The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-10-09
HER MIND IS GOING
This Miserable Wretch Is Paying for
Her Many Grimes.
\ THRILLING EXPERIENCE
Mrs. Nugent's Awful Fright by a
Mad Mamie Choked Her and
She Is Frustrated The
Maniac Is Captured.
Special Dispatch TO the Standard.

Special Dispatch to the Standard.
Boise. Idaho. Oct. S-Mrs. Hardy.
the female murderess. sent TO the peni-
tentiary for life from Moscow. Latah
county, for numbering a little colored
girl whom she had adopted. will be
sent TO the insane asylum. Her ac-
tions have been most extraordinary
ever since her Incarceration. II was
believed at first she was playing the
crazy dodge In order to secure her re-
lease from prison. but the physicians
are now satisfied her reason has been
dethroned. She will be sent to the
asylum at Blackfoot as soon as pos
sible. There is perhaps no more
blacker hearted person in the United
States than Margaret Hardy. Crime
Of every description has been familiar
to her since she was a young woman
She launched out as the keeper of a
bawdy house In st. Louis. She de-
veloped into a notorious procuress and
thief. Her thleving propensities were
given full sway In Aspen. Col. where
she kept lodging house. Her victims
there cannot be estimated. Her black
record was further blackened after
she came to Idaho.
As a grand finale to a life STEPPED
in crime. she gave the 6-year-old coll
ored child a dose of morphine. This,
not accomplishing the desired result.
she poured sulphuric acid on the child's
face. 1t died In a short time. its eyes
being eaten out. She was sent to the
penitentiary for this crime for life.
Since her arrival at the prison she has
tried several times to kill herself. at
one time setting her bed clothes on
FIR. The doctors say she cannot live
long. Her death will remove one Of
the most notorious female criminals In
the history Of the country.
Mrs. Nugent. a farmers wife who
lives up the river a short distance
above this city. had thrilling expe-
rience last night with a man. His
name is Ed Percey. and he is now In
carcerated in a dungeon in the county
jail. Percey. who Is about % years
old. came home from Highland valley
few weeks ago to pick fruit. lie
secured a place on the Nugent farm.
Yesterday evening he began to act
queerly. He went to the barn. and
when found was muttering to himself
something about God burning him up.
A little boy was sent for assistance,
several men responded. and when they
came up to Percy he ran and was
soon lost to view In the darkness.
They then started away. believing
pursuit useless. They had proceeded
but a short distance when their ears
were greeted by wild shrieks Of
woman. They rushed back to find
Mrs. Nugent struggling In the grasp
of the mad man. He had stealthily
approached and pounced upon the
woman without a moments warning.
She struggled for a moment, but was
like q child in his terrible embrace.
Then she screamed out In terror. Like
a child Of the devil he cried fiendlshly,
II kill. kill" He had the poor woman
by the throat with the life almost
choked out OF her when the men re-
appeared. The men pounced upon Per-
cey and released Mrs. Nugent. They
attempted to capture him, but he
fought like tiger. tearing their
clothes to shreds. After a prolonged
struggle. during which Percey clawed
and bit like a dog, they finally bound
him and got him to town. 1t required
half dozen officers to Jail him. He
viii be sent to the asylum tomorrow.
Mrs. Nugent Is almost prostrated as a
result OF the shock She cannot go
to sleep without the awful vision of
the maniac with bulging eyes appear
Ing before her. She wakes up scream
Ing at the top OF her voice. Physicians
pronounce her case remarkable. They
fear Mrs. Nugents mind may be af-
fected as a result Of the shock to her
nervous system.