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M’KINNEY MAY BETHEMOUNTAINSWas Seen Near Randsburg, and Has Now Had Time to Reach Kernville.vla' !fc .ISpecial to tho Californian,RANDSBURG, Cal„ April 9.—Californian, Bakersfield Cal.: McKinney is reported to have passed through Randsburg yesterday waking for the mountains north of town. A posse composed of F. J. Swift*♦♦of San Francisco, S. M. Gilliam of Visalia, A. K. Briggs of Stockton, V and an unknown man arrivod on the night train hired a team this ♦ morning and are out on the desert searching. McKinney has a brother here and it is believed he will attempt to get provisions ♦’ from him.cCollins, has at least one other pots# in the jpountains at some point not known and it may be that it will reach:*•The pursuit of the outlaw McKinney j country and so be a day in advance Ofontinues, but without result bo the poyse under the lead of Sherifffar as known at noon today, Thatthe outlaw is In the vicinity of Rands-burg, or if he is not actually there to- .. ..day that ho soon will be here if he Is 10 1thr®M*h roa(ls ln t,me to WWnot headed off before reaching there le 1Un e ma*is the generally accepted opinion here,Sheriff Kelly is and has been of that opinion all the time, although ho has heard nothing to confirm the report that he was actually seen yesterday,The country around Randsburg is extremely favorablo for a.rofuge for a man of McKinney’s type, even If he had not friends and relatives there to Sroteet him In his efforts to evade the officers. The mountains atad abandoned mines afford many easy hiding places for a man of the outlaw’s fertile resouces.► /The chances for an ambush are numerous and In this the murderer has all the advantages as ho can Jay in hiding and shoot from cover while the officers must be continually on their guard.Sheriff Collins and his posse, of four men are in that vicinity. They left the Santa Fe train at Kramer where the branch line to Randsburg begins.The Tulare Sheriff has with him the three men whom ho took from hero9and at the desert metropolis, Constable John Arnold and his depdty J.It. Price, brother of the county jailor, will be ready to aid the officers in every wayi Both aro tried officers of known nerve and acquainted with every foot of territory around the desert town.If McKinney struck straight through to Kernville from Randsburg he could by hard riding have reached the former place by this morning, ’and it is evident that wherever the outlaw Is going ho Is not allowing tit© grass to grow under his feet. Once m Kern* villo or on the South Fork he knows every foot of the country, even to the mountain trails, and from Kertiville down into Linns Valley is a distance of but twenty-five miles, and there McKinney will find friends and neighbors who have known him since boyhood, The distance on to Portervilleis comparatively insignificant and itmay, and it now appears likely, that he will not be intercepted before! reaching his old home, If Indeed he bo headed that way.Sheriff Kelly, fearing that the outlaw might ride direct through the
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Daily Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Thu, Apr 09, 1903
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Kern C.
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