The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1903-09-25
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The Augusta Chronicle Of Wednes.
day published the following:.
A burly negro man, after mas.
i .querading in this city for ten years as
s. woman, going under the name o!
Alice johnson, was exposed Tuesday
y morning by the county officers.
a more remarkable case is not on
3 record in the court records Of this
/ county, although they 20 back for
], more than a century. The discovery
q and exposure was the sensation OF the
4 day, and the general topic of discus.
q sion on the street. 5
j Johnson isan able bodied, healthy
negro man, and that for SO long Il
time he could bave hoodwinked every
z body, seems almost incredible. But
he did, and during the past ten years
z has held many positions with white
i families In the capacities Of cook,
house girl, and even as nurse. He
has also figured in the courts, and
spent nights in the Jail and police
cells without exposure. Mixing with
whites and blacks, male and female,
IS he has managed to keep his secret and
was well known In the city-but as q
woman.
It was on Sunday that Alice John
son" fell in the hands OF the police on
a charge Of disordcrly conduct. 1t
was an aggravated case. alice" be-
ing intoxicated and cursing vilely on
the Street. Monday morning Judge
Picquet sentenced her" to serve u
term Of sixty days at the county
7 farm.
She was sent out to the farm Tues
day morning. It is the rule Of the
institution that all convicts, and they
are principally females, shall take a
bath on arrival. When Alice" was
forced to indulge in the abolution, the
attendant detected that the "she'
was man. The astounding discov-
cry was Immediately conveyed to the
officers in charge OF the farm, an in
yeSJigation followed.
s'Alicc" was promptly returned to
the police, with the statement tllat
the commitment called for woman
and not man. TIE police were lit
terally knocked out by the news.
''Alicc" is well known to nearly every
officer on the force, and not one ever
dreamed that she was was not Il
She" "She" was promptly arraigned
before Judge PicQuct, charged with
violating the city ordinance that pro
hibitS any one from maSuucrading or
the street in the disguise Of the oppo
site sex. He was given 80 days or
the public works Of the city for Tho
second offense. For at least 120 day.
Alice" will wear the striped garb o.
q man, and work for the city.
1t is learned that the same Alice
Johnson was witness in the Norri.
murder trial in May. "She" appe ,rce
4 in behalf Of the state and was attack
. ed by the defense as a lcwd woman
\ but was protected by the court, being
4 informed that she" need not answel
the embarrassing questions. No one
thought that the ''shc" was a man.
Johnson gives no satisfactory reason
for masquearding as Il woman, simply
declaring that he preferred to be !;
woman. What was his object is q
puzzle. There are those who think
hesis tlighty in the upper story. OLh-
ers believe that he is wanted some
where for serious crime. and that
che went us Il woman to escape dctcc-
tinn. 1t is true that his exposure
! greatly frightened him Tuesday.
There is a report to Ghc effect that
+ he halls from Abbeville, S. c., and
tile police will communicate with the
officials Of that county, giving a de-
scription Of the negro for idcntiica-
tion if he is wanted for any crime.