The San Francisco call., 1896-06-21
MRS. CRAVEN IN
A DRAMATIC ROLE,
Served With a Subpoena in
the Palace Hotel
Corridor.
The Document Thrown to the Ground
aud the Server Threatened
With Arrest.

Events, portentous and dramatic char
acterized the developments in the matter
already famous, though but of two days
growth, as the case of the Craven deeds.
Portentous in that they are the pre-
Iiminary steps to bringing to an issue one
OF the most important phases of the great
Fair will controversy; dramatic by reason
of the exciting incident that was enacted
in the corridor OF the Palace Hotel when
| an attempt was made to serve subpoena
on Mrs. Craven, ordering among other
things that she produce in Judge Slack's
| court on Monday evening the two deeds
that were placed on record Friday.
OF all the attorneys connected with the
Fair will case only Reuben H. Lloyd,
representing the interests OF Mrs Oelrichs
and Miss Virginia Fair, and Charles J.
Heggerty of Knight e. Heggerty, repre-
senting Charles Fair, were in town yester-
day. There was a consultation between
the two attorneys, and then, as matter of
protection to all interested under the wills
now under ad Indication, ii was determined
to take prompt measures to test the
validity OF the Craven deeds, whereby
| 81. go, GOO worth of real property of the
Fair estate purported to have been con-
y
| James G. Fair about three months before
| his death.
| Mr.. Lloyd was busy on the Baldwin
| Ashley case, so Mr.. Heggerty proceeded
| alone to Judge Slacks courtroom and
| moved the court to issue forthwith an
order commanding Mrs. Craven to pro-
duce the two deeds and all other docu-
ments, papers, books, written wholly or in
| part by the deceased millionaire.
| This the court did at noon, and about
| three hours later the following document
was served, so it is claimed by Mr., Heg-
gerty, on Mrs. Craven:
| In the Superior Court of the City and County
| OF San Francisco, State of California.
| In the matter of the estate of James G. Fair
| deceased.
! In the matter of the contest of Charles L. Fair
| to the document herein flied OF date September
| "a, 1894, and propounded by Marc Leyingston
| as the last will of said deceased.
The people of the State of California send
| greeting to Nettie K. craven.
We command you, that all and singular busi-
ness and excuses being laid aside you appear
and attend before the undersigned, Charles
] w. Slack, one OF the Judges of the above men,
| toned court, at the courtroom of Departm
| 10 of the above mentioned court, in the new
| City Hall i'll the City and County of San Fran
cisco, on the I'D day of June, 1896, at 7:30
P. NJ, then and there to testify in the above en-
titled proceeding now pending in the
said Superior Court on the part of
| the contestant. and that you bring with you
1 anu prOuuce tilen ana tnere Sill DOOkS, papers
and writings OF every nGture and kind exc
! cuted or written, in whole or in art by James
! G. Fair, deceased, which are now III your Gus
| tody; and particularly, that you have then
| and there with you two certain deeds, purport-
| ing to have been executed by said James G.
| Fair deceased, on the 9Th day OF Septem ber
| 1894, and alleged to have been acknowledged
| by him before j. ]. Cooney, a notary pubic in
and for the City and County of San Francisco
! State of California, on the 9th day of Septem-
| Der, 1894, which two deeds were filed Tor rec
ord and recorded in the Office of the County
| Recorder of the City and County of San Fran
cisco, State of California, on the 10th day OF
! June, 1896.
! In witness whereof, the undersigned has
| and County of San Francisco. State of CAlifor-
| MA, on this, the Goth day OF June, 1896.
| CHARLES w. SLACK,
| Judge of the Superior Court in and for the
City and County of San Francisco State of
California.
According to Mrs. Craven the serving of
this paper in a public place like the cor
ridor of the Palace Hotel was unneces-
| sarv, as she states that she was not then,
| had not been and is not now endeavoring
/ to avoid service of papers or any person or
| persons. This is Mrs. Craven's version of
| the occurrence:
II had entered the Market-street en-
trance of the Palace Hotel and had
| stopped at the newsstand, few feet IN
side the corridor, when man without any
preliminary warning jammed paper
under my arm, between my coat and my
waist, the former being open. l did not
| know what he was after. and his actions
were 50 ungentlemanly, not TO say rough,