The herald., 1894-09-17
SAYS FRAKER WAS A WOMAN.
The New Phase of the Whittier
Boys Romance.
The Mystery Thickens Around His
Indulgent Cousin.
The Weird Story Told About the Ex-
celslor Springs Physician By
Former Friend and
C0ufideRt.


zeles in remarkable case, wherein
young boy named Fraker, at the Whit
tier state reform school, comes in for a
share Of $4,000 life insurance policy.
The insurancs companies are contest
ing the payment OF the policy. which
was taken out by DR.. Fraksr, cousin
of the Whittier boy, and left by will TO
him, his brothers and sisters.
DIR. Fraker was out on the Pacific
coast year before his supposed death
by drowning, and hunted up his young
relative. He arranged to take him out
Of the state institution, educate him and
care for him, as we'll as his brothers ana
sisters. A few days before he was TO
have started for Los Angeles from Mis-
souri, to take the boy home with MN,
he was drowned, or supposed 70 have
been drowned, while out Win pleas-
urs party OF friends.
The most startling stories have since |
been started about DIR. Frsker; among
others being one that he was not what
he claimed to be. man, but was a
woman. The cass has been attracting q
great amount of attention in Kansas
CITY and elsewhere. and the insurance
companies are making an exceptionally
vigorous attempt to substantiate their
theories that DR., Fraker was a woman
nnd that he or she ia still alive.
In. connection with the latest phase OF
the case the Kansas City Star of Sep
tember IL has the following
John Foley of Excelsior Springs. Tor
over wear the friend and con idant OF
Dr.. q. w. Fraker, who had persistent!y
rafusad to answer questions concerning
Fraker's sex. broke his long silence to-
day by making q fill statement OF his
relations with the inisaing physician to
a reporter for the Star.
Foley's disclosures are highly impor>
tant to the case OF the insurance COM
paniea who are fighting the claims for
AID. 600 for the alleged drowning OF DR..
Fraker. and are entirely corroborative
of the assertions made by ]. N. Courtney
of Salt Lake City in his federal court de-
position, the contents OF which were
given first publication in the sunday
edition OF the Star.
Foley said abundant proof had been
furnished him that Fraker is woman.
and that the doctor had once proposed
to him to fee with him to Europe, where
they were to live together aa man ana
wife, saying that by the exercise OF .
little headwork" he could get plenty Of
money.
Foley la q fireman on the Excelsior
Springs railway. He Is young man. a
little over % years of age. and is the son
OF the former proprietor of the Foley
house. He was seen by the Eeporter ioi
-s.- q = =. e s.,su vsynuu apOut Fraker eaiC
that he would not say anything until he
was compelled to, which he hoped would
never be. He said that ever since Fra
ker disappeared he bad been dogged by
insurance men, attorneys and newspaper
reporters to tell what he knew, and that
he had denied them all. He was urged
to make q statement and finally yielded
HIS ACQUAINTANCE WITH FRAKER.
"I'll tell you what know about Fra
kerr" he said, ''but I have struggled
hard against being drawn into the case
see it's no use to keep still any longer
as they will probably MAKE me 60 tc
court and it will come out sooner OF
later. had known Fraker for d Iona
time, but he did not esem to take par
ticular interest in ms until about four
yeare ago. He seemed to have liking
for me, and could not quite understand
his attachment. | accompanied him on
several trips to Kansas City. saw him
very frequently for over year, indeed
there was hardly time we were not to
gether. | had not the least idea that he
was anything but what he was generally
supposed to be-a man. He often told
me that he had schemes by which he ex-
pected to make lots Of money.
"One day Fraker Was more than usu-
ally tender toward me. Putting his
arm around my neck he told me that he
was woman. He said ne had q plan
By which we could both bs made very
happy; that he would ahave off his
beard, dress like a woman, disappear
and afterward join me in Europe, where
we could 90 into businese. He told me
not to bother about money-he would
have plenty OF it. In Europe he pro.
posed we should live as man and wife.
81 thought the man was making game
of me and laughed of what l thought
was his little joke. But he was serious,
and said he meant all he said. I still
did not believe him, and for two weeks
nothing further Wac said. At the end
OF that time Fraker convinced me that
he could put on female dreas and be to
oil appearances o woman.
''On learning what kind OF a person
this DR.. Fraker was, told him pretty
| lTbOtv WAat tnQuklu VA nit2l vi H6T, Vi
whatever he is, and left him for good.
Shortly aitefward l was attentive 10 q
young lady know and Fraksr became
wildly jealous Of her. He got 20 DO such
q nuisance that told him to keep away
from her OF would punch his face out
of ali recognition, That ended my
friendship with DR.. Fraker.
BELIEVES HE IS STILL ALIVE.
81 believe that the story OF Fraker's
drowning is oil bosh and thought 80 the
minute | heard OF 1t. I believe he is
alive and will turn up some day. There
are others in this town who know as
much about Fraker aa | do. II they
would tell whst they know Fraker
would be known in his true light"
A physician who has attended DR..
Fraker aaid to reporter for the Star
that, in his opinion, Fraker's sex was
questionable. His physique, he said,
was that of a woman and although he
could not swear that the doctor was a
woman, neither could he swear tnst Re
was man. The physician pleaded the
fduciary relation between physician
and patient for refuHing to further dis
cuaa the subject.
Men who have eeen FrRker in the
Excelsior springs swimming pool cay
that he could easily have breasted the
cnrrens OF tho river in his supposed fs!
;ptn tba straau1