Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1903-04-23
FATAL BATTLE WITH
DESPERATE OUTLAWS
Two Officers and a Desperate
Are Killed in Fight at
Bakersfield. Cal
a MUCH WANTED MAN.
James Mckinney Had Many Murder.
to His Credit in the Southwest
Besiesed in a Fortified Chi
nese Joss House.

Bakersfield, CAL. April 21.-James
Mckinney, the outlaw, was shot and
killed here Saturday afternoon. Deputy
Sheriff Tibbets was also killed. and
Constable Packard was fatally shot.
Sheriffs Kelly of Ilerns, Collins of Tu-
lare and Leovin of Arizona, with OFF,
GERS Will and Burt Tibbetts, Guards
Tower and City Marshal Packard, sur
rounded Mckinney shortly before II
o'clock Saturday morning In a Chinese
house. Will 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 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 vas harbored by friends
In a Chinese joss house. The house was
q regular fort. In the place with Nc
Kinney was Hut Hulse, a desperate.
Mckinney had a sawed off shotgun in
his hand while Hulse used a pistol.
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 accomplice 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
native Of California, and was first sent
to the penitentiary from Tulare county
for assault to murder, and after his re-
lease went to Randsburg, 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 and
killed Tom Sears. a gambler. as the re-
suit of a dispute over game Of cards.
No one saw the fight and Mckinney
was acquitted.
Last July in Portersfield he killed
Billy Lynn and wounded Constable
John Willis and another man In
drunken row. He made q sensational
eSCdpe 1IOIl capture, ana IOr 6eVeFdI
months wandered practically unmolest-
ed around the country. A few weeks
ago Sheriff Collins located him at Her
mostllo, Mex, and an application for
his extradition was made. The Mexican
| authorities, however, had released 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 King!
man. Ariz that Mckinney had, mur-
dered Charles Blakey, known as the
| Cowboy Pianist" and Roy Winchester,
a young miner. Nothing definite Isl
known of the cause of the murder. but
1t is thought that Mckinney took the
men for officers. Since that time the
| search for him has been unremitttng
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