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Show MOB GOT WRONG MAN. Negro Arrested for Murder Committed Commit-ted In Kansas. Joo Oodloy, tbo negro who was nr-rostcd nr-rostcd In Oakland, Cal., for tho killing nf Police Offlcor Hlnklo nt Pittsburg, Kan., on Christmas night, 1902, liaB admitted that ho Is tbo man wanted. Ho says that on t.h night in question ho and other nogroes wcro drinking, nnd about 2 o'clock In tho morning started to a colored ball. Thoy wcro stopped at tho root of tho stairs, and words passed, when tho olllcor drew his club. Oodloy snys ho waided off tho blow and knocked tho olllccr down. At thnt Instant hu (Oodley) rocelved a btilolt wound In tho fnco nnd stnrtod to run, and ns ho did so bo heard another Bitot fired, which ho Rtipposed killed tho ofllcer. Ho went to his homo nt West City, twelve miles awny. Tho mob, bo says, finding bo bad escnpod, took his brother Mof-ratt Mof-ratt from tbo Jnll nnd lynched him, although ho had been locked up for drunkenness eight hours before tho fntal affray. |