The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1901-06-22
Remarkable Story Of Her
Career-..0n Trial for
Forgery
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4 Has Been Dead Twenty Years.
81 am forty-one years old and have
been legally dead twenty years. In
/ 1881 / was trance medium I'm Ohio
/ went into cataleptic state, and
physicians pronounced me ds 3D.
was buried ! was unconscious of the
fact that ] was dead. seemed to be
living IN beautiful country where
there were pretty streams virgin
forests, and where it was blissful just
to exist
u was suddenly awakened TO Snd
myself surrounded by men. They
were medical students who had disin.
TERED my body several hours after
burial They were about to dissect
me My coming 20 life spoiled their
plans and Mortified them In order
10 avoid prosecution for body-snatch.
ing they agreed to provide me with a
stipulated monthly remittance on con.
dition that / leave the country.
Il departed that night. Since then
! have travelled all over the world
went direct to London, where en-
gagged myself as assistant in photo
graph gallery. Pictures of me which
were made at that time and which
are not now in existence, are the only
ones that have been made in twenty
years, with the exception of those
taken at Chester
"In time ! became proprietor of the
gallery. later roamed the BrNish
Isles with a band OF gypsies was
their queen. Please do not forget
that was a woman all of this time
But | wearied Of this and went over
to the continent. journeyed through
all the European countries, making
pictures for stereoptcon exhibitions.
l went into Asia and know Algiers.
MY life has been imperilled a
score of times. know the despair
Of the shlpwrecked voyager, the hor-
rors Of the battle feld-I have been
a nurse-I know the fear OF assassi-
nation; / know what it is to lie pin
loned in the burning debris Of rail
road wreck: but ! escaped all dan
gers and / was preserved to come to
the assistance OF my twin brother.
81 should not have wearied of the
pleasant excitement of my nomadic
career, but | heard the voice Of my
brother calling to me from across the
seas During all my life when I have
been separated from him his form
invisible has been by my side have
always known the state of his mind. /
Il has been demonstrated by simi-
lar condition in my own, only in a
lesser degree, because his has not
been the ruling spirit.
But when brother cried out for
aid there was such a strong feeling
OF apprehension in me that | straight /
way took passage for America. had |
no knowledge Of his whereabouts ex.
cept that which came through our
From New York went into /
Texas in quest Of brother learned /
that he had been ia Wichita Fa4s,
that state went TO Lampasas
where my family had lived for brief
period when ] was about fifteen years
old.
II did not find brother in Texas
and his voice stll called read news
papers carefully, and finally learned
Of his having been arrested at Hills
boro.
He would not believe that was
myself Ellis Glenn. his sister He de-
clared that ne had seen me buried /
and that he knew ! was dead. We
talked Of our family and Of eur lives
up 70 the time / was buried during
that entire night and brother event
ually became convinced that / was
really myself
~ passed the verbal examination /
in the prison receiving office and was
then turned over to the barber. OF
course brother had cut OF my long I
hair when we exchanged places The /
barber shaved OFF what remained, and I
under the guidance Of a man attend
ant. ] was conducted to the bathroom
where was told 10 dsrobe The
room was large and there We're about
twenty men. both white aud black
tlSing their initial baths there.
Here is where my courage failed /
me and / became woman.
"I prefer TO 80 TO the womens
bathroom, / said TO the attendant
What he exclaimed, with pro
family, you're not woman. are lpug
Il told him that most ceri oly
was a woman. had not remoyd yl