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A Heumaphiotditk at the Station £1oi»b. A suspicious negro character wan taken up on ilie streets this morning hy thi* police and taken to Ivy street sUtton-house. The person was lull grown, ot good physique, with the vo lt;e ol a woman, and having her ears ornamented with prize candy brilliants lie— no, she, t-’o dwa lakes the precedence,) said that she had come some two weeks ago from Augusta and with working with a lady “ up-town.” The police, thinking her all the while to be a woman dn sa.il in man’s clothea, 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 fins'' She replied that she wus a her maphrodite and that Nature could not he (pies tinned as to its creations. Ol course such talk appeared “too thin” tor the officers ol the police, and a committee ol one—au old negro granny — Lavinia Cobb by name—whs appointed to “reconnoitre the situation.” Escorted to a private apartment of the station, Laviula unde due ex auuuatioD ol “ the fai r deini sues, and reported, '* Lord, tnaaea, it's a fad - it's a tael I've la*en there and seen —that ar woman ain't telling no lie” tailed witti the Investigations i I the old ladv, the officers of the police at once permitted the bet maphrodite to dep*ri and g • lt;n I lt;r way rejoicing, much amused with the chaise cr ol the ilieidtot and the manner ol the solution ..| the inter.sting question.
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Atlanta Daily Atlanta Intelligencer
Atlanta, Georgia, US
Sat, Jun 11, 1870
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