New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1872-10-15

months she married Mr. Grayson, friend
| of the former husband, and also "friend
| Of the family in the "tutl acceptation of
| the term" who is now. or was few years
ago, still living in New Orleans. Her inf
deity soon became notorious, and Grays0n
| abandoned her-but to avoid scandal, no
publicity was made of the matter-a divorce
was not even applied for on his part. At the
instigation OF her mother, who is also in this
city, they both packed up their feminine
apparel and without as much as formal
leave taking, embarked on q steamer the
next morning for California-the land OF
gold and the refuge of criminais-Wrhet1fe
the setting sun sinks into the bosom OF the
ocean.
After marrying Colonel Fair, she re-
turned to New Orleans to peTfect Ine "
tanning of divorce, through her aIIorhoy'
Randall Hunt, Esq, but which l9r SUI III
cause or other, was never gfauiteu'4 -
course caused Colonel Far 70 sno 49, 80
self in his office, in o puboehS 49, tu;oi
square distant from the scene u III : !.
She was the only person Presont :" n9n ~
waa discovered that Fair had cOmmltted
suicide EVEN then many doubted that IL
as sricide-his most intimate TRENDS,
who yyere in that position to know him bet
ter couJd not believe that he was such
man as could be induced to take his own
life under any circumstances
"A
tenden. while she was running hotel ID a
mining town, where he was visiting in
professional capacity. She the landlady,
lie the guest. From that time-in 1864,
believe-theiF intimacy began, and contin-
ued until the day, aye, almost the very
hour, of his death. For, like Razio," he
had but that afternoon left her, with "Al-
dabella's" kisses warm on his checks, to
meet his virtuous and injured wife. who
did not act the accuser and ayenger in this
instance.
The public feeling against the jurors is
one Of disgust and contempt that they
could bring in verdict of insanity, for
such it was-being the only question before
them for decision. the crime having been
admitted-when they themselves honestly
did not doubt her sanity, and 30 expressed
themselves on the street after the trial was
over. The press of this city denOunce their
actions and motives in the most bitter
terms, with the exception Of two evening
journals, one of which defends her singlY
because she halls from the same section of
the country as its editor, and the other is
edited by an Ishmaelite, whose hand is
turned against every one, and with whom
it is natural to revile the dead and applaud
the deceitful and wicked.
No one doubted her guilt; she even ad-
mitted that; and all were surprised at the
verdict, none mOreso than the prisoner.
The prevailing opinion was that the jury
would disagree, the prisoner would be adj
mitted to bail, and finally escape on some
legal technicality A few favored hanging,
but the great majority were adverse to that
extreme punishment and desired imprison-
ment for life, where the remorse of con
silence in felon's cell would be greater
punishment than subjecting her to the gal
lows and martyrdom; while yet few, and
very few, believed her morally right. These
latter were of the women's rights and free
loving class-adulterous females of her own
kind, plying their vocation cevertIy under
the guise of regpectability, and matrons,
likewise false to their husbands and their
marital vows.
The attempt to get up the usual sensation
scene at the termination of such cases was
failure. The iurymen shook hands with
the prisoner and cried, but at the same
moment she was affecting a first class
swoon, and left her counsel to do the agree
able in receiving the congratulations of her
friends.
The reporters put sufficient coloring to
the scene by slight draft on their fertile
imagiuations to make an affecting finale to
their reports and justify a liberal display of
headlines.
The prisoner, after her acquittal, was
conveyed to her old quarters at the county
Jail, where she desires to remain for safe
ty m from public violence Judging the
public by herself
AS yet, the commissioners on lunacy have
taken no action toward committing her to
the insane asylum. J. nj. 8.