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A RF.UABKABLE MAS- WOMAF.■ •Yesterday a masculine-looking woman named Elisabeth Taylor, with the alia* of 4‘ Happy Ned,” was charged before the Warrington Borough court with being drunk and creating a disturbance. It appeared that the prisoner was found surrounded by a crowd of a thousand people, who were pelting her with atones, etc., and shouting at her “ Man-Woman.” The explanation is that the prisoner’s husband was a sea captain, and on his death she betook herself to a sailor’s life and served for several years in the capacity of an able-bodied seaman without the discovery of her sex. During the American war she served on one of the blockade runners, and at the conclusion of the war she went from Liverpool to Warrington, and settled on one of the farms in the vicinity as an agricultura man-servant, still maintaining her disguise successfully. For her employer she used to break in horses, plough, and do other kinds of masculine work, quite as well as her fellow servants whose sex was not a matter of dispute. At one farm for some time she carried on a love intrigue with one of the servanta, and her sex becoming known she received her conge, and went to work elsewhere. She always appeared in the town in man’s clothing, and her history having been widely circulated, she was occasionally subjected to rough treatment, and has been fined and sent to prison for I drunkenness. On the present occasion, as she promised reformation, and hac been ill-treated, she-ras discharged with a caution.—Liverpool Mercury.
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The Opelousas Journal
Opelousas, Louisiana, US
Sat, Sep 29, 1877
Page 3
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