Mrs. Grundy. (Tracy City, Tenn.) 1903-1930, 1911-02-02

his wife into custody. Strong arm
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 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
and revolver In her handbag. Maggie
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 a hand in the smaller affairs in
which Sharon was interested. Liv-
| ingston had boarded at one time with
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
morning he was found dead in his
room in the Palace hotel with 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 refining proc
ess about this time Sharon's 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 a 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 a
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
riage with its attendant banquet
which California still recalls when IL
thinks of splendor. Sir Thomas and
his bride went to England to live. The
Hesketh estate is in Northampton
shire 1t is called Easton Weston II
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, a six
footer, with dark curly hair, a 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 6
young wife and a twomonths' ole
babe behind He had served in India
and was messmate of Lord Roeksav
age, who visited Newport last sum
|
ly an officer in the Royal Blues. HI
was married In September year agt
to Florence Breckenridge of San Fran
cisco, who is a daughter of Mrs. FREQ
w Sharon by a former marriage
Fred Sharon is the late senator's son
Miss Breckinridge's grandfathers were
John c. Breckenridge of Kentucky ant
Lloyd Trevis, the western millionaire
who was for years president Of thu
Wells Fargo company. Miss Breckin
, ridge was engaged to Doctor Stein 0
Vienna, famed as medical specials
, throughout Europe. She Tilted him t
} marry her stepfather's nephew.
[ Declared Insane.
T. Six years ago young John c. Breck
r inridge was dragged into the court
. of Paris as an insane man. He hal
=. married in Frisco and was on a tou
! around the world when, on the appli
cation of the Sharons, a medical CON
r mission was appointed to pass on hi
: condition. Lawyer Peartree, repre-
| senting Coudert Brothers, appeare
/, in court and said that there was evi
D dence of mental instability in tn
j, Breckenridge family, for a brother ha
. committed suicide, and the patient Il
S court had tried to throw himself GU