The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 21, 1900, Page 3

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, WEDNESDAY, FEBYRUAR 21, 1900. ALAMEDA PRODUCES ANOTHER WITNESS FOR THE WOMAN WHO CLAIMS TO BE FAIR'S WIDOW e e e e ] } D T e T D R R e R e e e R Y ] * 3 4| 14 4| . ® ; § 4 . ¢l ? ¢ * Pe ¢ + S ® é * ° RS . be 2 + 14 ! ; ¢ + | * ® : | - 3 1 . p A &l : !. \ . ® SR , m} b + R A : o ® PS - - £ - be| P’y @ ¢ + P L d * - b ¢ o L3 ¢ . &> » ! 4 * ! © 3 4 - * : k3 vt e o k3 P * @ h € * LAFE PENCE—*That Is Your Way of Saying I Was Lying!” 3 > Qe 0e0eo0060000eosiedesdeded LAMED. w : ¢ i : A has produced another for Mrs. Craven-Fair. The as entered the arena o for the glory of be- best out the bay. ribution to the celebrities se is Miss Alma a Mrs. Heaney until rce courts severed the matrimo- nial ties that I 4 irksome. Miss Greenweil was a pupil of Mrs. Cra- ven at the Mission Grammar School. She wi vears old at the time of Mrs. Crav air's contract marriage, but she was old enough to make mental note of t ar -day her mind is sub though it had en place but yvesterd Confided in Miss Greenwell. According to the testimony yesterday of the petitioner for a family allowance from the Fair estate Miss Greenwell was a vis- itor at the Craven-Fair home, §23 Sutter street, the day after the wedding. It is | NERVELESS, DELICATE WOMEN Are usually women who erted that the “bride” told her guest | about the ceremony. The circumstance that Miss Greenwell | had visited her the day after the wedding | ninded Mre. Craven-Fair that it was | n May 24, 1892, that she called upon Sullivan to discuss acknowledging | arriage contract before a notary. | he d a faint recollection that she had Jld her visitor what had happened and ad to excuse herself to go downtown > consult with her attorney. Was Mrs. Craven’s Pupil. The new witness' statement does not | agree with the testimony | of Mrs, although her evi- will have an important bearing on case. When seen at her home in | PRSP S S S S S S P S T S DY e headaches, dizziness, loss of the principal of the | SUDTAMN aflords r chool, which I attend- | a member of the class which | ¢ have an important bearing on the case. ted in the summer of 1892. It was | 4 of the Columbus celebration. 3 exhaustion comp We gave an opera at the Grand Opera- female weakne: se at which I took the leading part. | Webb remained but a few moments, and YAN is a boon to women, for # bring s. Craven and 1 were_quite friendly | as soon as he left the Senator brought up and she took a prominent part in the ar- your druggist—50c a iy B e rangements for the affair. e does not keep : HUDYAN REMEDY CO., Was With the Senator. Ellls and Market sts., 882 | .ywhen the play was over on the night % of May 24, 1 invited Mrs. Craven to | + Consult Free the | share our carriage and go to the banquet | | “FREE. | Budven Doctors. Call | w afterward had. She was with 4———————+ or write to them. | air. She declined to come with is the night I believe she was married to him. I think her reason for declining to come with us was that she expected to have the marriage ceremouny performed that night. 1 know nothing | more than I have related and nothing ! abcut the marriage more than I have stated | “I was auite friendly with Mrs. Craven and frequently called on her. She was | living at 822 Sutter street at the time of the marriage. WHEN we RUPTURE CURED” we | fore, w: | ternoon of May night Miss Greenwell said: | Miss Alma Greenwell, Formerly a Pupil of Mrs. Craven, Was Let Into the Secret of the Mar- riage Contract the Day Following Its Execution. Lawyers Wrought Up to Passing the Lie, but Cooled Off Before Anything Serio us Happened. her real or counterfeit emotion and suc- ceeded nobly. She was not as good a witness for her- | self as she had been the previous day. While Attorney Plerson, who conducted the cross-examination, was courteous to the extreme he was more persistent in his questions. Once or twice he had the witness in a corner and the only way in which she wiggled out of giving an answer that might have annoyed her was by a convenient lapse of memory that was simply charming. Her Memory Failed Her. “I don’t recall,” was the way she put it. Her recollection of the events of May 23, 1892, the day when it Is claimed the alleged mar e contract was signed, was extremely hazy. She could not ‘‘recall” whether the document was signed in the afternoon or the evening; whether she had written it on a table, on a desk or on the floor, or