothing definite is
known OF the cause OF the murder, but
1t is thought that Mckinney too the
men for officers. Since that time the
search for him has been unremitting
until the sensational ending yesterday.