[1] It has been conclusively established since that he was armed
    with his usual bowie-knife at the time.

[2] NOTE.—­Whilst there was a general concurrence of opinion as to
    the threats of Terry and of the fate he met at the hands of
    Neagle and of the bearing of Justice Field through all the
    proceedings, there were exceptions to this judgment.  There
    were persons who sympathized with Terry and his associates and
    grieved at his fate, although he had openly avowed his
    intention not merely to insult judicial officers for their
    judicial conduct, but to kill them in case they resented the
    insult offered.  He married Sarah Althea Hill after the United
    States Circuit Court had delivered its opinion, in open court,
    announcing its decision that she had committed forgery,
    perjury, and subornation of perjury, and was a woman of
    abandoned character.  And yet a writer in the Overland
    Monthly in October, 1889, attributes his assault upon the
    marshal—­striking him violently in the face for the execution
    of the order of the court to remove her from the court-room
    because of her gross imputation upon the judges—­chiefly to
    his chivalric spirit to protect his wife, and declares that
    “the universal verdict” upon him “will be that he was
    possessed of sterling integrity of purpose, and stood out
    from the rest of his race as a strongly individualized
    character, which has been well called an anachronism in our
    civilization.”  And Governor Pennoyer, of Oregon, in his
    message to the legislature of that State, pronounced the
    officer appointed by the marshal under the direction of the
    Attorney-General to protect Justices Field and Sawyer from
    threatened violence and murder as a “secret armed assassin,”
    who accompanied a Federal judge in California, and who shot
    down in cold blood an unarmed citizen of that State.

CHAPTER XX.

THE APPEAL TO THE SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES, AND THE SECOND
TRIAL OF SARAH ALTHEA’S DIVORCE CASE.

With the discharge from arrest of the brave deputy marshal, Neagle, who had stood between Justice Field and the would-be assassin’s assault, and the vindication by the Circuit Court of the right of the general government to protect its officers from personal violence, for the discharge of their duties, at the hands of disappointed litigants, the public mind, which had been greatly excited by the proceedings narrated, became quieted.  No apprehension was felt that there would be any reversal of the decision of the Circuit Court on the appeal which was taken