Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1879 — The Woman Who Shot. [ARTICLE]

The Woman Who Shot.

N. Y. Cor..Plttaburg Telegraph. An even better known representative of American womanhood sat near me at the Westmoreland Hotel the other day eating a bowl of soap. I knew the moment I looked at her that she was a woman with a history; no longer young, her face bore traces of suffering which the powder which had been brushed over it could not conceal. A grey veil which trimmed her round hat was brought down in graceful folds either side her face; slim, tall, and sensitive, with an air of morbid melancholy and accute sensibility, this woman was that would be noticed anywhere. The waiters watched every movement she made, and Dr. Dorm us, who was eating his luncheon, appeared as intent upon her as though she were the object of a chemical analysis. After pushing the attentive garcon his fees, sue rose, and there was a rush among the waiters to open the door for her. “Who is it?” I asked. “That is Laura D. Fair, the woman who was tried few* murder.” I looked again, and saw the woman in gray going slowly and alone across Union Square, which seemed all at once a sad and terrible place, full of the atmosphere of crime and suffering. Laura Fair had recently been lecturing at Chickering Hall on the subjected California, which must be a very wicked place indeed, i all she says is true. However, let us see what she will fsport of the East when she retraces her steps to the Golden Gate