The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-10
THE DAILY STAR
IN MALE ATTIRE,
A Woman Who for Twenty Years
Played a Mans Part and Was
Married as a Man.
Melbourne Evening News.1

the woman, who Tor the past twenty
Jears has passed rs a man under the
name of Edward De Lacy Evans, has
married three different women. The Sc
cret of her disguised sex has never been
even suspected, although she worked con-
tinuously as miller for many years,
and had been following this occupation
in Sandhurst, where she was an ordinary
"wages man." breaking quartz and dong
her work with the best of the other work
men at several mines.
She might possibly have carried on the
fraud unsllspected to the end of her days,
but that for the fact that a few weeks
ago she began to show symptoms OF III
sanitv, which gradually became more
pronounced. Some fifteen months ago,
the woman, between whom and the sup
posed man the form of marriage had
been gone through, gave birth to a child.
This is strange, as the statement undoubt-
edly is that this woman, passing as
Evans wife, stoutly maintained that she
never knew the secret OF her presumed
husbands sex. Since the child's birth
Evans has lapsed into an absent-minded
and ,lethargic condition, and seemed to
have lost all heart for work.
On July 22d Evans was admitted to the
hospital as lunatic. The hospital rec
ords of the occurrence ran as follows:
Edward De Lacy Evans, male, married,
admitted July %; native of Kilkenny,
Ireland; religion, Church Of England
Dangerous to others; demented." On the
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proceeded to give "him" a bath. Evans
struggled violently and finally got away
from the place. "He' was recaptured
and brought back next day. "He" re-
NAMED in the hospital six weeks, during
which a warder slept in the room every
night without discovering the secret. She
says she was born at Paris others say she
is native of Jersey, while the hospital
record gives Kilkenny as her birth place.
She speaks with an Irish accent, and
claimed to be nephew of the late Gen
eral Sir Charles De Lacy Evans. DR..
Poland, Resident Surgeon at the Bendigo
Hospital, having examined Evans, states
that she herself has had one or more chill
dren. 1t is rumored that Evans was
married several years ago in Melborne,
but regarding this evidence as not COM
plete. One of the nurses, at present at
Bendigo Hospital, saws she can almost
positively identify Evans as a passenger
who came out in the ship Ocean Mon
arch twenty years ago. The girl, for
this interesting character was then of
girlish appearance, went under the name
of Ellen Gemanic. A singular feature
Of the story is that the nurse in question
states that the girl had with her on the
ship box bearing the name edward
De Lacy"
The girl, on arrival in Victoria, went
DIP country, aud the next the nurse heard
was that she had sent for the box and
had married fellow passenger. The sec
ond marriage was celebrated eighteen
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 died.
She breathed not word about the impo-
sition. The third marriage between Ev-
ans and CHS" present wife was celebrated
at Ballarat OF the 18th of September,
1868, by the Rev. w. Henderson, at the
Presbyterian Church. On the latter oc-
casion Evans put her age down at twen-
ty-eight. Accepting this as correct, she
is now about thirty-nine. The certificate
showed that the bridegroom's father was
Edward J. De Lacy Evans, Police Mag
istrate, and that ~his" mothers name was
Ann Dora Waugh, Welshwoman.
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wife was Julia Marquand. She states
that she was twenty-five years of age
when the marriage ceremony was per-
formed, and first became acquainted with
Evans through her sister having been a
friend of "his" former wife. Evans pro-
posed marriage, but Julia's parents op-
posed the match. Evans, however, in
duced her to 90 to Ballarat with ''him."
The marriage took place there. For a
fortnight after they were married they
lived separately, she residing at hotel
subsequently they lived together.
In appearance the man personator is
feminine as regards the formation of fea-
lures, but carries a decidedly masculine
expression, though her face is as devoid
Ol ndlf dS dH lHldHbS ). one Is faJnef
short of stature, regarded as a man, be-
ing about five feet four inches or five
feet five inches. Her hair, since her con-
tinement in the hospital, has grpwn al
most to her shoulders. Some time ago
she met with an accident in the mine in
which she was working, and thereby sus-
tanned a severe wound on her head. The
doctor who attended her never had the
slightest suspicion of her sex.
The same gentleman was afterward
called in to attend Evans while she was
suffering from dangerous attack of fe-
ver, but then again the imposition es-
capped detection. Miss Marquand, the
young lady with whom one marriage was
celebrated, says that Evans represented
to her that "he" had two children bv his
former wife in France, and that these
had been sent to Ireland. Two gentle.
wen visited her soon after the case was
made known at Sandhurst. To them she
said, in reply to interrogations: "Oh, it,
all over now; you may as well finish mt
at once" ..r.