New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-08-15

outbursts of grief. Constable Walker, OF
Lathrop, arrived on the scene shortly after the
Shooting
- Are you constable?o demanded Mrs. Terry.
Yes" was the answer.
Then arrest that man. Arrest Judge Field.
He was the cause of it. Arrest him as accessory
to the murder Of my husband" -,
Walker boarded the train just as it was pulling
out and Immediately placed Nage under arrest,
but, in order to avoid excitement went with ms
prisoner on the train as far south as Tracy. lie
then procured carriage and drove with Nagle
TO Stockton, putting his prisoner In the county jar
Nagle was very quiet and self-possessed lie de,
clined to talk Of the affair He readily yielded
up his pistol to Constable Walker. The weapon
was "A large 44-calibre Colts revolver.
When Walker returned to Iathrop, he was
asked by Mrs. Terry if he had arrested Judge
Field lie replied:
NO. have no authority to arrest him"
ordered you TO arrest him. shrieked MIS-.
Terry. lie was to blame. That other fellow
was only his tool. You have arrested the SER
want and allowed the master to go free
She indulged in loud lamentation, but presently
recovered herself and asked:
Did you search Field for o weapons"
NO" replied the constable. ~
why didn't you? | told you to. lie was
armed and would have shot my husband. Besides
you want Field as a witness .,.
But Mrs. Terry said that she knew better,
that San Francisco officers would do nothing with
Judge Field
The best story of the shooting told by an eye
witness was related by George Lidgerwood,
commercial traveller representing Warner Brothers
of No. 359 Broadway, New-York. He SAT- close
beside Judge Field. He said:
" / had hardly taken my seat when l heard
slight shutting noise behind me and the4 tle
sound Of a slap, rs IF with the open hand. Look
ing over my shoulder saw Judge Terry standing
n pace s, behind Judge Field, with his Ist
raised in the act of striking a blow with all his
strength At tho same instant, Nagle sprang 10
his feet and put his left hand toward Terry,
saying: Hold on Stop that Almost instantly,
as Terry showed no sign of dcSisting, Nagle drew
never saw anything done so quickly. IL was all
over in flash the two shots sounding as though
delivered simultaneously. Terry must have been
killed instantly, for instead of falling az fuli
length he simply sank 70 the floor, his legs
doubling up under him. He died without a word
straightcned ont his limbs as he lay there.
"The room waS in confusion at once. Many OF
ths passengers did not wait to see what had nap
pened but left the tables and ran for the cars
Others gathered about the dead man, and in
the midst of the confusion Mrs. Terry came running
In. She fell on her knees at the side Of her
husbands body, crying and caressing his face
She looked at me, and seeing by an emblem that
! wore / was a Mason, she claimed assistance
from me on the ground that her father was
Mason
&" oh search his clothes and see If he had
weapons! | took his pistol away myself, before
he came in here
She rushed back to the car in which Justice
Field had taken refuge, and which was locked and
guarded. and beat upon the doors until her fingers
were bleeding. calling out for vengeance. In
the intervals Of her shouts for vengeance, she
ton TO assault Justice Field. for she said she had
taken his weapons away beforehand in ordec that
he would be compelled to use his fists only, and
thus avoid bloodshed."