The Savannah morning news., 1903-04-20
KILLED AN OUTLAW
NIT HE FOUGHT AND SOLD HIS
LIFE DEARLY.
TOOK REFUGE IN JOSS HOUSE.
THIS WAS SURROUNDED AND THE
SHOOTING BEGAN.

James Mckinney Met His Fate at
BakersfeId, CaI.-Deputy Sheriff
Tibbetts Killed Outright and
Constable Packard Shot Fatally.
Brother of Tibbetts Fired the
shot That Killed McIIinney-His
AccompIices Were Captured After
Some Trouble.
Bakersfield, Cal, April 19.-James
Mckinney, the outlaw, was shot and
killed here to-day. Deputy Sheriff lib
belts was also killed and Constable
Packard was shot fatally.
Sheriffs Kelly of Kern. Collins of Tu-
lare and Leovin of Arizona counties,
with officers Will and Burt Tibbetts,
Gus Tower and City Marshal Packard,
surrounded Mckinney shortly before
II o'clock this morning in a house.
Will Tibbetts and Packard approach
ed Mckinney in the house and ordered
him to surrender Mckinney answered
by shooting. Will Tibbetts was shot
through the stomach and died soon
after; Packard was shot through the
neck and shoulders, and dangerously
wounded.
Burt Tibbetts, a brother of the dead
deputy sheriff, shot Mckinney through
the mouth and neck, killing him.
Mckinney has been in Bakersfield
two days, and was harbored by friends
in Chinese joss house. The house
was a regular fort.
In the place with Mckinney was Hut
Hulze, a desperate. Mckinney had a
sawed-off shotgun and Hulze used a
pistol. Hulze would not obey the or
der to come out of the barricaded
house, and the fire department was Or
dered to the scene.
Hulze gave himself 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 surrender. At 1850 p. m. the build
ing was set on fire and the man was
soon smoked out and taken to Jail.
McE[inney's Career.
committed several murders. He was a
native of California and was first sent
to the penitentiary from Tulare coun-
ty for assault with intent to murder,
and after being released went to
'Randsburg, Cal, where he figured in
some further shooting trouble. He es-
capped trial, coming to Bakersfield soon
90
1900 he shot and killed Tom Sears, a
gambler, as a result of a dispute over
a game of cards. No one saw the fight,
and Mckinney was acquitted.
Last July, in Porterville, he Killed one
man and wounded Constable John Will
lis and another man in a drunken row.
He made a sensational escape from
capture and for several months wan
dered practically unmolested about the
country A few weeks ago Sheriff Col
Inns located him at HermOSillo, Mex,
and an application for his extradi-
ton was made. The Mexican authori-
ties, however, had released him before
the arrival of the papers, and he dis
appeared again for parts unknown.
Nothing more was heard of him I'M
til April 5, when news came from
Kingman, Ariz., that Mckinney had
murdered Charles Blakeley, known as
the cowboy pianist" and Roy Win
chester, a young miner. Nothing def
mite is known of the cause of the muir
der, but it is thought that Mckinney
took the men for officers and laid in
wait for them on the trail.
After the shooting he went to a
ranch and compelled the rancher 10
shoe two horses for him, and then rode
away.
Posses started in pursuit of McKin-
ney, but he eluded them and succeed
ed in reaching Bakersfield, where his
two brothers live.