New-York tribune., 1871-08-25
ROMANTIC PAUPERS.

TWO PENNILEss WOMEN LIVE TOGETHER AS
MAN AND wIFE-THEIR STRANGE HISTORIES
AN UNFORTUNATE GIRL.
In Jackson township, Monroe County, Penn,
there appeared. in the Fall Of 1867, and woman
styling themselves Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Israel Lobdel
The woman is 10 years of age and quite hand
some. The tal and gaunt, and at times acted
as if he were insane They lived there in abect poverty
for some time having no visible Of support, but
roaming about the country and eating where and what
they could, and sleeping in caves and barns.
At last they became a nuisance, and were twice
arrested and lodged in stroudsburg Jail While thus
confined the early part of the present MONTH letter
TO a neighborng pOstOfce addressed to Lucy Ann
Lobdell. and post-marked "Long Eddy, N. Y" This
with other suspicious circumstances led the authorities
10 believe that Joseph Israel Lobde not man. and
investigation proved that he Of the other sex, and
had successfully concealed the fact for nearly
four years. The letter in question from
a person at Basket Station, ". Y, stating
that Lucy Ann Lobdes mother needed her support and
that she should TO her at When the true
OF the ascertained, the "wife stated that
Ada Perry and that she was the daughter
Of Daniel Perry of South Abingdon, Plymouth County,
Mass On learning these facts the authorities of Monroe
County decided TO take the TO Basket Station
and about them. The two at fret refused 10
20, hut finally induced 10 accompany the officer,
" Joe " being furnished with woman's clothing.
On arriving at Basket Station, week, the officers
were erected 10 tnc residence OF Ou LObOCl buJ
they failed get rid of their charge there the old
people helpless living by charity, and Lucy re-
fused TO stay with them The women were consequently
brought back TO the station where 1t was aseertaned
County Poor House, at Delhi whittier they taken.
The histories of these two women are very strange.
night at this station gr Of about II years age who
gave her name TO the depot agent as Ada Perry she
was handsome, but rather scantly dressed. Her
| story was that she had run away from her home IN
| a
City The night before arrival at Basket Station this
had deserted her and she had every 10 think
that he had gone away with another girl 10 Buffalo She
was following him, when her money gave ont and the
conductor the train would let her go no further she
refused to be sent back TO her parents and placed herself
In the poorhouse at that time was Lucy Ann Lobden
or rather Lucy Ann slaeI as she hdd naIIle1 man
80 years old when Ada Perry hrst met her and notwlth
standing the hard life she had led was rather prepos-
sessng in appearance. Between her and the young gr
singular attachment arose and aiter remaining III the
pOOr-hOuse about year and ha the two disappeared
one night, and nothing was heard Of them until they
were brought back last week
The history of Lucy Ann Lobdell is equally singular
TWenty-One years aEO she was young gl living with
her parents at Basket Station, which a settlement
mostly composed of people engaged in numbering She
teristics of her Her tastes were masculine and
she hunted ished, and worked in the woods with the
She had offers OF marriage from respectable lum
bermen, but always refused She finally married
Henry slater, worthless fellow from Hancock.
deserted his wife, leaving her with infant two months
old soon after her husband eft her she dQnned mems
followed the wild life Of a hunter in the region, then a
dense forest, IN the counties OF Delaware and Sullivan
in this state, and Pike Wayne and Susquehanna In Penn
syivana. For several years she rOaned the hills and
valleys and wrote IN the mean time history of
her life. She became known in the country
the Female Hunter OF Long Eddy" In her HISTORY
she TccOuntcd her adventures hunter and rapler,
and stated that in two years she had killed five bears
large number Of deer, and much small game, and had
trapped many of the turbcarnC animals OF the region,
including mink otter and foxes In 1850 her mood sud
denly changed and she again assumed tue garb Of her
and sadded herself upon the community, begging
FROM door to door aud finally becoming inmate OF the
Aims House of Delaware County. Here singular PEI
remained until she and Ada Perry disappeared to-
getnCr IN 1867.
Mary slater the child that was born to Henry and
Lucy Ann slater taken out Of the poor house about
the time her mother applied for admttance, and was
placed in the family Of Daniel FOrtmau Tyler Hill,
Wayne County, Penn. There she has since lived claiming
no kin friends but the family of Mr.. FOrtnan On
night OF the 10th OF July last she fOrCby abducted
from Mr. FOrtmans by gang OF tends, and after being
chlOTOfOrued, was thrown into the Delaware
River 10 drown. She rescued, however by a
farmer living near, bat she again disappeared, and
her IN nd 10y the fearful OF the night though which
She had pa and had been wandering through the
woods all that time. The Of her attempted muDer
was her repeated rejection OF degrading proposals made
10 her by Thompson Keats and suit having been
mcnced him for saDdeT and threats made against
the girl which she TO he principal witness he had
her abducted and thrown IN the At least strong
suspicious against hG, and be Is III Jail at
Hone-dale, Penn awaiting trial. The grl has not yet
recovered entirely from the shock and the cOnst quences
OF her waDdeTIugs.