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Show MOB OOT WRONG MAN. Negro Arrested for Murder Commit ted In Kansas. .Too Oodloy, tho negro who wns nr-roRtcd nr-roRtcd In Oakland, Cal., for tho killing nf Pollco Omcor Hinklo nt Pittsburg, Kan., on Christmas night, 1002, has admitted that ho Is tho man wanted. Ho says that on tho night ln question ho and other negroes woro drinking, and nbout 2 o'clock In tho morning started to a colored bnll. They were stopped nt tho foot of tho stairs, nnd words passed, when tho officer drow his club. Oodley says ho warded off tho blow nnd knocked tho officer down. At that Instnnt ho (Ciodley) received a hulelt wound ln tho faco and started to run, nnd ns ho did so ho heard anothor shot fired, which ho supposed killed tho officer. He went to his homo at West City, twelve mllos nwny. Tho mob, ho snyH, finding ho had escaped, took his brother Mof-fntt Mof-fntt from tho Jnll nnd lynched him, nlthough ho lind been locked up for drunkenness eight hours betoio the fatal affray. |