Complex sentence: Judge Terry travelled from Sacramento to San Francisco to negotiate, where he was kidnapped by armed gunmen, but he managed to stab one, Sterling A. Hopkins, a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, who was not tried.
Split into simpler sentences: Judge Terry travelled from Sacramento to San Francisco to negotiate, where he was kidnapped by armed gunmen. He managed to stab one, Sterling A. Hopkins, a member of the San Francisco Committee of Vigilance, who was not tried.