The San Francisco call., 1896-08-13

=, "Was as any member of your family
Declined to answer.
"Was it not a fact that you went to
your fathers Office with DR.. Levingston to
effect reconciliation
Eyes, 1 suppose that is so, if you put it
in that way"
''Is not that fact without any suppo-
sition-isn't that true?"
81 went there to meet my father for the
purpose of seeing If he was friendly to me.
DR.. Levingston suggested going there.
That is the reconciliation to which l may
have referred in an interview with a
reporter"
been filed did you believe that your father
had filed another will of later date, written
wholly by himself and leaving all the
property to you and to your sisters ?'
81 believed that another will, differing
from the trust will, had been made"
did you believe that that will, later
than the trust will, vas written wholly
by himselfP
mo, can't say that did"
Ibid you believe that will had been
written leaving all the property to yourself
and your sisters? ?"
"I believed that. l had a talk with
Mr.. Angus and he said that nv father
had made another will equally dividing
the property. In the trust will nothing
was divided and this led me to believe
that there must be a later will. l may
have said in an interview with Chronicle
reporter that l believed that my father
had left will written entirely by himself
and that Angus and Bresse believed so.n
"If you said that in an interview were
the statements then maoe true?"
ITO the best of my belief they were if
made the statements"
Ibid you after that time set about to
find out whether there was such will
later than the trust will and giving the
property to yourself and your sisters2"
1--WE applied for an order of the court to
search all wills in my fathers pos
session."
The witness said that he first had an IN
timation of the pencil will from Governor
Budd, who was at that time his nsel.
He could not fix the date when the Cover
nor spoke about the pencil will. He heard
nothing concerning the Craven will at that
time excepting through his counsel. He
first saw the Craven will at Mr.. Lloyd's.
Before he saw that will he had entered
into an agreement and signed papers for
the benefit of Mrs. Nettie L. Craven. He
signed the instrument perhaps week be-
fore he saw the Craven will. He signed in
Mr.. lloyds office. He did not see the
left to the attorneys.
Mr.. Delmas said that he wished to show
that the witness understood the agree
ment at the time it was signed, but the
questions were objected to. The wit
ness continued that the parties to the in
strument were his sisters and himself,
Mrs. Craven and Richard Y. Dey. He
thought that he saw the Craven will March
16. There were present Mr.. Lloyd, Mr..
Knight, Mr.. Heggerty, Charles S. Hale
and Mr.. Walsh, Mr.. Floods private Sec
retary, and others.
did you say, This is my fathers hand
writing"
"No. 1 said: 4 think 1t is like my
fathers handwriting. and | think it is. :"
A certain interview was read. In this
Charles Fair was represented as saying
that his father might have made will in
favor of Angus and Bresse just to fool
them and to make them slave. The wit
ness testified tnat his father might have
done such thing.
"Is that your conception of your fathers
characterP"
81 think that ne might have done that. I"
"Then it would, in your opinion, have
been entirely in accordance with your
fathers temperament disposition and in
clination 10 have told them that he had
made a will in which they had been re-
mem bered, and then chuckle and go off
and make a new willP"
mo, sir. If he had promised to do a
thing, l think be would have done so.
My father may have been influenced to
have made such will, and then have
gone off and made another"
WAS your father subject to undue in
fiuence?"
81 don't know"
"You have charged that he wasp
He may have BEEN"
"By whom 2'
The witness declined to answer
"Did Mr.. Heggerty in the presence of
all the parties in Mr.. Lloyd's room, when
the pencil will was produced, say that the
handwriting was your fathers"
The witness declined to answer this
question. Then he was asked whether the
handwriting in the will was declared by
Russell I. Wilson or by Richard Y. Dey
to be his fathers handwriting. He de-
clined to answer concerning Mr. Wilson.
Richard V. Dev had so declared on another
occasion. Witness would not answer
whether Charles Neal, his fathers secre-
tary, had declared, after taking days to
examine the paper, that it was in the
handwriting of James G. Fair.
AT noon recess was taken and the hear
ing was resumed in the afternoon. Mr.. Fair
said he remembered when the Craven will
was produced in court. He heard the re-
marks made then by Mr.. Lloyd. He
thought he knew the contents of the petit
tlon concerning the Craven will. He had
asked the court to admit that will to pro-
bate. The petition was signed by himself,
by his sisters and by at least his attorney.
Mr.. Delmas read the petition in part,
and Mr.. Fair averred that the several
clauses that were read were true. The
will which was referred to as the last will
and testament of James G. Fair in tae pc
tition was the Craven will