Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1911-01-27

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work followed. Mrs. Terry spent a
month in jail and Terry was behind
the bars for six months
David Terry's Tragic End.
Having killed one man, Terry was
| not afraid to threaten another He
said he would take Justice Fields life.
On the way north from Los Angeles,
as his court dates took him, Justice
Field stepped off at Lathrop on morn
ing to breakfast in the station restau-
| rant. Terry and his wife coincidently
stepped from a down train at the
same time. Terry saw Field sitting
on stool at the breast-high restaurant
counter. Nearby stood United States
Marshal Nagle, who had been as
signed to guard the judge as he jour
neyed between towns to hold court.
| Terry stepped behind Field and
slapped his face with the back of his
hand. Marshal Nagle shot Terry dead.
Mrs. Terry saw her husband fall. He
was unarmed, but his wife had knife
was tried in Washington and acQuit-
| ted.
Charles Livingston, who was a pro-
tege of Sharon's, became manager of
the Palace hotel, and in many ways
had hand in the smaller affairs in
which Sharon was interested. Liv-
ingston had boarded at one time with
a certain Sarah Mitchell, when the
fight to get the Sharon millions was
at its height. Miss Mitchell came to
the front with package of mysteri-
GUS letters which she said exposed a
plot to cheat Sarah out of her rights
in the vast estate. She demanded
$4,000 for them, but she didn't get it.
There was talk of a conspiracy. Liv-
ingston's name was mentioned I'M
pleasantly in that connection. One
morning he was found dead in his
room in the Palace hotel with a pistol
shot in his heart. Some called it MUIR
der. The coroner said suicide.
Won by Titled EngIishman.
Society, like the metal dug from the
hills, passed through a refining proc
ess about this time. Sharons two
daughters grew to womanhood sur
rounded by luxury. In Frisco's One
| Thousand-the Pacific coasts counter
part Of the Four Hundred on the At
lantic-they were easily the most eli
gible. One daughter fell in love with
| Senator Newlands of Nevada and be-
came his wife. The other, Florence
Mily Sharon, gave her heart to IT,
tied foreigner, Sir Thomas George
Fermor-Hesketh, who, like Sharon,
| had dug his fortune from mines, al
| though the Hesketh pick had loosened
| coal in Lancashire instead of gold in
Nevada
Sir Thomas was something of
rover He owned the fine three-mast-
ed yacht Lancashire Witch, and tour
ing around the world he dropped an
Choir in Frisco harbor one June morn
ing. He became a guest at the Shar-
on mansion and before he put to sea
again Florence Sharon had said the
Hateful yes" Following their mar
rage with it's attendant banquet,
which California still recalls when it
thinks of splendor, Sir Thomas and
his bride went to England to live. The
Hesketh estate is in Northampton
shire 1t is called Easton NestOn. 1t
came to Sir Thomas through the hon
orable line leading back to the earl
of Pomfret. The earl owed his pos
session of it to the influence Of VIII
Summers, who was fool and jester OF
King Henry the Eighth.
Lady Hesketh had two sons, both
soldiers. The lieutenant of Lancers
who disappeared was the younger. He
was twenty-seven years old, six
footer, with dark curly hair, slight
dark mustach and blue-gray eyes.
When he slipped out of his uniform
and into his tweeds and boarded the
mail steamer for Ireland he left
young wife and two-mOnths' old
babe behind. He had served in India
and was a messmate of Lord ROcksav-
age, who visited Newport last sum-
mer. The elder son was until recent
Iy an officer in the Royal Blues. He
was married in September a year ago
to Florence Breckenridge of San Fran
cisco, who Is daughter of Mrs. Fred
w. Sharon by a former marriage.
Fred Sharon is the late senator's son.
Miss Breckinridge's grandfathers were
John C. Breckenridge OF Kentucky and
Lloyd Trevis, the western millionaire
who was for years president of the
Wells Fargo company. Miss Breckin-
ridge was engaged to Doctor Stein OF
Vienna, famed as a medical specialist
throughout Europe. She Tilted him to
marry her stepfather's nephew.
Declared Insane.
Six years ago young John G. Brock
inridge was dragged into the courts
of Paris as an insane man. He had
married in Frisco and was on tour
around the world when, on the applt |
cation of the Sharons, medical com
mission was appointed to pass on his
condition. Lawyer Peartree, repre- |
senting Coudert Brothers. appeared |
in court and said that there was evi. |
dence of mental instability in the |
Breckenridge family, for a brother had |
committed suicide, and the patient in
court had tried to throw himself out
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