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Show JOHN 8ARGENT OF JACKSON HOLE IS DEAD Self Inflicted Gunshot Woundg Are Believed to Have Caused Death of Occupant of Half Million Dollar Home Denver, July 25. News has reached reach-ed hero tonight of the recent finding of the body of John D. Sargeant the solitary occupant of tho famous half million dollar Swiss cottage built by Robert Ray Hamilton, a wealthy New York man, in tho remote Jackson Hole district in northwestern Wyoming. Wyom-ing. Sargent wots found In the house and evidently died from self indicted gunshot wounds. Two letters, one adressed to bis aged mother in New York and the other 10 his wife In California were 'ying upon a table nnd these were mailed without opening. Hamilton tullt the house'7n 1S90 nnd llVed tne"o several yenrs with Sargent and his wife. One clsy Hamilton's body wag fcund Moating In tho lake and mystery of his death has never been rivp'ained. Some months later Mrs Sargent fled to no ghbors bearing evldenco of terrlblo mistreatment which she refused to explain. She died shortly after and Sargent left the region, returning about two years ag" with tho second Mrs. Sargent. |