I will shoot him yet; that
very man sitting there. To think that he would put up a woman
to come here and deliberately lie about me like that. I will
shoot him. They know when I say I will do it that I will do
it. I shall shoot him as sure as you live; that man that is
sitting right there. And I shall have that woman Mrs. Smith
arrested for this, and make her prove it."
And again:
"I can hit a four-bit piece nine times out of ten."
The examiner said that pending the examination of one of the witnesses,
on the occasion mentioned, the respondent drew a pistol from her
satchel, and held it in her right hand; the hand resting for a moment
upon the table, with the weapon pointed in the direction of Judge
Evans. He also stated that on previous occasions she had brought to
the examiner's room during examinations a pistol, and had sat for some
length of time holding it in her hand, to the knowledge of all persons
present at the time. After the reading of the examiner's report in
open court, Justice Field said:
"In the case of William Sharon versus Sarah Althea Hill, the
Examiner in Chancery appointed by the court to take the
testimony has reported to the court that very disorderly
proceedings took place before him on the 3d instant; that at
that day, in his room, when counsel of the parties and the
defendant were present, and during the examination of a
witness by the name of Piper, the defendant became very much
excited, and threatened to take the life of one of the
counsel, and that subsequently she drew a pistol and declared
her intention to carry her threat into effect.
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