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dose, Tyler gave a gasp, and, turning to the

Jose, Tyler gave gasp, and, turning to the
judge, exclaimed:
Your honor, there is something in the
seek" This startling announcement brought
every man to his feet and while the judge.
lawyers and porters crowded breathlessly
around Sarah Althea Hill stood excitedly de-
handing the sock to be watched. and impioring
her lawyers to prevent anything being put in
its toe!
queer scene-a venerable ex-judge con-
tinuously inserting his hand in an old sock, 30
rotten as to be in danger Of dissolution at the
slightest shock. and surrounding him on all
sides, lawyers, judges. shorthand writer's. all
awaiting the result with the intentness Napo-
leon might be supposed to have awaited the
result OF Waterloo. And what was the RESULT
Simply small cross worked in hair Hair
crosses are usually quiet innocent affairs but
this was evidently an exception. for it was
carefully put under seal and the excitement
attendant upon its discovery has not yet
entirely subsidized.
sHARoN's QUEER STORIES.
Senator Sharon has been on the stand during
the week. To put it mildly he tells some
queer things. When being examined as to his
first meeting with Miss Hill he was asked:
"Who spoke first?' II don't know"
"WhO spoke neXt?" 81 don't know"
''Well,. what did you ssy?' II said 'umph.' :"
"And what did she say:" =" 'umph.'"
II submit to your honor" said Tyler, turning
to tic judge, that this was q most remarkable
when they did speak. where all that was said by
either was an 'umph' and 'grunt,' but Sharon
only smiled and refused to remember what was
said
Sharon has thin. wiry voice. with no more
music in 1T than in tin whistle, but this did
not prevent the question::
Were you not accustomed to sing to Miss
Hill?"
mo sir"
what. did you not sing to her Maid of
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''Well. may have hummed it to her."
Miss Hill. as stated is a young. handsome
woman. but it was not known until Sharon's
now famous "transOm" story, that she is also
an acrobat of considerable agility. The tram
SONS over the doors in the Palace hotel are only
two feet wide and eight or ten feet above the
floor Sharon declared that Miss Hill used to
climb into his room through the transoms.
did she come In head foremost or feet fore
most?"
We'll. was always in bed, but could hear
her tall, and think she came in head first
THE DEAR wIFE's' DEMURENEss
Miss Hill has q large stack of letters from
Sharon, many of them beginning 'my dear
WIFE," All but the "dear wife, is admitted
genuine; to prove that forgery experts have
been spying with their glasses for the last ninety
days. They have, however, not yet come to an
agreement on the subject.
There are some very tough things said about
Sharon and according to his own confession he
is pretty gay Lothario for his age. One of the
best known men on this coast, recent United
States Senator. father-in-law of real live Eng
lish lord, millionaire and owner of the biggest
hotel in the world. he is accused of deeds more
atrOciOus than some accredited to Nero, of Civ
ing his father blow that resulted in his death,
Of setting fire to the Yellow Jacket mine ten or
twelve years ago and causing the deaths of forty
men merely to bear the stock and gain control
these and many other things as bad are said.
some are even openly published. do not know
whether the Senator has ever troubled himself
to deny any Of the charges. There is no proof
positive in any of the cases; it is all mere rumor
and suppOsitiOn, and he probably contents HIM
self with the reflection that no one knows and
that he has the Yellow Jacket mine and his COM
Portable millions in the bank, safe even from the
grasp of Miss Sarah Althea Hill.
The trial will be renewed in July and there
will doubtless be more socks and shirt tails and
bits OF scandal. NJ. l.. NJ.