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Show MADE DESPERATE FIQHT. Police Battle With a Negro for Over Ten Hours. After a flcrco'battlo between tho po-ltco po-ltco and a desporato negro, lasting from 10 o'clock 'p. in. until 8 o'clock a. m., Wilson Anderson, tho man who caused tho trouble, was shot and kilted by four officers at Oakland, Cal. Anderson drove a whlto woman and a colored porter out of the house at Fourth and Broadway, where ho lived, at the point of a pistol. Policemen Sherry and Ford wcro summoned to arrest tho negro. "When they appeared at the door Anderson fired at Sherry, the bullet grazing tho officer's arm. The negro then barricaded the doors and windows of tho house and fired at every one who approached the premises. prem-ises. About twenty police officers surrounded sur-rounded tho houso, and during tho night a running battlo was kept up, over a hundred shots being flrcd by tho police. At daylight It was found that the desperate negro was still alive. Every time he appeared at a window he was met with a volley of bullets from the weapons of the police. po-lice. Chief Hodgklns endeavored sev eral times to get him to surrender, but the desperado refused to leave the house and directed bis attack on every officer who came within shootng distance. dis-tance. Tho police Anally made a charge and captured the man in a dying condition. He had nine bullets In kls body. |