Show A souti erner a bravery during the civil war there was not ft a more rabid secessionist or a more popular man in california than charlie fairfax virginian and direct descendant of lord fairfax said city attorney creswell yesterday he ile was a man of such undoubted courage such scrupulous honesty and such distinguished courtesy that his violent prejudices against the north were forgiven before they were expressed and his open declarations cla rations of disloyalty forgotten as soon as spoken while the clerk of the supreme court in sacramento he engaged in an altercation with a man named whitcomb lee without warning lee drew a sword cane and made a lunge at fairfax the keen blade pt nitrated net rated his abdomen a couple of inches before he could seize it fairfax held the blade with h s left hand while he whipped out a revolver with his right and with the sword still in the wound he leveled his hi pistol at lee 8 head and said in the coolest tone draw that sword and put it up I 1 would kill 5 sou ou but no man shall ever say that charlie fairfax made a woman a widow and children fatherless 4 san francisco post |