The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1889-08-24
David .. Terry shot Dead

The sensation of the past week has
been the shooting and killing OF
David S. Terry at Latrop, California,
on the 14th instant by Deputy U. S.
Marshal Maggie, while in the act Of
assaulting Justice Field of the United
States Supreme Court. The particu-
lars of tie affair are best told in Judge
Fields own words to a reporter:
L can tell you the story in few
words. For the past few months all
manner of reports, both public and
personal, have reached me that Judge
Terry had threatened to submit me
TO some form of indigaity should he
happen to meet me. This fact caused
the United States Marshal to privide
such protection as he could during my
stay in this State. When | started for
Los Angeles to hold Court Deputy
Maggie accompanied me. He seemed
to be quiet, gentlemanly official,
though | only met him twice while
away from Los Angeles. He asked
me in that city when | intended to
return, and accompanied me, taking a
seat in the sleeping car opposite me.
We heard this morning that Judge
Terry and his wife were on the train,
but paid no attention to the fact.
When We arrived at Lsthrop We enter
cd the eating station to get breakfast.
| took seat ut the end of the table,
while Maggie sat on one side of me.
Terry and his wife came in soon after.
As soon as she saw me she went out
of the room, as | afterwards learned,
returning tn the car for her satchel.
Judge Terry also arose and said he
intended accompanying her. Instead
of doing so he walked back of me
and struck me a slap in the face. |
WAS completely astonished and saw he
was making ready to strike again.
Maggie cried out, stop, stopr but
Terry did not desist, and. as he was
RAISING bis arm the second time, Nagle
shot at hin, the bullet entering his
heart. He fell to the floor, Nagle
shooting the second time, but the
second shot did not strike him.
Deputy Maggie vas arrested at Tracy
station aud taken to Stockton to await
the result of the inquest. This is
complete story, SO far as l am aware
of the facts" said Justice Field at
the conclusion"
Very little public sympathy should
be wasted over the death of Judge
Terry. All his life he seems to have
courted trouble, and was in the act of
an unprovoked assault upon one of
the highest judicial officers of the ma
ton when he was shot down. He
was bully himself and be met his
death as such men usually do at the
hands of one of their kind. Opinions
differ" says the Silver, regarding the
action of Maggie, who it appears was
detailed to protect Judge Field by
order of the Attorney General of the
United States. Maggie seems to have
been as much of a bully and desper-
ado as Judge Terry ever was. He is
asid to have killed two or three men 10
Southern California and Arizona and
the only excuse that can be given for
his conduct at Lathrop is the bad rep
utation of the man he killed. No
person in the United States has au-
thority to commission a deperado to
accompany the President, Justice OF
the Supreme Court ,r any other Off
cial and be his own judge OF what the
provocation for killing shall be. That
j Justice Field would have been justi-
fed, in view of tho relations existing
between them, in killing Terry, will
hardly be questioned, but that Maggie,
who could have protected Judge
Field without killing Terry, was JUS
lnattitied in doing what he did, is
matter on which people widely differ
DR.. J. Milton Bowers, who, in the