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Show Attorney Is Kidnaped on Town Streets HOU8TON. Tex., ' Feb. It. Eight masked men kidnaped B. I. Hobbs. former for-mer Houston attorney, on tha streeta of Alvln, a town south of here, today snd escaped to the country, according to reports here. A sheriffs posse which started In pursuit lost th tr4 and returned -to Alvln. Hobba waa kidnaped In Houston Uit Saturday night and tarred and- feathered feath-ered and ordered to leave Houston within three days. , He went to Alvln laat Monday. Too close fraternisation with colored people was said by police to have been the cause for the tarring and feather-i feather-i Ing of Hobba laat Baturday. Ho handled han-dled many colored divorce caaee. |