The Republican journal., 1913-08-14
TRAGIC EVENTS.
In which Maine People were Concerned.

In which Name People were Concerned.
The suicide by shooting of John Dudley Sar-
gent at the Robert Ray Hamilton lodge on
Jackson Lake, Wyoming, built by Hamilton in
1890 at a cost of half million, has led to the
publication of very sensational story. Sar-
gents is said to be the third death which has
taken place at this lodge and he had been accus-
ed of the death of his friend Hamilton, the
original owner, and of being implicated in the
death of his first wife, who, like himself was a
native of M chas.
Augustus Hemenway of Boston. a verv
wealthy man, had extensive lumber inter-
ests in Maine and sent his brother. Will
lam Hemenway, to Machias to look after
them. He married Mrs Budd, a widow with
one son, Nathaniel anG to them was born
a daughter, Alice. who married Henry c.
Sargent Ct Machias. John Dudley Sargent
is their son. The papers speak of 1.-The
old Hemenway mansion" but while this
house when built by Hon Albert Pilsbur- in
the late 4Os was considered the handsomest
residence il eastern Maine it was never called
mansion. 1t was sold by Mr.. Pilsbury after
his appointment as consul at Halifax, N. s..
| by President Pierce and later came into the
possession of Mr.. Hemenway.
John Dudley Sargent went west when a
young man and after some years returned to
Machias and married Adelaide, daughter of
Leander Crane of that town. He took his
bride to the lodge in the wilderness, which he
occupied with his friend Hamilton, a New
Yorker and a great-grandson of Alexander
Hamilton. Here they lived for several years.
One day the body of Hamilton was found
floating in the lake. its condition Indicating
that it had been in the water at least week.
Sargent had made no report that his friend
was missing, and no explanation was ever
| given as to how he met his DEATH Sargent
and his wife continued to live at the Lodge
after the death of his friend, there being no
one legally authorized to dispute his right to
remain there. Later Mrs. Sargent starved,
abused and dying" took refuge with a neigh
Dor. and died without telling the story of
what had occurred to her. The scandal caused
by her death led Sargent to leave the place.
He returned two years ago with a woman to
whom he had been married during his absence
and was tried for his first wife's death, but
escaped on the ground of insanity. Some
time ago his wife went to California and Sar-
gent had since lived alone. He had been dead
six or seven days when his body was found.
On a table beside him were two letters, one
addressed to his second wife in California, the
other to daughter in New York city. 1t is
said that on trip to New York in 1901 Sar-
gent left vita lawyer a sealed package. with
instructions that it should not be opened with
out his permission. This package will be turn.
ed over to the administrator of Sargent's
estate and may solve some Of the mysteries
which have attended his life.
Sargent's friend Hamilton also had stormy
career, with martial troubles which need not
be recorded here.
The lodge, the scene of these tragedies, was
christened Marymere after Sargent's first
child. Mary. now married and living in the
west. Three other children were born: Hem
enway, identified with the U. S. N. and at
present living in New York; Catherine who is
also in New York and was Sargent's favorite
child; and Adelaide, who lives with her grand
father, Henry C. Sargent, in Machias. The
children have entered upon or give promise of
successful careers and possess the brilliant and
worthy characteristics which both parental
families notably represent.