The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1911-02-16
SHARON Curse
APPEARS AGAIN
Lieut.. FerInor- Aesketh OroDDed
From English Army.
LATEST OF FATE'S VICTIMS,

LATEST OF FATE'S VICTIMS.
Wealth Of Nevada Mine Owner and
Senator Cause Of Death or Disaster
to Nearly All Connected With Its
Acquisition, Spending or spoliation
and Now Descends to Grandson. !
The name Of Lieutenant Frederick
Fermor-Hesketh Of the Ninth lancers.
who dropped out Of sight last fall, has
been stricken from the rolls Of the
British army because Of absence with
out leave.
The lieutenant is the second son Of
Sir Thomas George Fermor and Lady
Fermor-Hesketh and a grandson Of
the late William Sharon, United States
senator from Nevada. Lady Fermor-
Hesketh's maiden name was Florence
Emily Sharon. She was married in
1880.
A worldwide search for the lieuten-
ant. instituted soon after his disap-
pearance. failed to reveal any clew as
to his whereabouts. He is twenty
eight years old and was educated in
the Royal Military college at Sand
hurst and at Trinity college. Cam
bridge.
He left his mothers residence at
Easton Neston. Tewcester, the after
noon If Oct. 20, saying he would re-
turn soon for dinner. The last seen
Of him was on the following morning
when he landed from a steamer at
Kingstown, Ireland It has been sug-
gested he sailed for the United States.
The family can offer no explanation.
Curse Follows Sharon Gold.
The disappearance of Lieutenant
Hesketh and his expulsion from the
army make another chapter in the mis-
fortunes and tragedies that have fol-
lowed those who have come under the
curse Of the Sharon gold.
William Sharon was one of the Gold
hills pioneers. He stepped out of cow
hide boots into patent feathers, from
a mountain shack to a city mansion.
From the Crown Point and Belcher
mines in Nevada. he became senator.
The wealth he left behind made pyr-
amid Of millions and likewise a pyra-
mid Of trouble.
William G. Ralston, who often had
shared the output Of his battered cof-
feepot with Sharon in his roughshod
days, started the list. When the fnan-
cial pinch caught Sharon's bank and
frightened San Francisco didn't know
whether ttss~money was good, bad pr
Indifferent Ralston accused Sharon and
then took his own life. ~
Getting back to Sharon, the forty
miner, some time after the death of
Mrs. Sharon Senator Sharon was sued
by woman known as Sarah Althea
Hill. She entered into the contest for
Sharon's money with energy and zeal.
Her counsel was David s. Terry.
Chain Embraces Terry.
Terry was q leader Of the southern
California Democrats. He was elected
chief justice of the California supreme
court and had served just long enough
to become familiar with the judicial
routine when he and Senator David
G. Broderick, entertaining conflicting
opinions, adopted the hair trigger meth
cd of settlement at the prescribed
fifteen PAGES. Frederick waited for
the second. Terry split it and fred.
Broderick fell dead.
Terry pleaded the cause Of his robust
client before Justice Stephen ]. Field.
Sharon died. but Sarah Althea Hill's
suit lived on. Terry one day surprised
his friends by marrying his client.
Justice Field ordered the cance1la-
ton Of the marriage contract on the
ground of forgery. Justice Field
stepped off train. Terry and his wife
coincidently stepped from train at
the same time. Terry stepped behind
Field and slapped his face with the
back Of his hand. A marshal shot
Terry dead.
Charles Livingston, who was a pro
tege of Sharon's, became manager OF
the Palace hotel in San Francisco
Livingston had boarded at one time
with a certain Sarah Mitchell whe1
the fight to get at the Sharon millions
was at its height. Miss Mitchell came
to the front with a package Of mys
ferrous letters. She demanded $4,000
for them, but she didn't get it. There
was talk of a conspiracy. Livingston:
name was mentioned unpleasantly IL
that connection. One morning he was
found dead in his room in the Palace
hotel with pistol shot in his heart.
Fate Still Pursuing.
Sharon's two daughters grew to wo
manhood surrounded by luxury. On
daughter fell in love. with Senate
Newlands Of Nevada and became hi
wife. The other, Florence Emil,
Sharon, was married to Sir Thoma
George Fermor-Hesketh.
Lady Hesketh had two sons. bot
soldiers. The lieutenant of lancer
xrho xr,oo no vo11n He