Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — "HE” IS A WOMAN. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

"HE” IS A WOMAN.

Prisoner Convicted as Ellis Glenn Is a Woman.

Is a comely young woman in jail at Hillsboro, 111., the Ellis Glenn, alleged forger and fugitive bridegroom, who courted Miss Ella Dukes, or is the prisoner Ellis Glenn’s twin sister impersonating him and ready to suffer the law fox his sake? This question has agitated all Hillsboro. The prisoner is certainly a woman, and, it is claimed, she donned male attire to atone for her twin brother’s alleged crime. Ellis Glenn, engaged to marry Miss Ella Dukes of Hillsboro, was indicted for forgery and Miss Duke’s father and uncle went oh his bond. He went to St. Louis a few days before the wedding day

Woman who assumed disguise to shield her brother.

and disappeared. It was telegraphed a St., Louis newspaper that he had been drowned at Paducah, Ky. There he was arrested. Later he pleaded guilty and was taken to the Chester penitentiary. Then it was discovered that “he"’ was of the feminine gender,' and she was brought back to jail at Hillsboro. <fs> The prisoner says her name is Ellis Glenn and that her twin brother is Elbert Glenn. Her brother, she says, was a private detective, and was in Hillsboro in the disguise of a sewing machine agent. He fled, she says, from the forgery indictment, and she joined him at Paducah, Ky., and determined to sacrifice herself for her brother, so that he might have his liberty to prove his innocence. Miss Dukes says the woman in jail is Ellis Glenn, who conrted her and won her love. The Hillsboro people say she lived with them as Ellis Glenn, man, eighteen months. The prisoner says she-, saw Miss Dukes but once, for five minutes. Miss Dukes and her father say they are ready to help Miss Glenn, who they knew as a man and as future husband and son-in-law. The postmaster' df Bentley Springs, Md„ became tired of his position, and thrfrw the effects of the postofflee into a mail car, which carried them to Baltimore.

"ELLIS GLENN,"