The San Francisco call., 1896-06-28
THE. FAIR DEEDS
UNDER 4 GLASS,
The Opponents of Mrs.
Craven Searching for
Flaws.
A MICROSCOPE IN USE.
Members of the Board of Educa-
ton Talk About the
Teacher.
MRS. CRAVEN IS STILL ILL.
No. New Move Made by Either Side to
the Controversy Yesterday.
All Busy.
MRS. CRAVEN Is STILL ILL.

Mrs. Nettie R. Craven was too i'll to be
seen yesterday, but her daughter Mar
garet, speaking in her behalf, said:
Mamma does not fear the attacks of
her enemies and those who are paid TO op-
pose her in this matter of the deeds. she
is perfectly secure in her position and her
Legal counsel will do the rest"
What about this move in regard to dis
placing her in the School Department.
Nothing. Mamma does not believe
there will be any such move, whatever
may be the unguarded utterances of some
individual on the Grand Jury, or even on
the Board of School Directors itself.
Mamma has been in the department for
number Of years now, and her record is
one of nard work and great benefit to the
City. She will not discuss the question a.
all, except TO characterize the suggested
movement as a cowardly and un0erhanded
attempt by some one with a grievance to 90
her an injury at this time. 1t cannot,
however, succeed,
Concerning the marriage Miss "Birdie"
said: The marriage contract Will be made
public in court just as soon after its arrival
here as it is demanded. There is no dlspo-
sition now on mamma part TO keep back
anything that Is In regard to this affair,
only that she is advised by her attorneys
to say nothing, and as they are IN COM
mand of the suIp now she must obey or
ders. Besides, she is i'll to-day and could
not see anybody"
So far as the attempt to remove Mrs.
Craven from ner position as principal OF
the Mission Grammar School is concerned,
Mrs. Craven seems TO have been speaking
by the card. a poll of the members OF
the school board made yesterday by CALL
reporters discovered only two Of the enulre
number who were disposed to look with
any severity upon Mrs. Craven as result
of her recent disclosure of her relation
ship to Senator Fair.
These two-Scott and Murdock-freely
expressed the opinion that Mrs. Craven's
usefulness in the department was at an
end and that she should resign. Failing
TO do that, the board should remove
her. Others were disposed to qualify their
ce2sure, but majority cried 'nands off, y
ana a fair trial That the matter viii
come before the board there is no doubt,
aid il is possible tnat a special meeting
VIII be called &c consider 1t.
III the meantime the eyes of the army of
lawyers opposing the claim OF the teacher
are bulging out with an eagerness for the
discovery of flaws in The wills submitted to
their inspection Friday night and yester-
day. Yesterday presentatives of both
sides were present when Photographic
copies were made of the documents.
The lawyers in opposition to Mrs. Craven
declared they had found yesterday vital
flaw in the deeds, such as was calculated
to head off few threatened and premature
wrinkles and to permit them to sleep again
at nights.
The flaw was the omission in the de-
scription OF the property of the words
''the City and County OF San Francisco"
This, they say, is sufficient in itself to in
validate the wills.
''The Supreme Court" said George
Knight 'has decided in so many words
that for the same reason-for similar
omission-it could not recognize Judicially
the location of Golden Gate PARK. There
may be Golden Gate parks in any city on
earth. Likewise there may be Sansome
streets and Mission streets and Pine streets
in New Orleans or Borneo.
s'These deeds greatly simplify our case,"
continued Knight. 1.-The question of COM
promising with Mrs. Craven does not now
enter iutO it. We shall fight her on every
proposition. We are in position to prove
the biggest kind of conspiracy, partially
carried out in forgery. We have the data,
and it will be forthcoming to show that
this plot has been long and carefully pre-
pared and deliberately carried out"
r. B. Mitchell conversed along the same
lines, and Charles Heggerty went away on
a vacation.
Reuben Lloyd was equally sanguine of
being able to prove the deeds to be forger-
les. He said that the signature OF Jam es
G. Fair on one of the deeds was written, to
all appearances, over an erasure, also the
date. Septem Der s, 1894. He thought that
something more might be revealed under
the microscope.
On the other hand the attorneys for Mrs.
Fair are as entirely and quietly confident
as the others are boisterous.