whether she had stood up when she handled the pen. Much of the day was spent in relating the history of the contract, and it was during this, when the questions became annoying, that the lapses of memcry so conveniently oc- curred. Attorney Pierson endeavored to learn if she had any letters or documents purport- ing to have been written by the late Sena- tor. He succeeded in forcing the produc- tion of a scrap of paper, which, it is claimed, was torn from one of Falir's memorandum books at the Grand Opera- house the night after the contract mar- | rlage, and on which he had written: “Mrs. James G. ——: Do you know your name? JAMES G. FAIR.” Received Many Sweet Notes. ‘While admitting that she had recelved many endearing epistles from her alleged spouse she could not for the life of her | “recall” what had become of them, when she had last seen them or to whom she had given them. ‘When the case was called yesterday morning Mrs. Hilbert, who had been the “observed of all observers” the day be- She displayed the not present. good sense, presumably, of staying home out of the wet, which cannot be said of the curious throng with upstretched necks that filled the courtroom until the atmos- phere of the place was stifling. Barling was there, however, without a visible sign of the thumping’his connection with the case had caused him. Story of the Contract. Without any preliminaries Mrs. Craven- Fair was put on the witness stand to continue to undergo the fire of Attorney Pierson’s questions, all of which were apparently “loaded.” He started right in on the marriage contract and the circum- stances surrounding its creation. The witness sald it was signed at 823 Sutter street, but she was uncertain as to the room in which the document was ex- ecuted. “1 do not recall,” she sald, ““whether we signed it in the afternoon or evening. I know when I returned home on the ai- 23, éBQ‘.’. in company with Captain Frank Webb, the Senator was there ahead of us and opened the door. ! $ $ § ! I D e e e R e e e e o B St S e Sy the old subject of our marriage. He knew 1 was preparing to go East and said that he was afraid if I went away before we_ were married I would not come back and he would lose me. ‘Your people will influence you,’ he said, ‘and you will change your mind. I need some one with whom 1 can counsel. 1 want some one who will stay with me all the time, as I am getting old.” He Pleaded; She Yielded. “It was then that he urged the marriage contract, claiming that publicity would interfere seriously with the settling up of his business affairs. I thought more of his interests than I did of my own and vielded. He told me to talk to my friend Yidge Sullivan about it and assured me that he would say that a contract mar- riage was perfectly lawful and binding.” She sald that she had written the docu- i i : : } | ; ; : LATEST WITNESS FOR MRS. CRAVEN-FAIR. Miss Alma Greenwell, now a resident of Alameda and formerly a pupil of Mrs. Craven, visited her the day following the execution of the marriage ! contract and will testify to circumstances surrounding the event which will ment at Falr's dictation and rem that he had signed it first from that she had remarked to him: “You must take me first.” She was positive he had only signed in one place. The ceremony was brief an the gemlu)\' left the house before the ink on the contract was falrly dry. “I asked him if it should not be ac- knowledged by a notary,” she continued, “and he advised me to talk to Judge Sul- livan about it and sald that if I did not attend to the matter at once he would not go to my_school exhibition at the Grand Opera-house. 1 agreed to do so and arranged to meet him the next An.i at Sutter and Montgomery streets to let him know what Judge Sullivan said.” ““Where did you get the idea that it should be acknowledged?” asked Attorney Plerson. “From my own fertile brain, I pre- sume.” Mrs. Craven-Falr gave as a reason for not being able to remember more of the important details of her wedding day the fact that her school exhibition hi oc- cupled her mind more than her marriage, although she did not consider it of more importance. A Few Tears Flowed. She failed to recall if a ceremonial mar- riage was suggested at the time the cun- tract_was in course of construction, but she did recollect that Mr. Fair had as- serted that as her mother was dead the latter could offer no objection to the con- tract style. It was here that the witness choked up and her eyes molstened. The contract was