The morning call., 1893-10-18
SEARCH FOR FAIR.
His Attorney Fails to
Locate Him.
J. II. Long Processes to Be Satisfied
That the Announced Arrest.
Was Canard.

son OF ex-senator James G.. Fair, at Port
Costa on Monday night on charge of in
sanity created considerable talk in the
city yesterday. Now, however, the
arrest is denied in most positive terms by
those most interested.
1t was known that the heir and his fair
young bride, after spending three days in
strict retirement at lodging.bouse on
Post street, left on Monday for the East
on the $50 p. M. overland train. Follow
ing that came the startling intelligence
that a Deputy Sheriff had entered the
train at Port Costa, arrested the groom at
the instance of his father on the charge Of
Insanity, and brought back the pair to
this city, immuring Charles in some
sequestered retreat and allowing his wife
to return to her accustomed hauntS.
j. ID. Long, attorney for Charles l..
Fair, spent all yesterday in investigating
this report. 1t was believed to be plausible
on the hypothesis that ex-senator Fair
might be anxious to stop the trip, both in
order to break the marriage with one
whom he considered an adventures and
also to prevent the pair from creating a
possible scandal among the prominent
members of the family East.
But Attorney Long said: You may
state that the rum0red arrest is a pure
canard. Since late last night have been
running down the story and finally traced
it to two irresponsible parties, who admit
having fabricated it out of whole CLOTH"
Ex-senator Fairs attorney was equally
explicit Il do not believe that any arrest
took place." said he Certainly it should
be easily confirmed If it did take place, but
we have been utterly unable to secure a
single jot of confirmation. That young
Fair has been crazy drunk as Is con-
dod ha
was insane or dangerous to life and prop
erty, which are the only conditions under
which he could have been summarily ar
rested. Had he been arrested it would
have been necessary to take him before
magistrate forthwith"
Speaking of the story that young Fair
had made his will and made over all his
vested and reversionary property TO his
wife, the attorney said he had no knowl-
edge of any such action on his part; had
he done so it would be very problemati-
cal whether on the event of his death his
legatee could inherit under the will. The
attorney is conducting Charles l.. Fairs
claim to his late brothers 100000 inter-
est In their mothers will. contending that
this should be paid over at once and not
at the expiration Of four years, when the
legacy would naturally have been paid to
James G. Fair Jr. Charles l.. Fair Is also
entitled to S50O.0OO from the same source
time, but the will giving 1t expressly pro-
vides that In the event Of Charles death
before the payment it shall 60 to the
daughters. Even in England" said the
attorney, where reversonary dealing is
trade, the right of DeQuest under such cir
cuWstances would be held a nice and criti-
cal point"
No one of the friends or associates of
Mr.. or Mrs. Charles l.. Fair could be found
who had seen either of the pair since their
alleged return. From the hour they left
their boarding-hOuse, where the attaches
were kept busy taking up baskets of green
seal, they have not been heard OF, and the
idea that the groom has been arrested. or
that If so his bride would keep quiet and
acquiescent, is secuted by their late conn.,
panions, male and female. 1t is admitted
that Mrs. Neson-Fair drove around shop
ping and doing business in the m 0rniDg Of
their departure and that young Mr.. Fair
visited his business agent for funds, but it
Is claimed that the relations between the
pair were too bound up together to allow
of their separation without decided out
cry.
The rumor OF young Charles Fair having
been ruthlessly arrested on the charge of
insanity rallied unexpected friends TO the
rescue. Attorney Malvern NJ. Foote,
president of the Society for the Protec-
tion of Persons Charged with Insanity
and sponsor of Archdeacon Nourl of
Babylon. appeared in Judge Hebbard's
court yesterday, calling attention to the
rumOr in circulation and expressing a
hope that ii Charles l.. Fair were brought
into court on the charge of being insane
the hearing would take place in open
court, although he was the son of q mil
lionaire, and that his case would be con-
Quoted in the same manner as tina of any
other person who had been kidnapped and
held as insane. Judge Hebbard merely
said that the same course would be fol-
lowed in all similar cases brought before
him. Mr. Foote made the rounds of the
judges with a similar prayer, and after
ward addressed ex-senator Fair on the
same subject.