Victorian Murderer Female Femme Fatale Laura Fair San Francisco Maniac Affair 1s

by Kenneth Lamott

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First edition

.no-subscribe { display: none} [contenteditable] { pointer-events: none; } Who Killed Mr. Crittenden?: Being a True Account of the Notorious Murder That Stunned San Francisco, the Laura D. Fair Case By Kenneth Lamott Published by D. McKay, NY, 1963. First Edition. Very good hardcover in very good dustjacket. Tight binding, solid spine, clean unmarked text, edge-wear and small tears to dj have been repaired with archival tape. 305 pages. On November 3, 1870, Laura Fair fatally shot Alexander Crittenden, a San Francisco lawyer and her lover of seven years, on a ferry. Fair had been married three times when she met Crittenden. Her first husband died of old age, and she divorced her second, an alcoholic. After her third husband killed himself, she and her mother moved to Nevada. Fair opened a boarding house, where she met Crittenden in 1863. He courted her, representing himself as single. After Fair learned Crittenden was married, he continually promised to divorce his wife. That promise was never fulfilled. The day of the killing, he was meeting his family on the ferry. Fair followed him there, fired the fatal shot and fled to the boat's saloon, where she confessed. Crittenden died a few days later. The court was packed for all 30 days of the highly anticipated and publicized trial. A group of suffragists attended the trial in support of Fair. They claimed that Fair was temporarily insane due to a female malady and argued that the concept of female hysteria was used to deny wome

• Publisher: D. McKay
• Year: 1963
• Condition: Very Good

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