David S. Terry

and said, you know, we can't allow this to keep happening.

And so in the fall of 1859, you know, just as everything's beginning to fall apart nationally, a month before John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, David Broderick is gunned down in a duel involving a pro-slavery state Supreme Court justice named David Terry And he eventually, Broderick dies, and this leaves California wide open to go with the South.

Subsequently, Californians would pass an amendment, pass a law that California would be divided in two.

to create a Southern California that would become slave.

This guy's dangerous.

And so in just in the September of 1859, a month before John Brown's raid on Harper's Ferry, David Broderick is gunned down in a duel by a California State Supreme Court Justice, originally from Texas, the pro-slavery Justice David Terry, leaving California wide open, it seems, as America is splitting apart to go with the South.

And at this point, California is sending three to four million dollars of precious metals East.

And so that's a tremendous amount of money back then.

I didn't even know that name.

Anti-slavery California Democrat who was challenged by California Chief Justice David Terry after he insulted him during a bitter political feud.

So the two met near San Francisco on September 13, 1859.

And Broderick, the senator, his pistol discharged prematurely, and Terry shot him in the chest.

Now, Neagle's there for one reason, and one reason only: that's his security.

That's, that's the justice's security detail, and his only job is to keep the justice alive, because somewhere on that same train is a guy named David Terry.

Terry had been Chief Justice of the California Supreme Court.

Years earlier, he had killed a sitting [laughs] United States senator, David Broderick, in a duel, and a year before this morning, Justice Field had thrown Terry in jail for six months for contempt after getting into a brawl in Field's own courtroom.

She turns and runs back to the train for her satchel.

She kept a gun in the satchel.

David Terry walks up behind the Justice of the Supreme Court, slaps him across the face twice.

Neagle comes up out of his chair.

By the summer of 1859, the Southerners in California are so angry at what Broderick is attempting to do in the Senate that basically there's the hit put on him.

And in September of 1859, just a month before John Brown raids on Harper's Ferry, a state Supreme Court justice, originally from Texas... named David Terry, challenges David Broderick to a duel.

And just outside the city limits of San Francisco, they fight a duel in which Broderick is killed.

And this is, you know, just then comes John Brown.

Another historic building repeatedly singled out for ghostly visitations was the Leonidas Haskell residence with its vines and porches in what is now Fort Mason on Black Point.

Here Senator David C. Broderick died three days after a pistol duel with the stormy Judge David Terry on the desolate shores of Lake Merced in 1859.

Mr. Broderick had little heart for the duel, but pride forced him to accede.

The frame house to which his seconds carried him mortally wounded him in the chest and was also occupied by General John C. Freeman at one time still stands today.