The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-02-27
LUCY FAIR,
On whose nccount her husband and his
brother Allen were murdered.

brother Allen were murdered
aroused his suspicious. and excited
his anger beyond all control. Calling
the doomed woman into his room, IN
a frenzy of jealous rage he shot her
to death in the presence OF her three
little children, and then turning the
pistol on his own body, killed him
self Before doing SO. however, he
tried to shoot little Mary. Mrs.
Beavers's. oldest daughter, because the
though unavailingly. to protect her
mother from death at the hands OF her
disappointed and Infatuated lover.
The pistol with which he wrought
such deadly havoc was the seifsame
one with which his daughter had taken
her own life some years before.
So, for the second time in their brief
but eventfuI lives. the Beavers chill
iren (now doubly orphaned by the
hand OF vioience) were brought face
to face with the red sordidness OF
violent DEATH
1t Will be borne in mind that whiie
Putnam died instantly, his victim sur
vived him about four hours, and there
by hangs a tale. and a most unusual
and interesting legal tanGle which mas
not as yet been unraveled.
The remains of this poor, harried
woman, whose death was no more
tragic than her life, Were sent for
interment to her old home In her ma
I y
returned since she had become avolun-
tary exile for the sake of cruel and
ungrateful husband.
over sotiden roads and under leaden
skies the sad cortege wends It's dreary
WAY The aged father comes TO take
| one last look at the daughter, whose
! living face he had not seen since her
| husbands crime made her an eXpa-
! triate.
1 Dies at Daughters Grave.
He reaches the grave. But what
ails him? Is 1t grief? Is 1t the spirit
TO him? Is it kismet? No answer 10
the riddle has yet been found. but
without a moan without shudder,
| Charles Fair dropped lifeless beside
the open grave OF his murdered daugh-
ter, and the fifth name is added to
the fatal list.
In the meantime. other of Charles
Fairs children had married. HIS
youngest daughter, Minnie, had mar
ried her cousin, Tom or Tuck" Posey,
child, had married. and with his wife
Lucy, and two children. lived in Bal
timore.
In the spring OF 1905, about year
latter the sensational death OF his
, niece and brother-in-law, Ashel Posey
was walking In the woods near the
Fair homestead. and struck on the
head by falling tree and Instantly
killed, and the list was swollen tc
six.
his family back to Virginia. and set
tied about a quarter of mile from
the Fair homestead. Allen, or AL" az
he was called. the youngest of the
death at the old homestead with hi'
stepmother. He was about invent!
years old and unmarried
, That Edward Fair was intensel!
Jealous Of his young wife, there i
no question; but Whether with o.
+ without just cause. opinions In tn
community differ. Little was know
) about 1t outside the immediate neigh
. borhood until after the double muir
der which grew out of it, and the tw
lives. and then partisan feeling wa
! SO strong that opinions were compare
lively valueless. But all agreed tina
Edward Fair and his wife did no
get along very WELL Quarrels be
, tween them were violent and of frs
quent occurrence
. A few days before the tateful Stl
of October 1908, Lucy Fair left he
husbands house and took refuge q
the home OF her young brother-in
law, Allen Fair.
Precisely what happened betweel
that day and the night Of the doubl
murder will probably never be known
but the all-important admitted fact
are these:
ward Fair and his wife. Lucy. Tor
Posey, Minnie Posey. old Mrs, Fai
(Charies Fairs widow) and Al Fai
were at the home place Ed. Fair
two Children boy and giro
from ten to twelve years OF age. wer
there also, asleep, and Tom and Min
ME Posey's only child. a little DO
two years old. who became terrific
spectator TO the awful double TRACED,
Double Murder Done,
A quarrel, growing our OF the strain
cd relations between Ed Fair and hi
wife took place, as a result of whic
al Fair was shot to death by hi
| brother, Edward. Ed Fair was bes
| to death with an axe and musket b
J MS sister Minnie and her husband
and Tom Posey was very badly wound
ed, as it Is supposed, by his brothe,
in-law. Allen, AS Lucy Fair ana o.
Mrs. Falr ran away as soon as Il
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