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A HKKMArHIWDITK AT THK STATION iiOUSK. A suspicious uugro charaoLer was tHken up on iIn* streets this morning by the police and taken to Ivy street sUtlon house. Tin person wmlt; lull grown, ol good physique, with the vo it of a woman, and having her eais ornamented with prize candy brilliants He—no, she, dwA) lakes the precedence,) said that she had come some two weeks ago lronr Augusta an.I vvns working with a lady “ up-towu. The police, thinking her all the while to he a woman d 11 'UM'il in man’s clothes, questioned her as to the rea sous that induced her to pul on the garment- ol a man, and wear such conspicuous ear rings and talk “so find** She replied that she was a her inaphrodite and that Nature could not le qtic* tioned as to its creations. Ol course such talk appeared “tootbin” tor the officers ol the police, and a committee of oue—an old negro granny — Lavinia Cobb by name—was appointed to‘ reconnoitre the situation.” Escorted to a private apartment of the station, Lavinia made due ex auuuation of the fair derm sues, and reported, “ Lord, massa, it’s a fart - it’s a lact I’ve Ism there and seen -that ar woman ain’t t.-llu r no lie Haiistied witti the Investigations i I the old ladv, the officers of the po’ice at nnce peiinitted the hermaphrodite to depart and g • mi I lt;r way rejoicing, much amused with the rhm-o ier ol the incident ao.i the manuei ol the solution ol the interesting question.
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Atlanta Daily Atlanta Intelligencer
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sat, Jun 11, 1870
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