Volume 17 , Issue 38

1895 Jennie Stevenson (Little Britches)

We found this mention of Jennie Stevenson (alias Little Britches) in The Wichita Daily Eagle out of Wichita, Kansas, dated 4 July 1895, page one: "Not Any Bloomers. Female Prisoner In Oklahoma Goes Them One Better."

She wears men's clothes out and out and has done away with the discussion about dress reform at once. She also chews tobacco and is an expert markswoman with the Liquid output thereof. She was under arrest, charged with selling liquor to the Red Man. New woman - Gone Bad.

Found on Newspapers.com

Perry, O.T., July 3 (1895) -- Canton, Bush and Owens, deputy United States marshals, returned to this city of Perry, Oklahoma Territory with several United States prisoners charged with various offenses.

Among the number was a girl about 15 years of age, named Jennie Stevenson (alias Little Britches), who was arrested in male attire, and still wore the garb when placed in jail in Perry. She naively remarked on the street as she squirted a stream of tobacco juice at a crack in the sidewalk that she liked men's clothes better than those of her own sex, especially for her business. She was a splendid sample of the new woman in a depraved line.

The charge against her was introducing and selling whisky to the Indians of the Osage Nation, and she seemed to have plied her vocation for a long time successfully, going in the guise of a boy tramp hunting work.

Frank Wilson was arrested also and charged with stealing the above named Jennie from the marshals in the Triangle after she had been arrested some two weeks before. The old stone building on C street, east of the railroad track and across from the county jail, was being fitted up by Marshal Nix for Untied States prisoners as the deputies found it often very inconvenient to take prisoners tot he United States jail at Guthrie, and the county jail was not of sufficient capacity.
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