The Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1877-1885, 1883-11-07
GETTING CONFUSING.
Is He Woman OF Is She a Mana II
the Question.
Her M0ther-in- Law Has Him Ar
rested, and His stepmother says
He lisa Woman without Doubt
"A Perplexed Reader.

Chiffon, Wis, Nov. 7.-Gertie Fuller has
been rescued by Mrs Hewitt, her mother
The latter arrived here from Waupun,
accompanied by her daughter, Mrs Ryan
She was in search of Frank Dubois and her
daughter, and obtained the Information
that they were stopping at Stock
bridge. They started for Stockbridge
with number of men, and the latter sur
rounded the house where the fugitiVes were
supposed to be. On entering the house she
found her daughter only, Dubois having been
ordered away the night previous He is
thought to be skulking in the woods in the
neighborhood, but has not been seen since 8
o'clock Saturday afternoon. Mrs. Hewitt
says should Dubois show up in Waupun he
would be tarred and feathered by the indig-
nant populace. Gertie still persists in her
statement that Dubois is a man. She says
that her remaining with him is not the result
of threats, but will give no reasons for so do
ing. Mrs. Hewitt left for Waupun, accom-
panied by both her daughters Mrs. Ryan and
Gertie. Gertie says she has done with Frank
and will give him up. While here Dubois
endeavored to obtain work husking corn. He
is without money.
CHICAGO, Nov. 7.--Charles N. Derthick and
his mother, the stepbrother and stepmother
of Mrs. s. ]. Hudson, who, as Frank Dubois,
has been creating such stir in Wisconsin,
are residents Of Hyde Park. They say that
the woman who is now figuring as Frank
Dubois and Mrs. Samuel ]. Hudson was by
birth Cordelia Derthick. She came into the
care of her stepmother about eighteen years
ago at the age of l6, being consequently
about "a years of age at this time. Her step
mother lived at that time at Elbridge, a
small village near Paris, Ill. She lived with
her three years and then went away "to
work. as she said Several months after
ward they heard of her in service at
boarding house about twenty miles away.
They sent after her, and she told the
messenger that she was sick and wanted to
come home. A few days afterward they
went to bring her home, but she had de
parted TO parts unknown, subsequently turn
ing up in Belvidere, ILL., In 1871 she married
Samuel j. Hudson, at Beividere, by whom
she had two children She and her husband
seldom staid long in one place. living at diff
ferent times in Illinois, Iowa, and Wiscon-
sin.
While they were living in Belvidere in 1880,
Mrs. Hudson ran away with one William
Rowell while her husband was in RockpOrt
Hudson hunted her up on his return and
found her with Rowell at Freeport, Ill Row
ell skipped out" and the Hudsons in 1882
went TO Iowa.
Last March Hudson appeared in Belvidere
with their two children and stated that his
wife would join them in few days Time
passed by and she did not appear. Rumors
that she was dead were current and
generally believed by her relatives. Now she
turns up as Frank Dubois, a husband, and,
as the wife states, the father of an unborn
child. Mrs Frank Dubois Samuel J. Hud-
son is pretty, with shapely, finely developed
figure and small hands and feet When COS
TUNED as a woman she had handsome, dark,
curly hair. When young she acted more
like boy than a girl and her stepmother
says she "never could keep track of her," and
added that there was no doubt whatever that
she was q woman