The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, April 20, 1903, Page 1

@ all. VOLUME XCHI-NO., 141. 20, MONDAY, APRIL 20, 1903. PRICE FIVE CENTS. OUTLAW McKINNEY LOSES HIS LIFE IN A DESPERATE BATTLE, DEPUTY SHERIFF KILLED IN AN ATTACK ON HIDING PLACE Sharp Fight at Chinese House. R SR | Arre.éted Man in Danger of Mob. entrance. dows instantly f the passage led to the| sed as an opium den. throwing open the door, st and blazed away at thie offi- a double-barreled shotgun. His companion fired from the window | with a rifle. When Tibbet and Packard | eil Burt Tibbet rushed in and from a| distance of about six feet fired at Mec-| Kinney with a double-barreled gun. | The contents struck the outlaw in the | !.fi FOUR NAMES | i1 =y AL 2 - TS CrTY JIBRSIAL 7" T PACHARD-- ON HIS LIST OF MURDERS THOMAS SAYRES, Bakersfield resident, December 14, 1900. | WILLIAM LYNN, Porterville resident, July 27, 1902. CHARLES BLAKEY, Arizona cow- boy, April 5, 1903. ROY WINCHESTER, miner, April 15, 1903. Arizons top to bot Tibbet lay dving n feet from the door ground. M near him 1 d the shooting st at the door o AND BAKERSFIELD MARSHAL RECEIVES DANGEROUS - : €6 JST watch me. Tracy won't be in it when I get through 1 [ killing people.” : ! These were the words uttered nine months ago at Por- | { terville by James McKinney, four times a wmur jerer and one of | i the most resourceful and desperate criminals that ever compelle | the attention and baffled the efforts of fricers i Califormia, | The manslaving outlaw. for whom | | who is dead at Bakersfield. fruitlessiv for a dozen posses of Sheriffs and deputies sca months in the fastnesses of the soxihern hiis rs abou? killed tn a battle - The final fight took place at a Chinese lodgi McKinney and Al Hulse, ing. a former convi Tibbet was i City Marshal T. J. Packard re- hat is thoug ceived was ended by a brother of the e kol yncahea. the Fire nd it was nent in the what place out of hiding ed man 1f appeared about a block and a half of the fight, coming where, but pre- of the Chinese dens n the h m the AT HIS HIDING PLACE NEAR THE BUSINESS 'ALLY WOUNDED, portion of town. iving by in his buggy wit ff Tower at the | time. It was fort hat he was, as a crowd quickly gathered and things HIS BROTHER WHO ENDED | 5 entered the bu ng, the body of hanging over the lding is an utterly plained + Under Sheriff leading to the base- | Baker, who had accompanied the party, d and in his hands | but rem d on watch at another point, had used on | came up and with two others. the en | tire building was ransacked from top to bottom. One found locked, | but a badly scared ( aman was forced to bring a key and it was searched. It r | was a slee] > outlet and s entirely emwpty like the y and only a number of ba | rest of the house ed Chinese were found in the| Parties residing in the neighborhod room v Hulse managed to get saw a man fleeing through the slrcc(iz began to think there was nothir ooting, and | Then the shaoting began and T I s Hulse, al-| to the rear door of the house whence | Hulse on s a few minutes after the it is possible that this w | were looking threatening. Burt Tib- doing. | bet, had finished McKinney astened worn that he would kill ht and was looking for him. who had career, though they were unable to describe | the sounds came. As I passed the win- | The man made an attempt to appear at him and there is nothing was or was not. Sheriff K at the head of the posse ot the shooting. “We surroun how that it | dow facing on the alley T could just see | . who was | McKinney's head and brought my gun | hat attacked,| down on him. the josshouse, relates briefly the story { Tibbet fired and the outlaw fell dead. d the house at about o | g room and had no other | o'clock and Packard and Will Tibbet | and Jeff Packard volunteered to go through the rooms on the lower floor. Some time tl;u)smli when they entered the house where we after they entered the building and I ease. “I hear you fellows are looking for At that moment Burt he prompt reply ied over a huge re all its chambers, and ist arrest A all sides and ARREST OF HULSE. | “Two braver men than Will Tibbet | vol never lived and no| made no att more daring deed was ever done than| crowd was g Continued on Page 2, Column 2. | | =5 had every reason to believe McKinney | - BATTLES AND MURDERS IN THE LONG CHASE HE pursuit of McKinney from the date of his Porterville crimes to his death ! I in Bakersfield covered a period of about nine months. T His movements and the incidents of his criminal life are recorded chiefly as follows: { July 2%, 1902—Killed William Lynn and wounded several men in Porterville. | Committed robbery and fled. Suffered slight wound. August 1g—Located by posses near Randsburg, but escaped. August 28—Returned to Porterville, but eluded officers. Ariz. = April 12—Exchanged shots with officers near Kernville. April 1g—Surprised and killed in Bakersfield after wounding Marshal Packard | and assisting in killing of Deputy Tibbet. — | AT 4 fore the public a WOUND Urim Record .~ of Coward Crimes. Arduous Hunt of Cunning Slayer. McKINNEY'S ne career of crime had its g about a dozen y: to murd assault but was acquitted defense. murderous exploit with which his re d been conspicuously con- y on the morning of He was in Scottie’ about 1 o'clock and proceeded or the pur watchman eard the reports of the despera- weapon and summoned City Mar Howell and Deputy Constable Tompkins. The three men started for the chophouse to arrest McKinney PORTERVILLE BATTLE At the moment they arrived the outlaw g through a doorway and im to stop. McKinne er to the request. but in opened fire, one of the llet: g effect in the arm of William Lynn, who had arrived at the scene of the disturbance. Willis and Howel emptying their re T had also emptiec is weapon. then rushed at the | outlaw and strug him on the head with a cane. In the meantime McKinney ha« nd he again fired time striking Willis in the jaw. The perado then ran to a near-by house. ere he had made his home. and sup- plied hims th more ammun In a tem rage and thirsty as a wild beast a greater flow of human t savage and drunken mar taggered toward the scene ttle and sought a victin ered on the loose on hin rs. McK reloaded his weapon SHOOTING IN STREETS. rder and McKin possession of buggy 1S weapon an< law drc anced to be and succeede seorge Barron, a printer Cor table rob Dav: stopped wound dre . where he had m that place 1s in Tulare Porterville were the outlaw and who were shot by McKinney recover For a time pos scoured the hills 1 the neighborhood of Porterville, but no satisfactory trace of the fu ¢ could | be found. Popular rage increased and every possible effort wa de to locate | the man, but officers and volunteer pur | suers returned uitless expeditions On July McKinney | ported to Cove, ne was re TRACES OF OUTLAW. The abouts it was stated t ains forty-fi | He lived in a shack with a friend. It was at this time also that he posed be a rival of Tracv, the Washington outlaw. His last words be. | fore leaving Porterville were: “Just watch me. Tracy won't be lin it when I get through killing people.” d that Mc ed his team near Lemon Grove and had ventured into the fast- l Continued on Page 2, Column 8.