Elmore bulletin. [volume] (Rocky Bar, Idaho) 1889-1906, 1892-11-12
WOMEN WITH RECORDS.
ADVENTURES OF FEMALES WHO
HAVE PLAYED THE MAN.

Jane Thornton's Three Year Cruise mt
-Romanticlsn, as Displayed in tho
Case Of Mary Ann Taylor, Who Accom-
panied Her Lover To the West Indies.
The case OF the poor little sea apprentice
Hans Brandt, who fell into the hold of /
the bark Ida, OF Pensacola, at West Har-
tlepool and was killed, adds one more !
name TO the long list of women who. for |
one reason or another. have put aside the |
garments of their sex and have donned the |
habits and initiated the ways of men. Not
until Hans Brandt's" body was being pre-
pared for burial was IL discovered that the
Ida's apprentice was a girl. Why she dis
guised herself and why she shipped are
questions To which no certain answer can
be given An uncomfortable home or pos
sibly nothing worse than craving for adj
venture, may supply the explanation Both
causes, IL il well known, have operated in
the past; but although domestic trouble
has undoubtedly led many women thus TO
disguise themselves. the commoner stimu-
ltIs, " won at appear. Is provided by that
love Of change and excitement which ut
one period OF life takes possession of almost
every one.
posing causes in the celebrated case of
Anne Jane Thornton. Her father, who
was comfortably OF, was very kind to her:
but at the impressionable age of II she met
Alexander Burke, an American sea cap
.ain, and when he went To New York she
determined to leave her home in Donegal
and to follow him. She succeeded in ship
ping as cabin boy, and in reaching America;
but there discovered that Capt. Burke was
married. and so resolved to return as she
had come. She shipped rs cook and stew
ard, first in the Adelaide, then In the
Rover, and finally in the Surah, Capt. Nc
Entire, and was returning in the last
named ship 10 London in 1884 when her
sex was by accident discovered. She had
been for nearly three years absent from
home. Upon reaching England she APP
pcared before the Lord Mayor, TO whom
Capt. McEntire stated In court that Miss
Thornton had done duty as a seaman In
most admirable way, and that she had lee
haved herself with the utmost proprie,y.
a few kindly people undertook to send her
home. What afterward befell her is un-
known.
A ROMANTIC CASE.
Romanticism also played an important
part in the case of Mary Anne Taylor. Her
domestic affairs, however, were not the
| most comfortable, and IL is uncertain
| whether she accompanied her lover, an in
fantry officer, 10 the West Indies solely on
account of her affection for him, or partly
ON account of her home troubles. But ac-
company him she did, and in boys dress.
| Going with him afterward to France, she
acted as "A drummer and was wounded Mt
| the siege of Nalenciennes. Upon her re
covery she deserted and took service, still
as n boy. on board French lugger, which
she believed TO be trader, but which was
really "A priyateer. In this craft she was
captured by the fleet under Lord Howe, to
whom, without revealing her sex, she ex-
planned the circumstances of her engage
ment
Her explanation being accepted she
shipped "A cabin boy in the Brunswick,
Capt. John Harvie, and fought in that ca
pacity on the glorious LIST of June, 1874.
Although she received two severe wounds
on that occasion, and was sent for treat
ment To Haslar, she nevertheless managed
/ to conceal her sex, and subsequently, Joined
the Nesuyius bomb and then a Yankee
trader. Indeed she only proclaimed her
self at last in order to avoid being pressed
as "A seaman on her return again TO Eng
land. This woman, who was the youngest
of sixteen natural children of Lord Will
lam Talbot, enjoyed for many years a small
pension from the queen OF George Ill.
A woMAN-MAS FIGHTS A DUEL
About forty years ago far more ex-
| traordinary instance of successful disguise
was current topic Of gossip in the army.
An army surgeon served successfully at
the Cape, at Malta aud at Barbados This
person was a small, thin, wrinkled indi-
vidual, with little voice, an effeminats
/ .luf- .
the Cape he actually fought duel with an
officer who at the mess table had called
him woman, yet in spite of that he
WIS "A woman, though the fact was not dis.
covered until, having reached high rank in
his profession, he died in London enjoying
the honors of surgeon general to the army.
DIR. James Barry, as this lady was called,
was well known in military circles. Many
officers who can remember her are still
alive.
Among other examples are the cases OF
Ann Bonny and Mary Read, who, dressed
As men, were fearsome buccaneers on the
Spanish Main in their day. Hannah Smell
Is another example. Born in l723, she
married Dutch sailor, who deserted her.
Hannah went In pursuit, first as soldier,
then as marines She was several times
wounded, but always managed to conceal
her sex, and might perhaps have concealed
II many years longer had she so desired
But having learned that her faithless
spouse had been executed for murder she
proclaimed herself aud returned TO Eng
land
Yet another female sailor began her false
career by running away at the age of Is. In
the year 1852, with her sweetheart. To
avoid discovery she started as boy. and
liking the disguise she aftcrward went e
sea in IL. Returning she obtained articles
OF apprenticeship with one Angel, Of South
wark and secured the affections of CIR
named Mary ParlOur, whom she went SC
far as 10 marry.--St. james Gazette.
school Out of Doors.
The Fairfield Journal thus describes
, pretty rural scene Ii was a school that