The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-15
MR. AND MRS. FAIR KILLED
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had been crushed in, while his wife's skull was split. The Chauffeur was tel ribly affected at the calamity and seem- ed bereft of his senses. He threw him. self into a ditch on the opposite side of the road and rolled himself about cry ing ''My poor masters
 NJ. Borson, owner of the Chateau Buisson du Mai. was summoned and after advising the local authorities of the accident he ordered the bodies of MT. and Mrs. Fair to be carried to the gate keepers lodge. Here they now lie on mattresses, and flowers have been strwn over them. In the room are three wax tapers burning daily.
 The accident was evidently due to the bursting of a tire. At the time it oc- cured the automobile, which was capa- ble of running seventy-four miles an horu, was going at the rate of sixty-tWO miles an hour.
 The local police authorities hold in their possession and have sealeG 1.p 9 valise belonging to the Fairs and which contains jewelry.
 MT. Fairs lawyer, Mir. Haggerty, .says the death of Charles Fair will not upset the present arrangements for the man. agement of the Fair estate. The Irop- erty is now managed by Herman Oel- richs. There is much speculation as to what will become of Charles Fairs share of the estate. On this point Mr. Haggerty says:
 Under the law of California, when a couple are victims of common calaIn- ity and both are between seventeen and seventy years of age and there IS no evidence as to which died first the man is presumed to have lived the longer.
 ''In such case all the property would go to MT. Fairs relatives.
 "On the other hand, if there is evidence to show that Mrs. Fair lived longer than her husband. her relatives in the east would inherit the property ill., volved."
 So little is known here of Mrs. Fairs relatives that MT. Haggerty says he does not known where her heirs reside. 1t is supposed, however, that they live in New Jersey.
 San Francisco, Aug. 14.-Charles Fair had been enthusiastic about automo- piles ever since the machines came in- to use abroad. He was one of the first to bring automobiles to this coast and he eNowned three or Sour of them. He had what was perhaps the largest and swiftest automobile in California. It was a huge French racing machine and capable. it is said, of going at speed of seventy miles an hour. It had for- ty horse power engine. He imported it from France and with it imported a chauffeur.
 Fair was interested also in yachting and owned the steam yacht Lucero.
 Charles Fair and +is wife left San Francisco for Europe on May 30 last to stay two or three months.
 Charles Fair was the third of the four children of the late MT. and Mrsr. James G. Fair Teresa, who Is now the wife of Herman Oelrichs. is the eldest of the heirs. Then came James G., Jr., who died about ten wears ago. Charles was the third and the youngest was Virginia, the wife of W. K. Vanderbilt, Tr.
 In the spring of 1894 Charles married Maude Nelson. The ceremony touk place in Oakland and it was almost a secret one.
 Charles Fair was one of the three heirs to an immense estate, estimated in value at between s25, 900 900 and ESQ., 000, 900.
 When informed of the tragic end of his brother flaw, and his wife, this afternooon, Herman Oelrichs said:
 T am terribly shocked hut not sur prised. I said only a few days ago that if Charles persisted in carrying on his experiments along this line the result would be fatal sooner or later. I have warned him repeatedly but he always laughted and said there was no dan ger"
 In letter received last week MT. Fair said he intended sailing for the United States on August 18th.
 MT. Fair went to Europe to see what improvements had been made during the last year or two in automobiles" said MT. Oeirichs. "He had purchased new one, he said, that could sustain a speed of eighty-five miles an hour for several hours. It was built along ratii. cally new lines and would be one of the first machines of it's class to be im- ported into tse United States"
 Charles Fair was born in Virginia City, New. on April Il. 1867. He brought the first automobile across the continent to this city. He was also greatly interested in photography and constructed one of the largest cameras ever built in the United States.