carried about in the same old way that women guard their valua- bles. At times It was close to Mrs. Cre- ven-Fair's heart, occasionally it was car- ried in her hand satchel, but its most fre- quent resting place was §n her hosiery. Judge Sullivan told her the contract was ail right as it stood, but that it would be stronger if acknowledged by a notary. She met the Senator at the appointed lace and he wanted to go at once to g‘otary Cralg's office and have the ad- ditional strength placed on the contract. They saw Craig on their way and halled him. The Senator sald to the nolarg: “Nettie and 1 were married last night | and we want to get the paper acknowl- edged.” The contract was shown to Craig. It was never acknowledged, but the cause therefore did not come out in the evidence. Pence Tells Why He “Fished.” The Senator attended the school exhi- bition after that in company with Arthur Rogers and the late Pete Bigelow. It was there that he passed her the slip of paper on which was written the query concerning her name. This testimony was the signal for the outburst among the lawyers. Lafe Pence said that he was willing to admit that his object in *fishing” for the Senator's books was to show that the slip of paper was a leaf torn from one of them. “Bring those memoranda books into court now before they are tampered with and I will show you where it fits" said Mrs. Craven-Fair's counsel. “I think we will find the corresponding lea if one of the honest men on the other side will pro- lembered the fact | B R T S T duce the books. Goodfellow says he |never saw them, McEnerney had no | dream of them and Pierson does not ap- | pear to know a thing about them. e | will have to find out if Charlie Fair has ! not had his hands on them.” | Then the row began. Heggerty became | heated. | McEnerney as Peacemaker. | *“Those statements are false!” he| shouted. ‘“When you insinuate that Char- lie Fair has tampered with those books you say what you know to be a false- | hood ™ . | ““Well, T'll believe you when you bring | the books,” warl; ld’ence‘n cool reply. | | McEnerney ‘tried to explain Heggerty's remarks, but Pence Interrupted. 8y “I know what he meant; it was just | his way of saying that I was lying.” “Yes, and that is exnc(l]_{ what I meant | | to say,” came from ggxerty. Pence | | smiled 'and things dragged on just as | i smoothly as though nothing had occurred. ‘When Fair Was in Writing Mood. The cross-examination of Mrs. Craven- [ e e el e e e e e e o o O+ > 24+ 1 Fair turned very largely during the latter | art of the afternoon ugon an effort to earn what papers, other than those | placed in evidence, the witness has or ever had in her possession. Attarney McEnerney sought to demonstrate, at one stage of the proceedings, that because Senator Fair_had made no provision for | Mrs. Craven-Fair in his will he was con- sequently not married to her, that be- cause he had been a forgetful husband he had been no husband at all. That sort of logic did not impress the court favor- ably and that line of inquiry was aban- doned. In answer to querles the witness de- clared that upon one occasion, when Sena- tor Fair was in a writing mood, he made a written transfer to her of all the bonds | and stocks of which he was possessed. | The witness declared that she had not sought the transfer and she could not tell | what had become of the document. The examination then turned to Fair's will- writing propensities, but nothing that was | mn(erfi:? or interesting was developed. The case will be_resumed this mornin at 10:30 o'clock. When court adjourn yesterday afternon it was learned that Attorney Pence had received telegraphic information of the death of his mother. The news softened for a moment the bit- ter feeling which rules at the trial and | brought forth for the lawyer expressions of sympathy in his bereavement. e WANTS SCANDAL PROBED. ‘W. W. Foote, one of the attorneys for Mrs. Craven-Falr, has addressed the fol- lowing communication to the District At- torney regarding the Simpton scandal: Hon. L. F. Byington, District Attorney of the City and County of San Francisco, New City Hall, City—My Dear Sir: For the last few days my mind has been so disturbed by domestic_affliction that I have hardly been able to think about anything else, and, indeed, 1 have been unable to read all accounts in the newspapers concerning the Fair _litigation. However, I feel now that 1 may be able to impart to you some information which may | be of value in ascertaining