ASSASSINATION OF JUSTICE FIELD BY A FORMER ASSOCIATE ON
THE STATE SUPREME BENCH

CHAPTER I The Sharon-Hill-Terry Litigation.

CHAPTER II Proceedings in the Superior Court of the State.

CHAPTER III Proceedings in the United States Circuit Court.

[Transcriber's note: there is no Chapter IV]

CHAPTER V Decision of the Case in the Federal Court.

CHAPTER VI The Marriage of Terry and Miss Hill.

CHAPTER VII The Bill of Revivor.

CHAPTER VIII The Terrys Imprisoned for Contempt.

CHAPTER IX Terry's Petition to the Circuit Court for a
Release--Its Refusal--He Appeals to the Supreme
Court--Unanimous Decision against Him there.

CHAPTER X President Cleveland refuses to Pardon Terry--False
Statements of Terry Refuted.

CHAPTER XI Terry's continued Threats to Kill Justice Field--Return
of the Latter to California in 1889.

CHAPTER XII Further Proceedings in the State Court.--Judge
Sullivan's Decision Reversed.

CHAPTER XIII Attempted Assassination of Justice Field, Resulting in
Terry's own Death at the Hands of a Deputy United
States Marshal.

CHAPTER XIV Sarah Althea Terry Charges Justice Field and Deputy
Marshal Neagle with Murder.

CHAPTER XV Justice Field's Arrest and Petition for Release on
Habeas Corpus.

CHAPTER XVI Judge Terry's Funeral--Refusal of the Supreme Court
of California to Adjourn on the Occasion.

CHAPTER XVII Habeas Corpus Proceedings in Justice Field's Case.

CHAPTER XVIII Habeas Corpus Proceedings in Neagle's Case.

CHAPTER XIX Expressions of Public Opinion.

CHAPTER XX The Appeal to the Supreme Court of the United States,
and the Second Trial of Sarah Althea's Divorce Case.

CHAPTER XXI Concluding Observations.

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WHY AND HOW I CAME TO CALIFORNIA.

Some months previous to the Mexican War, my brother David Dudley
Field, of New York City, wrote two articles for the Democratic Review
upon the subject of the Northwestern Boundary between the territory of
the United States and the British Possessions. One of these appeared
in the June, and the other in the November number of the