St. Louis Post-Dispatch
May 11, 1900

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- Regular Edition. COMPLETE MARKET REPORTS. KID McCOY by the Post-Dispatch to write a special report Has been en oT. of the JEFFRIES-CORBETT FIGHT. See SATURDAY’S POST-DISPATCH Sunday Circulation for April... ...158,360 THE ONLY ST. LOUIS EVENING PAPER WITH THE ASSOCIATED POST-DISP PRESS DISPATCHES. Regular COMPLETE MARKET Edition. LH of men telegraph VOL. 52, NO. 263. PRICE Outside St. Louis, Two Cents. In St. Louis. One Cent. Want Ads A CHAT BY WIRE. | SUNDAY POST-DISPATCH. separated by 691 miles have a conversation for the bencfit of the readers of the next ad for April........cicecc cn 7 FRIDAY EVENING—ST. LOUIS—MAY 11, 1900. MAS, CRAVEN HAS BEEN INDICTED, — Charge of Perjury in the Fair | Will Case. OTHER INDICTMENTS MADE. LATEST DEVELOPMENT OF RE- MARKABLE LITIGATION. History of the Claim by Which Mrs. (Craven Sought to Prove That She Was Married to Fair. SAN FRANCISCO, May 11.—Mrs. Nettie R. Craven has been indicted by the grand- jury on a charge of perjury for her testi- mony given before that body in relation to her claim for a widow’s share of the James G. Fair estate. George W. Simpton, who ewore that he married Fair and Mrs. Craven, and who subsequently made oath that he lied in his first affidavit, has been also indicted for perjury. Adolph Sylva, the man who boasted that he engineered the scheme by which Simpton was induced to make his contradictory affidavits, has been indicted for subornation of perjury, which is also defined a felony. If the ac- cused are convicted they may be punished by imprisonment not less than one year nor more than fourteen years. The indict- ments are now in the hands of District At- torney Byington, to be presented to the grandjury to-day. There are said to be others implicated and other indictments may follow. of the peace and at present is town recorder of Sausalito. Adolph Sylva is town trustee of Sausalito, Marin County, and a prominent local poli- tician. The marriage suit of Mrs. Craven to secure a allowance from the Fair Was begun last February. Since then it has furnished a new sensation nearly ev- ery day, Perjury, subornation of perjury, ‘ forgery—these are a few of the offences alleged to have been committed. Mrs. Cra- ven’s own story was an interesting naria- tive. She declared that Senator Fair,.whom she had known many years, proposed mar- riage to her seven years ago. He asserted that there was no use of publicity, as 1t would only excite gossip and cause ble in his family. She said he wrote out the brief marriage contract that she duced in.court, and they both signed in the presence of a notary. Afterward he declared, according to her version, that a civil marriage was necessary to make their union valid and the two went to Sausalito across the bay from San Francisco, and were married by Justice ef the Peace simp- ton. Her story was drawn over several days, but it was deficient in details and dates, PR _ Mrs. Cravén’s story of the civil marriag» creuied a sensation, and it was apparently clinched by an affidavit from Justice Simp- ton going into minute details. A few days later the attorneys for Charies Fair threw a bombshell into the Craven camp by pro- ducing @ second affidavit from Simpton, in which he told how he had been engaged by his friend Sylva of Sausalito to make this original affidavit on the understanding tnat Mrs. Craven would pay him $10,000. He averred that he had never performed the marriage, and he made the second affidavit to clear his conscience and to escape the penalty of perjury. Mrs. Cravery has been attended in court by her daughter Margaret,who was recently married to the son of the millionaire brewer | | | \ * ‘ | ‘ 4 | \\ ‘1 i a ._ \ haaet aqtt's MRS. NETTIE N R. CRAVEN, oo estate | trou- | ‘increase will notify Mr. ,auditor, {in writing, in accordance with the buHetin | before 5 p. m,., on Saturday, May 12, giving Koehler of St. Louis. The legal status of the various branches of the Fair will litigation may be summed up as follows: The trust will, decided by Judge Slack not to apply to the rest of the | will, has been held by the State Supreme Court to be valid and to apply to all of the estate. A rehearing was granted and a new trial is set for July. The pencil will has been thrown out of court and can’t be re- vived., The deeds to property worth $1,50¢,000, which Mrs. Craven says Fair gave her,have been declared fogeries by Judge Slack, and the case is now on appeal to the Supreme Court. Charles Fair’s suit to have his father declared of unsound mind has not yet been set for trial, and It will never be | direction of C. H. Haughton. 'tertainmert tried unless the trust clause in the will shall be declared valid by the United States Supreme Court. For the last five years the Fair will case, involving an estate of $15,000,000, has occu- pied the attention: of various branches of the courts in San Francisco. reports of the many proceedings have filed columns every day for three months at a stretch; famous experts in have been brought across the of the litigants who is endeavoring of the estate. have a widow's share ramffications case already has more case, the two celebrated suits of San Fran- cisco in the last 20 vears. No murder has yet been committed as an outgrowth of the Fair will case, but about every other offense on the calendar has been commit- ted by somebody or other connected with | The lawyers expect to receive a | the caée. million dollars work— in fees for their that is. the successful ones. The men who | to cone | fight on the losing side will have tent themselves largely with notoriety. OB 6909-45-4-04949-4040001000004 | . —?—-—-o— o-oo tlemen have wisely taken the position enemies. If I understand the position of the and the companies. Mahon is a man of great coolnes proposition of unionizing the roads. to run their cars. men to runt their cars. roads. | , : | we Police President Hawes Says the Roads Can Run if the Company Has Enough Men. : > The situation to-day is much more promising, and it is mainly due to 7 the efforts of W. D. Mahon, national chairman of the Amalgamated Street ? Railway Union, and his able assistants,Edwards and Missik. > 7 the cause of the strikers, and that those strikers who engage in acts of lawlessness in a mistaken idea that they are assisting the cause of the striking employes, are, as a matter of fact, their worst for the railroad companies to secure enough mento man and rtin their cars. The sooner the streets are cleared and this fact is demonstrated to the gen- eral public, the sooner the weakness of the companies’ position—according to the labor leaders—will be demonstrated. There is no question now as to what the real issue is between the men It is a stfaight-out demand to unionize the roads. The other propositions presented by the committee sink into insignificance be- side this paramount issue, and can be easily adjusted after its determination. I am glad that the issue is now squarely joined, so that the companies, the strikers and the public may understand the same. let minor stipulations stand in the way of an adjustment of the know that the labor leaders believe that the efforts of the department have been rightly directed; and that the department will have their assistance and / co-operation in preventing lawlessness and violence in the future. ' The department will use every resource which it can command and de- ‘ vote its every energy to preserving peace and order so that the companies may have an opportunity to prove their claim that they have sufficient men The companies on one hand are confident that they have the necessary The strikers on the other hand are confident that they have not. The preservation of peace and order will quickly determine who is right, and the issue will be joifed on the question of unionizing the ST. 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