The family moved back to San Francisco but William was unable to establish himself there. Laura and William had a daughter they named Lillian Loraine. After less than six months with Grayson, Laura fled to California with her mother.Īfter a brief stay in San Francisco she went to Shasta where she met and married another older man, an attorney named William Fair. Grayson who was also a drunk - the violent kind. Within a year Stone died of cirrhosis of the liver. She was born Laura Hunt in Holly Springs, Mississippi and at age sixteen she was married to a New Orleans liquor dealer named William Stone, twenty years her senior. The family recognized the woman in black then it was Laura Fair and she was finally ending her tumultuous affair with Alexander P. From the folds of her dress the woman pulled a derringer and shot the man in the chest. They did not notice the woman, dressed entirely in black, wearing a broad brimmed black hat with a black veil covering her face, as she approached them. A prominent California legislator was sitting with his wife and son on board the Oakland-San Francisco ferryboat El Capitain the evening of November 3, 1870.
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