[2] He was also a saloon owner, miner and deputy town marshal in Tombstone, Arizona Territory shortly after the Gunfight at the OK Corral.

[2] San Francisco was the financial center through which the wealth of the California Gold Rush and the Comstock Lode passed.

[5] Outside the Midnight Star Saloon in Pioche on the evening of May 30, 1871, Neagle's friend Mike Casey and Tom Gasson had a heated argument.

"[5][6] In 1874 Neagle learned of a promising silver and copper find in Panamint, California, near Death Valley, and was one of the first to arrive in the newly founded boom town.

It grew into an elaborate frame building with a black walnut bar, fixtures valued at $10,000, a billiard table, paintings of nude women, and two gambling rooms.

To protect customers from stray bullets in the untamed town, he reinforced the walls of his saloon with sheets of corrugated iron.

[11] Neagle returned to Virginia City, where his sister Mary lived with her husband Jim Kelley and son Tom, and opened a saloon named The Capital.

After about six months he took his family and was soon employed as a mine foreman while working a gold claim of his own near Prescott, Arizona Territory.

John Behan, who he knew from his time in Prescott three years prior, arrived with his young son Albert on September 14, 1880.

But he was hired by Behan as a Pima County deputy sheriff and pursued stage robbers and stock rustlers, one time alongside Wyatt and Morgan Earp.

Four months later, he and one of his new deputies Joe Poynton attempted to quell a group of Mexicans celebrating Cinco de Mayo by shooting their weapons on the air.

Neagle was careful in choosing his friends, and never became closely allied with the loose confederation of outlaws known as the Cochise County Cowboys.

Fred Dodge described Neagle as a "square man [who] could not tolerate the work of Johnny Behan and there was a sure and final break between the two."

Neagle, disenchanted by the Democratic back room dealing, was on the ballot on November 15, 1882, for Cochise County sheriff as an independent, but lost to Republican Jerome L.

Terry was a big man, known for his physical strength and for his skill with the Bowie knife he routinely carried in a sheath under his coat.

She attracted the attention of 60-year-old widower and millionaire William Sharon, president of the Bank of California and owner of the Palace Hotel and of other properties.

After the court hearing, Judge Sawyer encountered the Terrys on a train between Fresno and San Francisco on August 14, 1888.

Terry then made a remark about too many witnesses being in the railroad car, adding that the best thing to do with him [Judge Sawyer] would be to take him out into the bay, and drown him.

When Marshal John Franks and others attempted to escort her from the courtroom, attorney Terry rose to defend his wife and drew his Bowie knife.

Both David and Althea were indicted by a federal grand jury on criminal charges arising out of their behavior in the courtroom before Justice Field.

In May 1889, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to review the order that invalidated Althea Terry's marriage contract with Senator Sharon.

In 1886 and 1888, Franks had appointed Neagle a special deputy to supervise congressional election returns in a rough precinct of San Francisco.

[20][27] It is due to the dignity and independence of the court, and the character of its judge, that no effort on the part of the government shall be spared to make them feel entirely safe and free from anxiety in the discharge of their high duties.

The account in the San Francisco Chronicle the next day reported that Terry slapped Field on the cheek with great force from behind.

Neagle provided a document issued by the U.S. Attorney General appointing him as a special Marshal to protect Field.

The United States Attorney in San Francisco filed a writ of habeas corpus for Neagle's release.

As he stood over him with clenched fists, as though about to strike him, or apparently to fall upon him in the excitement and anger, I sprang up and forward, and with my right hand grasped him by the coat, while I drew my revolver with my left.

On March 2, 1892, she was found insane and committed at age 41 to the California Asylum at Stockton, where she lived for 45 years until her death.

[35][36] After his defense of Justice Field, Neagle found himself in demand as a bodyguard for high officials, including H. E. Huntington of the Southern Pacific.

According to James H. Barry, the editor of the San Francisco Star, Neagle grabbed Collins "from behind, seized him by the throat and threw him into the street."