The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, February 22, 1900, Page 12

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, TH DAY, FEBRUARY 22, 1900. CRAVEN-FAIR MARRIAGE SAID TO BE RECORDED _ IN JUDGE SIMPTON'S LITTLE RED POCKET-BOOK Attorney Sylva, in a Burst of Confidence, Revealed| the Secret to Constable Creed Before the Simp-| ton Sensation. Marin Justice Told of Its Valuable| Contents in July, 1894, Two| Days After It Had Been De- stroyed in the Sausalito Fire. Late Developments in the Remarkable Case Which Do Not Simpton Charges That Mrs. Craven At- tempted to Lead Them Astray. Sausalito, the agistrate, who has by his flopping fgation, be was loss of & red r the confla- N arriage. the M the first St w! deal for solicitude. then and mentioned er the fire of 1894 was vivid. Simpto had arrived whe: | | | Cor-| roborate the Sylva-| R D e e S Spa) | erence to Simpton’s sorrow at the loss [ e e R e S L R e RS =Y i D e e e e S R S S kS S S S T oo ® e the records it had contalned had reached their greatest value and importance. Simpton Puzzled Creed. Qoo -o ble. He assoclated it with alr case and the mystery was not cleared | Attorney Sylva, the exposer of con- epiracies, begcame over-confldential and revealed the secrets supposed to have been concealed within the red covers of Simpton’s missing memorandum book. Sylva asked Creed If his memory was fresh on the events that immediately fol- lowed the fire, more particularly with ref- E ADVERTISEMENTS. SAVE YOUR HAIR talk to Creed was a puzzle to | everything else but the Craven- | : $ t ;i ¢ i ; | $ 4 bet s tsbed e ® THE FAIR LADY AND Bl o ot 2o o ol o 2o o o S oo e o o o I S TR S I S S f | | i | THE RED POCKETBOOK. of the red record. On that occasion Sylva is reported to have sald: “Do you know if that book were in WITH SHAMPOOS OF : existence to-day we could prove that Mrs. Craven and Senator Fair had been married.” A few days later Justice of the Peace Simpton came to SBan Francisco and be- fore a notary public swore to an affidavit reciting the detalls of a ceremony he sald he had performed at Sausalito joining In wedlock James G. Fair and Nettie R. Craven. QUESTION OF MARRIAGE. Trial Drags on Without Any Enlivening Incident. Very few incidents of importance or general public interest developed yester- day during the Craven-Fair case before Judge Troutt. witness stand for the entire day and the attorneys in opposition to her led a stern chase through the years in which she was Mrs. Craven was on the | And light dressings of CUTICURA, purest of emollient skin cures. This treatment st once stops falling hair, removes crusts, scales, and dandruff, soothes irritated, itching surfaces, stimulates the hair folli- cles, supplies the roots with energy and nourishment, and makes the hair grow upen a sweet, wholesome, heaithy scalp when all else fails. Complete Extotn%l) and Internal Treatment for Every Humor. tic “mov CUTICIRA S0aP (25c.). to cleanse the skin of crusts and soften the thickened cuticle; CUTIOURA OINTXENT (50c.), to ipstantly allay itching. inflammation, and irritation, and soothe and. hesl; and CUTICURA RESOLYENT (50c.), 10 000l and cloanse the blood. | intimately acquainted with Janies G. Fair | and during which she claims to have been | his contract wife. The cross-examiners | had one primary purpose in their long, | wearisome and monotonous examinatiun. | "They sought to prove that Fair did conduct himself to Mrs. Craven as a hus- band; that he came to her surreptitiously | and left her in like manner; that he did not go with her in public.as her husband, | and except to a few, whose testimony Mrs. Craven's opponents, profess not. to believe, James G. Fair did not. acknowi- edge the relationship which the woman now claims, In answer to all of these questions, which involved a minute consideration of a thousand incidents of conversation and actions, extending through several years, Mrs. Craven declared that both Fair and she had specifically agreed to keep th marriage a secret, and consequently tney | avoided everything that might cause scan- | dal or excite comment. The cross-exari. nation commenced with a '‘discussion in reference to the famous marriage con- tract. The witness declared that she had shown the contraet to a Mrs. Cossack. her nurse. This alleged exhibition took place in 1884 at the Mission Grammar School, where Fair was present at the time, and, according to Mrs. Craven, admitted her as his wife to Mrs. Cossack. “But why did you not marry her in the SET is often sufficle: THE SET. $1.2 s bt weaipaes Lpsurs ot oot probring, Giomiiog. | 02’01 fRaRMHRd war s ebd Mea Cons y Il 20 eloe fatla, PoTTER EUG AXD OmEx. COEP., Sole Props., Boston. sack. 5 *All