Show A 4 Ji IlL Henry Goodman Goo man 19 IS 9 Years Old Attempted to Cut Off Of a Girls Hand Handin in Order to Obtain the Diamond Rings I She Wore t 4 I M EW YORK Jan 1 Henry Good Goodman NEW 1 N man 19 years jears old was arrested I just before before midnight charged with being the person who attempted to cut cutoff cutoff off a young womans hand to t obtain I the diamonds displayed on her fingers The attack was made in the full view I of scores of merrymakers Including the womans escort Miss May Matthews and Miss May Lewis started out with their escorts for foran foran foran an automobile ride and later went to toa toa toa a a supper At 11 U when the start was made for home something went wrong with the machine and the two men got down to examine it m Miss Missa 4 Bl a small amount of money On the fin fingers fingers fingers gers of Miss MatthEws left hand glit gilt glittered glittered diamonds worth it Is said fully 1500 1100 Suddenly from the crowd sprang a ayoung ayoung ayoung young man man who held in one hand a aI knife A with ith a long and exceedingly keen I blade From Prom Miss Lewis he grabbed the I bag she was carrying and then tiiu th n seizing Miss Matthews Malt hews by the fingers he be drew dren his knife across her knuckles cutting cutUPS a deep t gash The young w woman oman shrieked with fright and an pain and her h e r I assailant who waiting to make an another another another other effort erran to sever her hand bran brandished dished his knife in the face of those who vho sprang to the rescue and dashed west along Houston street After a along along along long chase he was captured but did not surrender until beaten into subjection by a policeman The general impression was that an attempt had been made to murder the girl and had bad it not been for the police policeman policeman man into whose hands h s Goodman n I fell he have fared The officer r had to fight off ot the p at the same time prevent his prisoner from stabbing s bing him with the knife which had bad b used on Miss Matthews hands With much difficulty Goodman was taken to the station house where he said he Intended to cut off the girls hand forthe for the rings she wore |