 Laura was led away to jail. An enterprising young reporter of the time, Garth Preebles, interviewed her in her cell where he learned and had published the fact that Mrs. Fair had spent $12,000 in her defense. She confided to what she spent on her second trial, which was in the amount of $30,000, and which broke her. Where this $30,000 went to is a mystery, since the second trial was not nearly so spectacular as the first. Captain Billy Transhell of the ferry boat El Capitan somehow was not there as a witness.