Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1914-05-23

again, this time in company with
James Jameson, who worked in the
woods in this vicinity. They were both
smoking cigars. The two men were
seen often together and took trips IN
to the woods where Jameson works.
The association of these two rather i'm
pressed the deputy Just why he could
not say, but TO his eye there was some
thing strange about the man who had
accosted him.
Calls Deputy to House
On Monday of this week the story
broke Deputy Sheriff Kinds was in his
Office in Kingfield when he received tel
ephone message asking him to come to a
boarding house in Kingfeld, which hap
pened to be the same place to which he
had recommended the man who had
spoken TO him on the train. On arriving
at the boarding house and being ushered
into the sitting room he found himself
face to face with the same young man
again and 1t was there he divulged the
secret of his life, viz: that he was not
man, but woman; that her true name
was Georgiana Jameson and that she had
been married to Jameson and that her
life with him had been a succession of
years of toll. Her reason for divulging
the story was her claim that Jameson
had deserted her.
She said also that she had been en-
ployed as a nurse in a hospital at Lewis
ton and she formally entered COM
plain: to the deputy and asked him to ar
rest her husband on the ground of deser-
ton. The deputy sheriff advised the wo-
man to change her apparel, but she
claimed she had no woman's clothing
with her. but that she had left ii all in
Lewiston, where she had been employed
as a nurse in a hospital. She also de-
clared that her husband took her mar
riage certificate last Sunday at King
field and burned it.
Goes to Pennington
The deputy having heard this strange
story left the woman and soon after
communicated with the sheriff at Farm
ington and later the woman herself by
advice of Kingfield friends went to Farm
ington, where she arrived Thursday,
stopping Thursday night at Pennington
at the home of a person whom she had
attended as a nurse at the Central Maine
General hospital, of which she declares
she was a graduate and where she now
mas a daughter of about 10 years of age,
by her first marriage, who is also study
ing to be nurse.
Sheriff Small was not at home. hav-
ing been called to Rangeiey in an acct
dent case The woman has accordingly
passed the day Friday in Pennington
waiting his return. Deputy Sheriff Hines
was anxiously hooking for the woman and
did not find her until she appeared at
the sheriff's house in Pennington. There
she told the following story:
She said that she Travelled with the
Barnum & Bailey circus some years as
the bearded lady. Six years ago her
first husband, who also travelled with the
circus, died and she left the circus. Three
years and a half ago she married James
Jameson of st. Stephens. N. B. From
New Brunswick they drifted into Maine
and finally went to work in the woods
above Phillips. She claims that her hus-
band advised her to dress in mems cloth
ing, cut her hair and that she went to
work with him nearly two years ago
peeling pulp.
From there they went to Lfvermore
Falls, where they got positions in the
digester room of a pulp mill. She
says that her husband required her
to work in the mill up to within
few days Of the birth Of her child.
Then. suddenly. according to her story,
he left her. 1t is for this that she
makes the request for his detention.
Jameson's Story
Now as to the other side Of the
story; Mr.. Jameson says that she is
not his wife. He says that he has
been married, but that he and his
wife do not live together: that his
wife is not a nurse and never has
been and that his only knowledge Of
any acquaintance with this bearded
lady is that he knew her as a young
man" in Kipgfield and was friendly.
with the same and did not know
her to be woman. He further says
that he never saw the person before
they met in Kingfield.
The woman has taken no action as
yet and will not until the return of
Sheriff Small, who went to Rangeiey
this morning to assist at an inquest.