The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-29
WOMAN LOSES
 REASON IN COURT
Turns Her Children Aside and Calls
 For Knife to End Her Life.
Dramatic Scene When Husband of Mother
 of Four Children is Sentenced 10 Jail,

Crying for a knife with which to kill herself. Mrs. Stev Nagy. wife of Stev NaVy who yesterday afternoon was round guilty by the jury in the Su- per1or Court of assault and sentenced to one year in jail. ran screaming through the County Court house and was only quieted after the patrol had been called and she was taken to po- lice headquarters and placed in a pad ded cell. Besides Mrs. Nagy and her four small children. there were but a few spectators in the court room when ! sentence was imposed. As soon as the nature of the sentence dawned upon the woman she seeing her husband shedding copious tears she started her stampede The deputy sheriffs tried to quiet the l wretched woman and Deputy Sheriff Arthur Plumb hustled Nagy up to the i jail But the woman was obdurate. In Ebroken English she demanded to know from the attendants of the court who was going to take care of her children and who was to pay the rent for the l next year. All the time she was screaming at the top of her voice. Finally she ran to the clerks desk and shaking her fist at Ralph T. Beers. acting clerk of the court shouted tssYou take those children. You feed them. I will not take them with me- . The woman then made a mad rush for the door. the four children following her. At the door she caught hold of the first child and showed her back into the court room. shutting the door after her.
 She tried to make a break for the doors leading to the steps but Deputy Sheriff Johnson of Newtown was in her path and stopped her progress. Sheriff Johnson was her next victim. She demanded that she be let go.5 as Ethey had no reason to hold her. as she Edec1ared the children were not hAfs- l All this time she was asking for a knife If she had one or succeeded in getting one there is no telling what l would have been the results Her chil- dren followed her out of the court room and watched the attendants try I ing to pacify their parent. Throughout the uproar the youngest child slept peacefully in the arms Of the oldest daughter about eight years of age. who was acting as the little mother. The woman was finally hustled into Sheriff Hawley's private office and the patrol wagon sent for. Before Its ar rival she again gave trouble. At one time she broke away from the hold that was on her and standing 6efantly in corner demanded knife. She wanted to kill herself. She held her hand aloft and brought it down heavily upon her breast, as if in the actxof driving the knife into her heart- She made an attempt to get to one or the windows but the willy Sher1IIS were on guard and prevented further harm When the patrol arrived she set up a screaming but was hustled into that vehicle and brought a screaming into police headquarters She was put into a cell where she quieted down She will be taken to Lakeyiew home where she will be kept at the request of the
 Fairfield authorities till she is consid-
 cred safe to be released The children
 when it is safe to do so will be left
 with her. 5t
 The crime for which Nagy was found
 guilty occurred in Fairfield on Aug. s14
 Nagy and his family live in a house
 belonging to Washington Turney, who
 rents the fore part of his house to
 the Nagy and resides in the back him.
 self. Turney is avery old man, going
 about with cane, as he had his leg
 broken by a fall last winter He had
 an argument with Nagy and loading
 his shot gun fired at and killed one
 of Nagys chickens. Nagy grabbed the
 gun from the old man and brought the barrel down on ,Turney's head.
 Turney was felled with the blow, but
 Nagy in his anger kept up his work
 and kicked Turney number of times
 when he was down, breaking five ribs.
 For a. time it was thought that Tur-
 ney would not recover, but he was up
 within a week. Previous to the as sault the Nagys had been regarded
 as very quiet home loving people,
 while those that lived with Turney
 were considered the opposite, the oc- cupants of his house many times be- ing complained of to the authorities.