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From tne m. Louis uemocrat.Romance in Real l-lffe—Adventures offa Woman.A young woman was arrested by a policeman last Saturday, on Fourth street, for wearing male attire. Some three months ngo she was arrested on the same charge. Her apnearance, manners, style of conversation and the account rhe gives of. herself, place her above the ordinary class of women who affect, the garb of the opposite sex All who converse with her are impressed with the conviction that her storv is true. In light grey, pants, vest and coat, and light felt hat, she looks like a sprightly boy of fourteen. She is of medium (woman*#) size, black and curling hair, large lustrous dark eve, regular features, ruddy and fresh looking, and in very generous health. Her narrative, received from her in the calaboose. is as follows:I was horn in Michigan, near to and north of Kalamazoo City My father was heir to a large landed estate in England, and had an abundance of money, with which he traveled ahout for pleasure. I was taken from mv birthplace when onlv it few months old. Mother died when I was seven yeais old, then father had the whole care of my two brothers and me. We had a private tutor who traveled with us. Brothers were sent to college When I was eleven father died At fourteen I was married to a member of a min strel troupe. He had some five thousand dollars in money, and with it went in partnership with his uncle, who lost his life and the money while crossing the Atlantic. When I had been married eighteen months my husband died, and I wasleft whollv to the care of mv two brothers The♦elder was clerk in w banking house and the other whs still at college in Ohio When the war broke out my younger brother came home and they both enlisted. First they,consulted moabout enlisting. I at last consented I con sideredthnt the rountrv needed every able bodied man to aid in putting down the rebellion. Their regiment went, to Baltimore, and afterward T he/. ■ a » nn » I n.i.' f wl nnfiocti 1 rwi Wt nfoil ti\ in
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Indianapolis Indiana State Sentinel
Indianapolis, Indiana, US
Mon, Sep 14, 1863
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