The Hartford republican. (Hartford, Ky.) 18??-1926, 1906-04-06
WITH PONY AND DOGS,
Woman WanderS over the
Country in AimlesS Way.
Sleeps on the Ground and is Kept
Warm by Pony and Dogs
Born Near PaduCah.

with accounts, more or less true of
a mysterious woman accompanied by
a pony and ten or fifteen dogs of
more or less worth and beauty.
This woman has been described
to be of a very eccentric disposition
and strange stories have been told
of her strange actions.
One thing that added to the mys-
terry that surrounded her was that
she would tell little or nothing of
herself, what her mission was trav-
cling in the manner she had adopted
and where she was going, and, es-
pecially, just when she was going
to move cut of given territory.
She has been travelling around
with her pony and dogs, refusing
frequently to sleep in beds offered
her and fading her nights rest in
the open air on ground or in the
stall with her pony and dogs. AT
night she unrolls her blankets, lays
them on the ground. wraps herself
in them the pony lies down with
his back against her. while the dogs
pile up and keep her warm. These
animals have been trained 10 do this
1t is a strange kind of lodging quar-
tiers to choose. but it is a choice. for
the woman has the money to pay
her way at the hotel. but it is her
choice and the state constitution nor
the Statutes forbid her doing as she
pleases in that respect.
At the several towns she has visit
tied she has refused to tell anything
of herself. the only reason for refus-
ing being that she thought it was
nobody's business. When she arrived
at Hodgensville she sent for Her
aid representative and stated that
see had concluded to give to the
public enough of her lie TO show
that she was neither crazy nor Il bad
woman. She is a small woman,
weighing probably 100 pounds, has
hair about six inches long was not
well dressed, wore cap, and her
general appearance indicated that
she has been exposed to the weather
though she says she has not been sick
foryears. Her conversation indicates
that she is well educated and could
have been refined.
She says that her name is Jean
Audley and that she was born thirty
four years ago near Paducah, this
State. Her father was a man of
well-to-do circumstances, but had
a fondness for life on the bound
less prarie. and, while she was but a
little tot, ne moved to the West.
When only six years Of age she was
taught to ride the ponies and she
could go at dash after the cattle
on the plains. She had been taught
to love her dogs and she has a fond
ness for the open air. Often" she
says Il have pulled my blanket off
the horses back and made my bed
on the plains with no roof over me
but the skies. For years it was sell
dom that | ever slept in a bed. |
was a cowboy woman, and knew
no other life. | was not as other
women. | cared nothing for the
parlor or home comforts. | wanted
the open plains and my pony and |
wanted nothing else But in no case
did | ever lose sight of the fact that
| was q character to protect and sus-
tain and no one can raise his finger
OF accusation against my virtue"
Il lived in the wild west my entire
life, with the exception OF fourteen
years spent in a college in the east
where | obtained a good education. /
That over J went back to the West |
to my old life. For several years
have made trips through Illinois,
Indiana ana Ohio for the purpose OF
selling Weetern ponies. The peo-
pie there know me well. Il was p
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