The Sumter watchman. [volume] (Sumterville, S.C.) 1855-1881, 1871-08-02

/ quaiuted With Col. Vim. b. Fair, who
was a lawyer in this city, and put the
matter in bis hands as my attorney
Prior to this I had advised with Gov.
Foote in relation to the same matter.
MARRIAGE TO COZ. FA1R.
In 1859 Col. Fair, as my attorney
advised me that'th final divorce had
been granted and, after being assured
ifwas 30, married Col. Fair. We were
married in the town of Shasta, and soou
after left fot Yreka, where Col. Fair waa
then settled in business. It was here
that my only child vas born, in the
month of August, 1860, Judge Baggs
is now living in this city, aud knows Of
our marriage, and knows also that Col
Fair was poor then, and always was poor.
I did not marry Col. Fair for money,
and there is no truth in the base charge
made against lac that I was extravagant
and impoverished him. l append to the
end of this statement the affidavit Of
Judge Baggs, sustaining me fully on
these poiuts. I did all my own work
when ne kept, house in Yreka, and kept
no servants. . Every person who lived
in Yreka at the time We lived there
will bear me witness Of the truth of what
say. Col. Fair lived only three months
after We left Yreka.
THE DEATH OF COL. FAIR.
In October Of the year 1861, Col.
Fair had made his arrangements to move
to San Francisco, and sent me and my
child 10 advance, while be remained to
close up bis business, expecting soon to
follow and on the LIST Of December of
the same year he came down and settled
here. l was stopping with my mother
in house she had rented from DR..
Hitchcock, on Bush street, where the
Brooklyn Hotel now stands. Col. Fair
came Immediately to the house, and We
lived there together in peace and quiet
ness till he died. He sent his books
and other things to Dr. Murphy's Office
and took an Office there with him, until
he could get one. 1t has been cruelty
reported that Col. Fair was jealous of
me, aud that we had separated before
his death. This is all SANDER, and has
in it no truth. On the morning Of his
death he left the house as usual and
went to his Office. Soon after Dr.. Hitch
cock called to see him, and was told by
me that he was at his Office. He went
to his Office, and, in attempting to open
the door, found something heavy against
it, and pushing it open, found that the
obstruction vas the dead body of Col.
Fair. He had been
SHOT THROUGH THE HEAD
with pie.,l ball, and the world said he
had committed suicide. DR.. Hitchcock
came Immediately to our house, and in.
formed me of his desth. Col. Phelps
left Col. Fair but few minutes before
his death in DR.. Murphy's Office near
the corner of Montgomery and Wash
ington streets. Dr.. Murphy told my
mother and myself, the same morning
of his death, that Col. Fair had left
letter with him in which he stated that
his wife and family had nothing what
ever to do 10 causing his death. DR..
Murphy was requested afterward to
produce the letter, as the papers were
accusing mo Of the cause of his death.
This request was made at different times,
and l have begged of.hi to produce it,
bat he will not.
A FOUL ISLANDER REFUTED.
There is no scandal that the ingenuity
Of men can devise but what has been
raised against me and circulated with
the rapidi,y oflightuiug since this un.
fortunate affair of mine with Mr.. Crit
tendeu. 1t has been said that Col Fair
was Sheriff Of Siskiyou county, and that
he abscouded with large sam ofmouey
belonging to the county, and that I, his
wife, ran away with man by the name
of Gordon. Now, there was man BY
the name of Fair, Sheriff Of that county,
and he is reported to have absconded,
but whether he had wife or not / am
unable to say -or whether man by the
name of Gordon ran away with her.
His name was Samuel Fair, but in no
way was he connected with my husband;
and as for Gordon, / never saw him.. 1t
has been stated that
SHOT NY PARTNER
in the Tahoe House 10 Virginia City
for attempting to raise the American
flag over my house, and that Dir. Crit
tenden defended me. Also, that !
walked the streets Of that city with
Confederate flag in one hand and
pistol iu the other. All this is false,
and one of the meanest things ever ut
tered. There was falsehood enough
uttered against me on my trial, under
the solemnity Of an oath, 70 crush a
dozen mortals like me, without resortiug
to Wholesale mendacity like this. This
tis all a malicious manufacture. In the
first plsce, I never had . partner iu
business, nor in the Tahoe House. l
never had Q Confederate flag, and never
saw one. I never walked the streets Of
bvirginia City with pistol in my hand
or q flag of any kind, or the streets of
any city with either. / kept the Tahoe
House in Virginia City. and kept it
alone.
/ ANOTHER sLANDER sYLENcEp.
I About Christmas of 1853 man en-.