A One-Name Study for the BARNUM/BARNHAM Surname
Woman's Furious Attack. Beat Man with Valuable Jewel—Stabbed Policeman with Pin.
A man who said he was Philo F. Barnum of 46 East Twenty-first Street, an official of the New York Rubber Company, was passing the Mercantile Building, at Twenty-third Street and Fourth Avenue, yesterday afternoon, when a young woman, who later said she was Alice Moulton, stepped from the doorway. Mr. Barnum wore a valuable diamond and pearl scarfpin.
"That's a fine pin you are wearing," she said. "I would like to buy it."
"It's not for sale," said Mr. Barnum, rather sharply.
The woman then struck him a hard blow on the right side of his face with one hand and with the other, he says, tried to snatch the pin. It was fastened with a safety appliance, and she did not get it. Then, he says, she began to strike, kick, and scratch him. He stood it for a minute, but she knocked him down and continued to beat him. Policemen Convey and Beerey ran up.
Their appearance seemed to infuriate the woman even more, and, pulling out a hatpin, she began to lunge at every one within reach, at the same time striking with her free hand. Bicycle Policeman Debes rushed up on his wheel and she greeted him by thrusting the hatpin into his leg. As she did this, however, Beerey seized her arms from behind, and she was overpowered.
The woman was then taken to the Tenderloin Police Station. She said she was greatly surprised that she had been arrested.
"Perhaps the pin wasn't worth anything, anyway," she said.
Mr. Barnum said it could not be duplicated for less than $1,500.
The woman said she was thirty years old and had no home. She had been sleeping in hotels and eating in restaurants, she said, but she ate ravenously when a meal was taken to a cell, where she was carefully watched. She was held for attempted highway robbery.
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