The Republican journal., 1876-01-13
A Young Woman's Adventures.

Miss Alice Holmes was detained in the
police station in Astoria, N Y, yesterday
says the New York Sun, to give officers
an opportunity to procure suitable wear
ing apparel in which to send her to hel
home in Massachusetts,. She wore a mid
shipman's cap, heavy pea jacket blue
flannel sailors shirt, pantaloons and
mems boots, and her hair, of auburn
shade, was short cropped, and parted on
the side, making her appear as stout
and comeiy lad of 1G or II years. She
was taken to the police station on Sun
day, for Disgusting herself in male attire
Her sex was discovered in the boarding
sent as Il border by Nh Anton Pearse, the
proprietor OF the Carnolia chemical works
on Dutch Kills. The latter was crossing
the ferry to Hunters Point on the Sth
inst, when he was accosted by a boy, as
he supposed. who asked for employment
The boy said that he would work as a
farm laborer for his board and clothes
Nh Pearse offered to provide him with
board and clothes and give him IS Il
month if he would work Tor him. lie ac-
cepted the offer and was employed in the
department for making chlorotorm. lie
gave the name of Walter Holmes. He
was sent to live with Mr.. Horn, who
keeps q boarding house for young men
On Sunday last he was accused Of steal
ING Il shirt. and it was then he was dis
covered to be Il young woman.
Miss Holmes is between Is and -
Years old. with blue eyes and fair COM
pieNion. She is five feet five inches in
Ia, Il, fol tn do,
Parsells of Long Island City and to
others, is that she is from Marion, Massa-
chusetts, where her mother lives. She
was secretly married when she was about
- to young telegraph operator named
Barnstable, and went with him to Indi-
amt She has 4 child 3 years old, that
her mother has the custody of. She de-
serted her home in Marion nine months
ago. because she could not get some
money that she thought belonged to her
Her adventures in male dress began in
Providence She tried to obtain work
there suitable for a woman, and, failing
to do so, she hired herself to q farmer
She deserted him to 60 on the sound
steamer Schultz us y deck hand, and
was atterWard steward on the coastwise
sch0oners Jamestown, Gar and William
II. Baker. She Kept her sex Il secret
wherever she went In August or Sep
tenber last she became acquainted with
two young men named jackson and
Bricr, one Of whom told her that he had
run away from his father, taking Il large
amount of money. They persuaded hel
to enlist with them in the United States
navy, and she then revealed to them who
She was She was taken as Il Wardroom
boy on the steamer Powhattan at the
navy yard She alleges that her two
companions paid the surgeon S25 each tc
pass her without exposing her sex. She
overstaved her leave from the vessel one
day, on her return she and one of hel
companions We're put in the brig under
arrest On her release she deserted.
She told Recorder Parsells that she had
never tasted Intoxicating drinks. Ifel
hands show how she has toiled. The
palms are hard and calloused She says
She belongs to Il good Massachusetts fam
lily. Alter hearing her story Recorder
Parsells discharged her, and Police Com
missioner Bedinc gave her some money
to take her home.