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HULSE COWERING DARK PRISON CELLSuspected Murderer Loses Nerve and Hides in Terror Under His Cot.HisDate last night a Californian repp- ' airu* sick at the stomach and his a#* sentatlvi! in company with K. M. Hob- j i'nr*UVM' NVwa wost abject.cits and ,1. A. Hugh's, two icadingicitizens, visited the county jail fo^jTHE AUlOPSY SHOWEDthe purpose of interviewing A) Hu!so. Hulse had been removed during the day from the upper Moor of the jail to the basement and confined in ft dark cell. When jailor Price jingled his Keys at the door of the cell that hold the suspected murderer, no sound emanated from within. In vain did t.lic jailor call the name of the man who is believed to have slain both Packard and Tibbets. No response came to the repeated call but as the jailor turned the key, Hulse, cowering and shaking like a leaf crawled out from beneath his cot where he had tried toDEADLY WORK OF RIFLEThe autopsy performed on tlie lato?City Marshal Packard by Dr. Schaferon Monday morning* a few hours afterhis death revealed the undlsputobler fact that two people Instead of onet were Hring at the officer from the time ho broke into the room where McKinney was until rescued In the corneraof the yard a few minutes later. wound in his left arm and hand waa made by a charge of buckshot as waa shown when the pellets were removed? by Dr. Taggart. But In the right arom a 25-85 bullet tore its way through theflesh niul bon$ passing clear through conceal himself with his bedoloihing. ftrm amj Wftfl onjy prevented fromOnce upon his feet tho man’s fear entering the body by the Marshall 111 was something almost pitiable. Ho thick wallet which he carried In Ms e I could scarcely control his voice and pocket. That bullet la now in tho po»~ his hands shook as he was attempting session of Dr. Schafer, It having beet* to speak. picked up on tho ground at the pohritHuise was urged to make a complete where Packard stood in the corner ot confession, of his connection with Me- the yard.Kinney. It was explained to him Tho wound in tho neck was ateft. that when he said that he did not made by a 25-35 rlflo ball. This bultetr know McKinney was In his room he before entering tho body evidently* discredited his entire statement and struck some very hard substance,that the public generally believed sumablo the barrel of Packard's love^ that he was directly connected with ed pistol. The fragments scattered^ the shooting. j one part entering the forearm, but tin*base of tho bullet tearing through Itoiyrre!-oM)-Cc0e0:lsQ«■r.f(*ite1ii*;sTdaHe Knew McKinney Waa Coming.All appeals however, were in vain.Again the shrinking prisoner wentneck lodged behind tho ear and waat there recovered by Dr. Schafor.Further to show tho handiwork ofover the story of how he was in the Inan w^° was using the doadlj?Crawford saloon at the time of the ^ mentioned that the balfshooting, but he refused to commit. {that was extracted from tho body of'himself further. Pressed as to hia Hie murdered Tlbbot was a 25*36.connection with McKinney, be said that be had no positive knowledge thatthe outlaw was In town. “1 bad been expecting that be would come bore for 2 or 3 days past, but I did not know be was hen*, i slept In I In? room the ntt before and McKinney was not then* unless he was hiding behind th*' trunk, iWhen Pud r Sheiiff Baker removedHulsn from the npp^r lloor to the dark cell, fern* was depleted in every feature and action of Hie su-p‘*cted murderer, lie inquired the p ason for the cluing*' and Baker (old hkn it-wan * cd insure ills own safely. This frightened him more and in* begged for u pistol v.iiii which to defend himself.Once In the dark cell the man’s nerve gave way completely, he heStrong Against Hulse.Tho strongest evidence that has;* hrf'n given agaiiiBt HuIbc a« yet Ib tho* statement that, was made by Packard, alter he was taken from the? operating; table, in the presence of Dr. Schafer he reiterated time and again that Huise was the man who got TIbbet and the man who ho fearfully wounded, him.Tih* Marsha) Jk reported to have* raid: McKinney was not In ItTcfrsrmoment. He wan badly rattled and It \v iuid had nobody but. him to YteaJf. with neither Bill nor myself would? have been hurt. When quekifonad a» to iliin statement, tho dead Marshal is Veportcd to have said: I coulcL not(Continued on Pago Bight)
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Daily Californian
Bakersfield, California, US
Tue, Apr 21, 1903
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Kern C.
CA, USA 20 Oct 2020
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