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Tite Warrington (England) Guardian reports the extraordinary career of a •woman named Elizabeth Taj lor, who recently appeared before the Warrington magistrates on a charge of being drunk and disorderly. She appeared in the dock in male attire, and the Chief Constable, in relating her antecedents, stated that she was the daughter of a gentleman who formerly lived at Fenrctb, near Warrington, She bad been married, but her husband was killed twenty-one veurs a0, She commenced to wear male attire thirteen years ago. She was employed as a sailor during the American war, r.nu made several trips from South Wales to the American coast in vessels sent out to supply the Alabama and blockade-ruuuers with coal. She was known by the names of “Happy Ned” and'* ‘‘Navvy Ned.” For some time past ? lt;she had worked as n laborer on seve* ; * ral farms in the neighborhood of War-; * rington, and had so late as the 12th i iusi. helped to kill thirteen pigs for a - [ farmer at Croft. Her sex T?as not sus- «;J peeled until she was arrested The ) prisoner was fined os, and costs, j 2
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Galveston Daily News

Galveston, Texas, US

Sat, Jun 05, 1875

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