Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1911-02-26
Sharon CURSE
APPEARS AGAIN
Lieut.. Fermor .Aasketh Dropped
From fng|lsh Army.
LATEST OF FA1e'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 Spoiiation
and Now Daseends to Grandson.
The name of Lieutenant Frederick
Fermor- IIesketL of the Ninth lancers.
who dropped ont of sight last fall, has
been stricken from the rolls OF the
British army because Of absence with
out leave.
The lieutenant ia 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 bis disap-
pearance. failed to reveal any clew AZ
to bis 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 bis mothers residence at
East0n NestOn. Tewcester, the after
noon Of Oct. %. saying he would re-
turn soon for dinner. The last seen
of him was on the following morning
when he landed from 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
Heskcth and bis 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
bills pioneers. He stepped out of cow
hide boots into patent feathers. from
a mountain shack to city mansion.
From the Crown Point and Belcher
, mines in Nevada he became a senator.
The wealth he left behind made a pyr-
! amid Of millions and likewise pyra-
mid Of trouble.
william C. Ralston, who often had
shared the output Of his battered cof-
feepot with Sharon in his r0ughshod
days, started the list. When the dnan-
cial pinch caught Sharon's bank and
frightened San Francisco didn't know
whether its money was good. bad or
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 a 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 a 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. Frederick. entertaining conflicting
opinions, adopted the hair trigger meth
! cd Of settlement at the prescribed
fifteen PAGES Broderick waited for
the second. Terry split 1t and fired.
Broderick fell dead.
, Terry pleaded the cause Of his robust
client before Justice Stephen J. Field
Sharon died but Sarah Althea Hills
suit lived on. Terry one day surprised
his friends by marrying his client.
! Justice Field ordered the cancella-
, 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 pro-
! tege Of Sharon's. became manager OF
the Palace hotel in San Francisco.
! Livingston had boarded at one time
! with certain Sarah Mitchell when
the fight to get at the Sharon million.
was at its height. Miss Mitchell came
to the front with Il package Of mys-
terious letters. She demanded $4,000
for them. but she didn't get it. There
was talk Of a conspiracy. Livingston's
name was mentioned unpleasantly in
that connection. One morning he was
found dead in his room In the Palace
hotel with pistol shot in bis heart
Fate Still Pursuing.
Sharon's two daughters grew to wo-
manhood surrounded by luxury. One
daughter fell in love with Senator
Newlands of Nevada and became bis
wife. The other. Florence Emily
Sharon. was married to Sir Thomas
George Fermor-Hesketh.
Lady Hesketl had two sons. both
soldiers. The lieutenant of lancers
who disaDpeared was the younger. Her