The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-09-11
PULLED A JUDGES HAIR
SARAH ALTHEA HILL-TERRY's EN-
NIFTY SHOWN.

The Habeas Corpus Case OF Deputy Mar
shall Magic Brings Out Some Testimony
Not at All Favorable to the Peaceabis
Character of David Terry.
San Francisco Cali dispatch: The
taking Of testimony in the habeas corpus
proceedings in the case OF Deputy Marshal
David Nagle, who shot and killed David
Terry at Lathrop recently, was com
menced in the United States Circuit court
before Judge Sawyer Tuesday. The coun-
sci for the defens, in opening tn Q case
made a long statement Of the circumstances.
which led TO the killing OF Judge Terry,
and gave a synopsis OF what the defense
proposed TO prove by witnesses who were
10 be examined. He said il would be
proved that the life OF Justice Field had
been threatened long prior to the assault.
in the dining saloon at Lathrop, and that.
Nage in shooting Terry had every reason
70 believe that unless he did so these threats
would he carried out. In acting as he did
it would be shown that he merely did his
duty as a sworn officer Of the law.
Witnesses were then called who recited
the details ofsthe attack made upon Judge
Sawyer by Mrs. Terry on the train be-
over a year ago. Judge Van Dyke OF
Los Angeles testified that he was pas
senger in the same car with Judge Saw
yer, and that David Terry and his wife
entered the car at Fresno. Soon after the
train started Mrs. Terry arose and passed
up the car, glaring at Judge Sawyer as
she passed him, and then returned to her
seat. A few minutes later Judge Terry
arose and took IA seat at the forward end
of the car, facing Judge Sawyer. Mrs.
Terry then Joined him, and as she passed
Judge sawyer she reached over nd pulled
his hair. She afterward took a seat
behind Judge Sawyer, and the witness
thought she intended TO attack him with
her parasol, but in a few moments she
Joined her husband and no further trouble
occurred.
w. NJ. Coles Of this city, who was also a
passenger on the car, corroborated Judge
Van Dykes account OF the affair. and said
that after Mrs. Terry made the attack she
j ined her husband in a seat near him and
related what had occurred with great
deal Of glee, at which Judge Terry
laughed. The witness heard Mrs. Terry
say II will give him a taste of what he Is
to get hereafter; let him render that deci-
sion if he dares. J." He heard Judge Terry
say that the only thing fit to do with
Judge Sawyer would be to take him out in
the bay and drown him.
Marshal Franks was then called and re-
lated the incident in the Circuit court
room last September when Mrs. Terry in
terrupted the reading of Justice Fields
decision. He said that he attempted to
remove her from the room, when she made
a violent attack upon him and Judge Terry
interfered and drew knife. A pistol was
afterwards taken from Mrs. TerrY's
sachel. The marshal fur Their stated that
when he presented to Terry the order COM
uniting him and his wife to Jail both be-
came very abusive and Terry said:
when get out of Jail and Judge Field
returns to California I will meet him and
it will not be very pleasant meeting for
him.
A number Of other witnesses also testi-
fed asto the affair in the COURTROOM.
Deputy Sheriff Woolsey, who had charge
of the Alameda county jail while Terry
and his wife were confined there, testified
that he often conversed with Terry and
the latter told him that he always carried
a knife. He called the judges and mar
shall "curs" and said he would yet live TO
see them in their graves. He was very
abusive of Judge Field.
An Oakland newspaper reporter testi-
fed that Mrs. Terry had once told him
that she would probably kin Judge Field
some day.