Young female Chicagoan fined $25 for attending the opera disguised as a man

The Chicago press reported the appearance in court in the city of a Miss Alice Clementine.  Two nights before, she had attended the opera at McVicker's Opera House dressed as a gentleman and accompanied by two young ladies.  Noticed as suspicious during the performance, she was questioned and her gender discovered.  She was fined $25 and ordered to pay costs for what the newspapers called her "offensive demonstration."  (By John Osborne) 
 
Source Citation
"The City," Chicago Tribune, June 25, 1863, 1863, p. 4. 
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    Crime/Disasters
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