Sharp County record., 1879-11-27
IN MALE ATTIRE.

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y .rFrom Melbourne (Austraia) Evening NewS'I
Y Extraordinary disclosures have been
y & ,,adp regarding the female lunatic dis
' inorared i'aS in male attire. 1t appears that
tba AZ woman, who for the past ~ years
= Sas tn nassed as man under the name OF
u Edward Ed De Lacy Evans, has married
thrpe different women. The secret OF
h Iar @ discussed sex has never been even
s,,snected, although she worked contin-
uonsIy as a miner for many years and
Id been following this occupation in
n n Sandhurst, where she was an orolnary
lF "wages man," breaking quartz and do
mo her work with the best OF the other
Q ,re9rkmen ,9 at several mines. She might
ae nossiblv have carried on the fraud un-
rsusnected to the end of her days, but
%4 for the fact that few weeks ago she
n' heyan to show symptoms of insanity,
Which gradually became more pro-
Y@ nounced. Some 10 months ago the
woman between whom and the supposed
ny man the form of marriage had been
conc through gave birth to a child.
This is strange, as the statement uh-
.doubtedly is that the woman, pasSingaS
We Eyans's wife, should stoutly maintain
tbat she never knew the secret of her
& presumed husbands sex. Since the
hq cbild,s birth Evans has lapsed into
eta an absent-minded and lethargic con-
o dition and seemed to have lost all
heart for work. On July the 22d
t Evans was admitted to the hospital as
G lunatic. The hospital record OF the oc-
e .currence ran as follows: "EdWard De
Il Lacv Evans. male, married, admitted
JUN %, native of Kilkenny, Ireland;
pa religion, Church Of England. Danger
va ous to Others; demented." On the day
L. .of admission the attendants as usual
u proceeded to give "himn a bath. Evans
NJ Struggled violently and finally got away
Id from the place. "He'' was recaptured
and brought back next day. "He" re-
manned in hospital six weeks, during
III which warder slept in the room every
night without discovering the secret.
ut She says she was born at Paris, others
Il saw she is a native of Jersey, while the
md hospital record gives Kilkenny as her
Birthplace. She speaks with an Irish
la accent and claimed to be a nephew OF
i'd the late General, Sir Charles De Lacy
al Evans. DR.. Pollard, resident surgeon at
the BendigO hospital, having examined
vi Evans, states that she herself has had
4: one or more children. 1t is rumOred
Fd that Evans was married several years
h ago in Melbourne, but regarding this
: Evidence it not complete. One of the
nurses at present at BendigO Hospital
1 SAYS she can almost positively identify
k...IT Iyrbn ont n
the ship Ocean Monarch 20 years ago.
The girl, for this interesting character
was then of girlish appearance, went
under the name of Ellen
Germanic. A singular feature
% of the story is that the nurse in
d question states the girl had with her on
4 the ship box bearing the name "Ed-
ward De Lacy" The girl on arrival in
NJ Victoria went up country and the next
$ the nurse heard was that she had sent
for the box and had married a fellow
passenger The second marriage was
celebrated Is years since, but no record
of the event has been found. The wife's
name was Sarah Moore, who singularly
enough had two children, both of whom
u died. She breathed not word about
the imposition. The third marriage be-
tween Evans and "his - present wife
was celebrated at Ballarat on the 18th
September, 1868, by the Rev. w. Hen
derSOn, at the Presbyterian Church. On
the latter occasion Evans put her age
down at 2S. Accepting this as correct
she is now about 80. The certificate
Shows that the bridegroom's father was
Edward j. De Lacy Evans, police mag
istrate, and that CHS mothers name
was Ann Dora Vaughan, Welsh wom-
an. The maiden name of Evans's pres
ent wife was Julia Marquand. She
states that she was 25 years of age when
the marriage ceremony was performed
and first became acquainted with Evans
through her sister having been friend
OF " his former wife. Evans pro-
posed marriage, but Vaughan's parents
opposed the match. Evans, however,
induced her to 90 to Ballarat with
Z" him." The marriage took place
there. For a fortnight after they
We're married they lived separately, she
reSlding at a hotel; subsequently they
hved together. In appearance the man
Personator is feminine as regards the
1ormatlon Of features, but carries de-
cldedly masculine expression, though
ner face is as devoid of hair as an in
mnt's. She is rather short Of stature,
regarded as a man, being about five
ieet four inches or five feet five inches.
her hair since her confinement in the
hospital has grown almost to her shoul-
eerS; Some time ago she met with an
accident in the mine in which she was
WORKING, and thereby sustained a severe
wound on the head. The doctor who
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