"As to the statement that during Terry's trouble with the
Sharon case, I offered Terry the use of Field's letter, it
results from what I have above stated--that it is a vile
falsehood, whoever may be responsible for it.
"I had no such letter, and consequently could have made no
such offer.
"San Francisco, August 21, 1889.
"S. HEYDENFELDT."
Judge Heydenfeldt subsequently addressed the following letter to Judge
Field:
"SAN FRANCISCO, _August 31, 1889_.
"MY DEAR JUDGE: I received yours of yesterday with the extract
from the Washington _Post_ of the 22d inst., containing a
copy of a letter from the late Judge Terry to the Hon. Zack
Montgomery.
"The statement in that letter of a conversation between
Terry and myself in reference to you is untrue. The only
conversation Terry and I ever had in relation to you was, as
heretofore stated, in regard to a request from you to me to
get from Terry his version of the Terry-Broderick duel, to be
used in your intended reminiscences.
"I do not see how Terry could have made such an erroneous
statement, unless, possibly, he deemed that application as
an advance made by you towards obtaining his political
friendship, and upon that built up a theory, which he moulded
into the fancy written by him in the Montgomery letter.
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