The San Francisco call., 1896-08-12
HOW SENATOR FAIR
WOOED MRS, CRAVEN
Filled Her Pockets With
Gold and Called Her
Dearie."
ONCE SHE RAN AWAY.
They Were to Have Been Mar.
ried by a Minister, but
She Escaped.
FOR THERE WAS NO LICENSE.
The Fair Deponent Was Piled With
Searching Questions and Was
Unshaken to the End.
FOR THERE WAS NO LICENSE.

Mrs. Nettie R. Craven resumed her
deposition in the Fair will case yesterday
at her home on Guerrero street. Mr..
McEnerney asked her many questions
during the forenoon. He asked her how
she fixed Septem Der "a as the day upon
which Senator Fair made his will in he1
house. She explained that she had sew.
eral ways to do this. One circumstance
by which her memory was refreshed was
that she was absent from school that dav.
She had been absent at other times, but q
particular happening fixed this absence in
her memory. Senator Fair had told her
that he would call on September "a. The
day preceding, namely, Septe ember %
Mrs. Purcell, her dressmaker, came to the
house and remained there all night. She
told Mrs. Purcell that she would be busy
the following day, and more conversation
took place OIL the morning of September
"a. which ran, according to the memory
of the witness, as follows:
II told her that an important person
was coming, but | will not swear that /
mentioned the name of Senator Fair. Mrs.
Purcell said: i know who il is: it is Sem
ator Fair l did not deny that. / sent
word that day to the school by Mrs. Pur-
cell that would not be at the school,"
Some questions were asked as to whom
this message was sent, but nothing of spe-
cial interest was drawn out. Mrs. Craven
SAID that she ordinarily would have noti-
fed the vice.principal of the school. Mrs.
Purcell was living at that time on the cor
ner of Howard and Thirteenth streets.
Mrs. Craven was led also to testify con-
corning the persons who saw the will
which Senator Fair drew at her home.
No. l. a.
the will to Mrs. Haskins before she sent it
to her daughter in New York She could
not recollect whether she first showed the
will to Mr.. Lloyd or Mr.. Roberts. The
last named knew that she had the will.
OF course Mr.. Roberts, who went to Sac
ramento to talk with Governor Budd,
knew about the will. She told him that
she had the will before he went to Sacra-
mento. When she told HIM he asked.
"Why didn't you tell me before?'
II told him that he would have told me
to file it Immediately, and / did not want
any publicity. | do not think that he
would have let me send it away, so
think that did not show it to him before
! sent it to my daughter"
During the forenoon the condition of
Mrs. Craven's health was inquired about.
DR.. Clinton, her physician, who has been
in constant attendance during the deposi-
ton, said that she was well enough to go
on. The testimony was therefore re-
sumed yesterday afternoon.
At the afternoon session Mrs. Craven
was examined by Mr.. Delmas.
Mrs, Craven testified that when she
lived at the Occidental Hotel Senator Fair
often dined at her table and often visited
her in her room.
"Was there any occasion before the exc
cution of the marriage contract was made
upon which Senator Fair proposed that
you should marry him?'
"Yes, sir. This was some time in the
latter part of 1890 or 1891 when was liv-
ing at the Langdon Hotel. He said: well,
we have talked long enough about getting
married. Why not get marred2' 1t was
a rainy night. / said, why, Senator.
what is the use of talking that way? You
know that we can never agree. My mother