"Your petitioner further states that it is to him incomprehensible
how any man, acting in a consideration of duty, could have listened
one moment to charges from such a source, and without having sought
some confirmation from disinterested witnesses; and your petitioner
believes and charges that the whole object of the proceeding is to
subject your petitioner to the humiliation of arrest and confinement
at Stockton, where the said Sarah Althea Terry may be able, by the
aid of partisans of hers, to carry out her long-continued and
repeated threats of personal violence upon your petitioner, and to
prevent your petitioner from discharging the duties of his office in
cases pending against her in the federal court at San Francisco."
The sheriff's return was as follows:
"Return of sheriff of San Joaquin county, Cala., County of San
Joaquin, State of California:
"SHERIFF'S OFFICE.
"_To the Honorable Circuit Court of the United States for the
Northern District of California:_
"I hereby certify and return that before the coming to me of
the hereto-annexed writ of _habeas corpus_, the said Stephen
J. Field was committed to my custody, and is detained by me
by virtue of a warrant issued out of the justice's court of
Stockton township, State of California, county of San Joaquin,
and by the endorsement made upon said warrant.
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