The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-07-29

ing clothes with him and succeeding in
imposing on the officers because OF a
affair is full OF perplexities of apparent
contradictions and mysteries. Even Miss
CLIENTS lawyers have to confess that,
beyond the statements she has made to
them, they do not know how TO take
her who she is or whence she came
She treats us in the same mysterious
press said Charles T. Caldwell, the
senior of her four lawyers. the other
day. we do not know who she really
IS. she IS strange person VINO has
travelled extensively in many lands,
sometimes as a woman and again as q
, man. if It suited her inclination and her
necessities She knows enough Of science
and literature to claim TO be well edu-
Gated. She is we'll read in the law
think she has practiced at the bar some
where But Ellis Glenn, the woman here
on trial and Ebert Glenn, the man who
confessed TO Il forgery are not the same.
We can and shall prove that
Not the least of the many mysteries
in the case is the seeming ability OF
+ Miss Glenn to command money in such
sums as she may need She lived IN
Parkersburg for two years before her
trial began. out on bail She occupied the
best room in a fashionable boarding
house and had eVeryLning she wanted
She hired three of the highest priced
lawyers in West Virginia. TO defend her
and was abundanty able, apparently, 10
withstand the drafts OF two years
| prepare tfon for her trial. During these
two wears she has done no work and ma
no visible source of income. Persons here
have watched her closely and have not
been able to discover where the money
comes from They only know she has 1T, It.
and plenty OF IT. II IS ninLeu lHaL hst
twin brother sends it from Canada.
The basis Of the case on trial IS ID
prove whether the person on tT1ai. Known
absolutely to be a woman, is a man or Il
woman. That Is, is the Ellis Glenn,
woman, now on trial, the Ebert Glenn
who for several years was considered bY
everybody as a man2 Did she forsake
] feTnininitV so far as she was dDle at
some time in her life and put on the
clothing and assume the chaTacteristlSs
Of "A man2 The state says she did. The
defense says she has never claimed TO be
aught than a woman and injects the
! twfn-brother story to prove that all these
! former acquaintance Of Ebert Glenn are
/ mistaken when they declare the Elhert
| Glenn they knew was the Ellis Glenn they
! see before them in the court room
. . .
The story teens with the strangest
and most confounding antitheses. The
Ebert Glenn these persons knew
worked as a carpenter and a hOstler in Il
| livery stable. He papered a house with
feminine skill and made embroidery. He
was a barber and a real estate dealer
He could do plain and fancy sewing 50
neatly as to surprise the women OF Jne
| house where he lived. He slept Tor SIX
| months in the some room and Tor -FOUR
months liz the same bed with the son u
/ his employer without eNclung lle Su9-
! melon of his roommate that he was any
! lining but man. He sang love songs IN
| q soft wOmanly voice and nursed the
/ SEX like a sister Of mercy. He was d
| render and devoted sweetheart and en-
I gaged himself to marry young woman
named Ella Duke, ms nance sSys ne
was an admirable lover ana most deVoteu
He rovsfeTed with the young men in
! the towns where he lived, drank with
than nd pugQ ged IN STORYTELLING
bouts where the points OF the ta!es
were none too chaSte. His face was in
himself in the privacy of his room, claim
ing that he had a peculiar satVe tnat pre-
vented The hair from growing. lie W25
fiat-chested and not particularly DIodd
al the hiDs His hands were large for Il
woman and small for man, and he wore
! N On me streets of Parkersburg in
vvoman's gear. Ellis Glenn wears veil
gracefully and Is at home with a ran
and Darasol. A woman can detect no
inexperience in her management of her
train her hat and other feminine trip
Deries.
Ebert Glenn on the other hand be
az a livery stable without complaint.
He swore round oaths with the. young
men of his acqualntance- his voice was
soft and musical when he talked TO
Thus this mysterious man-woman lived
To some he appeared 70 oe the most
manly sort Of d man. To others ne was
an obviously wOmanly male AT every
+71r,, in his career, so far as is known.
there is a. contradiction. The general i'm
preston now is that the Ellis Glenn.
woman now on trial, was Ebert Glenn,
slIe0ed man. who lived I'm Ohio and West
Virginia in his assumed seX-character
There are only surrniSes as to what
course the defense viii take Ihere are
stories that the twin brother viii be pro-
d7rced at the proper time. In any event
Miss Glenn and her lawyer appear 10 nave
no doubts as 10 the. outcome OF the IN
duiry into her past hfe.