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Show 'BB m 'fl LEFT HMD OFFENDED HER I AND SHE CUT IT OFF i Lot Angelei Woman, Driven Ineane il by Religion, Severe Her Hand ,H With a Butcher Knife. BB Los Angeles. Helen Hurley, a mid- die-aged widow, who has been cm- '.'H ployed as a cook, driven Insand frota )H religious fervor, cut off her left hand :H at the wrist with a carving knlfo. and H then wnlkod several blocks to i I Catholic cathedral, whoro sho knell cH before tho nltar ot tho sacred heart H and poured out her ponanco. Holding 'H tho bleeding etump ot her arm tight iH ly beneath tho folds of her wmp, no KB ono know of her net. Her Bovercd ;RK hand aho had thrown bohlnd a trunk -KB in hor room. Arising from her kneel KK Ing posturo at the nltar, sho then ro- iH turned to her lodgings, whero het KB condition waa discovered, an ambu- itRK lanco summoned und tho woman Ink- ?.KK en to tho hospital. Sho will recover. tKH Tho woman's husband died about a '.jjflBJ year ago. Since thnt time eho. has 'BJJ brooded much, constantly bowalllng jBfl her maniago, which proventod her bo- iBB coming a nun. H |