Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-07
THOUGHT HIMSELF A GIRL.
A Remarkable Case Of Mistnken Self
Identity I'm BrOOklyn.

A Remarkable Case of Mistnken Self
Identity In BrOOklyn.
most remarkable case Of uncertain sex
has just been developed in Brooklyn, &C.
oording to the New York Sun. young
person. who has been known fer some time
past as Eta Graemess has proven to be q
boy, and has been sent to the Truants
Home. In Brooklyn. On Wednesday even
Ing word was brought to the police head
quarters from a housekesper In the vicinity
that,a servant girl of the, house was threat
ening to commit suicide. "A policeman went
to the house and took the girl to the sta
ton. She was tall and muscular r look ing
and extremely shy. Shesseemed about six
teen years old. The ,housekeeper said that
the girl had come to her about a month be-
fore, and had been hffed as general helper
She had been sleefing>'with the colored
cook. She was good yorker. and never
went out In the evening, but was very
queer in her actions, Il
The case was turned oyer to the Society
and Superintendent Wilsin managed to get
from the girl a stetemept Of her past life.
She said she was born In little town IN
Germany near Berlin SIZE had one sister and
no brothers. About -four years ago the
family came to America and lived in WILL
liaEsburgh. Brooklyn, Eta sang a girls
part in the choir Of Catholic church.
Last summer the father fell from a sceffold
and was killed, and a week later the moth
er killed herself with poison. During the
spring the two girls went up into the Cat
skills for the health Of the sister on some
NOR ey they had saved. and about five
weeks ago the sister killed her self with
poison. and Eta returned to Brooklyn.
While andering around the streets she
met girl companion Of her former days,
who suggested that the two should dress up
in mems clothing and that they could then
earn s2O or $50 week. They bougat male
attire from a pawnbroker and threw away
their girls dresses. For a time they Yold
newspapers but Eta grew tired of this
and still dressed as a man. got a place at a
big boarding house as a waiter. She was
known as Henry. The cook, however,
found out her deception by the way she
heid fiat ircn. and her fellow servants teas
ed her so about her strange attire that she
left her place, and. resuming her dresses,
got the place at the house where she was
arrested
The girl was made comfortable at the So
clety House during the night, but in the
morning she became hysterical when she
was asked to sew, and the physician of the
society, DR.. Walker, was summoned. After
he had tried the ordinary remedies for
hysteria he cleared the room and admin
or an hour he appeared I'm the office of the
society and announced to Mr.. Wilkins that
Eta was strong, well-developed boy
The young individual was summoned to the
office. and was at first dumfounded with
the Information. Finally he-for that is
probably the proper designation-said that
his parents had brought him up as a girl.
had given him only girls clothes to wear.
ana he fully believed himself to be a girl
He was astonished to learn that he would
have to put on other clothes. He thought
dresses were the proper attire for his sex
The physicians are of the opinion that the
boy is an imbecile, and his mental condi-
is taken.