The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1911-03-09
SHARON CURSE
APPEARS AGAIN
Lieut.. FerllOF -HaSketh Dropped
From English Army.
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 Descends to Grandson.
The name of Lieutenant Frederick
Fernor- 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 of Oct %, 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 1t 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 Grown Point and Belcher
mines in Nevada he became a senator.
The wealth he left behind made pyr-
amid of millions and likewise a pyra-
ma or 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 f1nan-
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
CT Broderick, entertaining conflicting
opinions. adopted the hair trigger meth
cd of settlement at the prescribed
fifteen PAGES. Broderick 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 Hills
suit lived on. Terry one day surprised
his friends by marrying his client.
Justice Field ordered the caneel1a-
ton Of the marriage contract on the |
ground Of forgery Justice Field
stepped off a train Terry and his wife
coincidently stepped from a 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 III san francisco.
Livingston had boarded at one time
with a certain Sarah Mitchell when
the fight to get at the Sharon millions +
was at its height. Miss Mitchell came
to the front with a package of mys-
terious letters She demanded $50, 1000
for them, but she didn't get it. There
was talk of a conspiracy. Lfvingston'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 his 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 his
wife. The other, Florence Emily
sharon was married to Sir Thomas
George Fermor- Hesketh.
Lady Hesketh had two sons, both
soldiers. The lieutenant of lancers
who disappeared was the younger. Her
life has been III danger three times
since her marriage She was thrown
from her mount while riding with
the Grafton hounds at Snlgrave and
barely escaped being crushed under
the animal's hoofs IN 1906 she was
bitten BY d dog and Ii required i dozen
stitches m ,1f1ifn fhn xr-n,xnd She ss1ra +