Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-10-05
A HOST REMARKABLE CASE
A Person, Always Supposed TO be . Wo-
man. Aiarries Another Woman-T
QUESTION of Sex Hard to Determine.
Sv1e,af 7,Leoran 10 me Rsotsssr.

A Person, Always Supposed TO DO . Wo-
man. Alarries Another WomAn-The
Question of Sex Hard to Determine.
Special 7eEe0r0m 10 the Register.
STEUBENvILLE, O., Oct. 4-Toronto
is experiencing the greatest social sen
sation 10 the history OF that enterprls'
ing village. On Tuesday w. 7. Stringer,
an uncle Of the bridegroom, procured
license for the marriage OF Augustus
Cothen and Mary Brinkman, both OF
Toronto, and they were married by
Justice Whitcomb.
The case is the most novel with which
the authorities OF Toronto have ever
had to deal. and the people OF Toronto
are so shocked that they cannot hnd
words with which to express their sur
prise.
The groom is a native OF Warren
township, and has always worn female
attire and has gone by the name Of Sal
lie Stringer. Or. J. NJ. Kelly, who was
present at the birth, being questioned,
was non-committal as TO sex.
After the uncle had procured the
license Rev. MIR. Weir, pastor OF the
Presbyterian Church at Toronto, came
down to post the Probate Judge about
the case, saying that Augustus Cothen
had been on his church roll as "Sallle
Strlnger" and that he would refuse to
tie the knot II solicited to oihciate 81
the wedding. When Mr.. Stringer made
application for license he stated hat ne
always thought "Sallie" q female. In
the application the age of COthen was
given as tw~enty-eight and the brides
as twenty-five years.
The bride is a native OF Quincy, lll.r
and became acquainted with the String
err woman or Cothen man at a hospital
in Columbus, where the bride was a
nurse and where Cothen was under
treatment, and the attachment whlch
resulted In the marriage was formed
there.
The Toronto authorities were search
Ing the statutes yesterday TO ind q law
provision under which they could force
Sallie or Augustus to prove sex IN their
presence, and last night a committee OF
u en- waited on Cothen, asking him or
her TO prove sex before them, which he
need not hesitate to do II a male, but ne
or she asked to be excused and went up
stairs, and one Of the visitors who fol-
lowed returned presently and announced
that cit" had tainted.
Sallie Stringer was agent for aSteuo-
enville music house in Toronto, where
she was known as a woman. The analr
promises to provoke a scandal OF serl-
Gus proportions, for Sallie had beer re-
garded and treated as a woman by the
women Of Toronto, some OF them mar
ried. She was very fond OF females.
He or she has no beard and the features
are feminine, so If really a man no dih-
Guilty would be encountered In passing
as a woman
They expect to leave for st. Louis
shortly where they will live.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT OF IT.
SrsctdI telegram 10 ms RegtsteT.
TORONTO, o., October 4.-This COM
munity has been torn up over a social
sensation for the past two days, the
theme being the marriage of W girls.
SallIe Stringer, alias Augustus Co
thon, procured a marriage license at
S%teubenvIlle and was married to Mary
Brinkman, a girl who came from a Co.
lumbus convent to Toronto, aud who Is
also in a delicate condition. by justice
Whitcomb. Of Empire. A Toronto min
lister refused to perform the ceremony.
The fact was developed this afternoon
by a physician that Sallie Stringer is q
female, and hence a complicated case Is
presented to the county authorities.