Mrs. Terry said that she would kill both Judges Field and Sawyer, and repeated the threat several times.  While the prisoners were being taken to jail, Mrs. Terry said to her husband, referring to Judge Sawyer:  “I wooled him good on the train coming from Los Angeles.  He has never told that.”  To which he replied:  “He will not tell that; that was too good.”

She said she could have shot Judge Field and killed him from where she stood in the court-room, but that she was not ready then to kill the old villain; she wanted him to live longer.  While crossing the ferry to Oakland she said, “I could have killed Judges Field and Sawyer; I could shoot either one of them, and you would not find a judge or a jury in the State would convict me.”  She repeated this, and Terry answered, saying:  “No, you could not find a jury that would convict any one for killing the old villain,” referring to Judge Field.

The jailer at Alameda testified that one day Mrs. Terry showed him the sheath of her husband’s knife, saying:  “That is the sheath of that big bowie-knife that the Judge drew.  Don’t you think it is a large knife?” Judge Terry was present, and laughed and said:  “Yes; I always carry that,” meaning the knife.

To J.H.  O’Brien, a well-known citizen, Judge Terry said that “after he got out of jail he would horsewhip Judge Field.  He said he did not think he would ever return to California, but this earth was not large enough to keep him from finding Judge Field, and horsewhipping him,” and said, “if he resents it I will kill him.”

To a newspaper writer, Thomas T. Williams, he said:  “Judge Field would not dare to come out to the Pacific Coast, and he would have a settlement with him if he did come.”

J.M.  Shannon, a friend of Terry’s for thirty years, testified that while the Terrys were in jail he called there with Mr. Wigginton, formerly a member of Congress from California; that during the call Mrs. Terry said something to her husband to the effect that they could not do anything at all in regard to it.  He said:  “Yes, we can.”  She asked what they could do.  He said:  “I can kill old Sawyer, damn him.  I will kill old Sawyer, and then the President will have to appoint some one in his place.”  In saying this “he brought his fist down hard and seemed to be mad.”

Ex-Congressman Wigginton also testified concerning this visit to Terry.  It occurred soon after the commitment.  He went to arrange about some case in which he and Terry were counsel on opposite sides.  He told Terry of a rumor that there was some old grudge or difference between him and Judge Field.  Terry said there was none he knew of.  He said: