The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-12-19
CORPORAL NOONAN.
Was His Wife a Man or Was She a
ycman-The Physicians
Said the Former.
Noonsn's Suicide-kn Interview with
Him Just Previous to His
Death.
CORPORAL NooyAN.

In DAYS gone by, when the Seventh L. 5.
Cavalry, Clusters old regiment, was station
ed here, there was member OF the regi-
ment,-Corporal Noonsl-who became we'll
known here; he had been attached to the
regiment for many years, and had become
10 be looked upon as one OF the necessary
attachments OF the command was popu-
Isr With his comrades and generally well
liked. After the regiment had gone west
Corooral Noonan married, which event
occurred about two years ago, the bride be-
ing
THE WIDOW or A FELLow-soLDIER
who died with Custer in the Little Big
Horn valley. There ia nothing peculiarly
striking or remarkable about this-men
have married before Corporal Noonan died
but the striking, wonderful and mysteri-
Gus part is TO come.
Mrs. Noonan died short time ago, and
an examination after the death showed-at
least the physicians who made the eSami-
nation SO state-that Mrs. Noonan was
man and moi woman. She had peen mar,
ried twice, probably three times, II Is SAID
by some sine was married three times, out
she outliyed all Of her husbands except
Noonan. and he declared, only short
time before he committed suicide, thar MS
| wife was really a woman and not man.
There is a great deal OF mystery about the
affair TO say the least. Corporal Noonan
was stationed at Fort Leavenworth Tor sew.
eral wears, being on detached service, and
ioined his regiment little over two years
| ago.
;,,oI s,,;c;5s ,t R;sm,rck.
~ ~ - ~ the Loser garrison
ua on 7, US renorted some DAYS ago
SalufuaS ,..a,,aS h,,, No one this side
Una. NC -r nav 10 ssen him. II now an
Vi ,ne - "a Ion, himself ont
r. ~. w.v ga vol as he could for several
u INC ur.das bad oven him a sort
u s,, - &c the return Of the regi.
VI oo'a 1 sn ,ha cb.ss after the stony and
- I'D tho .bame that fell on him in the
discovery of his wife's sex, undermined his
desire for existence, and he crawled away
lonely and forsaken and blew out the lie
that promised nothing but infamy and dis
grace.
The suicide was committed with pistol,
and Noonan shot himself through the
| 1uc dhoii
an excitement at the post as did the an
nouncement OF the death oil Mrs. Noonan,
but there was sigh OF relief on the cor
porate lips Of the 9TH Cavalry when lis
members heard that Noonan py MS own
hsnd had relieved the regiment OF the
odium which the mans presence cast upon
them.
Thursday afternoon reporter Tor the
Bismarck Tribune interviewed Noonan up
on the unfortunate relations between HIM,
self and the man who represented himself
as Noonan's wife.
| when | married her, sill" said Noonan,
earnestly, 81 believed her to be woman
and never knew TO the contrary until
heard of the post mutem."
"Are you prepared to say, Noonan, thai
during your marital experience you never
dreamed of what the medical officers dis
covered
DIDN'T KNOW Ills WIFE wAsA MAN.
| u ;., ,b., Jd,ra M. saw that
| the medical officers were wrong, but know
thai am right anu l Know una. ny w
was woman: lneie Is some 'e
terry about this thlnS lhat can unGei
stand: che had acteu as "niu~iie "nu uoo
tress here al the fost' one was uu'tsu any
respected by large NUMBER o. peoPie, anu
can only mink she mus nave uone so"e
thing terribly wrong ~hiSn uenianueu
disguise oil her sex py Inc oiagnosihs Pny
slclans-
but her wrong mus nave y.en ~ o.. y
her supposed sex, ana 4 can I h.a An'
now the alteration coula uenen. n LII md
| NOR l.. ihere IL Sotne'ninS u Hrt ano
something terrihie apout lhiI tnihs. "nei'
II VIII END L dont Know. au ou' *,
geant, while those IN cohttoi 1a .his 'h,ns