The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-24
4 REMARKABLE CASE
Marvellous Freak Of Sex Determination
is Discovered With a Twenty
Year Old Boy in Kenosha.
MARSHALL MYSTERY is SOLVED.
Earl Marshall Lived For Eight Years as a
ed. Parents Make Strange Error.

One of the most remarkable cases
Of sex determination and one which
even is more unusual than the stories
of Poe and Mark Twain has been lis
covered In Kenosha and the unfo-su-
nate victim of nature is Earl Marshall
the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. r. j. Marsh
all. On September / Marshall was
alleged to have fred two shots at a
wedding party when his sister was the
bride and J.. W. Roberts, of Ottumwa,
Iowa. the groom. Ia letter recently
written to paper in Ottumwa the re-
markable dual life of Marshall was ex-
posed. In the letter to the Iowa paper
some one supposed to have been
Marshall stated that it was not Earl
Marhall that fired the shots at the
bride and groom but that twas Miss
Eva Marshall sister of the bride.
The examination into the contents of
the letter has brought to life the re-
markable story of the life of Earl
Marshall. Eva Marshall and Earl
Marshall are one and the same per-
son and it is supposed that Marshall
had attempted to shake the guilt for
the crime by thrusting it upon the
mythical Eva MARSHALL who was lost
years ago when the secret of the sex
of Marshall became known.
Mrs. Marshall, the mother Of the un-
fortunate man, gave out the full story
of the case today. She stated that the
child was born twenty years ago at
Morgantown, KY. At the time of the
birth the doctor in charge announced
that female child had been born to
Mrs. Marshall, and in due time the
child was named EVA Marshall" A
short time after the birth of the child
the parents moved to Iowa with their
family. The child was raised as
female, and for the first eight years of
its life it knew nothing save the
things that are taught to female child
rem.
Shortly after this time the child
became i'll, and it was sent to hospi-
tai at Mt. Pleasant. Iowa, for treat
ment, and while there the doctors
made the strange discovery that Eva
MARSHALL was a perfectly developed
n ale child. The mother of the child
was notified of the discovery and
measures were sent to her in order
that she might make clothes that
would be fitting to the child's proper
sex. The mother was mbfounded
by the discovery, and soon after the
child was returned to its home.
For years safterward the child in
sisted on wearing feminine-attire, and
the early development and teaching
of the boy had.sbeen such that he had
all the habits of female. In years
after the child was given the name Of
Earl Marshall, and the story of the
sex was carefully sguarded SO that it
never became known save to few of
the very intimate relatives Of the
family.
At times afterss Marshall had reached
the age of fifteen years he would de-
mand skirts and waists and often he
appeared in Ottumwa in this garb.
So seldom did he appear IN mems
clothing that almost all the people of
Ottumwa supposed that he was girl,
and he is still known there as Eva
Marshall.
In the letter which was written to
the Ottumwa papers, Marshall asked
the editors Of the papers to make an
effort to locate Eva Marshall and hold
her there until the family could be
notified.
The family of the boy claim that he
is even now an invalid and they seem
to think that the boy has brooded over
the strange error in determining his
sex until he has been made temper
arily insane. Tt is possible that an
effort will be made to have him sent
to hospital for treatment.
| At the Marshall home on Exchange
street today Marshall admitted that
he had written the letter to the OF
tumwa papers, but made no excuse
for his action.
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