Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-18
Women Who Claimed to Be
Common Law Wife Of Sena-
tor Fair Sent to Asylum
ACTED IN VIOLENT MANNER
Attendants at the Hotel Delano Had
Strenuous Time in Taking Care of
Dementcd Notwithstanding About
Mrs. craven's Remarkable Career
Iowa News.
Special to Times-Republican.

sanity against her and send her to
the Mt. Pleasant asylum, Mrs. jeanette
r. Craven, presented a sad spectacle
at the court house yesterday after
noon. But she was judged insane, and
it was determined to take her to Mt.
Pleasant on the 1928 o'clock train last
evening.
The custodian officer, Mike Flynn,
and Special Eugene Boyle, had an ex-
citing time with Mrs. Craven Sunday
night. She sent them out Of her room,
| they complying since she had not
grown violent and they wished to hui
NOR her as much as possible. Later on
she threw fine cut tobacco in the eyes
of her nurse, Miss Eva Killough. of
the Burlington hospital as the latter
was sitting in her chair, and then ran
and locked herself in one of the three
rooms which she had engaged at the
hotel She later ordered Miss Killough
out of the room only to command her
to come. back, when the temporary fury
had passed. Both the officers say much
credit is due Miss Killough for her un-
firing vigilance and patience. She had
been up for three days and three
nights without bit of rest, and had
to bear with all the whims and fam
| cies of her deranged patient Once
Mrs. Craven got out of her room and
ran down the hall, telling the officers
to get out of her way. When stopped
by Flynn she struck him savage blow
on the head with bunch of heavy
keys, inf1icting painful wound. For
mer Deputy City Marshal A. L. Sauer-
mann, who had relieved Flynn and
Boyle yesterday morning as watchman,
was called about noon into Mrs. Graz
ven's room by Miss Killough, who told
him Mrs. Craven had just crawled out
of the window of her room onto the
hotel roof. Sauernlann caught Mrs.
Craven just as she was trying to get
down to the ground by guide wire,
| and had a severe tussle with her. He
managed to get her back into her
room.
Yesterday afternoon, when brought
to the court house, Mrs. Craven was
extremely nervous, and talked inces-
sanity. Occasionally she would en-
plastic her remarks by patting her
auditor on the arm. Most of the time
she kept her eyes closed but seemed to
be aware Of any movement going on in
the room. She is a tall, slender woman
with. the haggard face of a victim Of
the opium habit. 1t is said that she
smokes cigarets almost constantly,
and also is victim of the opium habit
and of the drink habit. She was neatly
dressed yesterday, but was exceedingly
ungainly in her movements, walking
with decided limping step, biting her
nails and never sitting still.
The informant was John A. Robert
son, of Washington, Iowa. DR.. McKit-
terick, of the local board of commits
sioners on the insane, explained their
position and the position of Des Moines
county in this matter, to Attorney
Eichler, who represents Mrs. Craven's
relatives, and to DR.. 3. 4. Wickham,
also of Washington, who has hal
charge of. her. The two points to be
decided, DR.. McKitterick explained,
were her place of residence, and
whether or not she were insane. At
torney Eichler explained the main
points in the case 1t seems that one
point he wished to emphasize was tina.
he is not the temporary guardian Of
Mrs. Craven. He said that he was once
appointed to that position about a year
ago. to prevent her leaving town one
time. But it was only for one emer-
gency. And he is now representing
Mrs. Craven's relatives, and not her at
all.
He said in his explanatory remarks
that she had been living at Washing
ton county. Iowa, and that she had
escaped from there and gone to Harms
hotel, Rock Island, having paid a
banker of Washington three dollars
for driving her over to a station one
night A week ago she learned that
her relatives at Washington, having
learned of her whereabouts. were pay
ing all her expenses at Harms hotel
at Rock Island. That, he said, was the
reason she left there and came to
Burlington. For she did not want to
be dependent on anyone. He contin-
ued and said Mrs. Craven was res
ident of California, making this ex-
PLANTATION to Attorney G. L. Poor, while
Attorney John j. Seerley was the at
torney into whose hands Attorney
Eichler had placed his affairs during
his absence from the city. He then
told the story Of her career briefly, the
following points being brought out:
Mrs. Craven has been connected with
the schools Of San Francisco and was
at one time the only woman member
Of the board Of education. She showed
political skill, became Senator Fairs
stenographer, and at his death insti-
tuted the legal proceedings on the
ground that he had been her husband.
Her daughter married President Koch
Ter, Of the American Brewing Co., of
St. Louis, during the time that the
litigation was being waged. Previous
to this Miss vraven had been on the
stage. She was beautiful, and altho
scarcely eighteen years old, she made
a decided hit in Burlington when she
PLAYED here in Men and Women" She
handed over all her earnings to her
mother to help defray the expenses OF
the litigation.
Mrs. Craven's first husband--if, as
Attorney Eichler explained. Senator
Fair was ever her husband-was Prof
fessor Craven of Johns Hopkins uni
versity. She had become separated
from him just shortly before she be-
came acquainted with Senator Fair. 1t
was during the time she was with Fair
that she became addicted to the use
of opiates. cigarets. and alcoholic bev-
erages. She had lost confidence in her
relatives, and had appointed a financial
agent for her trust fund in San Fran