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Show EXCITING MAN HUNT IN NEW YORK STATE Aged Man Accused of Assaulting- a Woman Run Down and Saved Prom Mob. BINGHAMTON, N. Y., Feb. 27. After Af-ter one of the most exciting- man hunts in the history of this city, lasting- for nearly thirty hours, Morrl3 Odell, charged with attacking two women, has been captured. Prompt arrival of policemen saved tho man from falling into tho hands of a crowd of fifty men who were chasing him. Odell is a white man, nearly 50 years oltl, and was captured by Levi Ray, colored. Foremost In the crowd was Frank Fancher, husband of one of tho alleged victims. Fancher was unarmed, but he Jumped for Odell. struck him and attempted at-tempted to wring his neck until pulled away by a policeman. Odell's wife died recently, and he is said to have drunk heavily since then. After attacking his stepdaughter, ho visited Fanchor's house, where he formerly for-merly boarded. Mrs. Fancher was at work and did not seo him enter. Ho seized the woman, choked her almost senseless and fled whon tho children gave an alarm. |