The record-union., 1895-03-19
EneciaI to the REcoRp-UN1oN.

purports TO be q later will than the one
previously offered for probate was intro
duced into the case. The will first pro-
duced, it will be remembered, was stolen
from the County Clerks Office, and in or
der that the document might be probated,
Judge Slack had finally ruled that cer-
titled copy of the will might be sub
mitted.
Upon the alleged will introduced to-day
q bitter contest will hinge. This new
document purports to be Photographic
will. II is written in red pencil on two
sheets of legal cap paper. 1t was brought
into court securely framed between two
plates of glass, and was presented by
Reuben Lloyd, attorney for Virginia
Fair and Mrs. Herman OelrichS OF \ eW
\ ork, daughters of the deceased. The
attorneys tor Charley Fair, their brother,
came into court with Mr.. Lloyd, and ap-
parentIy approved OF the proceedings
There is no longer any doubt that the
three children have combined to fight for
the probate of this latest alleged will.
Under its provisions the vast estate
would be divided almost equally be-
tween the two daughters and Charley
Fair and the distribution would be made
at once. Under the will previously
offered for probate these children would
get only the income from the estate dur
ing their term OF life, ana upon the terms
the estate would be divided into three
equal parts, one part going to the chill
dren of Mrs. Oelrlchs, one part to the
children of Virginia Fair, unless she die
without issue, when this share would re-
vert TO the children OF Mrs. Oeirichs, and
the remaining one-third to the families OF
several brothers and sisters OF the de-
ceased. Charles Fairs recent marriage
caused an enstrangemeut between him
self and his father, and he was cut Oft
with life interest in the income OF the
estate. The widow would receive
nothing.
In other respects, the will first pro-
duced and the alleged will produced to-
day are very similar. Under the first
VIII the two sisters Of the deceased,
Margaret j. Crothers of San Jose and
Mrs. Mary Anderson OF Ida Grove, Ia.,
would get $3.50, 600 each. Under this sec
ond Will each would receive 500, 900. The
liberal bequests to the brothers Of the de-
ceased and their children remain prac-
ideally unchanged in the second will. In
the second Will, however, Charley Fair
receives a special beQuest of $500. 900 to be
soaid Immediately before the distribution
=, the estate.
Ia both wills SI50,0OO is beQueathed to
the various orphan asy!ums OF san Fran
cisco, SJG,UOJ 10 Herman OelrichS and
small amounts TO trusted employees of the
deceased. Ia the second will an addi-
tiOnal bequest of $4,000 is made as the
nucleus of q fund for the peuSIOuing Of
aged school teachers. Aiessrs. Angus
and CrOtheTs and DR.. Mark Livingstone
are named as executors under the second
will Angus and CrOthers are two of the
four executors named in the Will preVi-
Ously filed, and which gave the executors
entire control Of the estate, at tat salaries,
"a nf al 7 ,bi Ia
Attorney Lloyd, in presenting the Sec
Ond alleged viii, explained that accord
ing to It's date il was executed three days
later than the will previously nled. He
Eald he would prove that the existence of
this Will had been known to several peO-
pie, and that after a long search it had
finally been found in the possession of "a
very estimable lady" whose name Mr..
Lloyd would not divulge at present. lie
stated that she had not produced 1t before
because she had read OF the other Will
being offered Tor probate, and had sup
posed that 1t was later document than
the one held by her. Furthermore, she
had desired to avoid the publicity.
The attorneys tor the executors under
the first Will intimated very strongly that
they believed this alleged viii TO be a
forgery. Further probate proceedings
were finally continued until April I'd.
LATER-It now turns out that the new
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Cravens, Principal in the public schools,
who was great friend OF Senator Fair
The Will was written in the house of Mrs
Uaskins, with whom Mrs. Cravens was
living, and in the presence OF both wit
nesses. 1t came about in this way:
Senator Fair had gone TO visit Mrs. Crav-
ems, and their conversation turned to
wills, and Senator Fair said his lawyers
did not seem TO get his will just az he
would like 1t, and made several other re-
marks which lead Mrs, Cravens to pro-
pose that he make new Will then and
there, and have her as witness, and that
ae make provision in the will Tor fund
to support school teachers who had been
teaching Tor twenty-five years or more, to
all Of which the late Senator agreed, and
then sat down and wrote the paper which
was presented to the court to-day.
The reason assigned Tor keeping the
new will SO long in the background is
that the custodian did not look at the date
when Fair died, and when the old Will
was made public she thought it was one
of later date.
In conversation to-day, Governor
Budd, one of Charley Fairs counsel,
saIa: Mrs. Craven was up to Sacramento
IN the interest of the teachers pension
bill, and she dropped the remark about
the legacy to the pension fund. | sent
Tor her, and after a little she told me the
whole story. | then sent her to Mr..
Lloyd, and that is all there is to it. Mrs.
craven was a great friend of Senator
Falr; lived tor years at the same hotel
with him, and he was a frequent visitor
10 her home. He wrote the Will and
gave 1t to her to keep"
Charged With Criminal Assault.
WOODLAND, March lS.-John Slatterly.
married man Of Woodland, has been
arrested for criminal assault, committed
last night on Mrs. Daniel Quinn of Madi-
SON. Slatterly knew Mrs. Quinn in Ire
land, and Sunday Quinn and his wife
came into town and dined with Slatterly,
Later the party met at the hotel. and
during the temporary absence of Ouinn.
Mrs. Quinn aud Slatterly left the house
together. Later Mrs Quinn was found
unconscious in a vacant lot, She was
badly bruised, and, her clothing torn.
She accused Slatterly of assault. and he
was arrested to-day.
a Ships officer Meets Instant Death.
PORT TOWNSEND, March lS.-Arcbi-
bald Anderson, head officer of the Brit
ish ship Linlithgowshire, now in port.
to-day was accidentally struck by ballast
basket and knocked down into the hold
and instantly killed. Within the last
three months three deaths occurred
aboard the vessel. Her Captain died when