Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-05
MARRIEDTO MALE OR FEMALE
Strange Sequel to the Frank DubOi
Wedding-A Baby and Real Mar
rage.

Strange Sequel to the Frank Dubois
Wedding-A Baby and a Real Mar
riage.
A great sensation was created year
ago says a Milwaukee special, by the
announcement that two women living in
Waupun, Wis, had been quietly married,
and were living together as man and wife.
The case attracted widespread attention,
and the developments were closely
watched. An investigation showed that
Mrs. j. L. Hudson, who came with her
husband from a small town in Illinois
and settled in Fond du Lac, had deserted
her family, and, donning male attire,
found work as farm hand near Waupun.
Mrs. Hudson called herself ''Frank Du-
bois," and in her Difurcated garment
readily passed for an effeminate looking
countryman. She was about thirty years
old.
After living near Waupun for several
months Dubois met and began counting a
good looking girl namad Gertie Fuller,
whose mother was respectable widow
living in the outskirts of the village.
After a short courtship the couple were
married and took up their residence with
the BRIDES mother. A few weeks after
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around that the groom was a woman, and
the village gossips set their tongues wag-
cling. The news spread, and in few
weeks the leading papers of the country
contained long dispatches in regard to
the queer case, and it's peculiar phases
were discussed in their editorial columns.
Dubois and ''his" pretty young wife
stoutly denied the stories, but they were
so bothered by inquisitive visitors and
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cided to leave the town, which they did at
the dead hour of midnight, going to small
place named 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 daugh-
ter's husband was man or woman. She
invoked the aid of officers and followed
the couple, overtaking them at Bran
don hotel. She induced them to return to
Waupun. But they fed a second time
and were lost sight of for several months.
Hudson heard of the case, and after max
ing an investigation felt satisfied that
Frank Dubois was no other than his
recreant spouse. Then he began search
ing 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 ''her wife" and
return to her abandoned home and four
children. Gertie Fuller returned to her
mothers home in Waupun, where she
continued to live until few days ago.
She refused to talk to outsiders about her
marriage, but contended to the last that
Dubois was man. Hudson took his wife
home, and later they returned to their
former place of residence in Illinois. Last
fall Gerdie Fuller became mother, and
she strenuously 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 yesterday
at Shiocton, a small town in the northern
part of the State, where Gertie Fuller Du-
bOs was married to a man named Leh-
man, and they have gone to Maine, Wis,
where they will in future reside.