About the Skin, Bealp., and Halr,” free. F.fx!': rls my wife just tho. sam wus A long inquiry in reference to Mrs. Cos- sack followed, but nothing of interest de- veloped. ‘The witness then resumed to tell the names of others to whom she had shown the marriage contract or had told of its existence. Several of these persons have the misfortune to be dead. Daulel O’Connell and J. H. Culver were among the number. A Mrs. Purcell, who made many dresses for Mrs. Craven had the good fortune to see the contract of marriage. When O'Connell saw the dJoc- ument he became greatly agitated. and wished immediately to give it publicity. Mrs. Craven had positively refused to per- mit him, however. Until the hour of recess the witness was led.Into the intricacies of a minute Inves- figation which contributed nothing to the | substantial results of the case. | At the opening of the afternoon session | the opposing attorneys agreed to postpone | thelr argument, and the clash of wits was happlly averted for a time. But the res- | pite was short. The lawyers opposed to Mrs. Craven-Fair Insisted upon asking questions of the same import. There was | an objection, and then Attorney McEner- ney demanded and received permission to | argue his right to ask the questions. He | declared that it was vitally important to show that Senator Falir had made no pro- vislon for Mrs. Craven in his lll’etlme.! | either in a dally or occasional support or by will. | The attorney insisted that the questions which will throw light upon Fair's finan- cial treatment of the witness are there- | fore vitally pertinent to the issue as | showing by indirection that the relation- | ship betweeén Fair and Mrs. Craven had | been no more serious than friendship and | that the lady's evidence was false and she | was not the wife of fact. The lawyer's whole purpose was to establish the per- | tinency .of questions which his antagon- | ists” insisted were irrelevant and simply | the weapons of a fishing expedition. | When McEnerney had concluded, Atto- ney Pence created general surprise by | withdrawing his objection to the proposed | | line of inquiry. He declared that he had | | been waiting patiently to learn the line of | | the other side, and having done so he was pleased to withdraw his objection to the question. This seemed to anger McEn- erney somewhat, but he replied pleasantly that he had no purpose to tire Mrs. Craven or her lawyers. ‘‘You couldn’t if you wanted to do so,” was_the sharp_reply of Pence. _ _ TE. Craven-Fair then testified about the two deeds which she claimed she re- celved from Senator Fair. The inquiry turned quickly to the marriage contract 2nd the circumstances under which it was shown to varlous persons. Nothing new or Interesting was developed. Mrs. Craven-Falr told the same old story that s familiar to every reader of a news- paper.. She recited the incidents in a me- chanical, uninterested way. She has told it so-often that it has even for her a cer- taln monotony. An effort was then made to discover where and when Mrs. Craven-Fair had met Fair out of San Francisco. The wit- ness was very clear upon two Incidents and then the difficulty began. Mrs. Cra- ven-Falr refused ' to understand. She could not determine whether the ques- tioner wanted to know if she had met Falr out of town or had gone out of town with him. ; ‘““We want to know,” sald Plerson, *if you went with him out of San Francisco anywhere in the wide, wide world.” “And before his death,” facetiously added Attorney McEnerney. The witness recalled an incident in Chi- cago .and then was brought back in her recital to this city. Her every movement in 1392 and 1893 was traced. Her relations with Falr were analyzed and a series of critical questions were asked. The Sena- tor’s nightgown kept scampering through the recital like a specter, but at no stage of the proceedings did it become serious. The results of this phase of the inquiry A b S it St o e o S0 D SN S SEN SN SPSE SPE SN AP S S DU PP AP AP @+t +9+0 e 0000500000 + were that Fair was frequently in the com- pany of the witness, following her in her many changes of Tesidence, occupying the same apartments with her and sustalning toward her the relationship which she claims. Many of the questions had been asked before and if they possessed any importance In the case they certainly had no interest In any other respect. It was clearly demonstrated that Fair seldom if | ever remained with the witness through the night, never took his meals there nor registered at the hotels In which he stopped with her. The witness in a single answer replied to a fusillade of questions that occupied the attention of the court for an hour. She declared that before and after