Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1893-07-20

The speaker was Il person Who haC
been arrested by Detective Frank
Miller of this city yesterday afternoon
on Il charge Of having stolen S125 al
Fond du Lac
The telegram from Fond du Lac
called for the arrest of Frank Blunt
and it was when the prisoner was being
searched that her sex was discovered
1t was to Chief of Police Jansen that
| the statement contained in the fore
going paragraph was addressed.
Seeing that further concealment was
useless, the woman, who is now -
years odl, related her history to the
chief. Her story is a most wonderful
one and it would hardly be believed
by any one were it not substantiated
by facts.
She ran away with her brother when
she was Is years old, donned male at
tire, was adopted by man who is now
a resident of Milwaukee and has since
lived with him as his son. This man
was aware Of her identity, but both
kept their secret well. For nine wears
the prisoner lived with another woman
as her husband, yet her sex was never
discovered.
Chief Of Police McGrath took the
prisoner back to Fond du Lac last night
to stand trial on the charge of larceny.
The prisoner was confident that she
could prove her innocence and it had
been arranged that her story should be
kept secret until the Fond du Lac Off
Ger brought her back to Milwaukee, in
the event of her acquittal
Then Chief Jansen was to give her
an opportunity to don female attire
and leave the city. After that he was
But in some manner an inkling Of the
story leaked out and rather than have
garbled reports published the chief de-
cided to give out the whole story.
1t was Tuesday night that the police
received the telegram from Fond du
Lac to arrest Frank Blunt The police
knew the young man quite we'll, he
having lived with his father on the
West Side for most of the past ten
years.
To Detective Frank Miller was given
AS the officer expected, the young man
was at the place on the West Side he
called home The arrest was quickly
made and Blunt was soon in the pres
ence of Station-keeper Haertle, of the
Central precinct.
The young man made no denial of
the charge that his name was Blunt
and that he had just come from Fond
du Lac, but he stoutly maintained that
he was innocent of the charge of lar
ceny.
1t was a dapper-looking little fellow
who stood before the stationkeeper.
He gave his age as %. He was about
5 feet s inches tall and weighed per-
haps 155 pounds. He was very neatly
dressed and at once impressed every
body by his gentlemanly behavior. A
p2ir Of speGtacles made him look
rather dudish and a cigarette at which
he puffed tended to confirm this i'm
preston. Only a few dollars were
found in his pockets, and suspecting
that the fellow might have more
tucked away somewhere, the detec-
tives gave orders that the prisoner be
subjected to what is known in police
parlance as a ''clOse search
To carry out his instructions in this
regard, the station-keeper took the
prisoner back into the cell-room. The
search proceeded. Suddenly the sta
tion-keeper stood back aghaSt. Then
with an expression on his face which
Indicated that he thought he had been
mistaken he started to resume the
search. But the prisoner held out his
hands and said quietly:
please send a woman to search me-"
The station-keeper asked no questions.
but he left the cell-room and a few
minutes later the matron made the
search. No more money was found.
The startling discovery was at once
reported to Chief Jansen and the
prisoner was called before him.