Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-04-14
1910.

the society and shared villanies OF a
band Of gamblers and sharpers, she
was keeping the "Fair House," or
"Hotel," /" her
SOUTHERN sYAIPATHIEs'
in the war induced her to shoot a
fourth husband dead for evincing his
" Union sympathies " by mailing the
national flag to the staff of the house!
Mr.. Crittenden, who was in Virginia
City at this time attending to some
mining claims Of his own, defended
her in her ensuing trial for murder,
and that with such elCquence and
legal effect that she was acquitted.
Unhappy was the day for the able
advocate when he allowed the infiu-
ence Of former impTudent acquaint-
ance and present sectional sympathy
to lead him into the new relation with
this dangerous woman of one who
had saved her life. She left the court
room only to reclaim her prey, and
rob him anew of honor and fortune.
1t was during the second
ENsLAVENrENT OF CRITTENDEN,
says a correspondent of the New Bed
ford Mercury, that Mrs. Fair, as she
was still called, paid a flying visit to
this city (lS66), and, sending for a
lawyer whom she had known in New
Orleans, placed in his hands property
70 the amount of $4,000, TO be invest
ed for her las it is supposed still to be)
in Government bonds. Upon her
return after this to San Francisco she
soon married a wealthy man named
SNYDER,
from whom, after about six weeks in
his company, she released herself by
divorce. In 1865 she was in this city
again, at an up town hotel, evidently
scheming to gain spOils by another
rich marriage; but, falling in this, she
returned once more to California, and
sought a new league with Mr.. Critten-
den. At last, however, even the most
chivalrOus, We8k-hearted, generous Of
her victims had awakened to a reali-
Zing sense Of her evil power and his
own past folly, and, having sent word
TO his family to come to him from the
Eastern States, refusing to hold any
further acquaintance with her. Re
mOnstrating, threatening, forcing her
self into his presence, she declared
that he was her husband, and dared
him to cast her of. Readers Of the
newspapers know what came of this
at last. Some weeks ago, while Mr..
Crittenden was crossing the ferry from
Oakland to San Francisco with his
wife and children, who had Just come
by Pacific railroad from the East he
was suddenly confronted in the cabin
Of Is, -
he had saved life and given fortune,
and
SHOT DOWN BY HER LIKE A DOG.
Death like that was the wages Of sin;
and now, she who slew him is being
tried for the murder. According to
the kilograms of the past week nom
San Francisco, the murder ess, so far
from being awed by her terrible situ-
alton, audaciOusly defends her whole
career Of indisCriminate marriage,
plumber and murder; declared that,
81 in the sight of God she was Critten-
den's true wife," and iustities the
very astounding wickedness of the
last eighteen years of her life by the
" advanced theories of the free.lOve
school," A few days-pOssibly a few
hOur5-Wll show what IS to be the
fate Of this
UNHAPPY CREATURE,
50 far as the law shall decide it; but
the many-sided moral Of her whole
career is not to be defined and ended
thus. She belongs, evidently, to a
class Of women Of which.the Miss
GWilt in Wilkie Collins romance OF
" Armadale" is an underdrawn rather
than an overdrawn illustration, and
the true social lesson Of her typical
story is, that whatsoever tends, in any
degree, to " de WOmanize her sex,
to make it hold lightly or skeptically
the modest deIicacy subscribing all its
distinctive and instructive natural
virtue, tends in the same degree, by
natural law, TO produce a
being compounded of the intensified
vice, rather than the virtue, Of both
sexes.