Show DAVID NAGLE before judge terry slapped justice fields face that day he ought to have thought a bit about the quiet looking man who was sitting by the j justice j justices ices side such men as david nagle are unpleasant to have around if one wants to do ant anything thing of that sort A glimpse at N agles record is interesting as showing the kind of men that the emergencies of the west have turned out david nagle is known throughout the coast as the terror of desperadoes a lightning hot shot s with the pistol and a man who never yet allowed an antagonist to get the drop on him he was raised in san francisco but early in the seventies he went to arizona having beer attracted there by the mining excitement he went into the contracting business and took several large contracts to sink shafts in mines he was of a quiet ulet unassuming disposition but desperadoes desperadoes whom he came in contact with soon learned that he was a man who knew his rights and would not allow any one to trample on him he opened a saloon at tombstone and was soon doing well in a short time he be became a great favorite with the law abiding citizens of that bohomill booming town and in 1881 he hecei received an appointment as chief of police while occupying that trying position he had frequent encounters with the criminal element and by his fearless behavior he soon earned for himself the reputation of being a man of undisputed courage while lie he was serving servi ng as chief of police at tombstone a drunken mexican desperado entered the town and began to enliven things by shooting at the people on every side he defied arrest and vowed that the first man that tried to arrest him would woul d he shot down in his tracks joe poynton who was serving under nagle tried to take him into custody and was shot through the groin As soon as nagle heard poynton had bad been wounded lie armed himself and started in pur suit of the shooter he soon found him and ordered him to surrender E 1 the only reply he received wasa was a shot from the des desperadoes rado rados s revolver the bullet lucki luckily did not take effect and nagle returned the fire the mexican finally realizing that he had a determined man to deal with took to co his horse and tried to escape As he rode away he fired several shots at nagle and f with defiant yells dared him to follow nagle revolver in hand gave chase to the escaping felon and yelled for some one to get him a r rifle the mexican beadel for the rocky portion of the mountain and C when nagle was handed a rifle he S called on him to halt the mexican again opened fire on him and nagle y used the rifle he fired but one shot and the mexican dropped back dead with a bullet through his brain nagle was exonerated bythe by the coroners jury and although the friends of the dead man threat r ened to run him out of town they thought better of the matter and did not molest him at the following election nagle ran rain for sheriff and was defeated by a few votes he soon after left tomb stone and went to butte M T but did not remain there long he returned to san francisco in 1883 and during the cleveland campaign the following year he was found as an earnest party worker in the democratic ranks when sheriff hopkins took office in january 1885 nagle was appointed deputy sheriff and served during the administration he next went into the license collectors office he was then made a deputy to the united states marshals office terry had met nagle before the fatal encounter in the stockton breakfast room when the fire eat ing judge made his asnault on marshal franks in september 1888 he was quickly and skillfully fully disarmed by a quiet looking bystander the quiet looking bystander was david nagle nagle was detailed to guard justice field by order of attorney general miller when it was learned that terry and his wife made th threats reate against justice fields life it he ever ventured to cross the california boundary again ez ex |