The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-04
Woman Who was Waylaid During Fit of Remorse
 Fires Bullet Into Body
Continued From First PaeeA

Mrs. Noonan had been about the house during the morning attentive to her household duties. Her husband came to his dinner at Il o'clock He ate and returned to his work at. 11:35 AL noon the older son, John, 15 years or age, came to his dinner. Soon after the youngest of the family, Florence, l1..T ll years % or age, came home from left the house. The little girl was still at the table in the dining room, which Is Tn the basement, when her mother went up stairs at 12:3O
 She made no comment when she left the room but moment later the re- rorI or pistol shot was heard from the floor above. The child in terror .ilI , not wait to make an investigation out ran next door and notified Mrs Bray who lives in the south half of the house occupied by the Noonans. Mrs Bray Imm mediately spread the alarm and sent for Rev. Father fudge or the sacred Heart church and for. the siinou,ance.
 The child was the only member of the family in the house at the time. Mrs. Noonan had taken a .32 calffore revolver from her husbands desk in the front room of the second floor. She had returned to her bed room and while lying on the bed placed the mug gle of the revolver against her left terrified child ran to the Warner Brothers shop and notified her fath- CT. He returned to the house i1nme- diate1y- The ambulance had already arrived. DrS. KrauSe and Ives were in attendance. They found Mrs. Noo- nan lying on the bed which was soak ed with blood. She was breathing heavily but perfectly rational. Father Judge was administering the last rites of the church.
 She made no statements to the doe tors but was rushed to St. Vincent's hospital by the driver of the ambu- T ually failed and the woman was un- conscious when she was taken into the hospital.
 At one o'clock when d Farmer re- porter called at the house only the lit tie daughter Florence was present The father had been called to the factory The child is a pretty miss of 12 years of age.
 after paying visit to her brother John Broadbin at Ogden and Hallett streets. walked south on East Main street until car could overtake her When quite ways down East Main street a number of young roughs set upon her, and dragging her for two blocks along East Main street to Evitt's Lane where they attempted to outrage her.
 Becoming hysterical she screamed and to stop her cries the young thugs beat her until she became unconscious At this point people hearing her cries came to her rescue but the thugs got away. Several arrests followed but all ,of the suspects were released because of lack of evidence except Michael Romano who was sentenced a few weeks ago in the Criminal Superior Court by Judge Walsh to four months in jail.
 Her eyes were full of a wistful sad ress as she talked to the reporter. She showed an intelligence far beyond her years. She told the story with bated breath. Her mother had been lyins on the bed when she came home but had risen and helped the child get the dinner on the table for herself and her krotber- The child had not noticed that her mother had suffered from melancholy. She said: tI did not mo- tice anything wrong with Mama only that she was not feeling well and had been lying down. She never had any quarrel with Papa, and we cannot un- derstand how she happened to do such a thing. She was cheerful but did not say much to anybody while I was here. The pistol belonged to Papa. He is a special policeman and he kept it in his desk in the front room. did not krow what had happened when heard the shot. I was afraid to go up stairs and went next door and told the neiehbors. We have had no troil- hle in the house that I know of. Papa was always good to all of us.''
 At 3:15 thls afternoon it was said at the hospital that Mrs. Noonan had re- covered consciousness and that there was a chance that she might recover.