the truth in re- | gard to the Simpton affidavit and other mat- | ters connected with the present litigation. I desire to say that I will be at your disposal at any time that you may designate, either at your office or at mine, to give you all the information in my possession concerning this transaction, no matter whom it hurts. I desire to put you in possession of all the facts so that you can conduct the examination before the Grand Jury intelligently. Mr. J. J. Lermen, who has been associated with me | for many years, also knows something of the | and_ his services are likewise at your | I. Mr. J. L. Horner, to whom I dic- e original affidavit,” has his original | dispos tated notes, and also the original notes of my letter to Mr. Simpton in reply to his. His services are also at your disposal at any time that you Ay usme. The sooner the better for me, as I am com- pelled to leave for Europe in a short time, but T do not propose to leave until you shall have had the opportunity of taking my testimony, 1f you 50 desire. I remain. yowrs respectfully, W, W. San Francisco, February 19, 1300. Q0040404000 +040 49 40+040+0+000+0+04+0 + ¢ } PS * ¢ & : t * * L 4 * ® > L d ] * ® k3 > * k’ ? ® R ° D 4 - # ° L d : : . } 3 $ s * * ® > + kS ® > 2 § * b > 3 - . - * - iz & 3 - PS > * 3 D¢ . & f + 1 > + . @ > + . e > . . b N > + o ® Fa% & + s b4 ® ——x = - - ® * ; _/.,—///A/V:. ’/\‘ - : 4 e bt ; \9’ ;"gr“-yf-v' > ) . 4 C.J. 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If you have only a nominal sum to spend for your clothes at a place that backs up its clothing. in that place. We come right to the front with these serges for $10 and pronounce them the best serges for the money in San Francisco. We have our opinion about \ Should we differ we return your money. Your choice of the suits— single or double breasted. wool blue serge suit plenty of money can afford to experiment. should buy economically place where you are safe— Next look for values suits—so will you when buy. ASSESSOR’S FIELD DEPUTIES. y mean it, for it is & fact that thousands of cures Lave been accompliehed by Dr. Plerce's World- renowned ELECTRIC TRUSE during the past “I was a schoolgirl then and 15 years old. At 171 was married to Mr. Heaney. After ten months we were divorced.” Dodge Announces That Assessment J. Fitzsimmons, J. L. Hart, Jam b 3 S | Tuohey, T. R, Hunt, J. E. O'Brien, M. J. Gavin, A. J. Wilkinson, twenty-five years. There is nothing eles lke it on earth! It does the work! Have received so guany letters and testimonials that we hardly know what 10 4o With them all. If ruptured {n- Alameda’s latest contribution to the celebrated case will be marched Into court later as a companion piece to Ben F. Lam- vestigate &1 omce. by Rot cheas :e!mugn:fl.!::mnn. e D | born- rcew Bappy TN you get 1t you camaat be | The Lie Passed. You can get our “BOOKLET ing by calling at the office, or you on receipt of & 2-cent stamp. ® No. 1" for moth- | The array of attorneys in the cas it vfllnb-u-l?.': | finally wrought themselves up to m: :&:; 788" Address | of passing medn& The flareup was like N an oasis in a desert of dreary qu MAGNETIC ELASTIC TRUSS B0, | ina"Sisinterensing. answers - Y.aitions ‘I.fl1=:'r‘k: street, SAN FRANCISCO. lm)d Mr. Heggerty that there might be buns | eircumstances under which he would be- | lieve him and Mr. Heggerty retorted that \ | Pence"was a double-barreled liar. At- torney McEnerney was endeavoring to \ liding,. NEW YORK. jump in as peacemaker when the storm passed over and the case continued to drag along 1ts weary way. Mrs. Craven-Falr was on the witness stand all day yesterday. Bhe was not in the best of humor and once during her t ony a big lump arese in her throat add a vagrant tear stole down her cheek. this might have been for effect, but lady made & bold effort to conosal \ of Gonorrhes | from 3 © 6 l Work Will Begin Friday. Assessor Dodge yesterday announced the foilowing list of seventy-three field | deputies, who will begin their duties on Friday next: John Doyle, Thomas G. Rellly, A. L. Morganstern, Otto A. Putzger, A. A. Mc- Neill, Daniel O'Connell, T. H. Conboy, Frank J. Riordan, 8. W. Hallowell, J. F. Sulllvan, August Mueller, L. J. William J. Hayes, Joseph Goe&r, Joseph H. Gannon, Lawrence Hoey, W. W. An- derson, John K. Brennan, Albert Bor- enstern, Alexander Matheson, Frank bs, ilip G. W acobs, p m‘."fl{" L. Choynski, O'Donnell, - Harrison, Willlam M. Crittenden, J. T. 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