Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1901-07-14
ELLIS GIENN'S BEDFELLON
NEVERSUSPECTED HER SEX.
OCCUPIED HER APARTMENT con-
TIsUolsiN ron SIX
MONTHS.
WENT THE PACE TOGETHER.
THE QUESTION or HER FALSE
TEETH AND LAME LIE MAY
BE IMPORTANT.

PARKERSBURG, W. Va. July Ia
Very strong testimony was given for
the State In the ellis Glenn case to-day
by several Witnesses.
Mr.. Creighton, who was prosecuting
attorney ut Hillsboro. Ills. knew E. b.
Glenn there before aud after it was dis
covered that she was n woman. and
testified that -.llis Glenn is the same
person. He said she told him in Hills
boro that she had lived in Williams
town, aad knew George Hoover, Squire
Beeson and Others there. She said her
hand was cut in butcher shop.
J. A. James. a deputy sheriff at Hills
boro, said Ellis Glenn shaved prison
ers in the Hillesboro jail, and told him
she had been a barber. a painter, a ear
penter and had various other oceupa-
tons.
Several witnesses proved that EMS
Glenn wears false teeth, as the tesh-
many has shown Bert did. Both
Creighton and James testified as to fdb-
Der male organs which ELLIS Glenn
made out of u syringe and tied around
her waist TO make her look like man,
as she told James.
The State put in n hard day, but
made telling points. One by one, the
witnesses fastened the coils ABOUT Ellis
Glenn and they were drawn tightly
about her. the evidence being intro
duccd to-day being particularly strong.
The most interesting testimony which
was given to-day was that or Ernie
Byers, the son OF the hotel keeper with
whom Glenn was employed for several
months at Wllliamstown. Ernie testi-
fled as to Glenn having occupied the
same bed with him for six months and
the testimony WAS SO racy that the court
room had to lbe cleared of its spectators.
Byers said in answer TO questions
that Glenn had slept with him in I'M
dercloths and that he had never seen
him undress any farther and had never
seen any other indication than the
masculine underwear that Glenn was
man Vie had never gone In swim
ming with the boys and always went TO
bed before or after he did. lie said
that Glenn often went to Marietta With
MIN anu NlSlltu tue bdlOchS uhh
Houses of Ill Reputc.
but he had never known him to remain
alone IN the room with any OF the
women, they met in those places. They
simply went around doing the town and
took drinks with the women. lie had
never seen Glenn showed by anyone.
He said Glenn had false teeth, but
was not lame. He identified the pris-
oner as the same person who had slept
with him and had llyed In Williams
town. die said he could not be mis-
taken about her and that even II II
were shown that ELLIS Glenn had nat
ural teeth he could still say that she
was the same person.
j. G. Richardson, a son of William
Richardson, who bought the forged
note, was ON the stand. HE detailed
his appointment as special agent of the
State to 90 to hnlsboro, Ill, and bring
Glenn to this State. He offered in evil
dence OF the requsltion on which he
had secured Glenn and brought her here
for trial He said that when he went
to the jail for her she pretended to be
dead. She was carried to the wagon
by officers of the institution and when
he reached the depot with her
She Was SIN Playing Possum
and he had to carry her from the wagon
to the train HE denied the insinuatlon
OF the defense that his conduct while
carrying her TO the train was improper.
County Clerk Ben Il. Stewart settled
the question OF who changed the rec
ords as to the deed of trust, by stat
ing that he had done it himself The
deed was recorded as 1t was originally
presented and was afterward returned
TO him for correction, the name of Pret-
lyman having been substituted for that
of Beeson.
Jailer Bueklem identified the male at
tire of Glenn as that which had been
turned over to him by his predecessor.
Ex-Jailer identified the clothing as that
which Glenn had worn when he was
first brought here. He also testified
that she had been confined in Jail for
several months while he was jailer and
that he
Never Noticed Her Limping
at any time either in the jail or while
walking to or from the Jail
IS. p. EcAols, ex-deputy sheriff, tes-
tilted that he had several times had Ell
lis Glenn in his CUSTODY while going TO
and fro between the court house and
the jail and that he mad never at any
time seen her limplng as she walked
till recently, and that If she had iimped
while walking with him he would have
noticed it.
l.. V. G. Morris, deputy clerk, OF the
United States Court, testified that Ellis
Glenn had brought suit last Deem
Der against William Richardson and
his son j. C. Richardson for $4,000
damages The papers We're never
served, however. The attorneys for her
in the damage suit are the same as
those in the forgery case. Ii has been
matter Of supposftion on the part OF
many that the attorneys In the forgery
case were expecting to realize on such
a suit enough for her to pay them their
fees for defending her.
"A. j.. James, Of Hillsboro. Ill,
Was An Important witness
for the State. He was deputy sheriff
there and knew the defendant when she
was in Jail there. She wore male
attire all the time she was there. Be
fore she was taken to the penitentiary
he had a conversation with her about
her sex and clothing She asked If she
could wash her own underclothing In
the jail and he said she could and she