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Show I! SOUGHT LIFE OF i . COPPER MAGNATE , J. W. Goodman Arrested in New York for Threats Against His Benefactor. NEW YORK, April 3. James W. i 'Goodman, a machinist, was urrestcd 'here- today charged with making threats against the life of William C. Greene, president of the. Greene Consolidated Copper company. When Goodman was arraigned In Police court, Mr. Greene 'testified hat Goodman lay In wait out-pfdfcJiife out-pfdfcJiife House today, and that Goodman tamo up to him and said; "You're the man I'm laying for. Now I'm going to kill yoiu' Mr. Greene said that Goodman rubbed agaJntft him and he felt a revolver In 'tho, man's pocket. Goodman followed him to his ofllce, ilr,, drecne added, and was there arj reafed. According to the police, two ro-voivcr ro-voivcr were found In Goodman's pock-cts". pock-cts". President Greene made a. formal stnfUTent later In the day. The slatc-xnfih't slatc-xnfih't says In part: "Th'c man Goodman was a comparative compara-tive stranger to me. I have met him perhaps eight or ten times during the last four years. He was at one lime Interested In some mining property m Sonora, which he and his partner. Prank Smith, transferred to the Ysqul Copper company, at 170 Broadway, In consideration of 100,000 ahares of the capftal Slock of the .company. The stoclc Was Issued them according to cohfrftot and a large portion sold by ttiem. "The stock at one time went to $15 per shares, and MrwGbod man's grievance griev-ance is that, through what he claims was manipulation by myselC and others, oth-ers, the etock was depreciated until at present It has a market value o much Jess than $15 per share. "The only reason that I can give for his act was that the money he had received he had squandered, was desperate des-perate and without means, and he expects ex-pects to force me to give him an amount of cash sufficient to make up his losses In stock. I understand that .he has lived many years In Arizona and Mexico." |