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James McKinney

Posted 2019-07-01 by Pat R
Weekly Arizona Journal=Miner (Prescott, Arizona)
Wednesday, April 22, 1903, p. 1

Fight To Death With Outlaw

Battle in Which Four Men Are Killed

Murderer McKinney Dies Fighting at Bakersfield, California,
on Sunday Afternoon

A telegram from Bakersfield, dated April 19, says: The long and
exciting pursuit of James McKinney, 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 being killed and one
fatally wounded.

The dead are:
James McKinney, outlaw
William E. Tibbett, deputy sheriff
Fatally wounded:
Thomas K. Packard, city marshall

The battle took place in a large two story brick building on the
outskirts of Chinatown, used by the Chinese member of the Sui Ong
Tong lodging house as an opium den and joss house. Here McKinney was
kept secreted for two or three days. He had a companion, Al Hulse, an
ex-convict, who being a member of the Chinese secret society was
enabled to enlist the aid and sympathy of the Orientals in harboring
the outlaw.

Shortly before 11 o'clock this morning Sheriff's Kelly of Kern,
Collins of Tulare and Lovin of Arizona, with Officers Will and Burt
Tibbets, Guy Tower and City Marshall 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 and
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, a desperado. McKinney had a sawed off shot gun 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 then surrendered. He was taken to the county jail.

Another accomplice of McKinney was known to be in the house where the
battle took place, but would not surrender. The building was set on
fire, and in fifteen minutes the man who refused to give his name was
smoked out and taken to jail. The feeling runs very high against
Hulse, and there is considerable talk tonight of lynching.




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