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Show BLACK PEARL STILL ALIVE Narrowly Escapeslynch-ing Escapeslynch-ing and Confesses Another An-other Murder. ENID. Okla., Feb. 24. "Black Pearl." the negro who came near being lynched here last night for having killed Jim Jones, a Kansas negro, in a saloon quarrel, today in a confession alleged that he is the pugilist who fought Fltz-slmmons.in Fltz-slmmons.in 1891. and who fled in 189S after having killed a man In California in a street fight. The prisoner, in abject fear of his life, stated in Jail today that after committing com-mitting the California crime he went to Cuba In 1896, but returned to this country coun-try in 1900. He was supposed to have died on the Pacific coast. Two weeks ago "Black Pearl," who has been In the Territory for some time, fought six rounds with a local man. All talk of lynching baa subsided, - ' , |