Show I NOW RIDING THE RANGE GE Kinch McKinney Noted Wyo Wyoming Wyoming I ming Desperado Desper do Said to Have Reformed Special to The Herald Cheyenne Wyo Jan J 13 McKinney who a few years jears ears ago vaS was waa looked upon as one one ne of the most des desperate desperate I criminals in Wyoming is now nou n nI I riding the range ranse on tile the edge edg Of the th I Red desert d ert He H lS Is Inv In the t e employ of t f tone fone I II one of the big bl sheep p outfits there and it is his duty to see ee that t no foreign flocks arc are permitted to the line and graze grain on the leased tracts of at the I Carbon C and Sweetwater county C sheep men I While leading a criminal life UCe It is Ia isI I I alleged that McKinney carried earned on ona a aI I f wholesale cattle rustling busnes nes nesI I near the e braska line U Ua He was arrested and a nd several sev erat times escaped ped from jail During his confinement in ig inthe I I the count county Jail here he occupied the th j I I same cell in w which Tom Horn the th murderer I of Willie Nickell is incarcerated In Incarcerated ar I I Some one passed a revolver in to tp him and one day he made a des desperate de attempt to escape He was foiled In tho the e attempt but with the gun g un I he held the sheriff and his deputies at bay until finally anally he became b came so hun liun hungry gry and thirsty that he was compelled to surrender I While confined in the state penitentiary McKinney escaped twice once onee by digging g out under the walls waIls and again 1 by cutting a hole through the roots roofs of b blila t f this his lila cell ceU and building McKinney lI KInne is now flOw a reformed formed man I and Is said to be one of the best stock tenders in the Red Desert country He H e guards the interests of his employers closely but at the same time tim tim respects respect s the th Jaw law He THe is said to be very vely kind kindi to C those thos about him and that it is his bis de desire desire desire sire to atone as much as possible for tor forthe fo r the misdeeds of the past pasta a a |