The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1885-06-24
A STRAWBERRY BLONDE.
Dear Allie and Her Charm
ing Old Sen"
THE CASE.
San Fraucisco'e Lovable Nillionaires
Bled for Millions by Gay
Adventuresses.

"What do you think will be the outcome
of the famous suit between William Sharon
and Sarah Aithea Hill, who claims to be
the wife OF the ex-United States Senator?'
Il think that Sarah Althea will in the
end be downed," replied the genial San
Franciscan, the representative Of one Of
the leading wholesale houses at the Golden
Gate.
1.-THE case of Sharon vs.. Sharon is un-
doubtedly one OF the most racy in the a n
mails of American civil procedure. Sarah
Althea, a ~1op-eared' Missourian, mailing
from Ste. Genevieve, is q beautiful straw
berry-blonde, about % years of age.
She is as pretty Is a picture, vivacious
in manner, comely in shape, and grace
full in walk. Put her down in
| Butte and every bald-head in the camp
would 60 crazy over her. She is undoubt-
eddy n of
THE MOST WOMEN
on the Pacific Slope. The records show
that she sold herself to Sharon, body and
soul, for the compensation of $500 per
month, with contingent expenses. Manyin
Buttef especially those hailingfr from New ada,
know William Sharon. He is immensely
wealthy-experts say that he can draw his
check for $50, OOO, 900. He was sent to the
United States Senate from Nevada, and it
is said chat the elevation cost him $780,
900. Sharon owns the Palace Hotel, one
of the finest caravansaries in the world,
and has the most costly country residence,
Belmont, on the Pacific coast. He is about
so years OF age, very small in stature and
considerably aged and homely in physiog-
nomy. He has a great passion for pretty
young women, and they have bled him I'M
mercifully. When he tackled Sarah Althea
he caught a Tartar. From the Jump, she
intended to bleed the old reprobate, and
her figures were in the five rows"
SHE II o WIN.
do you think she will VIM" modestly
warbled The MINERS society man.
NO." replied the San Franciscan,
Sharon has too much money. He will land
her In the Fenitentiary or drive her out of
the country with a liberal pension. I have
it from good authority that Sharon, Just
after the suit was commenced, offered tho
strawberry-blonde $4,000 to skip out,
but she scorned the offer. She claimed to
be Sharon's wife-bv cohabitation, letters
Of endearment and introduction into the
e~x-Senator's family-and in case of the
success of her suit for divorce she was Ger
ONAn W 6OO q D6 oiCC OuO Va uCA dIACSCu AuS-
bands millions. She scored the first knock
down, Judge Sullivan, of the Superior Court,
deciding that she was the wife of Sharon,
decreeing her a divorce, and granting her a
most liberal sum in the shape of alimony
and %counsel's fees, pending the trial OF the
cause. Then Sharon, claiming to be a res
ident of Nevada, carried the case to the
United States courts, and there Sarah Al
thea got a very black eye. In fact, for
twenty-four hours she dwelt
IN THE COUNTY JAIL,
contempt of court. She is a very plucky
woman, and is backed by two of the gamest
lawyers on the coast-Judge Terry and old
Colonel Tyler-but Sharon's shekels will
in the end drive her to the wall. Money can
do almost anything in the courts nova
Are there many female blackmailers on
the Pacific coast?"
San Francisco is full OF them. Not one
case in a hundred comes into print. Nearly
of the millionaires in San Francisco
have
TOURED IN SENSATIONAL DIVORCE SUITS.
The sum total OF the moneys bled out of
these gray-haired millionaire reprobates
would count up into the millions. In the
palmy days of Frisco, when the Comstock /
stock were up in the thousands, the female
adventures were in clover. OF late years, !
however, their field is limited, but there are
still enough wealthy old reprobates on deck
to keep the market active"