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Palace Hotel and Sarah Althea Hill

A dispute over one sheet of paper ended with a former chief justice shot dead beside a Supreme Court justice.

Collection: San Francisco: More Stories · USA · Open in OpenStreetMap

Facade of the Palace Hotel on Market Street
Facade of the Palace Hotel on Market Street · Dllu, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons

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How the story begins

Five hundred dollars a month, Senator William Sharon later testified, was his standard proposal to all of his mistresses. Sarah Althea Hill refused it, so he doubled it. Sharon owned the Palace and the Grand, joined by a bridge over New Montgomery Street. She had rooms in the Grand. After about a year he ordered her out. She refused. He had the carpet outside her rooms taken up, and then her front door taken off.

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Visiting

2 New Montgomery Street, at Market. The present hotel dates from 1909; the Grand is gone. A working hotel with a restaurant in its Garden Court. City Guides volunteers run free walking tours here; check the schedule before you go.

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