The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1896-07-10

have been mistaken. Then Delmas went
into detail that no possibility of doubt
should remain.
"Who brought these conveyanoes tc
you?" he asked.
''Mr. Fair"
"Who hand them to your"
"Mr. Fair"
.'Who acknowledged them to be his and
to be signed by him Pr
"Mr. Fair"
"Did you after that fill out the certif
cate OF acknowledgements"
II did,"
ibid you make an entry in your book:
OF this transaction? ?"
II made a memorandum"
Have you that book with you here2"
az have"
The book was produced and the memo
randum read, as follows:
27. James G. Fair to Nettie R. Craven
Deed date September 1884. Gift. Lot NV
corner Eleventh and Mission streets, n. 2 %
by $50.
81. James G. Fair to Nettie r. Craven.
Deed date Sept. 8, 1894. Gift. Lot Sw. cor,
Pine and sansome streets, 22715 feet by 1874
The memorandum, as was all the others
in the book, was written in pencil.
Photographs of the deeds were pre-.
sented by Delmas as exhibits, it not being
the intention to leave the original docu-
ments.
Here the recess was taken. Mr.. Nc
Enerney began the cross-examination in
the afternoon by going into the history oil
Mr.. Cooney's appointment as notary by
Governor Waterman in 1887, and follow
ing it until he resigned in 1895. His Office
was at IL Montgomery street, in the Lick
House block, at the time Mr.. Fair made
the Acknowledgements referred TO.
The witness could not remember what
time of day it was that Senator Fair came
into his Office, nor did he remember
whether he really came into the stall of
which his office consisted; did not re-
member what he said exactly; did not
know about the property conveyed in the
deeos; he had, however, distinct recol-
lection of the Senator's visit.
Mr.. McEnerney asked infinitely as to the
circumstances, the number of chairs in
the stall, whether he was seated at his
desk or standing up when the Senator
came in, but the witness had no distinct
recollection of these circumstances.
He did not remember ever having seen
Senator Fair after this; did not know of
ever having taken the acknowledge ents
of any other deed written in pencil. He
never spoke to any one about the circum-
stance of the acknowledgements was first
spoken to about the matter about two
weeks before the deeds were put on record.
George +. Williams and Stephen Roberts
came to him and asked if the signature
and seal were his; he said they were. He
also told them thai, he remembered Sena-
tor Fair coming into the office, but could
not recall what it was about without look
ing up his record, but he would remember
it then. Witness kept no cash account or
record of his receipts as notary.
He identified the natarial record and
said that he knew what the deeds pur-
ported to convey, as the descriptions were
written there.
The records kept by the witness of his
business as notary from 1887 to the end of
1894 were produced. They were neatly
written sheets of yellow legal blank paper
bound in parts containing each the record
of a year. The witness said these were
not the original entries. but that copies
had been made from the original and The
original thereupon destroyed-all except
the record Of the last year which remained