The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1876-01-20
A GIRLS ADVENTURE III MANS
ATTIRE.

Astoria, yesterday, says the New York
World, sat rosy young woman OF IL,
the picture of health, wearing a rough
suit of mems clothes, and looking like
| nice boy. She was arrested in Long Is
land City Saturday evening, and yester-
| day she told her story with composure.
Her maiden name is Alice Holmes, but
she has borne several aliases, among
them Jennie II. Doten. She was born
in Wareham, Mass, although her rela-
tives now live at Marion, Mass. Her IA
ther was English, while her mother was
native of Massachusetts,. Up to the
time she was IA years old she remained
at home and attended school. During
q vacation she made visit to the West,
where she made the acquaintance of
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 child which is now
IN its third year. Alice got employment
as book-keeper for Messrs. J. E. Lus-
combe &CO., at Plymouth, Mass, where
she was known as Nellie Archer, her
child, in the meantime, being placed
with her brother, where it still remains.
Her father dying, left considerable pro-
perry, of which her brother has persist
emily refused to give her any portion.
She finally had some serious difficulty
with him, and had, rs she expressed it,
F! ga 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,
Mass, and worked atthe straw business.
| Here the idea struck her that she would
adopt mans attire, and donning a 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 Clarhs Falls, Conn.
where she was engaged on a farm, and
remained until the last Monday in June,
when she returned to Providence, and
found employment upon a little river
steamer, called the Schultz After q
few days, becoming dissatisfied, she
went to Newport, where she shipped on
board the United States steam-frigate
Powhattan, being enabled to pass exam
nation by the surgeon, as she alleges,
by the connivance of two young men OF
her acquaintance who shipped with her,
who knew Of her sex, and who each paid
the surgeon twenty-five dollars to pass
her. She shipped under the name OF
Albert B. Clifton. The Powhattan went
to New London, and subsequently came
to the Brooklyn Navy-Yard. Orders
coming for the Powhattan to proceed to
Port-au-Prince, and not desiring to go
so far away from home, "Albert" desert
ed her and made her way to New Lon
don, where she shipped Oh board the
wood-schooner jamestown, running to
| Virginia. She made two trips, when
she returned to New London and ship
ped on board coal schooner, the VIM.
NJ. Baker, Charles B. Baker, command
er After two trips she left this vessel
at New London, and, being short OF
money, smuggled herself on board the
steamer City of Boston, and arrived in
New York on the 7th 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 the 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 Chemica
Works at Dutch Kills, who agreed tt
pay her 50 week with board and cloth
ing, until spring. She boarded witt
Alfred Hahn for a week, when she, left a:
she alleges, on account of the bad order
i'll which the house was kept, and went
to board at the company's boarding
house. While at Hahn's there was
suspicion that she was woman. She
had an examination before Recorder
Parseils, who decided to discharge he1
on her promise to resume her proper
attire and to leave the city. She say:
she likes the sea, is never sea-sici, and
prefers mems clothing because she car
as woman.