Knoxville journal. [volume] (Knoxville, Iowa) 1874-1986, 1876-01-06

In Recorder Parsells' courtroom, in
Astoria, yesterday, 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
conposure. Her maiden name is Alice
Holmes. bat she has borne several aliases,
among them Jennie NJ Deten. She was
born In Warehan, Mass, although her
relatives now live at Marioa, Mass. Her
father was English, while her mother was
native Of Massachusetts. Up to the
time she was fourteen years old she re-
manned al home and attended school.
During a 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 clan
destineiy, she being in her fifteenth year
and he In his sixteenth. After 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 T.. Lus-
combe & Co, at Plymouth, Mass, 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 pcrsistently re-
fused 10 give her any portion She finally
had some serious difficulty with him, and
had, es she expressed 1t, "a choice OF
I.47ing the State for few months or be-
ing placed in confinement. She accord
ingly left home on the 18th OF February
last, went to Attleboro, Mass, and worked
at the straw business. Here the idea
struck her that she wsuld adopt mems
attire, and, donning suit, she went to
Providence, where she was engaged in the
al.yard Of Hopkins Il Pomeroy. firing
Of this, on the nth of April she went to
Clark's Falls, Conn, where she was en-
gagged on farm, and remained until the
last Monday in June, when she returned
10 Providence, and found employment
upon a small river steamer called the
shultz. After few days, becoming dis
satisfied, she went to Newport, where she
ship. ed on board the United States steam
frlgate Powhattan, being enabled to pass
examination by the surgeon, as she
alleges, by the conniyance Of two young
fellows 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 10 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 deserted
and made her way 10 New London, where
she shipped on board the wood-schoOner
jamestown, running TO Virginia. She
made two trips, when she returned to New
London ana shipped on board a coal
schooner, the William III. Baker, Charles
b. Baker, commander. 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 It'll of No
vembcr. The next day she shipped on
board the coasting schooner Gar, Capt.
ID. w. Hammond, running between Bos-
ton and New York. AT the end of amonth
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 nj Dutch
Kills, who agreed to pay her 50 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 board at the company's
boarding house. While at Hahn's there
was suspicion that she was a woman
She was detained and taken TO the First
Precinct Station. House at Astoria. She
had an examination before Recorder PAR
sells, who decided TO discharge 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
N. Y. World.