her al- leged marriage to Falr and to the latter's death she made every effort to conceal the attentions which Fair paid to her. She said that since the marriage had not been | and was not to be made public she sought | to save herself from the effect of scandal | and comment. During this phase of the inquiry the name of Lamborn, the new witness, was introduced. Mrs. Craven-Fair declared that Lamborn had called at the Sutter-street house on | business. She and Fair were there at the time and she held a short conversation with Lamborn relative to the business on which he called. It was early in the morn- ing and Falr, In neglige, came to the door. Lamborn was given to understand by Mrs. Craven that the situation was “all | right.” : | After a few further minor inquiries the trial was adjourned until 10:30 o’clock next Monday morning. DOES THE SOCIETY ACT. Mrs. Craven-Fair Brings Her Drawing Room Manners to Court. A curfous crowd that probably would not have been able to pungle as a whole e al Washin Jtore C lof Q@ o =¢ iton’s- birthde 935-937-939-941-943 945-947 Market street. | breathless interest on all the trifing de- itafll of the Fair- | that Involves milllons. it was a repelling crowd, with enough weak chins, receding foreheads and low- ering brows to stock a good-sized jail. And it “biled shirts” in the lot. It was a bad day for Mrs. Craven-Falr. The fetid atmosphers of the crowded courtroom oppressed her. She gasped for | atr, confided to the Judge that she feared | she might swoon away and more than once lost the even temper that has been with her all through the trial. Has a Pink Tea Voice. She had a new gown on. A oombina- | tion of silk and velvet and lace. All | black, relieved with just a softening dash | of white at the throat. It fit her to per- fection and showed favorably the lines | of the new fashionable French figure. Her | manner was in keeping with her dress— | tashionable. Her poses were the poses | ot the woman of fashion. Her answers were all in a muffled, pink-tea voice, de- | livered with the proper bored expression | of the woman of the world. Her ‘“soclety tone” was most marked when with a faint uplifting of brow and air of surprise she met Plerson’s questions |and volubly offered more information than his cross-examination called for. | | None of the Schoolmarm Left. There is none of the characteristic man- ner of the educator left in Mrs. Craven- Fair. The directness of the schoolmarm is gone. She winds herself all up in her answers. She has no memory for dates, and persistently cannot ‘recollect.” She admitted on the stand that she was past 53 and lowered her ilds when she ex- plained that Senator Fair was “attentive” to her, and told how she feared his “at- tentions” might “cause comment.” A Pajama Episode. There was not much chance during the day for the lady to show how very clever she is until she came to the pajama episode. Then she skated round it with a skill worthy of a French farce builder bringing modestly out the brazen accompaniment of folding-doors and silk underwear. She did not say the Sena- tor was jealous of her. She left the court to infer that he was. Mrs. Margaret, Koehler, the pretty daughter of Mrs. Craven-Fair, was not an over-interested spectator. She di- vided her time between yawns in leaning over and smiling Into Pence's eyes and carefully scrutinizing the fit gloves. She ate candy, moistened her lips with I-wish-I-had-a-soda smack, and generally had an unlovely time till Judge Troutt adjourned court and she wrapped a lacey trifle round her mother's shoul- ders. As to the attorneys, there was a lot of brow-knitting done and an alert watch kept on Plerson, who was conducting the cross-examination. Now and then Char- ley Pence and McEnerney addressed each other and the Judge. The tobacco in their respective mouths, however, did not tend to purity of enunciation. The Judge | probably understood them, and they ap- | peared to understand each other. Craven case, a hearing How can the British trooper /bold Defeat the wily Boer, Unless he tones his system up With good old “Jesse Moore.” FOREIGN CREWS ARE NEVER IMMIGRANTS Not Required to Be Inspected by Fed- eral Officials Until They Leave Their Employment. Commissioner, has notified United States Immigration Commissioner North at this port that the department has never held that the crews of foreign vessels are sub- ject to the immigration laws, and the In- spection provided and required, as in the case of immigrants, so long as they re- main on the ship’s articles. This ruling indorses the action hereto- fore taken by Mr. North in the matter of crews of forelgn vessels arriving at this rt. 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