Folder: S.F. Districts-Presidio-Cemetery.
Newscopy: "GRAVES 'TALK' AT PRESIDIO--Among some 23,000 markers which today dot the grassy, shaded slopes of San Francisco National Cemetery in the Presidio s one which bears the legend: 'pauline C. Fryer, Union Spy.' it marks the end of a dramatic in Army annals--one which literally could be titled 'the Perils of Pauline.' A century ago Pauline Cushman was a beautiful and talented actress. Thirty-three years later she died in a cheap Market St. hotel room of an overdose of narcotics, a poor, lonely woman of 60. She was buried in Golden Gate Cemetery--from where her remains.....footed) because she had written coded notes on the soles of her shoes. A Confederate courtmartial sentenced her to hang. She evaded the noose by pretending to be ill, and was rescued by Union forces at Shelbyville before....".
