SENSATIONAL AND GRUESOME STORY

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIV, Issue 134, 6 June 1903, Page 5 (Supplement)

SENSATIONAL AND GRUESOME STORY

The San Francisco correspondent of the "Evening World" telegraphs a most sensaciounl and gruesome story in connection with the Fair will suit. It will be ren?pmbeied that Mr Fair, a Calif 0r. , .1an mi.lionaire, and his wife were killed whilst motor-j ing last autumn in France. Probate was granted to Mr Fair's will on the legal assumption, on account of masculine superiority in physical strength, that he died after his wife. Mrs Fair's mother subsequt ntly intervened, and claimed a fuller share of the estate on the ground that her daughter survived Mr Fair, and in support of this contention witnesses of the accident were bi ought from France to San Francisco. Now, according to the "Evening World's" st'oiy, the skulls of, both victims have been preserved, and are now ready for production In Court to refute the evidence given to prove that the wife outlived the husband. The "World's" correspondent declares that the woman's skull was smashed In, that it was absolutely impossible that she could have survived h.ei injuries a moment. On the other hand, Mr Fair's skull Is said not to be crushed at all. It merely shows a comparatively email depression, so that he might easily have lived for some time after the. accident.