"I was near Novotny when the sheriff threatened him with the revolver, and I tried to free him from the sheriff's hands, in which I succeeded. The sheriff then caught my coat with one hand and with the other pointed his revolver at my forehead. He did not shoot at me, and I think his pistol was not loaded, for it seemed to me that he snapped it. When he caught me the firing had already begun. I attribute my escape, although I was in the front row, to the fact that my body was protected by that of the sheriff.  I think I heard the sheriff call to the deputies, 'Give two or three shots' [English]. At first I thought that the deputies were firing blank cartridges, but when I saw my companions fall wounded to the ground I realized the seriousness of the situation, tore myself from the hands of the sheriff, and ran to a ditch not far away, in which I lay down flat." 

- George Jancso, testimony in court

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