News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-10-23
GERTIE,S TWO WEDDINGS.
The Wife of the Bogus "Frnnk Dubois"
Married to n Man this Time.

A great sensation was created year
ago by the announcement that two wo-
men living in Waupun, Wis, had been
quietly married and were living together
as man and wife. The case attracted
widespread attention, and the develop
ments were closely watched. An inves-
tigation showed that Mrs. J. l.. Hudson,
who with her husband from small
town in Illinois, settled in Fond du Lac,
had deserted her family and, DOMINIC
male attire, found work as a farm hand
near Waupun. Mrs. Hudson called her
self Crank Dubois" and in her bifur-
Gated garments readily passed for an eff
feminate-Iooking countryman. She was
about thirty years old. After living
near Waupun for several months Dubois
met and began counting a good-looking
girl named Gertie Fuller, whose mother
was a respectable widow living in the
outskirts OF the village. After short
courtship the couple were married and
took up their residence with the brides
mother. A few weeks after the wedding
it began to be whispered around that the
groom was a woman, and the village
gossips set their tongues wagging. The
news spread, and in few weeks the
leading papers of the country contained
long dispatches in regard to the queer
case, and its peculiar phases were dis
cussed in their editorial columns. Du-
bois and "his" pretty young wife stoutly
denied the stories, but they were SO
bothered by inquisitive visitors and
newspaper correspondents that they de-
cided to leave the town, which they did
at the dead hour of night, going to
Brandon, where they began living under
an assumed name. At last Mrs. Fuller
took up the case and decided to find out
for herself whether her daughters hus-
band was man or a woman. She in
voked the aid of officers and followed
the couple, overtaking them at Bran
don hotel. She induced them to return
to Waupun. But they fled second time
. |lsnh11iSht of for several months.
a. .lls !letim esthe case, a4d after
ATtL: Investigation felt satisfied
that Frank Dubois was no other than
his recreant spouse. Then he began
searching for the queerly matched couple
After considerable trouble he discovered
them, and sure enough Frank Dubois
proved to be the missing Mrs. Hudson.
She refused to return with her husband
at first, but upon being threatened with
arrest decided to leave cher wife" and
return to her abandoned home and her
four children. Gertie Fuller returned
to her mothers home in Waupun, where
she continued to live until a few days
ago. She refused to talk to outsiders
about her marriage, but commended to
the last that Dubois was q man. Hud-
son took his wife home, and later they
returned to their former place of resi-
dence in Illinois. Last fall Gertie Full
Ter became a mother, and she strenu-
ously asserted that Dubois was the
child's father. The strange case has
never been explained satisfactorily, but
all kinds of theories have been advanced.
1t certainly was one of the strangest
matrimonial alliances ON record. The
last chapter was enacted at Shiocton, a
small town in The northern part of Wis
consin, where Gertie Fuller Dubois was
married to man named Lehman, and
they have gone to Maine, Wis, where
they will in future reside.