The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1875-12-30

A GIRLS ADVENTURES.
EIGHT MONTHS ON LAND AND SEA
IN MANS ATTIRE.

In Recorder Parsells's courtroom, in
Astoria, N. Y, last week, sat rosy young
woman of eighteen, the picture of health,
wearing rough suit of mems clothes,
and looking like nice boy. She was
arrested in long Island City Saturday
evening, and yesterday she told her story
with composure. Her maiden name is
Alice Holmes, but she has borne several
aliases, among them Jennie M. Doten.
She was born in Wareham, Massachu-
sets, although her relatives now live in
Marion, Massachusetts. Up to the time
she was eighteen years old she remained
at home and attended school. During a
vacation she made visit to the West
where she made the acquaintance of a
telegraph operator named Bastable. The
acquaintance ripened into intimacy, and
they concluded to get married clandes-
timely, she being in her fifteenth year
and he in his sixteenth. After a brief
experience of married life, however, they
separated, and she returned home, while
he remained in the West. The fruit of
this marriage was a child which is now
in its third Alice got employment as a
book-keeper for Mr.. Messrs. j. E. Lus-
Combe & Co., at Plymouth, Massachu-
sets, where she was known as
Nellie Archer; her child, meantime,
being placed with her brother, with
whom it still remains. Her father dying
left considerable property, of which her
brother has persistently refused to give
her any portion. She finally had some
serious difficulty with him, and had, as
she expressed, "a choice Of leaving the
State for few months or being placed in
confinement"
She accordingly left home on the 18th
of February last; went to Attleboro,
Massachusetts, and worked at the straw
business. Here the idea struck her that
she would adopt mems attire, and dom
ming suit, she went to Providence,
where she was engaged in the coal yard
Of Hopkins & Pomeroy. firing of this,
on the 18th Of April she went to Clark's
Falls Connecticut, where she engaged
on farm, and remained until the last
Monday in June, when she returned to
Providence, and found employment on
little river steamer called the Schultz.
After a few days, becoming dissatisfied,
she went to Newport, where she shipped
on board the United States steam -frigate
Powhatan, being enabled to pass exam
ination by the Surgeon, as she alleges, by
the connivance of two young fellows of
her acquaintance who shipped with her,
and who knew of her sex, and who each
paid the Surgeon $25 to pass her. She
shipped under the name of Albert B.
Clifton. The Powhawtan went to New
London, and subsequently came to Brook
lyn Navy-Yard. Orders coming for the
Powhatan to proceed to Port-au-Prince,
and not desiring to go so far away from
home, "Albert" deserted and made her
way to New London, where she shipped
on board the wood-schooner Jamestown,
running to Virginia. She Made two
trips, when she returned to New Lon
don and shipped on board a coal schoon-
er, the VIM. H. Baker, Charles B. Baker,
commander. After two trips she left this
vessel at New London, and being short
ofmoney, smuggled herself on board the
steamer City of Boston, and arrived in
New York on the 9TH of November. The
next day she shipped on board the coast
ing schooner Gar, Captain D. w. Ham
mond, running between Boston and
New York. At the end of a month she
left this vessel in New York, and went
across the river to Long Island City,
where she was employed by Mr.. Pirz
proprietor of the Gambia Chemical Works
at Dutch Kills, who agreed to pay he $8
a week, with board and clothing, until
spring. She boarded with Alfred Hahn
for week, when she left, as she alleges
ON account of the bad order in which the
house was kept, and went to the compa-
ny's boarding house. While at Hahn's
there was suspicion that she was a
woman. She was detained and taken to
the First Precinct Statien-House at AS
toria, She had an examination before
Recorder Parsells, who decided to dis
charge her on her promise to resume her
proper attire and to leave the city. She
says she likes the sea, is never sea. sick,
and prefers mems clothing because she
can see more and learn more as man
than as woman.