The evening world., 1889-08-15
TERRY's REMARKABLE CAREER.
His Fatal Duel with Broderick and Part
in the mn Sharon Case.

Ss'
in the Hill Sharon Case.
Two events il the remarkable career Of the
man who encountered a violent death in Cali
fornia yesterday stand out prominently in his
history-the Broderick duel and his con-
nection with. the celebrated Sharon Hill
litigation. With one exception, the Burr
Hamilton dnel. probably no hostile meet
ing on the field of honor in this coun-
try created more excitement, or was more
bl cody, than that in 1855 between Judge Terry
and d. C. Broderick. of California, who had
gone there from this city ten years before. At
one time Broderick was a fireman in this city.
The affair grew out of a political controversy.
Broderick was at that time United States sena-
tor from California, while Terry was Chief
Justice of the supreme Court of that State. In
this lamentable and tragic case the Challen &c
proceeded from Judge Terry, who, oil the 18th
of September, 1850, addressed a letter to Sena-
tor BrOdcrick demanding q retraction of certain
uncomplImentarv and insulting remarks which
he had made concerning Terry. Senator Brod-
eIick refu, ed to %retract. and the result was an
agreement for q hostile meeting with pistols at
ten PAGES.
The meeting OF the two men took place az ap-
pointed on Monday, Sept. IL. 1859, at 5.3O
o'clock in the morning but the police interfered
and arrested the principals. The next morn
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San Francisco unknown to the police. Terry
WAS seconded by Calhoun Benham and Thomas
Hayes, while Broderick was seconded by Joseph
McKibben. member Of Cons ress from Califor-
MA. There were about seventy people OIL the
battle-ground. including the principals. One
Of the seconds notified the c3mbatants to take
their relative positions. The distance was
marked and appeared to an observer murder
onsly close. More than one man present de.
man to shoot at each other at so short n dis
lance, ten PAGES. The principals, however,
took their positions.
two mcn at that moment revealed i'll q sinking
manner their individual characteristics. Judge
darby SalIow and his whole appearance betrayed
that of \ man without fear and regardless OF the
ton. Senator Brodcrick could not have been
distinguished by a stranger as a principal; He
held earnest conVersatlon, with q Trend and
womb occasionally turn and scar, the crowd and
rest his eye upon some recognized countenance.
HIS whole bearing was that OF a man who Was
about to meet a great issue and was hrmly pre-
pared for II.
The two oombatSgts, being diyosted Of their
TrIhe re o"tor %ers sT SU11 20 '1 IKE " v ySr,lGS, p snd Mr
Of Judge Terry. senator Broderick, on being
intervals measured, with his eye the ground be-
tween himself and his adyerssry. A. length he
'i BctWcen The wo%ds "fFiree, one. TWO" both
parties shot. Broderick fired first and AT about
the last enumeration required 10 convey the word
upon when Terry fired. The senator shot was
spent on the ground four or five feet IN advance
of his right toe. Judge Tcrry's took effect III
the senator's right breast above the nipple. 1t
was plain that the SeuAtor's, pistol wa ,prema-
tureIy discharged before he had lime 20 brinGit
~ n level. He was not accustomed to the hair
trigger and his nervousness cost him his life,
Immediately upon receiving his antagonists
fire BrOleriCk raised his right arm, still grasp
ing the pistol. II was the, impression that he
had been shot in the shoulder. The leaden mes
scnger. however, had gone 10 a more vital part.
After cndeavoIing to resist the pressure that
was bearing him down his head dropned to a
Tecumbent position over his rial shoulder and
the senator fell to the earth. still holding his
pistol, though MORALLY wounded.
Judge Terry maintained his position, keeping
his eye constantly in the direction OF the fallen
man. In o few moments, upon being told that
his antaEoni-t could not rise, he left the field,
Beach. where he took a boat, went to Oakland
and, after going to several places, went over
land to Sacramento.
The dylnR senator was taken TO the house of
his friend. Lconidas Haskell. where he expired
Sept. Is, having received before his death the
last rites Of the Roman Catholic Church. His
funeral was one of the largest ever seen on the
Pacific coast. His remains lay in state and
were viewed by an immense multitude. He was
a very popular man, and his death caused Renu-
inc sorrow, An eloquent funeral Grafton was
pronounced by Col. Il. u. Baker.
Terry wRK subsequently arrested, but though
q CorOner's verdict declared him guilty of muir
der he managed TO slip through the meSllcs of
the law unpunirhed. .
The other prominent episode in the history of
Sharon Hill case. From the beginning of the
famous litigation Terry had acted as Miss Hiln
In the great legal battle she was engaged in