The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-03-26
THINKS HIS EXECUTOR RELATIVE
HAS BEEN Too MUCH OF
A MEDDLER.
ALWAYS WITH HIS FATHER
\ BROTHER OF MARY ELLEN
LAMPMAN DENIES MRS.
GREGoRY'S STORY.

his father was engaged to marry Miss
Phoebe Couzins, but he believes that her
statement that the senior Fair was sub
jected to undue influence by Angus and
Bresse is true. He says that it is probably
true that Angus and Bresse were not in
Chicago at the time Miss Couzins declares
they were, and he thinks she has confused
the two with Herbert Clark and Crothers,
his cousin. He describes Clark as "Hppy
and saucy," and comedies with the opinion
expressed by Miss Couzins with regard to
him.
OF Angus and Bresse young Fair says:
1t was my fathers intention to dismiss them
from his service; He told me SO month be-
fore he died, and that was some time after the
making of the will which made them two of
the executors of the estate.
Charles Fair does not entertain a very
kindly feeling toward his cousin Crothers.
lie declares that he was constantly with
his father, and sought to prevent any meet
! ing between father and son.
When would go to call on my father at the
Lick House would always find Grothers there.
He would never leave us alone, but wanted to
remain to hear everything that was said.
Once met my father on Market street near the
Baldwin. That was, 1 believe, a short time after
| the date of the Pierson will. Crothers was with
him. In order to get rid OF him my father
walked out into thesmiddle of the street with
me. He left Crothers on the sidewalk. We
stood out in the street by the cable tracks, and
my father spoke about making his WILL stating
| that he was going TO leave me portion of the
| estate. He asked me how he should make the
| will, and said;
Gather, if you wish to leave me something
make the will in your own way that will suit
me-"
He spoke again about what method he should
pursue, and told him that would leave that
| to his Judgment. He then joined Crothers on
| the sidewalk and walked up the street
never had the least idea that he thought of
| making trust of the property. He was always
| opposed to trusts and expressed himself so, de-
claring that man could look out for his own
better than anybody else. He furnished me
with the means to fight one trust that is in my
lar that he should make will after that with
a trust in it. 1t was the last thing that an
ticipated that he would make trust will.
Young Fair declared that Miss Couzins
| had written to him after his fathers death
expressions of coincidence, and assuring
| him that she would do all that Law in her
power to assist the children to receive their
| rights to the estate.
Another thing of which Charles Fair
complains is the action of Angus and
Brusse and those who are with them with
| respect to his fathers effects: He says:
| The breath was scarcely out of his bodv-it
was not fifteen minutes after his death-before
they ransscked the room and took all the pa
! pers, valises and everything they could find
| family should have those papers There are
| some which it might be wise to destroy and
others which should be kept. You can under
| stand that strangers should not have posses
sion of all of his private papers.
| Charles Fair was not more explicit in his
! reference to these private papers. 1t has
been limited by those opposed to the holo-
| graphic will that the contest for the Fair
estate would be productive of greater
sensations than the famous Sharon case
called forth. Did young Fair refer to this
when he spoke of the private papers which
the executors under the Person will now
possessf
There is one thing definitely known
about the Photographic will. 1t was not
written at the Lick House in Fairs apart
| ments. That is admitted Beyond that
neither attorneys nor Mrs. Craven will
| make statement. 1t is now regarded as
almost certain that the information which
r. II. Warfield and Mrs. Blixt Paxton
possess relates to the Photographic will.
| Application for letters testamentary on
the Fair estate were filed yesterday in the
Probate Court on behalf of DR.. Marc
Livingston under the provisions of the
| Photographic will of September "a, by
Attorneys J. D. Sullivan and Lansing
| Miner.
The other two executors, James s. Angus
| and Thomas Crothers, named in the latest
will, have already qualified under the So
called trust will, so there is no further
| action required on their part.
| In referring to the complications over
the Fair estate Attorney j. d. Sullivan put
an entirely new phase on the matter and
said that the situation was comparatively
| simple one. He said:
| 1t will, of course, be necessary to prove the
genuineness OF the Photographic will, and this
| there will be little trouble in doing.
| There will probably be no opposition to the
| probating of this will, as only those directly
interested in the estate, by virtue of being nat
/ n ND ino
court. All the legatees mentioned in the trust
will have been equally well remembered in the
! Photographic will, or virtually SO. Consequently
no one will be interested in contesting the tes-
| lament of September "a except the executors
named in the trust, and they, according to de-
contest the validity of the later document, as
they are not parties in interest.
One possibility of contest, however, does ex-
list, but no great Importance is attached to this
1t is that the alleged Legitimate daughter of
| the late James Fair Jr., said to have been
adopted by Mrs. Gregory, may find some one to
interest himself in her behalf. If it can be
proved that the deceased son of the late Sena-
tor was the child's father she will have legal
claim on the estate and will be entitled to con.
test the probatlng OF the Photographic will.
George W. Lampman, brother of May
Ella Lampman, the dead girl who is said
to have married James G. Fair Jr by con-
tract and born him child, repudiates the
story as base fabrication and malicious
SANDER of the dead. In an interview last
night at the Baldwin Theater, where Mr..
Lampman is employed as usher, he said:
at is all lie from beginning to end
Ny sister never knew Young jim Fair or
any of the Fair family. This woman, Mrs.
Gregory, has concocted the story in order
to get hold of some of the Fair estate
that's all there is to it. All the dates that
Mrs. Gregory has given of the alleged con-
tract marriage, birth of the child and nv
sisters presence at certain places make the
whole story absolutely impossible Ny
sister never was away from my grandfather
and grandmother more than three months
in her life.
1.-The truth of the matter is simply this, -
he continued. "Mrs. Gregory got hold of
the child she now has somewhere else, for
reasons that she only knows She has
waited until all the persons named by her
as being witnesses and parties to the
alleged contract are dead-all except old
Mr.. Rippey,, and be is OF unsound mind.
And now she springs this ridiculous and
shameful story at the expense of my sis
ter's good name and memory.
"After this report came out I went with
J.