| Show THOEF ATTEMPTS TO SEVER HAND Of WOMAN Wanted Diamonds Displayed on Her Finger ATTACKED ON THE STREET Robber Used a Knife Slashing Woman Across Knucl < lese les-e Attempts to Escape but Is Pursued Pur-sued and Captured and Narrowly Nar-rowly Escapes Lynching New York Jan 1Henty Goodman I Good-man 19 years old was arrested Just before be-fore midnight charged with having at attempted to cut nf a young womans band I to obtain the diamonds displayed on her lingers The attack was made in the full view of scores of merrymakers merry-makers Including the womans escort Miss May Matthews and Miss May Lewis started out with their escorts for an automobile ride and later went to supper At 11 oclock the start was made for home Soon something went wrong with the machine and the two men got down to examine it Miss Lewis held a hand bag which contained a small amount of money On the fingers fin-gers of Miss Matthewss left hand glittered glit-tered diamonds worth it is said fully 51600 TRIED TO SEVER HAND Suddenly from the crowd sprang J a young man who held in one hind a knife with a long and exceedingly keen blade From Miss Lewis he grabbed the bag she was carrying and then seizing Miss Matthews by the fingers he drew his knife across her knuckles culling a deep gash The young woman wo-man shrieked with fright and pain and her assailant waiting to make another effort to sever her hand brandished his knife In the face of those who sprang to the rescue and dashed west along Houston street After a long chase he was captured but did not surrender until beaten Into subjection by a policeman police-man THREATS OF LYNCHING The general Impression was that an attempt had been made to murder the girl and had It not been for the policeman police-man into whose hands Goodman fell he would have fared badly Tho officer offi-cer had to light of the pursuersnd at the same time prevent his prisoner from stabbing him with the knife which had been used on Miss Matthewss hands With much difficulty Goodman was la ken lo the station house where he said he intended to cut off the girls hand for the rings she wore |
