CASTLEGAR NEWS, Thursday,’ Moy'24, 1979

Women scorned develop, oh, such
nasty traits. They are forever running
around shooting and sticking knives
into the men who ‘done them wrong’.
Made famous in song and prose, they
are, nevertheless, an occupational haz-
ard for those men all too anxious to take

advantage of what was once called the |

weaker sex.

Let's clear the dust and cobwebs off
the old records, and reveal for all to see
the loves and follies of one such lady.

Laura was born in Holly Springs, Mis- ,

sissippl, in 1837. By the time she was 16
she had all those attributes associated
with girls a few years older. Laura had
all the attributes in the right places

too.
One fine day a liquor dealer, William
H. Stone, already a dirty old man at 36,
fell hard for Laura. Before you could
say Jack Daniels, the booze salesman
married Laura, but we mustn't dwell
too long over Stone, A year later he died
from partaking. of a steady and over-
abundant supply of his own products.
Heartbroken at the trick fate had
played on her, Laura entered a convent
, to forget her great loss. She managed to
‘= put the tragedy behind her rather
+ quickly. Two months later she left the
convent and married Thomas J. Gray-
son.
+ Tommy was a barrel of fun. Some-
+ what of a sharpshooter, he loved to
come home drunk at night and shoot at
= the walls of the bedroom. One night, just
for the novelty of it all, he took Laura
out behind the house, entered a chicken
‘ coop and proceeded to blast the heads
. off 50 chickens.

Laura didn’t like it

- Laura, quite understandably, took a
t dim view of all this, She gathered up her
mother and took off for San Francisco.
- Then she divorced Tommy.

1 Are u ready for number three?
+ Colonel William D. Fair was a country
lawyer who seemed like a pleasant
> enough character if somewhat unstable.
+ Maybe he was more unstable than
: pleasant. Two years after he and Laura
* were married, he shot himself as dead
: a doornail with a bullet well placed
: between the eyes, The Colonel was dif-
+ ferent in one respect. When he departed
: this world he left Laura with a bouncing
{ one-year-old daughter, Lillias Lor-
* raine, :
Having thrice gone to the altar, and
striking out on each occasion, Laura felt
that it was time to make a living on
: her own. She gathered up her mother, as
: was her custom, -and little Lillias, and
+ headed for Virginia City. The wild open
city, booming in 1863, appealed to
+ Laura. She borrowed money to open a
+ hotel, which she named the Tahoe

{ House. It was an instant success.
+ At last Laura was self sufficient.
That's when she met Alexander Parker
zittenden. Crittenden wasn’t just any
. old Southern gentleman, no siree. He
: was a West Point man, having graduat-
+ ed the year Laura was born. Shunning
‘ the military life, he took up law. By the
ime he met Laura, he was an estab-
lished respected lawyer, as well as a
powerful politician. If you can picture
Colonel Sanders with a pinstripe suit,
holding on to mint julep, you pretty well

have Crittenden.

Crittenden always stayed at the
“ Tahoe House when he travelled to Vir-

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ginia City. It wasn’t long before he and:
were their

together. Sometimes the afternoon ran’

right into the evening. Actually, three

times a week Crittenden would tiptoe

across the hall and stay all night with

Laura. *

Laura, being the marrying kind,
began pressing for her fourth trip to the
altar. It seems Crittenden always had a
big deal coming off in a month or two.

keep Laura on the hook for nine ,

ie
months. Then one day the mint juleps
hit the fan. Laura found out that the love
of her life, the man who was sharing her
bed, already had a wife.and son as well,
Laura had _a tete-a-tete with Crittenden.
Under pressure, that scallywag told
Laura that he had kept bjs little secret
from her in order to spare her feelings.
He had planned on revealing all after he
obtained a divorce. ~

It is a tribute either to Laura’s gull-
ibility or Crittenden’s gift of gab that
Laura accepted his story. Just before
Christmas of 1864, to illustrate his good

1.7 faith, Crittenden purchased a‘house for
“Laura. T with Lillias, she moved «>.
in tock, stock, and barrel. Mama stayed *
e

at ‘ahoe House to take care of
business.

Then Crittenden did something that
couldn't possibly augur well for the fu-
ture. He told his wife Clara about his
dear friend Laura. Of course he didn’t

“reveal his activities between the sheets
with his dear friend. Never one to leave
well enough alone, he invited the wife to
visit with Laura. Down Clara came
from San Francisco to Virginia City.
Crittenden managed to. convince’ each
woman that he was faithful to her, and
her alone.

Things became a bit hectic with his
wife while she was in town. Each eve-

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he would stit! get back to his wife's side
before dawn. He convinced Laura that
he and Clara were married in name
only, Finally, Clara went back to San
Francisco, and Crittenden got some
sleep.

For years Crittenden promised Laura 4

that he would divorce his wife, but he
never did. His mistress often had fits of
rage, but always returned to her lover.
Seven eventful years went by before
things came to a head. During those
ears Laura had made a small fortune
‘In the hotel business and moved to San
Francisco to be near Crittenden.

Crittenden arranged to have his wile
move out of San Francisco, In October,
1870, he promised Laura faithfully that
he would get a divorce and marry her.
Laura really believed him this time. She
bought a new wardrobe. The lovebirds
made plans’ for an extensive honey-
moon. No sooner was the at plan
hatched than Crittenden informed
Laura that his wife was returning to San
Francisco.

Lauta pleaded with Crittenden not to’
see his wife, but he said‘out of decency
he had to meet with her one last time.
He iswore he wouldn’t, even hold her

and.

The reunion was too much

For reasons known only to herself, :

Laura visited a gunsmith and purchas:

a revolver. On Oct. 29, Crittenden took
the ferry to Oakland to meet with his
wife. Unknown to Crittenden, Laura had
followed him on the boat. As the El

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Capitan docked at Oakland she watched -

the: reunion. Crittenden’s wife locked

lungs.

roached the captain of the ferry

ne id, “Yes, I did it, and I meant to
Kill him, He ruined me and my child.”
Laura's murder trial lasted 26 excit-
ing days. Her defense ‘‘emotional in-

sanity" didn’t sit well with the jury. She

was found guilty and was sentenced to

death, the first woman ever to receive

the death sentence in the State. of Cali-

ie paosapeert de

‘fornia.’ eee 3

+ After belngigrantet.a-stay of execu-
tion, Laura’s' lawyer8“appealed to the
Supreme Court. Surprisingly the Su-
preme Court reversed the previous de-
cision on legal technicalities and grant-
ed Laura a new trial.

Two years later Laura again stood
trial for murdering her lover. This time
the jury returned with a verdict of Not
Guilty. When ‘the verdict was read,
Laura fainted.

Laura went on to live a peaceful, if
somewhat lonesome life in San Francis-
co. She.outlived. her defense attorney,
the prosecution attorney, the judge, and
most of the jury who had convicted her
at her first trial. :

In Oct. 1919, neighbors thought it
strange that cats belonging to an old
lady living in a converted store were
crying. They decided to take a look.
Laura, at the ripe old age of 82, had died
peacefully in her sleep, 49 years after
she killed the man who done her

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Proclaims —
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:. ‘The provincial government’
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“Cigarette smoking," Mc-

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Studies indicate that there
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