The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1903-09-23
SHE WAS 4 NAN.
MAsQUERADED FOR TEN YEARS.
Had Been Confined in Cells With
The Augusta Chronicle OF Wednes-

The Augusta Chronicle OF WedneS-
day published the following:
A burly negro man, after mas
oueradins in this city for ten years as
a woman. going under the name OF
Alice Johnson, was exposed Tuesday
morning by the county officers.
A more remarkable case is not on
record in the court records OF this
county, although they go back tor
more than a century. The discovery
and exposure was the sensation OF tue
oay, and the general topic Of discus
sion on the street.
johnson is an able bodied, healthy
negro man, and that for so long
time he could bavc hoodwinked every
BODY. seems almost incredible. But
he did, and during the past ten years
has held many positions with white
families in the capacities or coon:
house girl, and even as nurse. he
has also figured in the courts, ano
spent nights in the jail and ponce
cells without exposure. Mixing with
whites and blacks, male and female,
he has managed to keep bis secret ano
was well known in the clty-ouJ as
woman.
It was on Sunday that Alice John
SON, fell In the hands OF the police on
a charge OF 6iSorderly conduct. IL
was an aggravated case. Alice" oe-
ing intoxicated and cursing vlleIy on
TIE street. Monday morning Judge
Picouet sentenced her TO serve a
term of sixty days at the county
farm.
'sShe was sent out to the farm Tues
day morning. 1t is the rule OF the
institution that all convicts, and they
are principally females, shall take
bath on arrival When Alice" was
forced to indulge in the abolution, the
attendant detected that the she
was man. The astounding dlsco4S
ery was Immediately conveyed to the
officers in charge Of the farn,-a IN
vesCigation followed.
Alice" was prOmptlyreturned TO
the police, with the Statement that
the Lcalled for woman
and rot a man The police were lit
terally kq6cked out by the news.
.EsrGee2S well known to nearly every
officer on the force, and not q one ever
dreamed that she was was not a
''she." She" was promptly arraigneo
before Judge PicQuet, charged WITH
violating the city ordinance that pro-
hibits any one from masqueradlng on
the street in the disguise Of the oppo
site sex. He was given 80 days on
the public works OF the city for the
second ufense. For at least l2O days
ssAlice" will wear the striped garo o1
a man, and work for the city.
It is learned that the same Alice"
Johnson was witness in the Norris
murder trial in May. She" appe lred
in behalf Of the state and was attacS-
ed by the defense as lewo woman
but was protected by the court, being
informed that She need not answer
the embarrassing questions. NO one
thought that the she" was man.
Johnson gives no satisfactory reason
for maso souearding as woman, simply
declaring that be preferred 70 oe d
woman. What was his object IS a
puzzle. There are those vino think
he is fighty in the upper story o'h.
ers believe that he is wanted some
where for a serious crime, and that
he went as a woman TO escape detec-
ton. 1t is true that his exposure
greatly frightened him Tuesday.
There is report to the effect that
he halls from Abbeville, S. c., and
the police will communicate with the
officials of that county, giving de-
scription of the negro Tor loentlnca-
tion if he is wanted for any CRIME.
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